Jacaranda FM Newswatch @ 15H00

0:00Uh, Johannesburg 24 MLF Lane in Pretoria 25 degrees. Got to put the mic on, dude. Station vehicle on the N3 South now before Galilee is another station vehicle on the N1 South at Ulyfans, Fentaine Road. Health Minister Euron Motsoladi says the national health insurance is currently facing numerous legal challenges with at least 14 lawsuits filed today during a parliamentary session. He announced that the constitutional courts will hold hearings on significant disputes in May. Despite these ongoing court challenges, Motsoladi assured the preparations for NHI will continue. And many other things that needs to be done, for instance, the regulation of the pricing in private health care, we still have to go on with those regulations. All those things are not part of what has been stopped. So what has been stopped? We were about to ask the president to promulgate certain sections of the NHI and do you not promulgate it.

1:03One of them is to form the NHI board. Suspended head of halting organized crime, Richard Chimiri says the purpose of his testimony is to provide the commission with accurate information and to correct statements made by previous witnesses who implicated him. He says the allegations leveled against him have had serious impact on him and his family. Anasasimo Hobo is more previous witnesses have accused Richard Chimiri of accepting bribes interfering in the work of the political killing task team and being aligned with alleged cartel members. Another witness from Houghton's counterintelligence unit also testified that Chimiri received 80,000 rent from suspected crime balls, Lucy, Musique, Matala Chimiri, however, dismissed the claims. I have considered it necessary to clarify and contextualize certain statements attributed to me. Anasasimo Hobo, for Jacaranda News, watch in Pretoria. President Saurav Apossas called for urgent action to reduce

2:05Africa's energy gap, delivering the keynotes at the Africa energy in Darbar in Cape Town, Rua Apossasis, the continent must build an integrated reliable energy system aligned with the African Union's agenda for 2063. He also stressed productive energy access is key to industrial growth. Inusible Russia has accused Ukraine of using naval drones to attack a liquefied natural gas carrier or the Caribbean coast, it since led to its sinking. Artificial intelligence has only had minor effects on employment in Europe so far, that's at least according to the European Central Bank economists. They are ever warned the technology's future impact was still uncertain. It compared over three and a half thousand companies, some of which reported using AI and some which did not. And today the Sports Minister Gaitsen McKenzie announced that the video assistant referees, VAR, will be in introduction.

3:07We've given the money for VR to suffer. Suffer my display. So I've kept my promise. So I don't want to hear somebody ask me where is VAR? Yes, VAR. Gainsy noted that the estimated cost for implementing VR is approximately around 80 million. Ran that's your latest news update more for.