Jacaranda FM Newswatch @ 19H00

0:00Ritorial 23 degrees tomorrow, Joeburg, 18, Emola Lennie, up to 21. We begin with the Madlanga Commission where it's been revealed that the suspended head of the police organised crime unit, Richard Chibiri, bought Gucci and Louis Vuitton shoes just months after receiving a 70,000-rand loan from the alleged crime boss of Vussi Music at Matlalla. His bank statement showed he spent 19,000-rand on sneakers at Gucci and 3,000-rand on sandals at Louis Vuitton in the centre, and a stasimo co-wersmo. Dibir told the Commission that luxury purchases were best they'd give from a friend. There was a Louis Vuitton bag and a small bag. But Commissioner Sandy Lecumallo says the bank records told Chibiri still had more than 40,000 after the luxury purchases. It isn't doubt about his claim that he needed money from Matlalla or had to sell cattle

1:00to repay him. At the end of October, you make these catches before your salary reflects in your bank account, you still have a balance of 47,000. Anastasimo Khobu, for Joe Karan, the news watch in Pretoria. In other news, President Cyril Ramaposa said earlier today that government will strengthen the capacity of water services authorities to better manage the country's water resources and that it plans on having a meeting with the Minister of Finance around this issue today. He was answering questions in the National Assembly where he warned that national government will intervene in municipalities who failed to meet the obligations. We will also be focusing on how they are contributing the requirements of the National Water Act and if they're wrongdoing, they too will be charged. In other news, a grade 9 of people died in a stabbing incident at the Badi Relay Secondary School in Kutsong on the West Rand. According to the housing education department, police are investigating the circumstances

2:03surrounding this fatal incident while disciplinary processes at the school are taking place. The department also said psychosocial services to attend to pupils and staff following this attack. And the weather service has warned residents of the Western Cape and Namakwa District in the North Cape to say hydrated our scorching weather continues. The region experienced record-breaking high temperatures for this period, with an Exxonabase station in the Namakwa District reaching a blistering 44.8 degrees compared to 43.4 degrees Celsius nine years ago, years forecasted Selanake. We expect these heat wave conditions to persist through Friday, with a significant drop in temperatures expected by Saturday as a cooler weather system moves into the region. Then we move abroad. The International Energy Agency said earlier today that the Middle East War is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market in Iran's Chocolon

3:05Regional Supplies, forcing the Gulf producers to slash production, press of brain crude oil at this stage is sitting at $100.4 per barrel. Meanwhile, the United States says it struck around 6,000 targets in Iran since the start of the war last month. And finally, earlier today, Uber announced its first robot taxi partnership in Japan. The company will be teaming up with Nissan and an artificial intelligence company called WAVE, which specializes in autonomous driving. This will be an experience where AI will drive the vehicle, can hail it through the Uber app, and it will be supervised by a safety operator in the vehicle to allow us to begin learning and growing the experience. There was co-founder of WAVE Alex Kindle, the intention of this new technology they say is to ensure safer roads. That's the run up of the day's big stories full news bulletins are online and read about the latest ones when you click on news.