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In your Sunday edition of News24’s Unread, Fannie Masemola will return to office this Monday morning as the country’s reinstated national police commissioner. In our feature story, the Constitutional Court’s Thursday ruling means the ANC can now compete for your vote in six municipalities, mostly in the Eastern Cape, where it nearly dipped out in the 4 November polls. To this: He wore a T-shirt with the word “WRATH” written on it, a nod to the 1999 Columbine school massacre. Now, a 16-year-old KwaZulu-Natal boy is in official custody for allegedly stabbing a little girl multiple times. Finally, Kruger Park travellers will soon have some interesting new camp restaurants to choose from, but don’t expect to see Mzansi’s familiar favourites. Plus, can you believe it, SA has a new national park opening in the Eastern Cape. Side note: The Unread team is celebrating 1 million views since May! Expect fresh shows twice a week. This show has been carefully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer, News24 visual director Wynand Louw, and video journalists Luke Daniel, Storm Simpson and Chelsea Ogilvie. This show is then quality-checked by an editor and/or senior member of News24.

Coming up in your midweek edition of News24’s Unread, Shadrack Sibiya dishonourably discharges himself from the SA Police Service, amid a drawn-out bid for bail on charges of alleged rape, human trafficking and sexual grooming of a minor. Meanwhile, a pair of March and March men have been granted bail following the recent chaos in Durban, Soweto and Johannesburg, but won’t be able to march again anytime soon. Detectives make a significant albeit small breakthrough in the September murder of Kempton Park runner, Elizabeth “Tsontso” Moselakgomo, by tracing her stolen smartwatch. We speak to the City of Cape Town’s JP Smith about the repercussions of the recent N1 bridge truck crash. And finally, among a few other stories making headlines this week thus far, Formula One is coming to Africa, just not South Africa just yet. Expect fresh shows twice a week. This show has been carefully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer, News24 visual director Wynand Louw, and video journalists Luke Daniel, Storm Simpson and Chelsea Ogilvie. This show is then quality-checked by an editor and/or senior member of News24. #news24video #News24 For this story and more, visit News24: https://www.news24.com/multimedia/video

Coming up in our longer-than-usual edition of News24’s video bulletin, Unread, Home Affairs’ decision to consider all asylum seekers’ applications following a Constitutional Court ruling sees violence spill onto the streets, but the department buckles under pressure and cancels the directive. Meanwhile, a big question mark looms large over former president Jacob Zuma’s health. In Germany, South Africa’s celebrated justice, Navi Pillay, joins an exclusive club of local Nobel Peace Prize winners and pulls a Trump joke while she’s at it. Back in the capital, the DA’s Cilliers Brink defends his raid on Mabena House. Finally, we tell you how you can now opt out of spam calls forever! Expect fresh shows twice a week. This show has been carefully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer, News24 visual director Wynand Louw, and video journalists Luke Daniel, Storm Simpson and Chelsea Ogilvie. This show is then quality-checked by an editor and/or senior member of News24. #news24video #News24 For this story and more, visit News24: https://www.news24.com/multimedia/video

From the politically-paralysed Knysna Municipality to Nelson Mandela Bay, three mayors, former and current, have found themselves embroiled in cases, some before the courts, just weeks ahead of the elections. In Knysna, ex-mayor Thando Matika and a pair of senior municipal officials are currently languishing in a jail cell until their next court date. The trio’s been accused of graft in a dodgy R68-million security tender. Meanwhile, allegations of bribery are mounting against ex-Ngwathe mayor Victoria de Beer-Mthombeni and her husband, Mdlayedwa Mthombeni, who have been accused of extorting R8.3 million from three businesses that secured contracts with the council. And in Nelson Mandela Bay, mayor Babalwa Lobishe could have her personal belongings auctioned off all to pay off R80-thousand in legal costs emanating from her court challenge against a local political rival. Finally, how much would you fork out for a single cow? Well, president Cyril Ramaphosa is smiling all the way to the bank for selling his prized pregnant Ankole bovine over the weekend for R6.4-million.These, plus four other stories, make Unread your premier video bulletin in 10 minutes or less. Expect fresh shows twice a week. This show has been carefully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer, News24 visual director Wynand Louw, and video journalists Luke Daniel, Storm Simpson and Chelsea Ogilvie. This show is then quality-checked by an editor and/or senior member of News24.

In Unread’s midweek top story, it’s a crisis consuming this country that refuses to go away. President Cyril Ramaphosa has addressed South Africans on what his national coalition is now doing to try to stem the tide of gender-based violence. Following the murders of 11 women in the Ekurhuleni region in the past two months alone.And separately, it must be said, the arrest of suspended national top cop, Shadrack Sibiya, for alleged rape and the sexual grooming of a minor, claims which he now formally denies. In other news, think of it as a formal protest or objection to another country’s actions or statements. Now, for a second time, Pretoria has formally demarched US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III, following his recent series of scathing press interviews. Finally, in your sport, the Springboks have until the end of October to mull their loss to the Wallabies and rally for a return against the Italians. These, plus four other stories, make Unread your premier video bulletin in 10 minutes or less. Expect fresh shows twice a week. This show has been carefully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer, News24 visual director Wynand Louw, and video journalists Luke Daniel, Storm Simpson and Chelsea Ogilvie. This show is then quality-checked by an editor and/or senior member of News24.