News Bulletin of 11 September 2026, 5pm

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Yahweh Ubuntu Foundation Donates Food Hampers To Pupils
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The Yahweh Ubuntu Foundation donated 50 food hampers to Feed a Child, Feed a Nation in Tsakani.
The hampers were given to underprivileged pupils preparing for exams, helping ensure they have food to take home and do not attend school hungry.
The support was organised by the foundation and its sponsors.
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Northern Cape Harbours Set For Improvements
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Government is moving to improve boat launching facilities for fishermen in Port Nolloth and Hondeklipbaai after years of damage and poor infrastructure.
R12 million has been set aside to finalise studies, while work is also being planned to repair existing infrastructure.
The upgrades are expected to make the facilities safer and support fishing, tourism and other coastal businesses.
Deputy Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Sihle Zikalala says government is now working with local authorities to move the projects forward.
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Eldorado Park Church Gives Back At Children’s Home
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First AME Church in Eldorado Park spent a day supporting children at Little Rose Home, a shelter for disadvantaged and homeless children.
Church members painted with the children and donated toiletries, cleaning supplies and clothes to the home.
The children also had a chance to express their creativity through the painting activities, while church members gave the home’s facilitators a break for the day.
The home says the painting supplies will help provide more activities for the children.
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Financial Indicators
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Your financial indicators for this hour:

The Rand is trading at 16.16 to the US Dollar, 21.83to the British Pound, and 18.73 to the Euro.

Gold is trading at 4,327.55 dollars a fine ounce, Brent Crude Oil is at 107.63 per barrel, and a Bitcoin will set you back 79,046.00.
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BepiColombo Begins Historic Mercury Mission
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The European Space Agency’s BepiColombo mission has successfully begun its arrival at Mercury, becoming only the third spacecraft to visit the planet.
The mission travelled about six billion kilometres over more than eight years, using nine planetary flybys to reach Mercury.
The spacecraft will now prepare for its main science mission, which is expected to begin next year.
It will study Mercury’s surface, interior and magnetic field, helping scientists understand how the planet formed so close to the Sun.
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