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Speaker 1: A very good morning, and welcome to the Daily OS.

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Speaker 1: Today is Wednesday, the fourteenth of July. I'm Zara Seidler,

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Speaker 1: and as always i'm joined by Sam Polowski.

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Speaker 2: Sam, what's making news today?

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Speaker 3: Today? We are going to bring up to speed on

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Speaker 3: the latest numbers out of New South Wales. Then we're

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Speaker 3: going to cross to Cuba and explain what's happening there,

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Speaker 3: some good news about the Australian basketball team, and we're

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Speaker 3: going to break down some rising tensions in South Africa.

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Speaker 3: Let's start though with COVID here at home.

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Speaker 1: So there was a minor drop in locally acquired cases yesterday.

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Speaker 2: In New South Wales.

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Speaker 1: There were eighty nine locally acquired cases to eight pm

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Speaker 1: on Monday night. Seventy five of those cases were linked

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Speaker 1: to a known cluster and fifty five were in isolation

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Speaker 1: during the entirety of their infectious periods. And while this

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Speaker 1: did seem like good news to some, it should be

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Speaker 1: noted that Gladysbury Diiclian said that one day doesn't represent

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Speaker 1: a trend, so today's numbers will be really important to

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Speaker 1: see if we are heading downwards. Unfortunately, there was also

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Speaker 1: one COVID related death recorded yesterday and that brings this

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Speaker 1: cluster's deaththold to two. When Gladys barygic LeAnn was asked

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Speaker 1: about the vaccine roll out, here's what she said yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Firstly, I'll say that New South Wales government never leaves

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Speaker 4: a stone unturned. I'll believe it at that, but also

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Speaker 4: say that it is not the state government's responsibility, which

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Speaker 4: is a fact, to source the vaccines or to get

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Speaker 4: the doses.

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Speaker 3: In the last few days, there's been an escalation intensions

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Speaker 3: in Cuba, and Cuban President Miguel Diazcanal has blamed the

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Speaker 3: US for these protests. The protests are against Cuba's communist government.

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Speaker 3: Diaz Canal has accused the US of a policy of

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Speaker 3: economic suffocation that's driven Cubans to take to the streets.

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Speaker 3: The protests were largely about a lack of food, freedom

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Speaker 3: and medicine as the country suffers through an economic crisis

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Speaker 3: which has been really exacerbated by on going US sanctions

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Speaker 3: and the COVID nineteen pandemic.

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Speaker 1: We're going to jump into this one for the deep

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Speaker 1: dive today, but at a high level, there have been

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Speaker 1: at least ten people killed and more than four hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety arrested in South Africa after protests broke out

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Speaker 1: in response to the imprisonment of former South African President

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Speaker 1: Jacob Zuma.

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Speaker 2: Sam. We'll take you through that a bit later.

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Speaker 3: And today's good news in some excellent signs for the

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Speaker 3: upcoming Olympics, which are only nine days away. The Australian Boomers,

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Speaker 3: which is the Australian basketball men's team, have beaten the

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Speaker 3: US in a practice match in Las Vegas. They won

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Speaker 3: ninety one eighty three and it really cemented their place

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Speaker 3: as metal favorites for the upcoming Games.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to recognize that I misspoke yesterday when

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Speaker 1: I characterized the scene from the vaccination ad. The woman

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Speaker 1: depicted was not on a ventilator as I thought, but

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Speaker 1: instead high flow nasal prongs, which we were told by

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Speaker 1: a listener is an oxygen deliveriess that provides high levels

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Speaker 1: of flow and oxygen. Thanks, as always to our incredible

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Speaker 1: listeners for continuing to educate.

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Speaker 2: Us along the way.

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Speaker 1: So we wanted to explain the situation that is unfolding

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Speaker 1: in South Africa at the moment, but to do so,

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Speaker 1: we need to go back a few weeks and explore

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Speaker 1: what happened with former president Jacob Zuma. So last week

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Speaker 1: Jacob Zumer handed himself into police, and that was because

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Speaker 1: last month he was sentenced to time in jail fifteen months.

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Speaker 1: To be exact, he hadn't been at the sentencing and

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Speaker 1: instead had been told that he needed to hand himself

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Speaker 1: in otherwise police would be instructed to arrest him. So

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Speaker 1: we ended up with a situation of a former president

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Speaker 1: driving to a police station to hand himself in to

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Speaker 1: be sentenced. The reason he was sentenced last month was

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Speaker 1: because he was found guilty of defying an instruction to

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Speaker 1: give evidence at an inquiry which was actually into corruption

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Speaker 1: during his time time as leader. So it's against this

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Speaker 1: backdrop that this week we have seen some major protests

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Speaker 1: break out across South Africa.

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Speaker 3: Some protests erupted in front of Zuma's home in the

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Speaker 3: Quazulu Natal province. This is where we first saw roads

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Speaker 3: being blocked by pro Zuomer protesters and some clashes between

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Speaker 3: them and police emerge. The unrest then moved to Hauteng

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Speaker 3: and I really hope I'm pronouncing that correctly, and that's

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Speaker 3: how we saw a real escalation in the protests. We

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Speaker 3: saw burning tires blocking roads and the shift towards looting

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Speaker 3: of shopping centers. In the last few days, ten people

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Speaker 3: at least have been killed and more than four hundred

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Speaker 3: and ninety have been arrested. We're now seeing protests spark

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Speaker 3: up across the country. The South African National Defense Force

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Speaker 3: has actually deployed soldiers to work alongside local police in

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Speaker 3: containing the violence. In the last twenty four hours or so,

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Speaker 3: there's been a major escalation that's prompted international responses and

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Speaker 3: some real concern for the stability of what is quite

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Speaker 3: a fragile political system in South Africa. Perhaps the biggest

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Speaker 3: impact of these protests on South Africa, besides, of course,

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Speaker 3: for loss of life, is the economic impact. The rand,

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Speaker 3: which is the South African currency, weakened as much as

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Speaker 3: two percent against the US dollar on Monday, and you've

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Speaker 3: got to remember that in currency trading, two percent is

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Speaker 3: a massive drop.

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Speaker 1: And this is also occurring while parts of South Africa

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Speaker 1: are experiencing another wave of COVID. So parts of South

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Speaker 1: Africa are locked down because of the viciousness of COVID

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Speaker 1: currently and a lower vaccination rate.

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Speaker 2: So there are these factors that.

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Speaker 1: Are compounding one another to create quite a volatile environment.

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Speaker 3: So when you're reading news coverage about these protests in

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Speaker 3: South Africa, a lot of the coverage is directed towards

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Speaker 3: linking the protests back to the imprisonment of Jacob Zuma,

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Speaker 3: and that is indeed how the protests started. As we

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Speaker 3: said at the top, it was where the first protest began.

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Speaker 3: But it's really hard to have this conversation about South

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Speaker 3: Africa without talking about COVID nineteen and without talking about

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Speaker 3: the economic state of the country. Besides a weakening currency,

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Speaker 3: the other major factor is an unemployment rate that's climbed

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Speaker 3: to a record thirty two point six percent. When you

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Speaker 3: think about the fact that the country has had a

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Speaker 3: pandemic that has really hurt the country both in its

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Speaker 3: health effects but also in the economic effects, and now

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Speaker 3: the imprisonment of a former leader in a really fragile

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Speaker 3: political system, it's unsurprising how quickly things have escalated in

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Speaker 3: the country of almost sixty million people.

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Speaker 1: I'm learning more about South Africa's political system as the

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Speaker 1: days go by. It's a really interesting political system that

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Speaker 1: navigates race relations, economic development, and especially at the moment

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Speaker 1: a global pandemic. As Sam said, we'll keep you updated

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Speaker 1: on this, and we'll also keep you updated today on

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Speaker 1: what gladys spireogically and announcers around numbers and whether we

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Speaker 1: know if New South Wales will emerge from lockdown. It

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