#FiveThingsYouNeedToKnow: EFF birthday celebration hit by tragedy

Good morning, KZN. 

Here are five things you need to know as you wake up this Monday morning...

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1. 

Although general inflation appears to be easing, South African motorists will take a hit at the fuel pumps in August.

2. 

Jamaican netball players allegedly robbed and ready to leave Cape Town. 

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3. 

An EFF supporter died after falling from level five to two at the FNB Stadium in Soweto during the party’s 10th birthday celebration on Saturday.

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4. 

Taylor Swift's concerts in the US city of Seattle generated seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake.

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5. 

X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, has reinstated rapper and designer Kanye West around eight months after his account was suspended

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Bonus: 

A National Freedom Party (NFP) councillor was shot dead in the early hours of Sunday morning. Ntombenhle Mchunu was assassinated in the early hours of Sunday while sleeping at her home in Nongoma.

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