Kartik Aaryan is a vegetarian and loves animals like no one else. The actor took to his social media to express his dismay over a festival that brings cruelty towards dog. Kartik shared a picture which he had shot for an animal-welfare organization and his caption reads, “Har saal dil todte hain yeh Yulin Festival waale ???? #StopYulin #YulinKMKB.”
The actor is one of the first Indian celebrities to raise his voice against this festival that happens annually in Yulin, China. Every year innumerable four-legged pets are slaughtered as a part of the festival. This festival is seen as a cruelty tradition worldwide and some even term it as inhumane as its fatal for dogs.
On the work front, Kartik Aaryan will be next starring Dostana 2 and Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2.
When Sara Ali Khan praised Kedarnath co-star Sushant Singh Rajput for teaching her perfect Hindi
Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan made her acting debut with Abhishek Kapoor’s film Kedarnath opposite Sushant Singh Rajput. The actress was all praise for her first co-star as she not only learned acting from him but he also helped her ace Hindi language and its pronunciation. During the trailer launch of the film, Sara sang praises fro Sushant for being a wonderful co-star and had thanked him for helping her at every step. She also shared that Sushant is a selfless and a very giving actor.
Sara Ali Khan said, “I don’t know how I’ve done in the film. I’ve really, really tried my best. But I don’t think I would’ve been able to do any of it without Sushant. He has just been the most helpful person to have had. There were days when I was a little lost, I was a little scared, but he was just always hands-on. Whatever broken Hindi I speak, Sushant has taught me.”
During the promotions of Kedarnath, Sara and Sushant were seen having blast during their interviews together. From dancing on their songs to Sara asking Sushant mimick her father Saif Ali Khan‘s ‘wow’ dialogues, the two had shared a very warm bond. They even appeared on Salman Khan‘s Bigg Boss 12 together and had a blast with the contestants.
After Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, Sara was shocked and broken. Her father Saif Ali Khan told TOI, “I think Sara – I don’t know if she wants me to talk about it – was very upset. Very, very, very upset. Shocked and then very upset. She liked him very much. She was quite impressed with certain aspects of his personality. She told me he was very intelligent, that he could discuss, you know, Jean-Paul Sartre and he could discuss various aspects of philosophy and engineering and that he had learned how to shoot with a bow and arrow left handed, and he was very fit as well as very hard-working, and a good actor.”
He added, “She was kind of like very impressed by him on many levels, which is how I came across getting to look at him in a different way. And then when I did this guest appearance, he was really nice to me.”
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When Sara Ali Khan praised Kedarnath co-star Sushant Singh Rajput for teaching her perfect Hindi
Kedarnath director Abhishek Kapoor had also penned down a heartfelt note for Sushant and wrote, “I am shocked and deeply saddened by the loss of my friend. We made two very special films together. He was a generous and fabulous actor who worked very hard to breathe life into his characters.. I pray for his family whose loss is unmeasurable. He was a huge science buff and was consumed by what lay beyond in the universe.. im going to miss u brother.. and stay interstellar.”
Sushant Singh Rajput was suffering from depression from the last six months and was getting treatment. Police have found medical prescriptions and medicines from his room when they found him dead on June 14.
Those who knew and loved him say Leandro Maduro Costa was born a clown, lived his life as a clown – and had hoped to die as one.
“He always said to me: ‘Felipe, if I die first, bury me as ‘Potato’,†said Felipe Alves Guimarães, a friend and fellow entertainer known by audiences as Tambourine.
“It’ll be the first time a clown has ever been buried dressed as a clown,†Guimarães remembered his performing partner as saying. Tambourine promised to honour Potato’s wishes.
But when Covid-19 began tearing across Brazil in March it destroyed those plans as it has now destroyed more than 50,000 lives in the world’s second worst-hit country after the US.
Potato the Clown was laid to rest in Rio on 11 May, surrounded by a small group of relatives and in a sealed coffin.
“Because of this virus we couldn’t make his wish come true,†Guimarães said. “It really upset me. I spent two or three days locked up at home in pieces – because I wasn’t able to say a final farewell to my friend.
“We used to speak on the phone every day. But I couldn’t go there to say my last goodbye and to ask God to welcome him with open arms.â€
Leandro Maduro Costa, AKA Potato the Clown, with his daughter Mel Cristine. Photograph: Monique Santos
With more than 1 million Covid-19 cases reported, Latin America’s largest democracy is being consumed by perhaps its most acrimonious political dogfight in decades – and some pointing the finger directly at president Jair Bolsonaro for the scale of the calamity.
Largely hidden is the human tragedy: a story of lost friends, parents and siblings, and of tens of thousands of families plunged into mourning.
Brazil’s victims have included people of all political stripes: conservative politicians, centrist civil servants, leftist musicians – and entertainers, like Potato the Clown, who simply tried to delight people, whatever their leanings.
Ana Catarine Carneiro, a nurse who is campaigning for Brazil’s dead to be remembered, said the politicisation of coronavirus had obscured its human cost.
“What really matters can no longer be seen,†Carneiro said. “The people are no longer visible. The impact the pandemic is having can no longer be seen – and all that remains visible is the politics.â€
Maduro was born and raised in Fazendinha, a hard-knock Rio favela, and moved to Realengo, a working-class area where Covid-19 has killed 213 people, as a teenager, as his family sought to escape the violence.
Friends and relatives remember an upbeat jack of all trades who, after serving in the army, worked as everything from a DJ and soundman for Rio’s most famous funk group, Furacão 2000, to a solderer and social activist who founded a community project called Companhia do Amor (the Company of Love). But clowning was his calling.
“He really was born with something special,†said his wife, Monique Santos, who he met at church and convinced to be a clown herself. “Bringing a smile to people’s lives calmed his soul.â€
Leandro Maduro Costa would try to cheer up hospital patients with his performances. Photograph: Monique Santos
His younger brother, Arnaldo de Lucena Costa Júnior, said Potato had always been the clown of the family. “It was hard to be in a bad mood when he was around.â€
Clowning lead Potato to the Albert Schweitzer hospital , where he would later lose his life aged 44. The churchgoing performer would roam the corridors and wards trying to cheer up patients old and young with words of humour and compassion – and yellow rubber chickens.
“He always had something hidden inside his jacket … He understood happiness was a kind of cure. When someone feels joy they respond better to their medicines,†Guimarães daid.
Potato built a particular connection with a girl suffering from a degenerative disease who had been in the hospital for more than a decade. “He’d always talk about her. They became friends,†said his wife, 34, whose stage name is Rouxinol (Nightingale) the Clown.
His body began to ache on 4 May and he came down with a fever. Relatives took him to a local clinic where he was put on a drip and sent home.
He seemed to be on the mend, posting on Facebook on 7 May to thank well-wishers for their prayers alongside a photo in which he posed with the Brazilian flag in a bowler hat and red clown’s nose.
But 24 hours later, his wife began worrying and she rushed him to the hospital he had avoided for fear of putting the children he entertained at risk. “He didn’t want to go. But I realised something was strange. His lips were purple,†she said.
There, Santos recorded a mobile phone video to reassure the clown’s mother and daughter, Mel Cristine, who would turn 14 the next day, all was well.
“He said he was all right,†she remembered. Potato, who had diabetes and high blood pressure, was admitted and she returned home because Covid-19 restrictions meant family members could not stay. “And that was the last contact I had with him.â€
At just after 3am on the Sunday her telephone rang. “They didn’t explain anything – they just said to come to the hospital,†Santo said. “But I could already imagine what had happened.â€
Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, whose approach to dealing with coronavirus has been condemned internationally. Photograph: Eraldo Peres/AP
Like many who have lost loved ones to coronavirus, Potato’s friends and family expressed unease that the intensely politicised pandemic was clouding the memory of its victims.
“The Brazilian people need to unite, whether they support Bolsonaro or [former left-wing presidents] Lula or Dilma or whichever politician,†said Guimarães. We need to put politics to one side and come together.
“I’ve lost five friends in less than a month,†he added. “Three of them very close.â€
The clown’s brother said he would remember the exuberance of a doting father whose nickname came from his short and chubby features.
“He was just a sensational guy. Topnotch,†he said. “The penny still hasn’t dropped.â€
Unable to attend their favourite clown’s funeral, local children pasted a yellow poster on to the entrance of the Company of Love.
In curly black letters they wrote: “Your happiness did the world good.â€
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government has been accused of risking the health of New Zealanders after revelations most people allowed to leave COVID-19 quarantine in June did so without tests.
Of the 55 Kiwis granted compassionate exemptions to leave isolation between June 9 and 16, all but four did so without a coronavirus test.
The Ministry of Health admitted the failing in an after-hours press release after a week unable to answer questions on its testing regime.
Opposition leader Todd Muller seized on the declaration, calling it a “national disgrace” and asking besieged health minister David Clark to resign.
“The minister of health ultimately has been accountable (and) must step down,” Mr Muller told Radio NZ.
“If the net effect of all of those lapsed protocols is that we avoid community transmission, we are indeed a lucky country.”
Mr Clark previously offered to resign after being caught making multiple lockdown breaches, however Ms Ardern refused it, saying disruption in the portfolio was undesirable during the crisis.
The compassionate exemption system was introduced to allow Kiwis to see terminally-ill loved ones or attend funerals after racing home from overseas.
The revelation that two women were granted releases without being tested – only to test positive last week – prompted Ms Ardern to pause and review the exemptions regime.
Siouxsie Wiles, a University of Auckland microbiologist who has become one of New Zealand’s most trusted figures through the crisis, said the chances of COVID-19 returning to the community through an exemption was “very low”.
“It’s not the testing, it’s about the isolation … the isolation is our best defence,” Dr Wiles said.
Since re-booting the testing regime in the past fortnight, health officials have turned up 12 positive tests.
Under the government’s coronavirus elimination strategy, all international arrivals have been asked to isolate for a fortnight to minimise the risk of the deadly virus spreading back into the community.
More than 21,000 arrivals – with Australia the most popular country of departure – have gone through a fortnight of isolation, which is managed and paid for by the government.
New Zealand has spent $NZ81 million ($A76 million) on the quarantine regime to date – costing around $4000 per person – with another $NZ298 million ($A279 million) budgeted for the rest of the calendar year.
Guterres said it’s important to use that fact “to make countries understand that bringing them together, putting together their capacities, not only in fighting the pandemic in a coordinated way but in working together to have the treatments, testing mechanisms, the vaccines accessible to everybody, that this is the way we defeat the pandemicâ€.
The secretary-general said coordinating political, economic and social responses to the fallout from COVID-19 including job losses, increasing violence and human rights being violated will also help mitigate the impact of the pandemic.
From the start of the pandemic, Guterres has been trying to mobilize international action to address what he says is the biggest international challenge since World War II. He called for a global cease-fire to all conflicts on March 23 to tackle COVID-19 but the response has been very limited.
And his calls, and repeated calls by the World Health Organization chief, for international “solidarity†to fight against COVID-19 have not led to significant changes in nationalist approaches to dealing with the virus.
“I am frustrated, of course, with the lack of international cooperation at the present moment,†Guterres said, “but I hope that the new generations will be able to make things change in the futureâ€. The secretary-general didn’t single out any countries, but US President Donald Trump halted all funding to the World Health Organization, accusing the UN agency leading the fight against the pandemic of failing to respond to the coronavirus because China has “total controlâ€over it.
Trump has pushed for the US economy to reopen as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in many American states. About 2.3 million Americans have been infected by the virus and some 120,000 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The pandemic is also still on the rise in Brazil, where there are more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and almost 52,000 fatalities.
The country’s response has faced criticism since March when President Jair Bolsonaro started defying social distancing recommendations.
Britain has the highest coronavirus death toll in Europe, at over 42,000, and the Conservative government has been sharply criticised for what many see as its slow, muddled response to fighting the pandemic.
“I think we need to promote humility,†Guterres said, “because it’s only based on humility that we’ll understand our opportunity, and understanding our opportunity we understand the need to have solidarity and unity.â€
The secretary-general said he sees “an enormous movement of solidarity†in societies and communities, and more voices saying, for example, that a vaccine must be “a people’s vaccine, not a vaccine in a commercial dispute among countries to make the rich benefit from it and the poor notâ€.
“So, when I listen to the voices of the youth, when I listen to the voices of civil society, I see there the seeds that hopefully will quantify in a much better coordination in the future around response to pandemics like this one,†Guterres said.
After the massive success of his movie Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, Ajay Devgn flew to Hyderabad to start shooting for SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus RRR earlier this year. The actor will have a guest appearance alongside Alia Bhatt. The film is led by south superstars Ram Charan and Jr. NTR who play freedom fighters inspired by real-life heroes Komarum Bheem and Alluri Sitaram Raju.
As per the latest reports, Ajay Devgn reportedly plays the role of a nationalist and will appear in flashback scenes being Ram Charan and Jr. NTR’s mentor. Delhi was recreated from the 1900s at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad where Ajay Devgn shot for 10 days. Rajamouli and Devgn remained friends after the filmmaker paid tribute to the actor in Makkhi. Ajay reportedly agreed to do RRR just a few minutes after he heard the narration.
As far as Alia Bhatt is concerned, she is yet to film her part. She plays Sita and her part is pivotal for the story. The actress has been prepping for the role and is even learning Telugu with a local instructor in order to learn the nuances of her character.
Around 25 percent of the shoot remains. With Hyderabad resuming shoots, Rajamouli will begin shooting once he receives permission and all safety measures are in place. Since the film is being made on a huge scale, there certain things that needed to be set in place. The makers are planning a two-day test in Gandipet without the lead actors.
Directed by S.S Rajamouli, RRR is produced by D.V.V Danayya on DVV Entertainment banner and is all set to hit the screens later this year in 10 languages. While it is currently set for January 2021 release, it might get pushed to April and take up the spot like how Baahubali did. This completely depends on when the shooting resumes and how long the post-production work will take.
Scottie Marsh Instagram Scottie Marsh’s Black Lives Matter Mural Removed After Complaints
Street artists worldwide are creating powerful and thought-provoking works in protest of systemic racism but a Sydney mural standing in solidarity with Black Lives Matter was removed after 24 hours. Â
Scottie Marsh’s work in Sydney’s Redfern, a torched police van with BLM on the hood, was removed on Tuesday after NSW Police said they’d received “several complaints from the community.â€
Marsh took to Instagram to vent his disappointment at police and council workers that painted over the work, which was hidden in an alleyway and painted with permission from the property owner.  Â
“Pretty disappointing to be sent a video of Police and City of Sydney council painting over my mural this morning less than 24hrs after its completion,†Marsh posted on Instagram.Â
“It’s a confronting image, it’s is supposed to be. It was also painted with permission from the property owner and intentionally tucked away in a laneway where you wouldn’t see it unless it found you.Â
“In a time when anti-police sentiment is high, I don’t see what’s to be gained by censoring public artwork that you don’t agree with, NSW Police.â€
The words “to Hickey†were also included in Marsh’s Redfern mural.Â
TJ Hickey was a 17-year-old First Nations Australian who was impaled by a fence after being thrown off his bike in February 2004 while being pursued by police vans.Â
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Jason Armond via Getty ImagesThe makeshift memorial outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis where George Floyd was pinned by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck.
Others reference the Black Lives Matter movement and the global anti-racism demonstrations. Some call out President Donald Trump, who has labelled protesters radical thugs and has encouraged further police violence.
Legendary street artist Banksy also has weighed in with a painting of the American flag on fire.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has sharply criticised Trump’s militarised response to protests in her city, had the words “Black Lives Matter†painted on a street near the White House. The mayor’s action was dismissed by the local Black Lives Matter chapter as a “performative distraction from real policy changes†aimed at appeasing white liberals in the US.
Check out some notable pieces of street art below.
The Kentucky primary race between Democratic candidates to decide who takes on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November is too close to call, NBC News projected.
Amy McGrath, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel, had a slight edge in a tougher-than-expected challenge from state Rep. Charles Booker. With less than 10 percent of the vote at 11:30 p.m. ET, McGrath led Booker by slightly over 2,000 votes. Those votes include only ones cast at the polls Tuesday; none of the mail-in ballots have been counted yet.
Democratic enthusiasm for McGrath was high when she entered the race last year, and she raised $2.5 million in her first 24 hours. The enthusiasm quickly cooled when she said in an interview with The Courier-Journal of Louisville that “I probably would have voted” to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who’s widely loathed by Democrats. She later tweeted that “upon further reflection and further understanding of his record, I would have voted no.”
McGrath continued her fundraising prowess, and as of June 3 she had raised over $41 million, according to the most recent fundraising filings. She had to dip into that money for ads to fight off a late surge from Booker, who supports “Medicare for All,” the Green New Deal and universal basic income and campaigned against inequality and racial injustice.
Kentucky state Rep. Charles Booker, a Democratic candidate for the Senate, greets John Wright of Louisville during a campaign stop in Louisville on Tuesday, June 23, 2020.Bryan Woolston / Reuters
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Booker, who entered the race only in January, rode late momentum to overtake the much better-funded McGrath and had raised $793,000 by that point.
Booker joined protests over the police killing of Breonna Taylor, a Louisville woman who was shot dead in her apartment on March 13 by police executing a “no-knock” warrant, and netted endorsements from the likes of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
Booker also made an issue of McGrath’s failure to protest — leading her to air an ad decrying the death of George Floyd. Booker noted that she didn’t mention Taylor in the ad.
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McGrath was also backed by several establishment Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York. “I believe that she’ll give McConnell a run for his money,” Schumer said last week.
In New York, longtime Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel was in a tough fight for re-election as he tried to fend off an aggressive primary challenge from Jamaal Bowman, a progressive candidate running in his first political campaign.
Jamaal Bowman speaks to reporters after voting at Yonkers Middle/High School in Yonkers, N.Y., on Tuesday, June 23, 2020.John Minchillo / AP
Bowman had a big early lead, according to NBC News projections, but as in Kentucky, officials have not begun to tally mail-in ballots.
Bowman’s fight with Engel in New York’s 16th District is being compared to Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning upset over longtime Rep. Joe Crowley in the 14th District in 2018.
Bowman’s bid was helped by Engel, who found himself on the defensive after he was caught on a hot mic this month pleading to speak at a news event involving unrest and vandalism in his district after Floyd’s death.
“If I didn’t have a primary, I wouldn’t care,” Engel, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, was heard telling Bronx borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Bowman over her congressional colleague this month.
Engel, who has represented the 16th since 1989, was backed by former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Schumer and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Dareh Gregorian
Dareh Gregorian is a politics reporter for NBC News.
Stay informed and up to date with the latest news in South Africa by reviewing all major headlines on Wednesday 24 June.
Amid a growing unemployment rate and a lockdown-induced economic slump, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has the arduous task of presenting an ‘emergency budget’ to Parliament. Meanwhile, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize warns of an unprecedented surge in local coronavirus cases as South Africa prepares to meet the pandemic’s peak.
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Mboweni’s ‘emergency budget’ — will it be enough?
Finance Minister Mboweni will, today, present an emergency budget to the National Emergency. This budget, intended to offset the grim economic fallout resulting from COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown, will determine the future of government spending in a time of fierce financial uncertainty.
Both Mboweni and President Cyril Ramaphosa have warned that government will be subjected to the same saving measures which have impacted the private sector. Salary cuts, reduced spending and mass retrenchments are all on the cards. While Mboweni has alluded to a heightened free-market approach which would favour both big businesses and foreign investment, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) are likely to resist any reforms which don’t align with the philosophy of Radical Economic Transformation (RET), making the minister’s task that much more complex.
On Tuesday, South Africa’s official unemployment rate — relative to the first quarter of 2020 — rose to 30.1% with analysts projecting a further 20% rise as a direct result of lockdown. Additionally, preliminary projections show that the budget deficit could soar to 14%, almost double the figure touted in February.
The official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), have called on Mboweni to present a ‘Resilience Budget’ which would “reposition the economy for growth†even if at the expense of ANC ideology.
Mbalula to meet with taxi bosses following boisterous Soshanguve exchange
After being forced to retreat from a volatile situation in Soshanguve on Monday afternoon, Transport Minister has resolved to engage with the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) over disillusionment with government support. The taxi industry, which recently embarked on debilitating strike action in Gauteng, has rejected Mbalula’s once-off financial relief offer of R1.1 billion, arguing that losses incurred as a result of the nationwide lockdown would cripple the sector and, subsequently, embattle millions of commuters.
Santaco has also noted, with serious concern, the looming threat of mass repossessions which could see 40% of all minibus taxis taken off the roads. Santaco has asked Mbalula to renegotiate a more favourable relief package, despite the transport noting government’s offer as final.
In an attempt to ease tensions and afford the taxi industry a reprieve, Mbalula confirmed that he would support the call for 100% passenger capacity. Under current lockdown regulations, taxis are limited to a 70% capacity, which operators say have further embattled revenue models.
Santaco also revealed that, on 1 July, taxi operators would be raising their fares in an attempt recoup lockdown losses.
Mkhize warns of ‘devastating, decimating coronavirus storm’
Health Minister Mkhize says that the lifting of lockdown restrictions to allow for economic activity to stave off a complete social collapse would inevitably have a dire impact on the country’s healthcare system. Mkhize painted a grim picture of the weeks and months to come, saying:
“We are moving towards a devastating, decimating storm.â€
Mkhize made the comments while conducting oversight visits in the Eastern Cape — a province of special concerns as a result of its already embattle healthcare system and a steadily rising caseload – noting that citizens needed to heed the call for hygienic behavioural changes.
Urgent attention has shifted away from the Western Cape — which has been regarded as the epicentre of the outbreak since April — to medical responses in Gauteng, which has recorded a rapid rise in infections and currently holds the highest tally of active cases.
Minister Zulu under fire… again
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu is back under fire after releasing controversial regulations governing how food relief can be distributed. Although Zulu’s original proposal was swiftly condemned by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and retracted, recently released regulations have been heavily criticised by the DA. James Lorimer, member of the DA Shadow Cabinet, said:
“The new regulations don’t repeat the demand for departmental approval of all relief efforts but would still plunge relief efforts into a bureaucratic nightmare where food distribution will be hampered.
The new regulations issued last week manage to be both intrusive and vague at the same time. They stipulate that soup kitchens cannot provide seating and that people must bring their own food containers to soup kitchens.
They encourage meals being dropped off at people’s houses, but do not stipulate who should provide those containers.
The regulations require soup kitchens and food parcel distributors to submit a plan of their activities and a report afterwards.â€
Lorimer noted that the DA would return to court to challenge the newest set of regulations issued by the department of social development.
Zulu drew further ire on Tuesday afternoon when, while addressing a conference on Gender-based Violence (GBV), she insinuated that women should ‘stop crying’ as a first step to combatting the attacks.
PIC supports Edcon business rescue plan
The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has expressed its supports to the proposed Edcon business rescue plan (BRP).
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the PIC said the proposed plan seeks to support job and creditor sustainability and a higher recovery dividend for the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), compared to a liquidation process.
“The PIC, on behalf of the UIF invested R1.2 billion in Edcon, which entitled it to ordinary shares in the company, a subscription in an indirectly secured guaranteed mandatorily convertible instrument and a subscription in an indirectly secured guaranteed instrument, which entitles it to payment upon an occurrence of an acceleration event,†read the statement.
The BRP process represents an occurrence of an acceleration event.
The investment in Edcon was made in line with UIF’s High Social Impact Portfolio (HSIP) mandate, which allows the PIC to invest in projects that aim to preserve and create jobs. (Source: SAnews)
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