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The fuel levy is being cut from 4 November to ease the pump squeeze, by R3 a litre on diesel and R1.50 on petrol until 1 December, then less until January. IOL

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana says SA has “emerged from the fiscal wilderness”, with debt stabilising at 78.4% of GDP for the first time in nearly two decades. TimesLIVE

COSATU has marched on Parliament against austerity as the budget was tabled, joined by faith groups and NGOs who say the cuts hit the poor hardest. EWN

Media houses are fighting secrecy on two fronts, opposing bids to close both a R12m spy trial and a top spy’s Madlanga Commission testimony to the public. Daily Maverick

Former justice minister Brigitte Mabandla has denied ever telling the NPA to halt apartheid-era prosecutions, testifying at the Khampepe Commission, with Mbeki there in support. Sowetan

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has held three hours of talks with President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg, pressing him back to three-way Ukraine peace talks. Reuters

Australian independent MP Helen Haines has had both legs amputated after Monday’s targeted car attack, her husband says, but is stable. CNN

Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola case in over a decade, a traveller who arrived via Uganda. BBC

Georgia’s Constitutional Court has begun hearing a government bid to ban the five main opposition parties, which critics warn could cement one-party rule. Reuters

Israeli forces have detained US congressional candidate Brad Lander in the occupied West Bank as he joined Palestinians on the olive harvest. Al Jazeera