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On FM, on the station app, and on Open View Channel 606, this is East Coast Radio Newswatch. The MK Party has removed 15 of its MPs from their positions. Parliament says the party informed Speaker Torco Di Disa about its decision to replace them. It's reported some of the MPs membership has been terminated. Their party membership has been terminated, meaning they cannot sit in Parliament. In an interview on Newsroom Africa, a short while ago, MK Party spokesperson in Tamil lotan Della said their parliamentary list was sabotaged with names that were not supposed to be on the list appearing on it. He says some of the MPs were informed before they were sworn in that they would be replaced due to the list irregularities, but that they went ahead and took the oath anyways. An advocacy group for seniors is calling for stronger security measures to protect the elderly and their money from criminals. Ettigwini Metro Police yesterday arrested four people in Montclair, linked to a syndicate that targeted elderly people in shopping centres. They say the syndicate is made up of three men and one woman. The modus operandi involved the woman targeting elderly female victims, drawing their attention to a stash of money dropped on the ground to distract them. She would then convince them to pick the cash up. When the victim does so, another syndicate member in personating a police officer would approach them, pretending to arrest her and escort her to a car. There, a victim would be assaulted and robbed of her belongings and her bank account would be cleared out. It's believed the syndicate is linked to over 30 cases in KZN. Elders voice Joanne Hubs says many elderly people are vulnerable to fraudsters and other criminals. I think they should be, even on their banking apps, they should be a second or a third measure taken. But many of the elderly don't have banking acts. They still go to the tillers because they don't know how to operate smartphones. So they still operate the old way when they go to a tailor or they go to ATM or they go inside the tailor inside. They don't know how to operate smartphones. There has to be some measure taken to protect them. Further afield authorities in Austria say a teenager has admitted to trying to kill as many people as possible at a Taylor Swift concert. They say they've foiled a terra plot. Chemicals and technical devices were said to be found during a search of the 19 year old's home. All of Swift's era tour gigs in Vienna this weekend have been cancelled starting from tonight. Fans Andrew Strauss and his mother Alison were at the airport in New York headed to Austria when they found out they spoke to Skarnews. It was very weird because we were like on the only direct flight from Newark to Vienna. And you could see it like ripple through people finding out. You know you have a stadium full of innocent people but a lot of children and in today's world we have to go with safety first. In the International Olympic Committee says North Korean Olympians at the Paris Games have not received smartphones from official sponsor Samsung. It's hours after Seoul suggested that providing them with the devices could violate UN sanctions against the nuclear armed North. The South Korean tech giant is giving an Olympic edition of its foldable Galaxy Z Flip 6 to all approximately 17,000 athletes participating in the games this year. South Korean table silver medalists participated in a selfie group on the podium last week alongside South Korean bronze winners. The Seoul's foreign ministry says the UN Security Council resolution bans direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer to North Korea of all industrial machinery, adding that smartphones are considered prohibited items under this resolution. Durban 26 tomorrow. Be tomorrow'sburg 27, Richards Bay 28. to the news watch, I'm Daniel Pasiello. You