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Moment Prince William makes hilarious dig at cheeky Prince Louis as family are gifted chocolates from wellwishersThis decision made by Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber, will allow time for consultation with affected ZEP holders and stakeholders on the future of the current dispensation. The extension comes after a court ruling that declared the Minister’s decision to terminate the ZEP as procedurally unfair and unconstitutional. The ruling, made by the Pretoria High Court, affected approximately 178,000 Zimbabwean nationals who hold the permit. “I, Dr L. A. Schreiber, MP, Minister of Home Affairs, with the powers bestowed upon me in terms of section 31(2)(b) of the Immigration Act, (“Immigration Act”) have decided to extend the validity of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (‘ZEP’) until 28 November 2025 in order for me to fulfill the duty placed on me by the Gauteng High Court to consult the affected ZEP holders and all other stakeholders on the future of the current dispensation,” the Minister stated in a statement. “The reactivation of the Immigration Advisory Board (‘IAB’) is currently underway and its first task will be to consider, advise and enable the steps required for compliance with the Order of the High Court on the future of the ZEP.” He added: “In order to give the IAB time to properly do its work, and a fair process to be followed, I direct that: ....existing ZEPs shall be deemed to remain valid for the next (12) twelve months; no holder of a ZEP may be arrested, ordered to depart or be detained for purposes of deportation or deported in terms of section 34 of the Immigration Act for any reason related to him or her not having any valid exemption certificate; “....the holder of an exemption certificate may be allowed to enter into or depart from the Republic of South Africa in terms of section 9 of the Immigration Act, read together with the Immigration Regulations, 2014, provided that he or she complies with all other requirements for entry into and departure from the Republic, save for the reason of not having a valid visa endorsed in his or her passport.” The Minister further announced that no ZEP holder should be required to produce a valid exemption certificate, visa or an authorisation letter to remain in South Africa as contemplated in section 32(1) of the Immigration Act when making an application for any category of the visa for temporary sojourn in the Republic as contemplated in section 10(2) of the Immigration Act. ZEP holders are individuals who hold a special permit, allowing them to live and work in South Africa. The permit was introduced in 2009 to provide a safe haven for Zimbabweans fleeing economic and political instability in their home country. The extension of the ZEP validation provides temporary relief for holders who were facing uncertainty and potential deportation. The long-term fate of the ZEP, however, remains uncertain, with the South African government yet to announce the ultimate fate of the exemption permit.

Power Rangers has been fueling fantasies of Saturday morning, multicolored, tokusatsu action for over thirty years now. It’s impossible to not have felt the touch of the morphin’ time, whether its been you or some child in your life who has fallen down the rabbit hole. For some, Power Rangers isn’t enough, and maybe you’ve gone further, checking out its origins in Super Sentai or its older brother series Kamen Rider . While we’re still receiving Power Rangers stuff with no sign of stopping (there’s still toys on shelves and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind is just now hitting controllers ), there isn’t, currently, any new shows on the horizon. Mercifully, there are a lot of Power Rangers fans, and more broadly tokusatsu fans, who have what we all need. Here’s some games for you, or someone you love, to manifest those Saturday morning, multicolored, tokusatsu action fantasies. It only feels right to start this list with the most official Power Rangers TTRPG on the market. Renegade has been publishing a whole ton of products for Power Rangers for Hasbro over the last few years. There’s a significant amount of extra sourcebooks for different ranger teams, so you can probably just roleplay your favorite team. But, there’s more than enough available to let you build your own team from scratch. Renegade’s Essence20 System powers this game (as it does their GI Joe, My Little Pony, and Transformers RPGs), so folks making a leap from Dungeons & Dragons will be in fairly familiar waters here. 9. Teens with Attitude (David Brunell-Brutman) To say that Teens with Attitude is a “Power Rangers” game is, admittedly, a little misleading. No, this game takes its inspiration widely. Teens with Attitude seeks to give you all the tools you’ll need to emulate the heroes of 90s children’s television, especially Power Rangers , Animorphs , and Captain Planet . The game utilizes the Powered by the Apocalypse system to bring out the tropes and archetypes of that era of television, meaning all you’ll need is two six-sided dice, a love for campy action, and the image in your mind of your ideal 90s children’s protagonist. Lumen Ryder Core skews purposefully more towards Kamen Rider and Super Sentai , in terms of what it is trying to bring to life. Still, at its center, the game wants you to loudly declare your transformations, battle monsters and their mooks, and save the world. This game makes use of the Illuminated by Lumen system, so it lives on fast-paced action, quick throws of the dice, and managing resources for even bigger abilities. All wrapped in the unique skin of a bunch of heroes trying to solve mysteries and understand themselves. The real joy is digging your claws into the many abilities, boons, and drawbacks that make up your different forms and inventing the most chaotic synergies you can muster. You can even have your own mooks to fight monster mooks! Sometimes what you need to build your perfect Power Ranger story is some episode structure. Rover Royale builds itself around simplicity with mechanics (you’re mostly just rolling 1d6 + your stat) and the episodic structure you’ve come to expect from Power Rangers and shows like it. Rover Royale asks you to look at your team’s story beyond just the single battles against one evil monster, out to the bigger season arc. Relying on the tried-and-true framework that every episode of these shows works under, you’re gonna be building the full story of a season of your team’s efforts to curb evil. Originally published in Japan and eventually translated, Convictor Drive: Armored by Grief presents a relatively more grounded take on the genre, inspired primarily by Kamen Rider . You play as wielders of Convictors, special devices that transform you into an armored hero. As the tragic guardians of a prototype utopia city, you’ll serve as investigators of strange occurrences and defenders against those who would misuse experimental technology for their own purposes. Convictor Drive: Armored by Grief leans very deep into the individual parts and gadgets that make up your special exo-suit. This means you’ll be able to mod out every limb for battle, all while dealing with the emotional scars your characters need to even use them. Savage Tokusatsu is built out of the hefty, yet flexible, bones of Savage World . The game promises, and delivers, the simple premise that it is about fighting monsters and then getting in your mech and fighting an even bigger monster. Savage Tokusatsu is robust with options and advantages for creating your perfect tokusatsu hero and team. True to the name, it doesn’t just just lean in towards any one tokusatsu property. The ruleset is flexible enough that you can emulate just about any series you want to. If this were an Ultraman list, this game would make the crossover. Based on the manga of the same name, Queerz! brings to life sentai hero action with an LGBTQ flair. The game is built entirely out of a notably different game in City of Mist , but to extremely wondrous effect. Using the same move and tag system, Queerz! creates an incredibly expressive and evocative sense of design. It is hard, at times, to believe that it and City of Mist are the same bones, but it is very effective in its aesthetic. It is also very queer, and very proudly so, thank heavens. The game offers you many abilities, but above all the promise that you can fight, not just monsters, but ignorance, with your own empathy and joy. There is a simplicity that I feel you really cannot beat with something like Super Sentinels Neo . The game itself has a minimalist presentation, and its mechanics are exceedingly simple. It’s the perfect kind of game to teach a group of seasoned roleplayers in a few minutes so you can play something else that evening. You can also feel the love of the genre dripping in every minimal element, whether its the special abilities each color gets or the special hazards for the unique fighting locations. But you should consider this game because it is an open book about asking its players to create new things. Make new items and abilities for your Sentinels! Invent new strange beasts with your own table’s rules for the battles! When your Sentinels finally face down Emperor Z, make it unique for your group. Powered by Cereal gives me such a strange feeling, and I can’t explain why. It’s like being eight years old again and seeing Power Rangers Dino Thunder for the first time, with my math homework due the following Monday. The game absolutely drips with this Saturday Morning Cartoon, kid-juiced-up-on sugar energy. Even its system is simple, but incredibly unique, asking you to roll a bunch of d6s and count how many different numbers you roll, as opposed to highest or lowest. There’s an understanding when playing Powered by Cereal that part of the Power Rangers fantasy is everything around the team, the setting, the home town you’re defending, your series, what makes your team or show different from the rest in your franchise. It’s a great game to build the world around your Power Ranger fantasy, then play in the new sandbox you’ve built. If we’re talking about RPGs that let you live out the ultimate Power Rangers dream, it feels only right to talk about Henshin! and its hack Rider Konchu . Henshin! builds itself out of the Belonging Outside Belonging system, meaning that the primary method of resolution is earning and spending tokens. However, beyond that, it’s purely roleplaying. In the simplest degree, the game is about you and your friends describing in detail the incredible stunts, wild action, deep melodrama, major downfalls, and ultimate victories of your own Ranger team. Henshin! has received a handful of expansions over the years, adding on new options for players to build characters with. From rebel Green Rangers to Doggie Kruger, genius Blue Rangers to Alpha-5, Evil-Rangers-turned-good and Evil-Monsters-turned-good, even unlikely Orange Rangers to a rogue Megazord itself, Henshin! has provided every possible combination of team members to bring the dream to life. For those experimenting with other toku shows, Rider Konchu hacks Henshin! into a Kamen Rider game straight out of the modern era. But don’t worry about them being mutually exclusive, because you can even play a guest starring Rider using one of Henshin! ‘s playbooks. Your Saturday morning action show dreams are alive and well. 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FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the House GOP conference, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. Allison Robbert/Pool via AP, File WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — On Saturday, President-elect Donald Trump threatened 100% tariffs against a bloc of nine nations if they act to undermine the U.S. dollar. His threat was directed at countries in the so-called BRIC alliance, which consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Turkey, Azerbaijan and Malaysia have applied to become members and several other countries have expressed interest in joining. While the U.S. dollar is by far the most-used currency in global business and has survived past challenges to its preeminence, members of the alliance and other developing nations say they are fed up with America’s dominance of the global financial system. The dollar represents roughly 58% of the world’s foreign exchange reserves, according to the IMF and major commodities like oil are still primarily bought and sold using dollars. The dollar’s dominance is threatened, however, with BRICS’ growing share of GDP and the alliance’s intent to trade in non-dollar currencies — a process known as de-dollarization. Trump, in a Truth Social post, said: “We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy.” At a summit of BRIC nations in October, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of “weaponizing” the dollar and described it as a “big mistake.” “It’s not us who refuse to use the dollar,” Putin said at the time. “But if they don’t let us work, what can we do? We are forced to search for alternatives.” Russia has specifically pushed for the creation of a new payment system that would offer an alternative to the global bank messaging network, SWIFT, and allow Moscow to dodge Western sanctions and trade with partners. Trump said there is “no chance” BRIC will replace the U.S. dollar in global trade and any country that tries to make that happen “should wave goodbye to America.” Research shows that the U.S. dollar’s role as the primary global reserve currency is not threatened in the near future. An Atlantic Council model that assesses the dollar’s place as the primary global reserve currency states the dollar is “secure in the near and medium term” and continues to dominate other currencies. Trump’s latest tariff threat comes after he threatened to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10% tax on goods from China, as a way to force the countries to do more to halt the flow of illegal immigration and drugs into the U.S. He has since held a call with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who said Thursday she is confident that a tariff war with the United States can be averted. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned home Saturday after meeting Trump, without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on Canada.SIGMA LITHIUM'S PRODUCTION AT FULL CAPACITY; RECORD SHIPMENT OF 27,500T OF QUINTUPLE ZERO GREEN LITHIUM TO ABU DHABI's IRH TRADING COMPANY

PM Modi (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called out the previous Congress-led government for the 2012 nationwide power outage, contrasting it with his administration's "One Nation, One Grid" initiative. He made these remarks during a parliamentary debate commemorating 75 years of the Indian Constitution. PM Modi said that his government ensured uninterrupted power across India, unlike the previous government, which, according to him, brought international criticism upon the country. "During the previous government, we saw India being defamed before the world through headlines. We have seen those days. That is why, with the mantra of unity and upholding the sense of the Constitution, we fulfilled One Nation One Grid. That is why, today there is uninterrupted power supply in all corners of India," he said. PM Narendra Modi's Remarks | Discussion on the Journey of 75 Years of the Constitution of India He also stressed the success of Digital India, attributing it to the democratisation of technology. "Era has changed. We do not want haves and haves not a situation in the digital sector. That is why, we proudly say that the reason behind Digital India success story is that we tried to democratise technology," he explained. PM Modi praised the Constitution's role in India's progress, crediting both its creators and the citizens who embraced it. "India's Constitution has brought us here by defeating the possibilities that were expressed for India at the time when the country attained independence. For this great achievement, besides the drafters of the Constitution, I would like to respectfully bow before the crores of people of India - they lived this new system...Citizens of India deserve all the praise," he remarked. He called the 75th anniversary a moment of pride for India and democracy globally. The two-day parliamentary debate marking this milestone began on Friday. Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India . Don't miss daily games like Crossword , Sudoku , and Mini Crossword .