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In this talk we present the extracted nuclear level density, and $\gamma$-strength function for $^{133}$Xe using the inverse-Oslo method. These are the first statistical properties extracted below 6 MeV for any xenon isotope. The experiment was performed in inverse-kinematics at iThemba LABS with an annular particle telescope and a scintillator array consisting of LaBr$_3$ and BGO-shielded HPGe Clover detectors. Shell-model calculations of the statistical properties of $^{133}$Xe were done to explore the $\gamma$-strength function, along with the parity dependence of the nuclear level density. With these experimentally constrained statistical properties with inverse-Oslo, we constrain the (n,$\gamma$) cross section on $^{132}$Xe with TALYS and compare it with previous measurements.