Zapiro's Blog, page 15

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The eZuma Virus Strikes Again

The ousting of eTV chief Marcel Golding – Team Zuma strikes again. Despite all that lip service to an “independent media”, friends of the Zuma Administration want Golding out because he is the last line of resistance to the ANC’s goal of controlling eTV’s news bulletins. They are trying to use an unrelated red herring to cast him aside.. This comes after Zuma has de facto control over SABC (State-owned), ANN7 (Guptas) ans Independent Newspapers (Iqbal Surve)

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The eZuma Virus Strikes Again

The ousting of eTV chief Marcel Golding – Team Zuma strikes again. Despite all that lip service to an “independent media”, friends of the Zuma Administration want Golding out because he is the last line of resistance to the ANC’s goal of controlling eTV’s news bulletins. They are trying to use an unrelated red herring to cast him aside.. This comes after Zuma has de facto control over SABC (State-owned), ANN7 (Guptas) ans Independent Newspapers (Iqbal Surve)

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Obituary : Senzo Meyiwa (1987 - 2014)

The captain of South Africa's national soccer team was fatally shot at a friend's house during an attempted robbery on Sunday night, police said. Goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was killed around 8 p.m. after two gunmen entered a house in Vosloorus township near Johannesburg while an accomplice waited outside. The 27-year-old Meyiwa was shot in the upper body, police spokesman Brig. Neville Malila said Monday. Malila didn't comment on local media reports that he was shot in the back trying to protect his girlfriend.

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Credit Card Refused at Restaurant?

Based on a real situation that President Obama found himself in, Zapiro cartoon on a possible scenario if President Zuma tried to pay for dinner at a restaurant. President Barack Obama's credit card was declined at a restaurant in New York City in September, President Obama said that they paid the bill using his wife's card

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Obitiary Lucky Dube (1964 -2007)

Lucky Dube was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest-selling reggae artist. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October 2007. The most successful African reggae artist of his generation, "reggae king" Lucky Dube cut a sprightly and warm-hearted figure on the world stage. Inspired by Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff's messages of black pride, and with a vocal style largely modelled on that of Peter Tosh, he pioneered a distinctively South African variant of reggae, which, while not musically radical, was lyrically progressive and politically informed. His songs were spiced with dashes of soul, gospel and the occasional power-ballad flourish, but also influenced by the local style of mbaqanga ("township jive"), which he began recording in 1981. Singing initially in Zulu and even Afrikaans, but later almost exclusively in English, he switched to reggae in 1984, and by the early 1990s had eclipsed Ivory Coast's Alpha Blondy to become Africa's biggest selling reggae artist.

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Mini Budget 2014 - Belt-Tightening

Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s comprehensive package of measures will reassure conservatives that he acknowledges the need for prudence on government’s side. Some of the measures from government to rein spending include: - A freeze on budgets of non-essential goods and services at current levels; - Withdrawing of funding for posts that have been vacant in the civil service for some time; and - Reducing the rate of growth of transfers to public entities, particularly those with cash reserves. Across national departments planned expenditure on travel and subsistence, conference venues and catering has been cut, Nene said. Advertising and communications budgets have also been reduced and consultant services been capped. Altogether these steps will contribute savings of about R1.3bn over the next two years. The Daily Maverick reports: If South Africans are annoyed now with wanton spending in government to keep the top set in the lap of luxury, imagine what it will be like from February when higher taxes are announced? Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene set out in his first Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement on Wednesday just how bleak the economic outlook is, and a range of measures to curb spending and raise revenue. The statement was largely aimed at pacifying ratings agencies to avoid another sovereign credit ratings downgrade. But if Nene is to succeed where his predecessor was frustrated in getting more bang for his buck, he needs the president and his Cabinet to fully buy into his reformation agenda

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The Fall of Oscar Pistorius

21 October 2014: A court in Pretoria sentenced former Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius to five years imprisonment for 'culpable homicide,' for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The judge handed down an immediate prison term for the charge of culpable homicide, saying she believed a non-custodial sentence would “send the wrong message to the community”. He has also been banned by the International Paralympic Committee for the same period. The tragedy and ensuing court case has blotted a unique, and at times controversial, athletic career. He was one of the world's most successful sportsmen, an inspiration to millions.To some particularly those fighting domestic violence, the sentence given to  Pistorius for killing Reeva Steenkamp is “worryingly short” given the severity of the crime.  It is felt that “Strong sentences are essential to show perpetrators of violence against intimate partners that society and the law take their violence seriously.”

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Protection Against Ebola If AFCON 2015 is Played in South Africa

The Ebola outbreak has forced Morocco to withdraw from hosting the 2015 African Nations Cup finals due to concerns over the haemorrhagic virus grow around the globe. Morocco's government has made a plea with the Africa Cup of Nations "to avoid events which involve those countries affected by the Ebola virus". While there have been suggestions that South Africa could host AFCON in 2015. Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula said South Africa will not take up the baton. AFCO

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Nobody Notices Whether South African Post Office is on Strike or Not

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If Oscar Gets House Arrest with Electronic Tag

Minister of Correctional Services, Sibusiso Ndebele, has recently launched a new programme designed to innovatively address overcrowding in South African prisons. His programme, adapted from a Brazilian project, aims to reduce prison overcrowding through the electronic tagging of parolees. Small electronic tags around the ankle, send a constant signal to a control room manned by Department of Correctional Services officials. Using technology similar to Google Earth, the officials can then track the movement of parolees to make sure they are not violating their individual parole conditions. Could this happen to Oscar Pistorius?

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