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‘Zuma doesn’t read’

Political analyst Richard Calland said at the Press Club Zuma's weakness is that he reads too little. "It's not that he can't read, it's that he doesn't read and he doesn't read the proper stuff; he doesn't read Cabinet briefs, he doesn't read stuff that is the meat and drink of modern, sophisticated government."

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White Widow at the Westgate Mall Massacre

Samantha Lewthwaite, a convert to Islam has gained her own media nickname as the "White Widow". This is a play on the black widow, a species in which the female’s venom is at least three times more potent than that of males. Lewthwaite has been on the run since then after being suspected of links to a terror plot in Kenya. She is thought to have been travelling on fraudulently-obtained South African passport. Lewthwaite has been wanted by international police for financing the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab (who have claimed responsibility for the Westgate attack) as well as possession of explosives.

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E-Tolling Bill Passed in Parilament

The main reason Jacob Zuma has signed into law the Transport Laws and Related Matters Amendment Bill, giving the go-ahead to e-tolling in Gauteng is to finance the badly needed maintenance of roads.. South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) is in deep debt and is badly in need of cash.  Until now Sanral’s has not been able to raise the funds it needs to service its debt. While this law enables them to collect funds, it is felt that the poor will be hit hardest. Amongst the protesters are the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the communists; CEOs and shop stewards; taxi drivers and SUV owners. It is felt that noncompliance  with e-tolls is likely to be so high and enforcement so difficult, that the project could become  unworkable. Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa)  argues that  Sanral misled the South African public about the magnitude, cost and method of financing the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) by means of e-tolls when it issued notices calling for public comment in 2007 and 2008.

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Global Terrorism in Africa - Al-Quaeda, Al Shabab and Boko Haram

Recent bombings in Nairobi demonstrates terrorism without borders. Al Shabab is the Somalia-based cell of the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda, formally recognized in 2012. On September 21: Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility over Twitter for the Westgate centre shooting, an armed attack in a Nairobi shopping mall. The insurgent group asserts that its militants shot around 100 people in retaliation for the deployment of Kenyan troops in Somalia, with the Kenyan Red Cross confirming 62 fatalities and over 120 injuries.  Kenyan authorities said that one of the suspects in the devastating attack on a Nairobi shopping centre had been travelling on a false South African passport. Boko Haram founded on 2001/2002 is an Islamic jihadist militant terrorist organisation based in the northeast of Nigeria, north Cameroon and Niger with strong links to al-Quaeda..

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Crime Statistics Through Rose-tinted Spectacles

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Comparing the salvaging of the Costa Concordia with the ANC

The Costa Concordia, an Italian luxury cruise ship sank on January 12, 2012 and has been lying on its side ever since. until recently when it was successfully righted during a painstaking operation led by South African Nick Sloane. Zapiro's cartoon compares the sunken ship to present day ANC, which is in need of righting itself. The ANC is deeply in need of redemption and resurrection as it suffers from disorganisation, lack of leadership and corruption.

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Russia's Peacekeeping Role in Syria

Is it not a contradiction when a military showdown in Syria for the time being has been averted thanks to the September 14 U.S.-Russia agreement on the elimination of Syrian chemical weapons after years of arms supply to Syria by Russia. .The process of disarmament will be carried out as the country's civil war ensues. The framework outlined by the United States and Russia stipulates the removal of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal by "the first half of 2014." The ongoing civil war could cause the disarmament deal to unravel as developments on the battlefield alter the interests of the parties to the conflict. The chemical weapons agreement will not bring about an end to the civil war. Nevertheless there is some hope that the United States and Russia can build on their recent cooperation to fashion a diplomatic solution, even when their differences and objectives remain so fundamental.

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Springbok Hooker Unfairly Red-carded

New Zealand media criticise French referee Romain Poite for incorrectly red-carding South African hooker Bismarck du Plessis in the Springbok - All Black rugby test match. New Zealand comprehensively won the top-of-the-table Rugby Championship clash 29-15 with South Africa playing the second half with 14 men. Dan Carter - the All Black on the end of a rattling du Plessis hit that ended his Rugby Championship campaign came to his rival's defence by tweeting "Nothing wrong with the tackle. Fell awkwardly and popped my AC joint". While the hooker's shoulder-charge on Carter looked dodgy, replays showed the hit was legitimate and that referee Romain Poite had over-reacted. With so much technology available, why did the referee not refer to video footage before taking his decision. The International Rugby Board (IRB)  found fault with Poite's decision to award the first of two yellow cards against Springbok hooker Bismarck du Plessis

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Sunshine Journalism

President Jacob Zuma gave a talk to journalism students in Pretoria in which he berated what he saw as South Africa’s overly critical and negative media. "When I am in South Africa, every morning you feel like you must leave this country because the reporting concentrates on the opposite of the positive," he said. Among a great many other things, he argued South Africa should be more like Mexico, where journalists apparently do not report crime because it is seen as unpatriotic to paint the country in a bad light.

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