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What Do These Gates Have In Common?

President Jacob Zuma has once again been implicated in a number of scandals, Nkandla, CAR and the latest the Gupta wedding. Due to the still freedom of press, scandals from the arms deal to Marikana to Nkandla to the Central African Republic debacle and now the Gupta wedding are coming to light, but if the Secrecy Bill had been paased into law, none of it would be known to the public.

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Gupta Wedding Gift

Guptagate - Private jet flies in 200 guests from India, landing at a restricted air force security base in Pretoria, allegedly without the appropriate clearance. Following this highly irregular event, the guests were trasported by a flashing, blue-light escort from the airbase to Sun City. At the wedding guests allegedly refused to be served or driven by black African staff, preferring white or Asian personnel. The passengers were guests of three wealthy, well-connected and influential Indian brothers named Gupta - Atul, Ajay and Rajesh and they deny any wrongdoing. The Guptas are major financial backers of the governing African National Congress Party and known to brag about their friendship with President Jacob Zuma. They're reported to have a business relationship with two of his children. Atul Gupta responded by saying that South Africans should be grateful for the investment the Gupta family is generating in the country."We're doing so much, so much as you can see. Hundreds of people getting jobs here. Temporary jobs, but it's a lot of boost to the tourism". South Africans complain this is merely another blatant example of cronyism and that the authorities are as much to blame as the Guptas. South African political analysts, commenting on the Gupta debacle, have said that the blame lies with the presidency as he hashas created the environment in which the Guptas have thrived and that it is this influence that is also the reason why The New Age Newspaper gets so much government support. While Zuma and all his ministers have denied involvement in giving permission, the embarrassing and much-publicized episode has yet to suck Zuma in. He was away and missed the Gupta wedding, which other government officials attended.

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SA National ORDERS

On Wednesday, 1st May, a private chartered jet landed at South Africa's militay air base in Pretoria. After arrival, Police escorted the guests to the casino resort of Sun City for the wedding of 23-year-old Vega Gupta, the Gupta brothers' niece, to Indian-born Aaskash Jahajgarhia. Now the governing African National Congress (ANC) party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) have demanded an investigation into how the guests of the Gupta family flew from India to the Waterkloof Air Force Base near Pretoria. Gupta family spokesman Haranath Ghosh said South African officials had authorised the landing of the plane following a request by the Indian embassy in Pretoria. In what appears to be a contradiction, several government departments have denied they gave clearance for a jet chartered by the Guptas to land at the base. How could this have happened without the blessing of the authorities.

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Permission to Land at Waterkloof Air Force Base?

Airliner full of guests for the Gupta wedding at Sun City lands without proper authority at Air Force Base Waterkloof. Government departments as well as Cosatu and SACP try to shift blame distance themselves from the debacle.

 


 
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"Ascending and Descending"

A draft law proposing all businesses be licensed with municipalities is being heavily criticised by all as it is felt that it will negatively impact business in South Africa. Zapiro's cartoon compares the the new proposed bill with Escher's famous "Ascending and Descending" where peple are endlessly going upwards or endlessly going downwards.

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From Freedom Day to Secrecy Bill

On the eve of Freedom Day 2013, Parliament passed the Protection of State Information Bill on 25th April 2013 after three years of debate and redrafting. All opposition parties continue to object to the bill, with some raising limited concerns and others rejecting it outright as a threat to democracy.The bill will increase the government’s power to restrict access to information and impose hefty fines and jail terms on reporters who publish information the government classifies as secret.

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Night of the Long Showerheads

Cosatu president S'dumo Dlamini to stop criticism of the ruling party and government by so-called wayward members of the trade union federation such as Cosatu's Secretary General Zwelinzima Vavi. Dlamini has also accused Corruption Watch,which has Vavi on its board, of interfering in union matters. The watchdog was established early last year to probe corruption, but is now at the centre of the vicious battle unfolding in Cosatu for control of the unions.

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United Arab Emirates and the Slow Wheels of Justice?

Dr. Cyril Karabus has been held in custody in Abu Dhabi for 8 months accused of manslaughter and falsifying documents. Initially this was in a bare Abu Dhabi prison cell within a particularly notorious prison. After numerous frustrated attempts to secure bail in court, he was eventually released from prison after two months minus his confiscated passport. He was ordered not to leave the UAE and required by force of law to remain as an involuntary paying visitor and separated from his family in what is probably the world's most expensive open-air prison. The case relates to a 2003 conviction in abstentia of Prof Karabus after the death of a 3-year-old leukaemia patient who Karabus had treated while doing a locum in Abu Dhabi in 2002. He was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in absentia. In August 2012 Karabus was arrested while in transit through the UAE returning from his son's wedding in Canada. A medical review committee found Karabus was not to blame for the death of the young cancer patient over a decade ago and he was acquitted and completely exonerated. However, the prosecutors appealed his acquittal. The appeal was due to be heard on 9 April but was immediately postponed to 23 April by the judge. While Karabus is not yet free, the Judge  rejected the prosecutors appeal. The prosecution still has 20 days to make a second appeal and therefore Karabus fate is still uncertain.

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Counter-Claims of Dina Pule

In a series of articles over 10 months, the Sunday Times has alleged that Communications minister Dina Pule had a hand in awarding lucrative contracts to her boyfriend.In a counterattack, Pule defended herself by accusing the Sunday Times journalists Mzilikazi wa Afrika, Rob Rose and Stephan Hofstatter of blackmailing her and being the lackeys of business and political interests wishing to obtain a multi-billion rand tender for the migration to a digital television signal. Pule further claimed one of Wa Afrika’s relatives tried to secure a meeting with her and went as far as “to propose love to me”. Wa Afrika came to know, a number of months after his initial stories were published, that a distant relative had been involved in a relationship with Pule. A relationship she now denies ever taking place. However, Wa Afrika was not aware of this relationship when researching and writing our initial stories. He obtained no information from this relative at all. Wa Afrika told Cape Talk radio the minister was trying to “circumcise a mosquito”.

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Extreme Makeover - DA edition

The Democratic Alliance (DA) is launching a campaign that attempts to capture the party’s history and celebrate its contribution to the struggle against apartheid. Helen Zille recently said "When I travel around South Africa, it shocks me to hear that many people think the DA would bring back apartheid if we won an election. There are a significant number of people who think the DA was responsible for apartheid, and that Helen Suzman was a member of the African National Congress (ANC)". Zille has been critisized for leaving out people like Tony Leon, former DA leader. The ANC have criticised the DA for using a picture of Helen Suzman and Nelson Mandela.

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