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Financing of Zimbabwe Elections

Zimbabwe loans 100 million dollars from South Africa as financial assistance for elections expected later in 2013. While Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Tendai Biti says the loan has been granted, South Africa's treasury says discussion are still under-way.

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TERRORTHON

Boston Marathon 2013: Two bombs struck near the finish line of the Boston Marathon turning a celebration into a bloody scene of destruction.

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Judicial Appointments - Dumb-Down Style

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC)is facing a crisis over transformation. The constitutional stipulates that the main criteria to appoint a judge is that individuals need to be "fit and proper" and "appropriately qualified"This should come before "need for the judiciary to reflect broadly the racial and gender composition of South Africa. What seems to be happening is that the latter is taking over from the former resulting in a mediocre choice of judges In a a report on transformation of the judiciary, Izak Smuts maintains there is a "very real perception in certain quarters" that the JSC was "set against" the appointment of white male candidates, except in exceptional circumstances. This statement and his resignation has caused a rift within the JSC.Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has lashed out at critics of the JSC's selection methods. He said that the commission did not "play games" despite the picture created recently that it would "recklessly subject the South African public to a judicial officer who does not have what it takes".

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Squabble

Nelson Mandela's daughters Makaziwe and Zenani have filed case against his former business associates including former lawyer and friend, George Bizos. Bizis has labelled this suit as a ploy to 'resuscitate' the sale of artworks of Mandela's handprints.

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Probes into the Minister of Communications

Police have been asked to investigate the Minister of Communications Dina Pule as well as Gugu Duda, chief financial officer at the SA Broadcasting Corporation [SABC]; Phosane Mngqibisa, head of Khemano Events; and Lulama Makhobo, group CEO of the SABC. here are already two investigations in progress. Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests Chairman, Professor Ben Turok, has summonsed Minister Dina Pule to appear at hearing set for 2 and 3 May 2013. This is with regard to a contract awarded to Khemano Events in staging the R102 million ICT Indaba in Cape Town in 2012. Minister Dina Pule is being investigated by the Public Protector, also in connection with the ICT Indaba. Pule has also been accused of nepotism after allegations that her boyfriend Phosane Mngqibisa orchestrated the appointment of friends and family to key organisations under her portfolio.

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Death of the Chris Hani's Vision

Chris Hani was the leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress. He was a fierce opponent of the apartheid government. On April 10 1993, he was assisinated outside his home in Boksburg. He was accosted by a Polish far-right immigrant named Janusz Waluś. Clive Derby-Lewis, a senior South African Conservative Party M.P. and Shadow Minister for Economic Affairs at the time, who had lent Waluś his pistol, was also arrested for complicity in Hani's murder. Both are serving life-sentances. According to Zapiro's cartoon Walus and Derby-Lewis may have assassinated Chris Hani but his vision of a fairer South Africa has been killed by the present day ANC leadership.

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Obituary:Iron Lady - Rust in Peace

Obituary of Margaret Thatcher known as the Iron Lady.  A great champion for freedom according to Obama and others, except if you were a black South African, Chilean, British mine worker etc. Disliked by the poor, the workers and freedom fighters, admired by both her own supporters in the Conservative Party and her adversaries in opposition, she changed the political landscape in the UK during the '80s and influenced British politics thereafter.

 

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Manuel and Sisulu - ANC's Hyena Busters

Addressing senior civil servants at the first government leadership summit hosted by Public Service and Administration Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, Trevor Manuel, Planning Minister lashed out at ANC members employed in government for showing loyalty to the party at the expense of South Africans. In 2012, IDASA (Institute for Democracy in South Africa) reported that corruption in the public sector is at an all-time high and is unlikely to decline in the near future.

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Dr Strangelove

Kim Jong Un, the boyish leader of North Korea is shown as a tough guy with his finger on the nuclear trigger.

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