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Fate of Rebellious Young Lions

ANC party’s leadership dissolved the executive committees of its youth league and of its Limpopo province, a move seen as a major blow to those who campaigned against President Jacob Zuma.

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Police Brutality an Exception?

Despite calls from National Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa for the country's police to not resort to violence when making arrests, yet another case of police brutality has occurred, this time in the Northwest Province. Mthethwa said the recent alleged police brutality incident in the North West was an embarrassment to the police service. MPs from across the political divide have reacted angrily to a new outrage involving the South African Police Service and are demanding both Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and National Commissioner General Riah Phiyega be held to account.

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Surprise Vote for Papal Election?

Papal conclave selects a cardinal from Argentina as Catholic church's new leader. As the 266th pontiff, he is the first Jesuit to lead the Roman Catholic Church and the first from South America to be chosen. He is also the first to use the Francis. While it is reported that came close to becoming pope last time, gaining the second-highest vote total in several rounds of voting before he bowed out of the running in the conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI, nevertheless the "outside" world was surprised at his election. Zapiro's cartoon puts an emphasis on the surprise

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Know Your Clowns

Behaviour by the SABC Board is like behaviour  of clowns. SABC board chairman Ben Ngubane and his deputy, Thami ka Plaatjie, resigned from the board once again throwing the beleaguered broadcaster into turmoil thus creating an "untenable" situation. Their resignations followed weeks of tension at the public broadcaster, with the board failing to agree on the future of acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

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Uhuru Kenyatta Wins Presidential Election?

International criminal court indictee Uhuru Kenyatta wins Kenyan election by a narrow margin. Rival Raila Odinga refuses to concede and sets his sights on court battle over alleged fraud. Prosecutions are pending at the I.C.C. against Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto for their alleged roles in a program of ethnic cleansing that traumatized Kenya’s Rift Valley after the 2007 elections.

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Dirk Coetzee Dies

Dirk Coetzee was co-founder and commander of the covert South African Police unit based at Vlakplaas. He and his colleagues were involved in a number of atrocities including the murders of Sizwe Khondile and Griffiths Mxenge. was granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for murder, has died of kidney failure. He admitted the existence of Vlakplaas in 1989 and admitted that his organization detained and killed many members of the African National Congress (ANC) in an interview with a liberal Afrikaans newspaper, "Vrye Weekblad ". As a result, he took refuge in London and went into exile. In 1997, Eugene de Kock, another former commander of Vlakplaas, was convicted for attempting to kill Coetzee. Bizarrely, while in exile, Coetzee joined the ANC and expressed his support for Nelson Mandela. After Mandela became president of South Africa in 1994, Coetzee joined the new administration as a top spy. However he never ever apologised for his heinous deeds such as "Coetzee burnt the bodies to ashes on a fire of wood and tyres" in order to make them disappear. Pauw ex-editor of Vrye Weekblad reports in his book “Coetzee was never driven by remorse at all, and it is important to note that. There was no remorse for the people he had killed. In fact, Coetzee’s best years were at Vlakplaas. It was the highlight of his life.”

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Hugo Chavez Obituary

Zapiro cartoon on obituary of Hugo Chavez - controversial and not liked by the western world President of Venezuela, who often chided the United States and especially George W Bush.

 

Chavez may have passed away, but some of these quotes will definitely live on!


* On George W Bush:


“The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. [crosses himself] And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world”, he said in a famous speech to the UN general assembly in 2006.


In another speech in Venezuela, he described the former US President as a donkey. “You are ignoramus, you are a burro, Mr Danger… or to say it to you in my bad English: [switching languages] You are a donkey, Mr Danger. You are a donkey, Mr George W Bush.”

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Knives Are Out For Vavi

According to a report in the Mail & Guardian, Cosatu leader Zwelinzima Vavi could find himself out in the cold in as little as three months, if his adversaries in the federation have their way. A powerful faction is planning to show Vavi the door at Cosatu's next central executive committee in May.Vavi has responded that he'll continue his crusade against corruption even if it could cost him his job.

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SAPS - Licence to Kill?

In South Africa, the police have a culture of violence and impunity. In Daveyton, a Mozambican taxi driver Mido Macia died in police custody after being dragged behind a police vehicle. In Marikana, the police massacred 34 striking miners. In Ficksburg, an innocent protestor, Andries Tatane, was killed and in Cato Manor, 28 police officers face a string of charges, ranging from murder to racketeering. In all these places the police acted with excessive brute force, where they believe that they are not accountable to the law. While all this goes on the police minister Nathi Mthethwa and police commissioner Riah Phiyega remain in charge. In any civil society, they would have resigned.

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Police Brutality

Mido Macia, a taxi driver was dragged to his death by eight members of the South African police. A video showing the police officers, seemingly unconcerned strapping Mido Macia to their van then drive away causing his death.

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