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Right-wing Suspects Arrested for Mangaung Bomb Plot

South African police have arrested four people, amid reports that they planned to bomb the national conference of the governing African National Congress. The Federal Freedom Party (FFP), which campaigns for the self-determination of South Africa's white Afrikaner minority, confirmed that two of those arrested were its members.

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The Habit -

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The INEXPLICABLE Survivor in "The 21-12-12 End of the World Prediction"

21-12-12 is a Mayan prophecy indicating the ned of the world. However most people view this prophecy as absolute rubbish. Zapiro's cartoon sees Jacob Zuma as the The INEXPLICABLE Survivor in "The 21-12-12 End of the World Prediction" of the Mayan prophecy.

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The ANC Has Lost Its Way

 

The ANC  moves closer to picking its next leader but it has also ceded  the higher moral ground it once held and it is in full conflict with everybody around it. At the moment, the ANC is  grounded by corruption allegations, as Zuma facesquestions about enriching himself through his public office. Zapiro's cartoon, the week before the Mangaung 2012 ANC elective conference. - The ANC has Lost Its Way.

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Get well soon, Madiba

Former President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to a Pretoria hospital for “medical attention”, the Presidency has said. President Jacob Zuma said in a statement that there was no cause for concern. President Mandela will receive medical attention from time to time which is consistent with his age,” Zuma's spokesperson Mac Maharaj said.

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NOT YET PUBLISHED

An auditors' report lays bare how a range of benefactors funded a reckless president's lifestyle by more than R7-million. After 1994, South Africa's biggest banks bent over backwards to accommodate Jacob Zuma, who regularly splurged on credit.Here are the people the auditor's report identifies as having paid more than R7-million to benefit Jacob Zuma between 1995 and 2006. Schabir Shaik – R4,072,500.- Nelson Mandela – R1-million-plus, Jurgen Kögl – R1,075,091.-, Julie Mahomed – R431,000.-, Vivian Reddy – R324,110.-, Khulubuse Zuma – R180,000.- Nora Fakude-Nkuna – R174,200.-,

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Cyril Ramaphosa vs Kgalema Motlanthe - What do they stand for?

Vice-President Kgalema Motlanthe's Mangaung game-plan was to hide  behind the ANC's election procedures and sit on the fence to see whether Zuma would get support or not. This approach has created confusion so much so that Zuma's followers are now proposing  Cyril Ramaphosa as Vice-President instead of Motlanthe. Ramaphosa left active politics  in the mid-90s after being outmanoeuvred by Thabo Mbeki for the position of Nelson Mandela's heir. Ramaphosa built a formidable business empire and has resisted all previous attempts to draw him back into the ANC leadership. The question rises what do either of these indivuals stand for.

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SABC cancels show due to absence of ANC

A scheduled discussion on MetroFM about the ANC's national elective conference was cancelled at the last minute because the party had not been invited to participate, the SABC said. Three political journalists had been scheduled to appear on MetroFM's "Talk with Sakina", presented by Sakina Kamwendo, to discuss media coverage of Mangaung. The talk was cancelled at the last minute.

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Architects in Democracy

Two great South Africans pass away. Arthur Chaskalson and Jakes Gerwel. On Arthur Chaskalson retirement from the Constitutional Court in 2005, former president Thabo Mbeki called him a "giant among the architects of our democracy", saying he had "worked with distinction to restore the credibility of a judiciary that had been totally discredited in the eyes of the majority, during the apartheid years" and had "steered the judiciary at a time when it was grappling with defining its proper role in a democracy. Professor "Jakes" Gerwel, was a quiet South African, but one who thought and acted with nobility and courage. This was clear in his visionary, successful attempts to transform the University of the Western Cape (UWC) from an apartheid "bush university" into the "intellectual home of the left" during his time as rector there in the 1980s.

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South African Supreme Court of Appeal declares blocking of the Dalai Lama's visa was illegal

The South African government acted unlawfully by dragging its heels on a failed visa application by the Dalai Lama to attend Desmond Tutu's 80th birthday in 2011. The Supreme Court of Appeal said the home affairs ministry had "unreasonably delayed" its decision to grant the Tibetan spiritual leader and his entourage visas to attend the celebrations for the renowned rights activist. "In so doing," the judge ruled that then minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma had "acted unlawfully." Pretoria's failure to grant the Lama a visa prompted widespread accusations it was pandering to its top trade partner China, which regards the Tibetan leader as a separatist and protests against his visits to foreign countries.

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