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The Times

10 Apr 2012

The Easter Bunny and the Info Bill

Info (Secrecy) Bill is passed.  Easter Bunny, arrested by the Hawks for not telling where he he hid the Easter eggs.

The protection of state information bill falls  short on safeguards to avoid South Africa becoming "a society of secrets". The bill defied the constitutional imperatives of openness and transparency by placing national security, as a cause for classification, above these.

 

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You are under arrest for withholding information on where you hid the Easter eggs!

Easter, Secrecy Bill, Hawks

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Sunday Times

12 Apr 2012

ANC's Top 6 - Unity in Diversity - Pro or Against Zuma

Zapiro's Easter cartoon shows diversity in unity among ANC's top six. The week before Easter,the ANC put up a sham of a unity show,  parading the "Top Six" leaders before cameras to prove that these leaders are united and that they love each other; that they work wonderfully together; and they are not involved in infighting for positions ahead of their elective conference in Mangaung in December.  However the Mail & Guardian reported that  that a war of words broke out between the ANC top brass hours before Tuesday's press conference. The rare media briefing was intended to dispel perceptions that the party was in crisis and that the ANC Youth League was running the show at Luthuli House. Modise and Phosa were infuriated at being informed about the media briefing only shortly before the meeting of the top six, scheduled for 3pm on Tuesday.  They confronted Mantashe and reprimanded him for failing to inform them on time and for forcing the press briefing on them. There was also drama when disagreements ensued over the emotional tone of the initial media statements and Modise and Phosa threatened to boycott the intended briefing if it was not toned down. Mantashe obliged and the harsher parts of the media statement were taken out.

Jacob Zuma / Gwede Mantashe / Baleka Mbete / Kgalema Motlanthe / Thandi Modise / Mathews Phosa / Julius Malema

ANC, Baleka Mbete, Big Six, Easter, Factions, Gwede Mantashe, Hot Cross Buns, Jacob Zuma, jgc, Julius Malema, Kgalema Motlanthe, Mathews Phosa, NEC, Showerhead, Suspension, Thandi Modise, Unity in Diversity
 
Thanks to John Curtis
 
 

‘Strange breed’ of leaders bizarre show of unity
ANC Top Six: enough with the bickering
CHRIS VICK: A show of unity usually points to the opposite
ANC's fissures of men: Cracks widen beneath surface
Parental control' hides ANC family's dysfunctionality
Zuma’s friends are few lately
Scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma under pressure from deputy Kgalema Motlanthe
Presidential ambitions possibly thwarted as Nehawu accuses Kgalema Motlanthe of factionalism
Modise at centre of NW power struggle
All you needed to know about Mathews Phosa (but never remembered to ask)

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Mail & Guardian

4 Apr 2012

ANC's top six show of unity?

ANC's top six leadership ( Gwede Mantashe, Thandi Modise, Baleka Mbete, Jacob Zuma, Kgalema Motlanthe and Mathews Phosa ) met in a dramatic show of unity in an unexpectedly convened press conference on Tuesday , to rebuke Julius Malema and the ANC Youth League for sowing division in the ruling party with recent statements.

 

ANC top 6 to speak out
ANC (dis)unity show
Unity up in smoke as ANC's top six fail to fool
ANC lambasts youth league in show of unity
YOUTUBE: The ANC's top six officials addressed a media briefing at Luthuli House.

NC, Baleka Mbete, Big Six, Factions, Gwede Mantashe, Hot Cross Buns, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, Kgalema Motlanthe, Mathews Phosa, NEC, Suspension, Thandi Modise, Unity

HOT CROSS COMS: ZAPIRO packs a half dozen angry comrades together for this Easter themed cartoon.

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At a centenary celebration at Wits, Malema said, “It is under President Zuma that we have seen the youth of the ANC being traumatised, being expelled from their own home. It is under President Zuma we have seen a critical voice being suppressed. We have seen under President Zuma, democracy being replaced with dictatorship. We have seen an intolerance....people, who become impatient with the youth....”  In consequence, at a meeting on 2 April 2012, the NDC decided to suspend comrade Julius Malema’s membership of the ANC with immediate effect in accordance with the provisions of Rule 25.12 (c) of the ANC Constitution,” 

 

ANC suspends Julius Malema - again
ANC suspends Malema over 'dictator' comments
ANC suspends Malema (again) for 'dictator' remarks
ANC welcomes Malema's suspension - No ANC member is bigger than the organisation's constitution, the party said on Wednesday in welcoming Julius Malema's latest suspension.
Malema to the ANC: Lift my suspension ... or else
Malema is once, twice, three times suspended

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