Zapiro's Blog, page 78
April 2, 2012
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The Times
3 Apr 2012
Police crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli, accused of murder and fraud but found NOT guilty, has been reinstated to his position. According to the Presidential office, Jacob Zuma did not interfere in a probe into fraud and corruption claims against re-instated crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli.
President Zuma denies interference in Mdluli case
Mdluli report's shocking revelations
Sexwale threatens to take legal action against Mdluli
‘I will quit over Mdluli’
Presidency denies Zuma-Mdluli link
Reinstating police boss with dodgy reputation is wrong - The Editor, The Times Newspaper on 30 March 2012
Africartoons: Mothowagae in City Press on 1 Apr 2012
Africartoons: Chip in The Cape Argus on 2 Apr 2012
— Wanted - Lt-Col. Richard Mdluli
published in The Times on 22 Mar 2012
Zapiro cartoon on the re-instatement of Richard Mdluli accused of murder and fraud but found not guilty. Cartoon suggests political interference from Zuma's office, which he denies.
Corruption, Drop the Charges, Fallout, Fraud, Jacob Zuma, Murder, Police Commissioner, Richard Mdluli
April 1, 2012
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Sunday Times
1 Apr 2012
New boy at the BRIC club
Dilma Rousseff / Dmitry Medvedev / Manmohan Singh / Hu Jintao / Jacob Zuma
New Dehli 2012 BRICS Summit
a warm welcome to our newest member
BRIQUETTE
March 31, 2012
March 30, 2012
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Mail & Guadian
29 Mar 2012
Saving lives says he!
Wouter Basson told the tribunal of the Health Professions Council of South Africa that his work was geared to preventing the loss of life.
Wouter Basson headed the apartheid government's secret biological and chemical warfare project, Project Coast, during the 1980s. He coordinated the establishment of Delta G, a covert chemical warfare research facility that manufactured drugs and teargas. Basson remains unremorseful
Throughout the hearing, Basson maintains that his actions had to be viewed in the context of the apartheid era and that, as a soldier, he had been following the orders of his superior officers and his actions had been sanctioned by the government of the day.
My actions were aimed at SAVING LIVES
Not THESE lives!...others
Activist poisoned
SWAPO Captive drugged thrown from plane
Activist: Taxicity experiment
Capture drugged drowned
Prisoner-of-war experimented on
Activist:Legal injection
Apartheid: Biological and Chemical Warfare Program
Wouter Basson's 9 000 heart patients
Inquiry committee throws Wouter Basson a bone
TimesLive: Basson accused of lying to hearing
IOL: Basson accused of lying
March 29, 2012
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The Times
29 Mar 2011
James Cameron's deepsea challenger
11000 feet! ... nohing could survive down here!
WHAT THE ....?!!
Julius Malema
Zapiro cartoon on Hollywood director James Cameron's plunging nearly 11km down to the deepest place in the ocean, the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. In this most remote place, Cameron finds Julius Malema wondering at the bottom of the ocean! demonstrating that Malema is able to survive wherever.
THE ORIGINAL VERSION of this cartoon published in print in The Times mistakenly shortened the depth at 11 000 FEET (rather than meters). It's an easy error to make, because ocean depths are normally measured in feet instead of metres.
ANCYL, Comeback Kid, Deepsea Challenger, Exploration, James Cameron, Julius Malema, Sea, Spot the Mistake, Survival, World Records, WTF
ANCYL / Survivor / Deepsea Challenger /Ocean exploration / World record
March 27, 2012
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The Times
27 Mar 2012
Grannies brave croc river for pensions
Pensioners from KwaNogawu village, in KwaZulu-Natal, risk drowning each month when they are forced to cross a raging, crocodile-inhabited river to collect their old-age pension
The elderly, school children and mothers carrying children have for years braved the uThukela River in the province's midlands as the nearest bridge to their social grant pay point is more than 45km away.
A week ago, an eight-year-old schoolgirl drowned while crossing the river to attend a school activity.
Grannies from the village this weekend spoke of their fear of crossing the river, which is about 100m wide - sometimes taking more than half an hour to do so.
Khethile Kubheka, 80, is one of hundreds of grannies from KwaNogawu village who wake at 5am on pension day to prepare for their trek across the river.
Kubheka, like many her age, has bad eyesight and has to wait for others to help her cross the river, regardless of the weather.
In groups of two to five, the grannies cross the uThukela every month to get to the nearest pay point, in Umsinga.
Fear consumes them each time they are about to enter the river but, with their pension their only income, Kubheka says only God can guard them.
"We sometimes see crocodiles in the river as we cross. But we choose certain areas because now we know which areas in the river are preferred by the crocodiles," she said.
Pointing to the area where the eight-year-old girl drowned, Kubheka said: "We just buried the little daughter from the neighbour who was swallowed by the same river a week ago. Many people I know have died on this river while crossing. But that does not scare me that much, maybe this is the way our God wants us to live and die."
Years of pleas for a footbridge have fallen on deaf ears.
Said Bayekile Mthonti: "People are now tired of asking for the same thing. We have asked for the bridge while I was still a girl in the area and at that time we were under Zulu government nothing was done here. But we had hoped that when government falls under Jacob Zuma's hands our lives will change.
"Just a footbridge for our children and us when we are going to collect our pension won't be costly," said Mthonti.
For most of the villagers, the social grant is their only income.
"We better be eaten by the crocodiles than staying at home without collecting our pensions. Others stay with orphans here and they have to collect child support grants to ensure that there is food for the children in the house," said Mthonti.
Mthonti said grannies formed a human chain and rolled their clothes up to their breasts before crossing the river.
It was either that or the grannies, some with walking sticks, have to walk more than 45 km to a bridge.
But the journey does not stop after they have braved the crossing of the river - they must then walk another 10km to reach the pay point.
Zandile Nkala, 17, carrying her six-month-old daughter, Ayanda, said she has crossed the river several times with her child to collect her grant.
"I used to cross the river here to go to school and now I have to do the same for my child to have food. It's dangerous," she said.
"Every day when my siblings leave for school, my parents stand in the yard to watch them until they have crossed safely.
"Parents wait for calls from the schools to find out if their children arrived safely.
"This river is evil. Many school children and adults have drowned there. But no one cares about our lives."
Local mayor Joshua Sikhakhane was "shocked" to hear from The Times of the pensioners' plight.
"If I had known, I would have asked the previous social development MEC to assist us," he said.
March 26, 2012
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