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A DAY IN PICTURES - ThEmb'ElIhlE


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Themb'elihlesouTh africa

TUEsDAY - 06 sEpTEmbEr 201

service delivery anger flares in lenasia

The Themb'elihle squatter camp has seen

service-delivery protests before but never, those

who live around the area later told us, anything

like the violence they saw on Monday.

By late Monday night a car was burning on

the major road that divides the township of

shacks inhabited by black people from the neat

Service delivery protests just outside Lenasia, south o Johannesburg, fared into violence onMonday. PHILLIP DE WET spent the day talking to the protesters, and the night steering clearo their hurled rocks.

Photo: Phillip de Wet for iMaverick.

brick houses of Lenasia, primarily an Indian

part of town. At least three other cars had

been destroyed and several more damaged.

Two people had been bloodied, several more

battered and bruised, and township residents


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said that would only mark the beginning.

"It's like fucking Baghdad here," one Lenasia

resident said, surveying the road that hadbecome a battleground. With burning tyres

sending up black plumes of smoke and the sound

of gunre competing with the Muslim call to

evening prayer, it was not an entirely unfair

comparison. That same man would later join an

armed group standing watch against what they

believed would be an inevitable invasion by their

black neighbours though "black neighbours"

was not one of the descriptions hurled across the

road. Like others who live just a hundred metres

away from the car that had been set alight,

that group said it would be getting no sleep on

Monday.

Across the road, in Themb'elihle, there was

probably even more fear. Earlier the afternoon,

before the rocks and rubber bullets had started

ying again, many township dwellers hadexpressed their concern: a dark night, high

emotions, some drunkenness and, perhaps, some

kangaroo justice. It would make for a potent

combination, they said. What actually happened

we can not say; the area was most decidedly a

no-go, from which even armoured police vehicles

retreated.

Those who live in Themb'elihle say they only

want electricity. Electricity they'll be happy to pay

for (instead of the paran they currently use),electricity they say they've been promised for years

"Why do rural areas have power and we don't?"

several asked. "Why do these malls and those

people [in Lenasia] have power and we don't?"

Arguments that the township is built on

dolomite, making it inherently unsafe, are

roundly dismissed as nonsense; just look at the

big buildings that have been approved on every

side. That gives rise to any number of conspiracy

theories about the real reason for the condition

of their township, many involving a land-grab by

Lenasia's Indian residents and fecklessness of a

local government which, they say, deals only in

empty promises.

So it was perhaps inevitable that tempers

would are. On Monday morning, that resulted

in injuries to a young boy and a police ocer.On Monday night, a young woman took a rock

to the face and another woman was trampled as

the crowd stampeded. That is the cost, one local

leader later said, of making a point. In between

children played soccer in the street, but it was

the peace that was transient, rather than the

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Despite an early morning o violence, leaving several people injured by rubber bullets,the late morning was characterised by discussion. Vehement, emotional, and sometimesshouted discussion, but police and protesters were talking in the streets. That was not tolast. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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Make-shit shields: ater the rst round o rubber bullets on Monday morning, protesterstore down the plastic holders used or street pole ads nearby. These, they assured us,would stop a rubber bullet while being light enough to manage. Photo: Phillip de Wet oriMaverick.


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As things settled down, women and children joined the protest again. Photo: Phillip de Wetor iMaverick.


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The littlest protester, 18 months old. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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By mid-aternoon the mood had changed to one o anticipation. As a larger crowd gatheredagain, resh tyres were rolled out or new res. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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Residents never put away their make-shit weapons: sticks, bottles, broken chairs, at leastone panga. The threat o violence was clear. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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"We want electricity," residents told us all day. Flushing toilets too, and maybe betterhousing, but electricity was the main gripe. Stories o res caused by overturned paranstoves abound in the township. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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Trying to address the residents and assure them action will be taken. All such attemptsultimately ailed. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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A girl, injured by a rock thrown during the late aternoon racas, is tended to. She was oneo two injuries in the incident; another woman was trampled as the crowd beat a hastyretreat. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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Police stand watch over the intersection that had seen violence fare up in the early morningas well as later that evening. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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Township residents gather around one o several res lit on the main arterial that runs pastthe township. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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A policeman res rubber bullets at a determined man throwing rocks rom behind a shackin the township. It was neither the rst nor the last shots to be red. Photo: Phillip de Wetor iMaverick.


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Residents gather together shoes that had been let behind in the mad scramble away romthe rubber bullets and water cannon. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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An ambulance arrives to remove the injured girl. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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A amily emerges rom their car ater running the one kilometre gauntlet that the road nextto the township had become. They escaped with minor cuts rom the broken glass o twowindows. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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A group o residents lited the car o the ground to extract a piece o concrete stuckunderneath, in an attempt to get it urther away rom the worst trouble. Like with severalother vehicles, it took a tow truck to remove it rom the scene, though. Photo: Phillip de Wetor iMaverick.


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Another car that attempted to run the gauntlet. The driver, who works at a nearby hospital,emerged shaken but unscathed. She had simply been on her way to work, she said, andhad not been aware o the protest until the rst rocks started raining down. Photo: Phillip deWet or iMaverick.


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A police Nyala patrols the road separating the inormal settlement rom Lenasia itsel,strewn with rubble, burning tyres and make-shit barricades. Photo: Phillip de Wet oriMaverick.


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The braver children o the neighbourhood emerged, once or twice, to dance around thefaming car. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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By late night, the most die-hard o the protesters gathered around the burning vehicle theyhad set alight earlier, unmolested by police. Photo: Phillip de Wet or iMaverick.


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IT hAPPENED OVERNIGhT


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briefsit happened overnight

tuesday - 06 september 201

ANC & Youth League violence (iMaverick)

politics

iranIran has agreed to open itsnuclear programmes to ve

years of scrutiny by the UnitedNations if the global body willdrop sanctions. Tehran has,

however, refused to draw backon its uranium enrichmentprogrammes. Last month Iraninvited International AtomicEnergy Agency inspector, Her-man Nackaerts to view its ura-nium production which west-ern diplomats reckoned wasmerely to show o.

indiaIndias land reform laws havepassed through cabinet andare set to move into parliamentby Wednesday. Indias massiveinfrastructure boom is beingslowed by rural landownershesitance to part with their as-sets, often in exchange for val-ue below market rates decided

by government. This reformis to over-compensate poorlandowners. This is also a pre-emptive election issue with thecurrent administration seek-ing the support of farmers, andelections in very inuential Ut-tar Pradesh state (where land isa major issue) next year.

south africaThe ANC has complainedabout the ANC Youth Leagueprotests outside Luthuli Houselast week, calling it un-ANCto throw rocks and burn T-shirts with President JacobZumas face on the front, justsix days after the protests hap-pened.

ethiopiaThe Ethiopian government has

arrested 29 people, includingmembers of the opposition, onterrorism charges, suspicionof plotting to commit criminalacts contrary to anti-terrorismlegislation, according to a gov-ernment spokesman. It soundslike bull, as this wouldnt be therst time Meles Zenawis reps

have used these kinds of ac-cusations to hush oppositionmouths. Naturally, the collec-tive accused have denied beingterrorists.

usaMitt Romney announced hisplan to save jobs (which soundsremarkably like the samething everyone else, includingthe current President BarackObama, has said before) by

cutting taxes, removing redtape, hating on China etc. etc.While Romneys plans maystick out as much as a blackshirt at an Orlando Piratesgame, his insistence that he isnot a career politician may dif-ferentiate him from the politi-cal cowboys of this world.


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President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete (Reuters)

pakistanThe Pakistani government saidon Monday it had arrestedthree highly ranked al-Qae-da operatives a week earlier.This will hopefully get Paki-stan back into the USAs goodbooks. Relations lately havebeen, well, frostier than a Jo-hannesburg lawn in June.

tanzaniaThe current President of Tan-zania has denied accusationsof bribery which were reportedin a WikiLeaks cable in 2006

when he served as foreign af-fairs minister. President JakayaKikwete, according to thecable, was taken to London for

a shopping trip and received alarge donation from an Emiratihotelier to facilitate two newhotels in the country. Kikwetesspokespeople asked the thenambassador to Tanzania, Mi-chael Retzer, to provide evi-dence of the claim.

Yemen

The Yemeni government willdiscuss a UN proposal to trans-fer power from current Presi-dent Ali Abdullah Saleh to hisdeputy, who would be tasked

with forming an interim gov-ernment until elections couldbe held. Saleh remains in Saudi

Arabia while he recovers from

a blast at his presidential com-pound in Sanaa.

libYaA new glut of speculation sur-rounding Colonel Gadda andhis whereabouts hit the wiresthis morning, but until we getsomething concrete, the onlything that happened in the last

few hours was that British dip-lomats began returning to thecountry.

haitiHaitian President Marcel Mar-telly has picked a new PrimeMinister, the third such selec-


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Carla Bruni criticises Dominique Strauss-Kahn (Reuters)

a name change to try to toss itsnasty reputation post civil war.The name will revert to the oneused after independence, theNational Armed Forces of theCte dIvoire, from the currentRepublican Forces of the CtedIvoire. Well, I feel much bet-ter already.

israelA senior Israeli militaryspokesman said that Israel will

become more tolerant of Pales-tinian protests because of newriot control training and equip-ment. Although, by denition,less dead people would implymore tolerance, shooting pro-testers with rubber bullets isntexactly our idea of tolerance.Maybe its just semantics.

businessNigerias central bank has ap-proved a policy of holdinginvestments in yuan, endingthe days of assets remaining indollars, euros and sterling. Thebank governor, Malam LamidoSanusi, said, We have alreadyallowed Nigerian companies

who want to import fromChina to settle in renminbi(the fancy term for yuan). TheChinese government recentlyallowed Chinese companies to

actually outow investmentsin RMB (Renminbi), and wewould allow investments tocome in RMB. Nigeria is notthe rst and will not be the lastto adopt this. Nigeria is onlyexpected to hold yuan reservestotalling around 5%-10% of itstotal.

tion in his four-month old gov-ernment. The new PM, GarryConille, has worked as a legis-lator in government before.

franceThe wife of French PresidentNicolas Sarkozy, star CarlaBruni has criticised Dominique

Strauss-Kahn who is now backin France and is expected toassist the opposition party inits election campaign. It mustbe purely coincidental that the

wife of the ruling partys nu-mro un is taking on the So-cialists most famous face, butthen again, DSKs party musthave expected some kind ofreaction, surely?

colombiaThe new defence minister inColombia has promised in-novative solutions to illegalarmed groups, drug trackersand guerrillas. Although secu-rity in Colombia has increasedalongside the countrys econ-

omy, President Juan ManuelSantos is undergoing a drop inthe polls, largely due to a per-ception in dropped nationalsafety.

cte divoireThe Ivorian army will undergo


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Novak Djokovic (Reuters)

South Koreas revised economicgrowth for the second quarterdropped to 0.9%, indicatingthat fears of another global re-cession may not be unfounded.South Korea, like most of Asia,is battling ination and its ex-port-dependent economy, whilestill on the increase, is fallingbelow forecasts made last year.The countrys trade surplusdropped to $821 million last

month from $6.3 billion in July.

Italian President Giorgio Na-politano has warned againstalarming debt signals thathis country is facing, includingMondays debauchery in stockexchange performance. Italysausterity reforms are currently

undergoing approval in thesenate and the president wantsthem to be fast and reinforced.

Upcoming testimony by twoNewsCorp executives may de-termine the future of JamesMurdoch, Rupert Murdochsson, as their testimony in frontof the committee to investigatephone-hacking allegations isexpected to contradict his. In

other words his P45 could ar-rive quite soon.

sport

Football: Manchester City willinvestigate claims of hackingafter the clubs chief executive,

Gary Cook, accidentally senta rude email to the person he

was ridiculing, using her can-cer suering distastefully in the

email. Cook has told the presshis email account was hacked.It didnt work for Anthony

Weiner, mate. We doubt it willwork for you.

Tennis: Novak Djokovic wona marathon tie-break in therst set of his match against

Alexandr Dolgopolov, 16-14,before going on to beat the

Ukrainian in straight sets. Jo-Wilfreid Tsonga knocked outhome favourite, Mardy Fish,

while Janko Tipsarevic madehis rst ever Grand Slam quar-ter nal when he beat ex-worldnumber one, Juan Carlos Fer-rero. In the womens draw, An-astasia Pavlyuchenkova upsetFrancesca Schiavone, Serena

Williams drilled Ana Ivanovicand Andrea Petkovic wrappedup a good win against CarlaSuarez-Navarro. World num-ber one Caroline Wozniacki iscurrently a set and two breaksdown against former championSvetlana Kuznetsova.

Olympics: Team GB (whatthe British call their Olympic

squad) has unveiled its mascotfor the 2012 competition nextyear: A lion. Called Pride. Pridethe Lion. Indeed.

Golf: Webb Simpson won theDeutsche Bank Champion-ship in a playo against ChezReavie. Simpson only quali-


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Salvatore Licitra (Reuters)

taminated evidence. MeredithKercher was murdered four

years ago and Amanda Knoxand her boyfriend, RaaeleSollecito, found guilty. Thiscurrent court appearance is anappeal.

Wildres rampaging throughTexas have destroyed up to 500homes and killed two people a mother and her child. Theres have burnt more than12,000ha of land and 5,000

people have been evacuatedfrom sites in central and eastTexas. According to a forestspokesman, this is the worstre season in the state.

Salvatore Licitra, the famedItalian opera singer has died atthe age of 43 after injuries to

his head after an accident onhis scooter. He died in Catania,Sicily. Licitra rose to fame whenhe replaced Luciano Pavarottiin two performances of Toscaat the end of the Met season inNew York in 2002.

South African actress, GloriaMudau, has died at the ageof 84 after a long illness. Sheis best known for her role onSABCs Sgudi Snaysi seriesand the comedy-drama Khu-

luleka in 1994.

Japan will seek advice of theInternational Atomic Energy

Agency before turning its nu-clear power stations back on.

Wed imagine this is solely tocover its arse if something hap-pens to go wrong.

ed for the playo, with thepair tied at -15, because of hisperformance on the back nine,saving par three times andmaking a 30-foot birdie putton the last regulation hole.

Simpsons putter remainedhis weapon of choice, holing a15-footer on the second playohole to seal victory. Ernie Elsnished A tie 16th at -8 andCharl Schwartzel a shot furtherback.

life

A 12-year old boy was killedwhen a 6.6 magnitude earth-quake hit the Indonesianisland of Sumatra (the one

Jakarta isnt on). The quakestruck 100km south of Medan.Some hospitals were evacuatedand people ed their houses,but initial reports claim theonly infrastructure damage was

electricity poles falling ontohouses.

Police have defended their fo-rensic methods in the AmandaKnox trial which is still beingcarried out in Italy. This was inresponse to a panel of experts

who said the police had con-


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briefssouth africa


Thabo Mbeki (Reuters)

Moeletsi Mbeki: capitalflight biggest threat toeconoMic freedoM

Political analyst MoeletsiMbeki told a Democratic Alli-ance meeting that the biggestdanger to economic freedom inSouth Africa was the ight of

capital to foreign destinations.He said that this left entrepre-neurs with no capital to create

jobs. He also cautioned againstdismissing nationalisation asa way of attaining economicfreedom, but said that nation-alising mining would adverselyaect foreign exchange reservesand entrepreneurial activity.

and thabo wept...

According to a Wikileaks cable,former president Thabo Mbekicried when he told membersof his Cabinet that he would bestepping down. The cable de-tails meetings between US con-sulate sta and members of the

presidents policy unit, wherethe two groups held discussionsof a post-Mbeki South Africa.One of Mbekis staers, Thabi-leng Mothabi, is also reportedto have expressed dim viewsof Jacob Zuma and KgalemaMotlanthe calling the formerdumb and the latter an idiot.

wikileaks: Zille offered tostop down should Manueldefect

Another Wikileaks cable al-leged that the Democratic Al-liance leader Helen Zille wasprepared to step down if min-ister in the presidency TrevorManuel were to defect and takethe top seat in her party. Man-uel however did not respondto the DAs advances. The DAs

Athol Trollip, who was named

as a source in the cable, saidthe reference to Manuel wasa metaphorical example, ac-cording to News24.

protection of inforMationbill heading to nationalasseMbly

The ad hoc parliamentary com-mittee on the protection ofinformation bill has voted onand accepted a draft bill, which

will be tabled in the nationalassembly in the coming weeks.The vote was split seven to four,

with the DA, the ACDP and theIFP voting against it. The nal-ised bill crucially lacks protec-tion for those who disclose clas-sied information if it is in thepublic interest and could face aconstitutional challenge.

boy in hospital followingservice-delivery protestssouth of Johannesburg

An 11-year-old boy was alleged-ly shot in the face with a rubberbullet by police during service-


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Service delivery protests in Thembelihle, Johannesburg. (iMaverick)

delivery protests in Thembeli-hle, Johannesburg, EyewitnessNews reported. The boy is saidto be in hospital and policeare investigating the incident.Three hundred people blockedthe road and set re to tyres inthe protest, and police say theyred the rubber bullets to stopstone throwers. Twenty people

were arrested.

bees roux Murder casepostponed to wednesday

The judge in the murder trialof Blue Bulls player Bees Rouxhas postponed the case to

Wednesday to allow time forfurther discussion between

prosecutors and the defence.Roux has been charged in themurder of metro police ocersergeant Ntsimane Mogale,

who had pulled Roux over fordrunk driving. Roux has plead-ed self-defence, alleging thatMogale had tried to rob him.

rea vaya loses bid to enddrivers strike

The Rea Vaya bus company haslost a labour court bid to enda strike by its drivers, who aredemanding that their salary betripled from R5,000 to R15,000and have been on strike since1 August. The company toldSapa that it has dismissed 20

drivers who failed to report forwork and would be calling anurgent management meeting

to decide on the next steps.

pale ya rona carnivaldraws 17,000

Soweto this weekend held itsannual Pale Ya Rona carnival,drawing a crowd of more than17,000 people. The carnival,held on the historic Vilakazi

Street, is a colourful celebra-tion of the history of Johan-nesburg through music, danceand performances.

da lays charge againstyouth league violenceringleader

The Democratic Alliance haslaid charge of incitement topublic violence against JacobLebogo, secretary of the ANC

Youth League in Limpopo.Lebogo, a childhood friend of

Julius Malema, is said to havebussed in youth league mem-bers from Limpopo and ledthem in violent protest in the

Johannesburg CBD against

Malemas disciplinary hear-ing. The DA wants Lebogo andthe youth league to be heldresponsible for the damageand chaos caused during theprotests. The league has admit-ted to sending the buses, butdenied that Lebogo had incitedthe crowd to violence.


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ANC leAders slAm Youth leAgue protests some more

ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe looked

even more bouncy than usual as he waltzed into

the Food and Allied Workers Union conference

on Monday night, following all-day meetings

with his fellow ANC leaders.

Mantashes talk to the unionists, like that

of SACP deputy general secretary JeremyCronins earlier in the day, centred around the

battle against ANC Youth League leader Julius

Malema. Mantashe referred to UDM leader

Bantu Holomisa, who was expelled from the

ANC after he failed to attend a disciplinary

hearing, saying the ANC took action no matter

how popular people were.

Having won most battles so far in their disciplining of the ANC Youth League, ANC bosses are on a roll

and condemned last weeks violent protests on the sidelines, promising further action against trouble-

makers, which is likely to include Julius Malemas best buddy. CARIEN DU PLESSIS reports.


We must at a point put (foot) down and

say do[sic] what is in line with the cultures of

the movement, and not blink, and not inch.

The ANC is like an elephant and when it comes

down you mistake the stump for a tail, and it

puts down (its foot), there is nothing left of you.

The day it wakes up and comes for you, it walksover you. You can ask many people, you can ask

(UDM leader) Bantu Holomisa, many people,

who thought the ANC was their domain because

they commanded the biggest vote in the ANC. It


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is not like that. Once you are in the ANC you are

ordinary.

This is perhaps a hint that the ANC was

planning to come down hard on the youngsters.

Mantashe said the mistakes of ill-discipline the

ANC made before its 2007 Polokwane conference

shouldnt stop it from trying to restore discipline

now.

When people say (other) people were allowed

to say certain things in the run-up to Polokwane,

you cant say no now, (or) you cant talk about

slates now because you are the product of a

slate, that is wrong, he said.Mantashe also gave a long explanation on the

ANCs policy on Botswana, presumably after the

League last week challenged being charged for

wanting to eect regime change next door by

working with opposition parties there.

Mantashe said the ANC at Polokwane resolved

to cement relations with former liberation

movements. It says look for all progressive

parties and analyse the ideology. It says work

with other parties in government that do not

necessarily share your vision.

Right-wing movements had to be pulled tothe left, not punched. He said in this way the

ANC and other liberation parties persuaded

Botswana not to agree to the Americans

establishing a military base, Africom, in the

neighbouring country.

Mantashe apparently has the backing of the

partys national working committee, which in a

statement last night declared it had discussed

the recent violent protests outside LuthuliHouse. There was no talk, however, of stories

that Zuma had wanted to appoint interim

leaders for the League, as had been reported,

Mantashe said.

It didnt refer to the ANC Youth League,

which organised the protests even if it claimed

it didnt and concluded that the protest was

uncalled for and that it was calculated to

undermine the internal organisational processes

to uphold disciplined conduct of its members.

The NWC also condemned the burning of

the T-shirt bearing (Zumas) face and the ag of

the ANC. This was viewed as totally un-ANC

and a breach of everything that the ANC stands

for. It called for action to be taken against

those who are implicated in acts of violence and

criminality.About the displays of posters by Youth

League members on Friday asking for deputy

president Kgalema Motlanthe take over from

Zuma at the partys elective conference in

Mangaung next year, there was no word.

Some provincial leaders from the League

told the crowd on Beyers Naude Square, next

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to Luthuli House, that they wanted to see

Motlanthe and sports minister Fikile Mbalula

elected to the ANCs top leadership.

This was in clear contravention to the ANCsdeclaration two weeks ago, via Mantashe, that

the partys leadership debate was not open yet.

Mantashe, when asked about this last night, was

his usual cryptic self: I dont get into the mud

with people. When you play in the mud, you get

muddied, he said.

What that meant is either the ANC did not

reckon these incidents important enough to

consider for discipline, or it had made a decision,

but didnt want to talk to the media about it now.

Either way, the DA in Gauteng wasted no time,

and laid a charge against the ANCs Limpopo

secretary, Jacob Lebogo, also a bosom buddy of

ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, for the

mayhem and damage caused in the city centre

last week, and specically on Tuesday.

Lebogowas reported to have been the onewho organised the battle.

Cronin, in a long speech, on Monday spoke

out against racism and sexism in the tripartite

alliance. He said non-racialism cannot be

earned by merely putting the right faces on

election posters, as the DA was doing. The

ANC must uphold the values that unite it as an

alliance, otherwise we dont have an alliance.

The ANC must stand rmly for non-racialism.

Anybody who stirs up racism is not part of

our alliance. It must have people who upholdnon-sexism. If anybody is guilty of dreadful

behaviour towards women, they do not belong

in our organisation, he said.

He said the SACP and the Youth League

joined forces before Polokwane because they

both wanted to be rid of former president

Thabo Mbeki, but for dierent reasons. The

SACP was concerned about the policies Mbeki

represented, while the League and some others

within the ANC were in trouble with the law,

and they thought it was their chance to eat.

But it was these other forces which were

unprincipled and which believed they were

the kingmakers, although they were actually

right-wing demagogues.

He said those in the alliance should provide

better leadership. People are ghting for scraps inthe townships. This tells us that we in the alliance

are not providing leadership, he said.

reAd more:

1. Youth League to party even as its world is ending, in Daily

Maverick

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JudiCial ServiCe CommiSSion, a bodynow firmly in the anC handS

The heady mixture of judges and politicians

is always a volatile one, rather toxic at times.

Particularly when presidents past have used thelaw, and judges, to do some of their dirty work.

It gets even worse when a serving President still

has an outside chance of appearing in a dock

somewhere for events that transpired when he

was the Deputy President. For a politician in

trouble, the solution is obvious. You nobble the

judges.

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is designed to be one o the pillars o our democracy, a body that

literally appoints the people who judge over us. It is, rather unsurprisingly, in the spotlight at the moment

because o this last weekends public interview o Judge Mogoeng Mogoeng, President Zuma's nominee

to the post o Chie Justice. While the Constitution went to great lengths to ensure that the ruling party

o the day doesnt get a ull blown majority control o JSC, it does it look like the ANC has it frmly in its

grip. By STEPHEN GROOTES..

Photo: REUTERS

But the constitution has made that hard.

It provides for a mixture of people to serve on

the JSC. Its not just left up to the politicians.Its a long mixture of people, but the short

version is this:

The JSC consist of: The Chief Justice (who

presides and chairs meetings, hence the real

power Mogoeng will have), the President of

the Supreme Court of Appeal, a provincial
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Judge President, the justice minister, two

advocates representing the profession, two

attorneys representing the profession, one law

professor, six MPs (of whom three must be

from opposition parties), four people from the

National Council of Provinces and four people

appointed by the President.

In times past, this meant there was a very

real debate. Its one of those commissions that is

really a product of the people appointed to it. So,

for example, when George Bizos was appointed

by President Thabo Mbeki, we got a man of real

stature. You could not predict which way he

would vote. Those days are no more.

For a start, the justice minister, Je Radebe,

and deputy correctional services ministerNgoako Ramathlodi, make it their business to

protect their favoured candidates from tough

questions. Ramathlodi in particular protected

Judge John Hlophe during his 2009 interview

for the Constitutional Court. He was at it again,

straight out of the blocks on Saturday. Hes a

great electoral manager for the ANC. But a true

democrat who sees the other side, hes not (if you

think thats too harsh, read his opinion piece in

The Times last week, and the reply by Professor

Pierre de Vos on his agenda-setting blog,

Constitutionallyspeaking.co.za ). Every chancehe gets, he will stop the debate.

Accordingly, you would expect more from

Radebe. A man who served in Mandelas rst

Cabinet, you would think that that generation

of people is somehow dierent to the current

generation. Well, we all know to whose wagon is

his hitched these days.

Then we have the nominees from the

professions. For some reason, the legal professionhas really battled with transformation. It is

unacceptable that there is only one black female

senior counsel. Mogoeng was absolutely right

when he said at his hearing that government

only seems to brief white counsel. You see it tim

after time in big cases, people who need the best

go for the mlungu. Even Zuma himself. While

thats partly because many of the black advocate

are running the country (i.e. in parastatals, in

government itself, and in Parliament) its also

because the profession simply hasnt caught

up with the rest of the us. As a result, both the

attorneys and the advocates professions send one

white representative and one black. Its a little

childish, but its the best they can come up with.

Then we have the presidential appointments.

These are still people of stature. Its hard tothink that advocates Vas Soni (an acting judge

on many occasions), Ishmael Semenya, Dumisa

Ntsebeza (chair of Advocates for Transformation

i.e. the black advocates and former Truth

Commission evidence leader, among a varied

life) and Andiswa Ndoni (head of the Black

Lawyers Association) as anything but. There is

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something else at work here though. It came

to light when Ntsebeza sent an email that was

leaked. Essentially, he wanted Deputy Chief

Justice Dikgang Moseneke to be Chief Justice,but he didnt want another black judge to be

thrown to the wolves. It was a lengthy email,

but possible interpretation has to surely be

that he was saying the colour of Mogoengs

skin was more important than the content of

his character.

Having watched the hearing, I cant help

but feel that this was a feeling shared by

many of the commissioners. Gauteng Judge

President Bernard Ngoepe, a man of great

independence and towering intellect (who,

incidentally, recused himself from hearing

the Zuma Rape Trial), seemed to spend much

of the weekend passing up easy deliveries

for Mogoeng to hit for six. Why? He is the

president of the biggest judicial division, he

must have a few views of a person from theSA's smallest division, the one from North

West. Perhaps he might think that for a Chief

Justice to have been picked by God may be

problematic.

Then we have the representatives of the

National Council of Provinces. Well, there

should be four, but theyre only three at the

moment. For some reason, they all come from

the ANC. So its pretty easy to work out how

they vote.

So lets do some maths. After Mogoengis appointed this is really how the ANC, or

Zuma, will have stacked the deck. Or made

the appointments that he is legally allowed to,

depending on your point of view. These are the

people he would appear, on a rough and ready

lets-hope-we-dont-have-to-testify-to-it-in-court

thinking, to be able to rely on.

The JSC Chair, Judge Mogoeng Mogoeng,

the Justice Minister Je Radebe, one advocates

representative, one attorneys representative,

three MPs, three members from the

National Council of Provinces, and his four

appointments. That gives him at least fourteen

votes. Out of a total of the commissions current

total of 23.

There are many lessons from all of this. But

surely the one that has to stick out is this: whenit comes to judges, as with so many other things

in South Africa, identity matters more than

anything else. And control of the playing eld is

now rmly in the ANCs hands.

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Tuesday - 06 sePTeMBeR 201

da ropes in younger Mbeki oneconoMic reedoM

Academic and author Moeletsi Mbekis name on

the programme made the DA Gauteng caucuss

discussion on economic freedom on Monday an

easy sell to journalists at least. Seeing a Mbeki

The ironies in South Arican politics never cease to amaze. While ormer president Thabo Mbeki is theANC Youth Leagues new best riend, his little brother Moeletsi is cosying up to the DA. CARIEN DU

PLESSIS heard out his tips to the opposition party on economic reedom in our lietime.

Photo: Pan MacMillan

at a DA event was a rst, although Moeletsi

has surprised us in the past, such as when he

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found, at the Sandton Convention Centre, very

close to three years ago.

Mbeki the Younger, smiling disarmingly

throughout, broke the ice by telling theintimate audience of about 50 journalists and

DA politicians that I never thought in my

wildest dreams Id be addressing a conference

of the DA, but as Chief Justice nominee

Mogoeng Mogoeng said about his criticism

during his weekend interview, it shows that

there is a democratic play, Mbeki quoted with

a smile.

And we all giggled, some even guawed.

When interrogated about it afterwards

Mbeki told Daily Maverick it was his rst

invite to a DA event: I have no problems with

the DA. They are a legal party and the ocial

opposition. They sit in Parliament, they are

practically part of the government of South

Africa. Helen Zille as Western Cape premier sits

in the Cabinet.Mbeki had two tips (he called them

motions) for the DA: Support the ANC Youth

Leagues economic freedom campaign; and

come out strongly against the capital ight by

big corporations.

The DAs guys agreed with him, kind of, but

lets rst hear from Mbeki.

This has been one of the most important

threats to economic freedom in South Africa.

It is not (ANC Youth League leader) Julius

Malema, it is capital ight, Mbeki said.This was because capital ight means

there is no capital and savings in South Africa

for entrepreneurs to develop their businesses.

He added that there had never been an

explanation for why companies like Anglo

American Corporation, Old Mutual and South

African Breweries had been allowed to list on

the London Stock Exchange.

On what basis did (the government) allow

them to go, to move their primary listing from

South Africa to London. Why did they approve

it, what did they get out of it? he asked. This

is proving to be one of the largest removal of

capital gains, with the dividends being paid

into another stock exchange.

He later claried, saying he didnt believe

there were kickbacks for the move, but hesaid there was never an explanation. (Some

might suggest that he look no further than his

brother, Thabo.)

He said capital ight happened when

owners of assets felt vulnerable because of

instability, possible seizure of their assets

for nationalisation as well as nepotism,

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read More:1. Capital fight, not Malema a threat on Fin24

2. Forget naitonalisation and BEE, SA needs entrepreneurs, in

Mail & Guardian Online

3. Malema to join the DA in Mail & Guardian Online

and they then tried to buy political leaders

through corruption or through black economic

empowerment deals, which Mbeki equated to

corruption.

Capital ight was the biggest threat to

entrepreneurship, which was necessary to

create jobs. Economic development wasnt about

bribing political leaders, but about creating

jobs, he said.

As for the DAs support to the ANC Youth

Leagues economic freedom programme, he saidthe DA promoted opportunities for individuals,

which is what economic freedom was all about.

Economic freedom is about promoting

entrepreneurship. You can talk to the Youth

League about whether nationalisation is the

right way, he said.

But nationalisation wasnt all bad.

Nationalisation cannot be excluded when

you have an economy of cartels that block

the entry of new players into the economy,

he said. What Malema wants to nationalise,is the wrong thing (if the aim is to) promote

economic freedom. Mines are not an

obstacle to entrepreneurship, but an asset for

entrepreneurship in that they are the largest

earners of foreign exchange for South Africa.

The DA agreed with him on most points, but

it doesnt seem theyre about to form an alliance

with the Young Lions any time soon (although

some might argue that the Youth League nowneeds all the friends it can get.)

DA MP Dion George, who spoke after

Mbeki and after the tea break, said the big

corporations were not to blame for capital

ight. It is government which had to create a

favourable climate for investment, he said.

He also gave a presentation of the DAs plan

for the South African economy, which includes

a very ambitious 8% growth target.

DA MPL Jack Bloom, one of the organisers,

afterwards said retired businessman Bobby

Godsell was also supposed to have been there

for the debate, but he couldnt make it.

We wonder who will be taking part in the

DAs conference next? Malema, maybe?

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Mogoeng Must thank the Lord and MaLeMa

Even if President Jacob Zuma wanted to change

his mind about nally appointing Justice

Mogoeng Mogoeng as Chief Justice, as the DA is

urging him to, hes unlikely to do so now.

This disciplinary hearing against ANC Youth

League leader Julius Malema has inspired him

and some of his close friends to assert his

authority like never before.ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said

as much on Monday night, when he addressed

the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu)

conference in Braamfontein.

Fresh from marathon meetings at Luthuli

House with the partys ocials and national

working committee, including Zuma, the

When Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng goes down on his knees to thank God for his appointment, the

faithful pastor would do well to spare a thought for ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema. Without

him, the DA and others might still have been able to change President Jacob Zumas mind.

CARIEN DU PLESSIS reports.


buoyant round-bellied uncle told a sea of red

golf shirts and hats: Attacks against (Justice

Mogoeng Mogoeng) is a proxy war against

Jacob Zuma. It doesnt matter who is appointed,

it would be challenged because there is an

alliance of forces that seek to undermine our

movement, and they have sought to undermine

any decision taken by the ANC government.He told the unionists, in that straightforward

steamrolling Gwede-speak that the position of

their labour federation, Cosatu, on Mogoeng is

wrong.

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opposite sides of the movement. The critics

want to prove to the world that Zuma cant

take proper decisions, but unfortunately he

keeps on surprising them. And the element of

surprise is very important in any strategy. Youmust surprise those and give them fresh air and

(have them) clutch straws, then they dont know

what to do.

He complained that nobody retorted that

Justice Ishmael Mahomed was a Muslim when

appointed to the Constitutional Court bench,

or that retired Justice Arthur Chaskalson was a

Jew. When Mogoeng is appointed, they say he

is conservative.

This could also be a cue for the ght

between the ANC/SACP and Cosatu about the

labour federations civil society conference last

year to resurface, and it might crack the new-

found anti-Malema unity between the ANC and

Cosatu a bit.

When a Fawu member questioned

Mantashes view on Cosatus wrong stance, hegot some metaphoric Gwede-speak:

Im not challenging the right of Cosatu

saying where to place itself, but Im saying

the decision is on the wrong side. The train is

moving out of the station, it is going to lose you

as an ally. That train is moving with speed, it is

going to lose you. There is an emerging strong

coalition of forces which is opposing everything

the organisation does. It is an issue that we

must continue debating.

This comes after civil society lobby group

Section 27, Cosatus new best friend, threatenedto challenge the appointment of Justice

Mogoeng in court, calling for more candidates

to be put forward. Cosatu on the rst day

of Justice Mogoengs grilling on Saturday,

issued a statement saying they objected to his

appointment because of his attitude to the

rights of women and other vulnerable groups

based on his previous judgements, which

havent exactly been groundbreaking.

Cosatu and Section 27 arent alone. DA leader

Helen Zille, in her submission on Monday to

Zuma in which she asks him to reconsider, she

lists about 15 organisations, Cosatu included,

which opposed or didnt support Justice

Mogoengs nomination.

Only three organisations on her list the

Black Lawyers Association, the KwaZulu-NatalBar Council, the Johannesburg Magistrates

Organisation and ve lawyers supported the

nomination.

Zuma has readily agreed to hear Zille out in

Pretoria on Tuesday evening about why the DA

objects to the appointment of Justice Mogoeng

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read More:1. Mogoeng: A divine choice and other worrisomes in

Daily Maverick

2. Haters and sycophants split over Mogoeng at hearing in

Daily Maverick

dispel criticism that he isnt consulting properly

about his decision.

Zille on Monday at a press conference in

Parliament said she believed Justice Mogoeng

is not suitable for the position, because the DAbelieves:

Justice Mogoeng does not posses the

outstanding legal skills (as opposed to

usual or adequate) required of a Chief

Justice

In his history as a judge he has failed to

display the unwavering adherence and

commitment to the Constitution required

of a Chief Justice He has not shown himself, in his past

judgments, to be suitably defensive of the

independence of the judiciary

He doesnt enjoy the support, both

intellectually and collegially, of the

majority of his colleagues on the

Constitutional Court, and of the wider

legal fraternity

He doesnt possesses the requisite

administrative, accounting and personnel

management skills.

Zuma nominated Mogoeng for the

position last month, and the Judicial Service

Commission (JSC) agreed to calls to subject

him to a public interview as part of the pre-

appointment consultation process required by

the Constitution.The JSC is expected to inform Zuma soon of

their vote on Sunday to give Justice Mogoengs

appointment their blessing. If Zuma had second

thoughts, they made it terribly dicult for him

to change it.

One politician who attended the hearing

also said Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang

Mosenekes scathing sarcasm and patronising

grilling of Justice Mogoeng might have swayed

commissioners on the JSC in his favour, if they

werent certain before.

As for legal action, constitutional expertfrom the University of Cape Town, Professor

Pierre de Vos, said on his blog on Monday it

might not change the outcome.

One of the grounds for a legal challenge

could be that the JSC had failed to engage in

proper consultation with Zuma, as required by

the Constitution.

DA MP Hendrik Schmidts request to the

body to consider more candidates, were turneddown over the weekend.

De Vos wrote that the Constitution still gave

Zuma the power to appoint a judge, so any

challenge would only aect the procedure.

Besides, legal action might further damage

the credibility of our judiciary, he said. Long

drawn out litigation may well turn into a highly

politicised and partisan matter, pitting staunch

defenders of the President and the candidate

against those who believe the JSC must act as a

check on the exercise of power by the President

when he appoints a Chief Justice.

Civil society groups lobbying against Justice

Mogoengs appointment might do well to

continue with the one hand, but with the other

to start working to get him on their side. They

might need his ear for their cause in future.
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south arica oil spil

a strangely complicated quandary o seli 1

Seli 1, the Turkish bulk carrier stranded o

Blougbergstrand in Cape Town since 2009,

started leaking oil again last week, causing a

bit of a stir and concerns that there could be a

major spill.

Fortunately for the Mother City, disastermanagement was able to respond swiftly

enough to minimise the damage caused by the

slick. Also, it helped that the wrecked ship has

already suered oil leaks before, depleting the

amount of oil that is contained in the wreckage.

The Panama-registered ship ran aground in

September 2009 due to heavy winds, engine

Some bits of Blougbergstrand have been sullied, and a few animals bathed in oil as a slick moved from

the remnants of Seli 1 towards the Cape Town coastline. But the Mother City has been spared a major

environmental disaster this time around. At what point do the authorities salvage the wrecked ship to

prevent this sort of thing from recurring? By SIPHO HLONGWANE

Photo: Sea Rescue boats monitor the stranded bulk coal carrier Seli 1 as it

burns off Cape Town's Blouberg beach, June 3, 2010 after a salvage operation.

The Turkish registered ship ran aground in September. REUTERS/Mark Wessels

failure and a snapped anchor cable. Most of the

fuel onboard either leaked or was removed at the

time, but some of it was left behind and started

leaking again last week again due to battering

from heavy winds. According to several reports,

Seli 1 is now actually breaking apart.The City of Cape Towns disaster managemen

team said that there were only a few animals

that had been imperilled by the oil slick. Wilfred

Solomon-James told Sapa that they had found
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two dead birds, two dead seal pups and two

live seals that had been sent in for cleaning

and rehabilitation. He said that the SPCA

and the Southern African Foundation for the

Conservation of Coastal Birds had been notied.

One kilometre of the famous Blougbergstrand

has been aected by the oil spill, and disaster

management has closed the area o for cleaning.

The Koeberg nuclear power station was also

placed on high alert for fear that the oil slick

could poison its water basin.

The only remaining question now is what to

do with the Seli 1 wreckage. Leaving it there isvery evidently not good for the sea life and the

kite surng. In fact, the question of why it is still

there in the rst place is the most intriguing

one and it apparently has no answer. When

the ship was rst grounded, it should have

been a relatively simple job to reoat it, yet

the concerned parties dilly-dallied just long

enough for the rough winter seas to seriously

compromise the integrity of the hull, making a

re-oat impossible.

Apparently the hands of the City of Cape

Town were tied in the matter (the relevantlegislation allowing them to intervene in the

salvage doesnt exist, they say), but they have

now decided to act. The City is in the process

of calling an urgent meeting with the South

African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA)

regarding the fate of the vessel; and to establish

what other preventative measures need to be

implemented to avoid further oil pollution, the

citys safety and security mayoral committeemember J.P. Smith said in a statement. The

City believes that SAMSA and the National

Ports Authority are legally responsible on behalf

of the Department of Transport to ensure the

safety of life and property at sea and within the

port area; and to prevent and combat pollution

of the marine environment by ships. However,

the existing maritime legislation does not

currently oer a solution to the crisis. It does

not compel SAMSA to manage the wreckage.

The City has engaged its legal advisers on

the matter of using the Disaster Management

legislation to address the current crisis, Smith

said.

At some point, someone is going to have to

take charge. That grotesque wreck cant be left

there forever, occasionally inconveniencingCape Town by leaking oil or bursting into

ames.

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2. 1km of Cape Beach affected by spill in IOL News
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rhodes' jane duncan on how the anccreated 'that monster', the ancYL

Johannesburg is counting the cost of last weeks

destructive ANCYL protests, and inner-city

law rm BDK is threatening to form a business

A failure by the ANC to take its own politics seriously has spawned the unruly mess that is the ANCYL,

say Duncan, who believes that when it comes to discipline the ruling party is doing too little too late.

By MANDY DE WAAL.

Photo: REUTERS

coalition that will launch legal action to ensure

the Luthuli House disciplinary hearing against
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Julius Malema and co is moved out of the city

centre. As police investigate who organised

the protest and whether the violence was

premeditated, many South Africans are asking

how the ANC let things get so out of hand.

Jane Duncan, Highway Africa Chair of Media

and Information Society at Rhodes School

of Journalism says the unchecked, unruly

power that is the ANCYL exists because of a

contradiction within ANC politics. Historically

the ANC has produced excellent leaders

who have extremely high levels of political

sophistication, but at the same time it is a

populist organisation, says Duncan.

While the ANC delivered excellent leaders in

the past, the drive for critical mass has seen theadoption of the lowest common denominator

because building party membership takes

precedence over everything else. Duncan says

this realises a ruling party more concerned

with numbers than the quality of party

political membership.

The ANC is focused on critical mass and it

will not expel members because it doesnt want

to aect that critical mass in any way, says

the former head of the Freedom of Expression

Institute. The ANC has emphasised the width

of numbers rather than the depth of its politics,and has also done precious little to educate the

partys ranks. In this it hasnt taken its own

politics seriously, which has enabled the rise of

demagogues like a Julius Malema.

In stark contrast Duncan oers the example

of the New Unity Movement, which she says is

an extremely tight, disciplined organisation.

The New Unity Movement inducts people into

politics, has reading groups and is very seriousabout ensuring clarity on what the organisation

stands for. This ensures that members know

how to take the politics of the New Unity

Movement forward, says Duncan. We dont

see this in the ANC, which doesnt do much to

ensure members understand and respect the

political traditions of the ANC. By not having

done its groundwork with members, the ANC

has created the monster that is the ANCYL.

Duncan says the extent of Julius Malemas

support is questionable as evidenced by the

scale of protests outside of Luthuli House where

the ANCYL leadership faced o against the

ANCs national disciplinary committee. But

what supporters lacked in numbers they made

up for with brutal force.

City Press reports thatJacob Lebogo, ANCYLgeneral secretary of Limpopo and a staunch

Malema supporter, organised what has been

called the most violent ANC protest since

1994. Lebogo denies he was the man behind

the violent protest, but a police investigation

into the matter may reveal greater clarity.

When questioned about discipline and

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unruliness within the ANCYL, Duncan says

that there is a good argument to be made

that the ANC has left matters too late. With

discipline you need to be consistent. When

it comes to politics you have to maintainconsistency in terms of when you discipline

and how you discipline. The ANC has allowed

so much to slip through the net that it creates

conditions for anarchy in the organisation. It

has failed to stem the growing trend (towards)

anarchy and has shot itself in the foot, because

it has made it exceedingly dicult to do

something about this now.

The ANC has instituted disciplinary hearings

against Malema and co in an environment

where there is rampant unemployment, the

poverty gap is widening, leadership largesse

is continually exposed, and where South

Africa looks set to face a second back-to-

back recession. The youth feel the eect of a

recession more readily than other parts of our

society. Given how alienated South Africasyouth are feeling this creates conditions for

the Malemas of this world to thrive, Duncan

says. These conditions are going to make it

dicult for the ANC to stop the mobilisation

of demagogues.

Duncan says the lack of diversity in the

South African media landscape makes Maelmas

voice the loudest. Because the majority of

South Africans arent given a voice in the media,

the Malemas of this world speak on their

behalf. Duncan says the lack of media diversity

is something that local civic organisations andmedia policy makers need to tackle, if they

dont want this issue to be hijacked by the

ANCYL for its own end.

The ANCYL statement which recently called

for a boycott of Media24 is very opportunistic

in that it attacks Media24s dominance but for

all the wrong reasons. I too share concerns that

Media24 dominates the landscape, but it is a

very delicate condition and merely raising it

could give the ANCYL even more ammunition

to re at Media24, she says.

We all have to confront the issue of media

dominance and Media24, which commands just

under 40% of total circulation of print media

in South Africa, for democratic reasons. The

bigger media groups grow, the more dicult it

is for the transformation of the landscape andfor the growth of diversity. This issue must be

raised by those of us who are concerned about

democracy and transformation, says Duncan.

The tragedy is that in South Africa we havent

even begun discussions about media-ownership

caps. This discussion needs to start because the

current environment makes it very dicult for

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independent media to thrive, she says.

Duncan cites the example of GoldNet News,

a Welkom paper which couldnt compete

against Media24 and whose case is to be heard

by the Competition Tribunal. The founder ofGoldNet News alleges that Media24 abused

its dominant position in the market by

undercutting advertising to such a degree that

it forced GoldNet News to go under.

There are also many cases of independent

newspapers that have struggled to survive

and closed in the face of Caxton. We may not

like what the ANCYL has to say, but we cant

run away from the fact that we have a veryconcentrated media. We need to raise these

issues to defend the democratic content of

media diversity so as not to allow this issue

to be hijacked or exploited by the likes of the

ANCYL, says Duncan.

Duncan says the League and the ANC are

interfering in issues they shouldnt interfere in,

and abandoning important crusades that they

should address. The ANC is trying to control

media content through the Media Appeals

Tribunal and the Protection of Information

Bill, and the ANCYL is merely following this

example. The ANC professes to be committed

to media diversity but it hasnt even raised the

possibility of intervening with regulations that

could promote diversity.

As the ANC tries to muzzle inconvenientcontent that exposes the underbelly of the

organisation, community newspapers are

dying like ies in the face of the recession and

an independent, grass-roots media is under

threat. If big media groups are struggling with

the recession, smaller players are struggling

much, much more. It is perfectly acceptable for

governments to intervene in media ownership

in order to guarantee diversity, because if they

dont you get a situation where large groups

dominate and the smaller guys get squashed,

Duncan says.

But the ANC and the ANCYL seem to be

more interested in regulating information

ow and controlling media content because

ourishing media diversity would spawn a new

slew of voices demanding to be heard. And the

messages new independent media may bring

could be even more inconvenient than what is

currently being presented by the established

media.

read more:1. Juju's general, inCity Press

2. Meet Jujus chief enforcer, in City Press

3. Violence Inc: Luthuli House scenes a bitter taste of

Polokwane fruits, onDaily Maverick

4. Media groups to be probed for collusion, inMail & Guardian

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Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (Reuters)

scuffles as Mubarak

trial opens for witness

testiMony

A scue broke out during thetrial of former Egyptian presi-dent Hosni Mubarak on Mon-day, prompting Judge AhmedRefaat to call a recess and banlive television coverage in thechamber. Reuters reportedthat a pro-Mubarak supporterheld up a photo of the former

president, to the consterna-

tion of families of the victimsof the uprising. Outside thecourtroom, more pro-Mubaraksupporters chanted, sayingthe former president shouldhold his head high, while anti-Mubarak protesters clashed

with police as they demandedthat Mubarak be hanged with-out delay.

ZiMplat negotiates

indigenisation with

ZiMbabwe governMent

Implats spokesperson BobGilmour told Reuters that ne-gotiations with the Zimbabwegovernment over Zimplats

indigenisation plan were on-going. Zimplat, the Zimbabweunit of the platinum producer,had previously submitted plansto increase the number of itsshares held by black Zimba-bweans to 51%. The govern-ment however rejected theplans on 17 August, saying Zim-

plat was not doing enough andgave the company 14 days tocomply. Other companies alsohad their plans rejected and

with the deadline now passed,nd themselves in an uncertainposition.

wikileaks: businessMan

bought favours froM

tanZanian president

Tanzanian president Jakaya

Kikwetes oce denied that hehad received gifts and a cam-paign contribution from Ali

Albwardy, owner of the Kem-pinski Hotel chain, in exchangefor being allowed to build twohotels on the edge of the Ngon-goro crater and on the Seren-geti plains overlooking animal

migration routes. The cableclaims the businessman ewKikwete to London for a shop-ping spree on Savile Row andcontributed $1 million to theChamacha Mapinduzi party.

allegation: Marks offered

in exchange for Money and

sex at naMibia university

African Review reported thatlecturers at the University of

Namibia are oering to com-plete students assignments in

exchange for exorbitant fees.The lecturers are said to becharging as much as $882 perassignment. African Reviewalso reported that studentsare being oered marks in ex-change for sexual favours.


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President o Algeria, Abdelaziz Boutefika (Reuters)

ZaMbia denies calling on

help of ZiMbabwe police

Zambian police have denied al-legations that they have invitedmembers of the Zimbabweanpolice force to help them keeplaw and order during the gen-eral elections in September.Civil society groups demandedan explanation after Zimba-bwean police ocers werespotted in the country. A Zam

-

bian police spokesman said thepolice ocers from neighbour-ing Zimbabwe must have beenin transit and the countryspresidency said its own lawenforcement ocials were ofsucient calibre that externalhelp was not needed.

unconfirMed report of

new boMb plot in nigeria

A security alert issued by Nige-rian authorities says that BokoHaram, the Islamist group thatclaimed responsibility for therecent UN bombings in Lagos,

held a secret meeting where it

discussed plans for its next at-

tacks. It is said that the groupclaimed it had received vecars and over $60,000 fromtwo sources for use in the at-tacks, and has named at leastthree targets. The authenticityof the security alert could notbe conrmed. In recent weeks,President Goodluck Jonathanhas sought to assure the west

African nation that his govern-

ment is doing everything it canto combat the recent terroristattacks.

kenyan Mps face the icc

Kenyan MP William Ruto andtwo others are at the Interna-

tional Criminal Court in TheHague to face charges relat-ing to their involvement in the2007 post-election violence inthe country. The trial beganlast week with Ruto and hisco-accused saying they are gladto have their day in court. Thethree are accused of plotting

to kill, evict and torture op-

position supporters in KenyasRift Valley.

naMibian president: dont

spend Money on adverts

to wish Me happy birthday

Namibias president said in astatement that his country-men should not spend money

to buy newspaper ad space towish him well on his birthday.President Hikepunye Poham-ba said they should insteadspend the money on charities.His statement was promptedby a letter from a civil rightscampaigner who estimatedthat government departmentsand private companies hadspent over $82,000 to wish Po-hamba well.

algeria announces plans

for anti-terrorisM foruM

Algeria has announced plansto launch a 35-member anti-terrorism forum. The countrysdelegate minister for African

and Maghreb aairs made theannouncement ahead of a con-ference on regional partnershipand security in Algiers. Themembers of the forum, whichis a response to recent devel-opments in the region, willcome from in and around theSahel region.


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africa south sudan

new country, new capital:south sudan ditches Juba

The idea of changing capitals had been mulled

over for some time, but the decision was nonethe-

less momentous. Juba, the current capital, had

been the primary base of the south for decades,

and had seen a huge construction boom in the

last few years as corporations, aid agencies and

returnees rush to establish themselves near the

seat of government. Already, Juba had become

journalistic shorthand for referring to the govern-

ment of South Sudan (as opposed to Khartoum

in the north). But Juba isnt a very suitable capital.

Shortages made land very expensive and dicult

to come by, and indigenous groups were unwilling

to make space for the large plots required by thenational government. Local government was also

reluctant to let the city become some kind of fed-

eral area under national rather than local jurisdiction.

The new capital will be in Ramciel, located

near the middle of the country and almost com-

South Sudan is keeping Arican cartographers and GPS programmers busy. In addition to havingto update maps to include the boundaries o Aricas newest state, they now have to refect South

Sudans decision to change its capital city only two months ater independence. By SIMON ALLISON.

pletely undeveloped. Its envisaged that a new city

will be created over the next fve or six years, with

government operating from Juba until then. The

choice of Ramciel was partly symbolic, thanks to it

central location, and partly in deference to South

Sudans liberation icon, John Garang, who, before

his death, declared that was where the South Su-

danese capital should be. There are rumours that

Ramciel might even be renamed John Garang City

The location of its capital city is a headache for

any new nation. While some countries already

have established government centres, others create

them from scratch. Nigeria built Abuja to escape

the Lagos chaos, for example. South Africa fudgedthe issue completely with our unique (some would

say ridiculous) three-capital system, where

the three branches of government are spread

around the country.

read more:1. South Sudan relocates its capital rom Juba to

Ramciel,40027 in the Sudan TribunePhoto: REUTERS
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TUESDAy - 06 SEPTEMBER 201

mugabes cancer spreads: is thenightmare's end in sight or zimbabwe?

The latest round of Wikileaks revelations

include the sensational claim that Robert

Mugabe is suering from prostate cancer, and

that doctors think he could be starring in his

own his state funeral anytime between now

and 2013.

Bobs sick, and despite indications to the contrary its not syphilis (or not just syphilis). Unconfrmed

Wikileaks cables indicate that the Zimbabwean president has prostate cancer, and its spread. I true,

this means hes not much longer or this world, and might go some way to explaining why Zanus been

so ractious recently. By SIMON ALLISON.

Photo: REUTERS

Before everyone gets too excited, a few

reservations should be expressed. The

claims were made in 2008 by the governor

of Zimbabwes Reserve Bank, Gideon Gono,


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in comments made to the US Ambassador to

Harare. Gono is a Zanu-PF stalwart, close to

Robert Mugabe, and his comments havent

been independently veried; Gono has deniedthem outright. The story rst broke in the

pages of Zimbabwes Sunday Mail, a government

mouthpiece not exactly known for its absolute

commitment to the truth. And because this

cable is apparently part of the tranche of

unredacted cables released accidentally last

week, its dicult to verify whether its a genuine

cable at all.

According to the leaked diplomatic cable,

President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer

that has metastasised [spread] and, according

to doctors will cause his death in three to ve

years. Written in 2008, this would put Mugabes

estimated time of death somewhere between

2011 and 2013. This would account for Mugabes

frequent medical trips to Singapore, which have

been previously explained away as surgery forthe presidents cataracts or to accompany his

wife Grace after she hurt her back.

The new revelations dont end there.

Apparently, Gono who was in a talkative mood

also claimed that Mugabe was obsessed with

staying longer in oce than retired Zambian

president and nemesis Kenneth Kaunda, who

lasted 27 years. He achieved this feat in 2009.

But he was also very worried about ensuring

an orderly handover of power, and looked in

an unlikely direction for guidance: (Mugabe)agreed with Tony Blair on one thing the time

to step down was after leading one's party to

victory, thereafter giving it time to consolidate

before the next election, said a US diplomat in

the cable, paraphrasing Gono.

True or not, the timing of the claims is

interesting. First, as Judy Smith-Hohn, senior

researcher at the Institute for Security Studies

told the Daily Maverick, you have to question

why such a potentially explosive cable, of

obvious interest, was left out of the rst round

of Wikileaks releases. Why would it not have

been leaked earlier? Its also interesting that the

claims come so soon after Mugabes somewhat

controversial announcement of the timing of

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