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LIBYA
An anti-Gaddafi fighter climbs in a pigeon farm in Gaddafi house compound in Assdada Fort, some 170 km (105 miles) southwest of Sirte September 13, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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AFGHANISTAN
Suzuki Motor Corp Chairman and Chief Executive Osamu Suzuki covers his face during a news conference in Tokyo September 12, 2011. Suzuki Motor is seeking to end its twoyear-old alliance with Volkswagen after the German carmaker accused it of violating their partnership pact by agreeing a diesel engine deal with Italy's Fiat . REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
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NEW YORK
A boy (L) plays under a makeshift walkway along the flooded streets of the town of Sena in Ayutthaya province September 13, 2011. Weeks of heavy monsoon rains and a tropical storm in Thailand have caused widespread floods and mudslides, killing at least 84 people since late July, including a French tourist. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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A Jewish settler herds sheep in the unauthorized outpost of Havat Gilad, south of the West Bank city of Nablus September 13, 2011. A diplomatic showdown looms at the United Nations this month when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to seek an upgrade of the Palestinians' U.N. status. The Palestinians hope to establish a state in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank , where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to freeze Jewish settlement-building despite the Obama administration's urging. REUTERS/ Ronen Zvulun. WEDNESDAY – 14 SEPTEMBER 2011
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NEW YORK
U.S. Vogue magazine editor Anna Wintour (2L) attends the Carolina Herrera Spring/Summer 2012 collection during New York Fashion Week September 12, 2011. REUTERS/Kena Betancur
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Al-Shabaab (Reuters)
POLITICS SOMALIA The African Union has repeated its call for the world to take advantage of the withdrawal of Al‐ Shabaab forces from Mogadishu, Somalia. The union recommended that international powers create !"#$%&'"($#)"!#*"+!,-" government troops as al‐ .!)*!/0"123'"04)5,673*"0))80" 4$"6!9)":),)#43'";)!-)#)*<" The United Nations will meet in New York this week to discuss the basket‐case of a nation which, aside from its 101!3"7001)0"70"!30$"01=):7#2"!" catastrophic drought.
EUROPE The European Union’s plans to reform its border controls, well, the lack thereof, ran into opposition from its three bigger powers: France, >):8!#'"!#*"?5!7#<"@!#'" of the union’s 27 members wish to be able to reinstate +$:*):0A")9)#"7B"4)85$:!:73'A"4$" halt illegal immigration from northern Africa and legislation providing this will be voted on soon. However, the bill includes contentious rules about obtaining permission B:$8"46)"C1:$5)!#"!146$:74'A" and no one wants to have to beg to shut shop after something like a terrorist !44!,-A"$:";6)#"'$1"#)726+$1:" D4!3'";67,6";7#*0"15";746" EFAFFF"872:!#40"&))7#2"G7+'!<"
LIBERIA @7374!:'"!#*"5$37,)" personnel from six countries !H37!4)*";746"46)"C,$#$87," I$881#74'"$B"J)04"KB:7,!#" States met to discuss possible 97$3)#,)"*1:7#2"G7+):7!/0"#)L4" scheduled elections on 11 October. Much of the threat ,$8)0"B:$8"46)";)!5$#:'" in circulation after the neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire’s post‐election war. The region will mobilise peacekeeping forces for the polls where President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will seek a second term. SOUTH AFRICA The KwaZulu‐Natal Premier, M;)37"@-67()A"05$-)"$14" !2!7#04"L)#$56$+7!"')04):*!'"
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Elizabeth Warren (Reuters)
0!'7#2":13)0"!+$14"3797#2" together should be love and friendship. He mentioned how embarrassing it was for South Africa during the xenophobic 97$3)#,)"$B"EFFN"!0"8!#'" South Africans have lived in other African countries. J673)"4670"8!'"+)"46)"51:53)" dinosaur approach, it is great to see xenophobia being 4!,-3)*"+'"$#)"$B"$1:"0)#7$:" 5$3747,!3"O21:)0A"!0"5):0704)#4" attacks on foreigners continue in South Africa. USA K"P)##0'39!#7!",$1:4"70"46)" latest to rule against Barack Obama’s healthcare plan when a district judge ruled against
!"3)2!3":)Q17:)8)#4"4$"+1'" health insurance. He ruled that compelling American people to purchase something against their will did not have backing in law, although he did admit that the USA had a R072#7O,!#4S"6)!346,!:)"R,:7070S<" T'"$1:",$1#4A"$B"!33"46)",!0)0" 0$"B!:A"46!4/0"O9)"B$:"6)!346,!:)" :)B$:8"!0"74"70",1::)#43'"4!+3)*" and seven against.
was instrumental in setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but is so 6!4)*"+'"V)51+37,!#0"46!4" her aborted nomination to head up the bureau was dead at its inception, as the post requires congressional !55:$9!3<"J!::)#"70")L5),4)*" 4$";7#"!",:$;*)*"5:78!:'<"?6)" is competing for the seat once 6)3*"+'"X)*"Y)##)*'<"
C37(!+)46"J!::)#A"!";$8!#" from Massachusetts who gets an inordinate amount of screentime in Michael Moore’s 8$04":),)#4"O38",!33)*" RI!574!3708U"K"G$9)"?4$:'S" ;733"B!,)"$=";746"V)51+37,!#" Scott Brown for the state’s 0)!4"7#"46)"W?"?)#!4)<"J!::)#"
North Carolina’s senate passed a measure to allow a referendum on a same‐sex marriage ban to be entered into the state Constitution 30‐16. The vote will take place 7#"@!'"!#*"Z$:46"I!:$37#!"70" expected to become the 31st 04!4)"4$"+!#"2!'"8!::7!2)<"
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V),)#4"5$330"7#*7,!4)"46!4" ;673)"8!#'"5)$53)"7#"46)"04!4)" !:)"#$4"5:$%2!'"8!::7!2)A" 46)'"!:)"6)074!#4"4$")#B$:,)"!" ,$#0474147$#!3"+!#<"D4/0"!3;!'0" nice when a decision on a 87#$:74'"70"3)B4"4$"!"8![$:74'<"" JAPAN The Japanese justice minister has called for a national debate on whether the nation should continue with the *)!46"5)#!34'<"\7*)$"\7:!$-!" ;706)0"4$"0)4"15"!"+$*'"4$" facilitate national dialogue. He has shown reluctance to approve executions, but claims he is aware of his mandate to impose capital punishment ;6)#"46)",$1:40"0))"O4<"J)" *$#/4")#9'"678<" VENEZUELA X6)"#)L4"])#)(1)3!#")3),47$#0" will be held on 7 October EF^EA"0!'0"!"8)8+):"$B"46)" ])#)(1)3!#")3),47$#"+$!:*<" The opposition is set to unite !2!7#04"46)"7#,18+)#4A"')4" 733A"\12$"I6!9)(<"])#)(1)3!#" 5:)07*)#40"0):9)"07L%')!:"4):80" 0$"7B"I6!9)(";7#0";)/33"6!9)" 678"1#473"EF^_"`46)"$H,7!3" 4):8"+)27#0"$#3'"!B4):"46)" election, much like in the US), constitution‐meddling permitting.
Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky presents MS Windows 8 (Reuters)
BUSINESS Google’s new airfare search 4),6#$3$2'"6!0"-7,-)*"$=A" !346$126"74/0",1::)#43'"$#3'" covering destinations within the US. You can see it at 2$$23)<,$8a&72640<">$$23)" ;!0"B$:,)*"4$"!+7*)"+'"!":!B4" of conditions imposed on it +'"46)"W?"[1047,)"*)5!:48)#4" +)B$:)"74":)3)!0)*"46)"B!,7374'A" including licensing its software to other travel companies, ;67,6"!:)"!33"#!41:!33'"!2!7#04" Google being permitted this, until 2016. ?$#'"70"*1)"4$"3!1#,6"!#" K#*:$7*%+!0)*"J!3-8!#"7#" December with prices starting !4"ENAFFF"')#"`VEAbcde<"X6)" 8107,"53!'):";733"!,4"81,6" like a smartphone, will have a touch screen and operate on Android 2.3. Aside from
listening to music, customers ,!#"53!'"2!8)0A";!4,6"8$97)0" and store images. Although a ,$85!#'"05$-)08!#"*7*"0!'" the iPod‐touch‐like device would be sold overseas, he did #$4"8)#47$#"05),7O,"53!#0<" Microsoft unleashed details of 740"#)L4"9):07$#"$B"J7#*$;0A" which is enabled to run on tablets, desktops and laptops and will be released in 2012. J7#*$;0";733"!30$"+)27#" its own online app store to !,,$85!#'"46)"0$B4;!:)<" X6$0)"$B"10";6$"01=):)*" through Vista will be waiting B$:"!33"$1:"B:7)#*0"4$"+1'"74" O:04<" US authorities have launched a criminal investigation into )T!'"!#*"740"*)!37#20";746" Craigslist. The case will *)4):87#)";6)46):")T!'A" after purchasing a stake in
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Andres Iniesta (Reuters)
I:!7203704A"4$$-",$#O*)#47!3" information to begin its own ,3!007O)*0"074)<"J673)"4670" argument has been going $#"+)4;))#"46)"O:80"B$:" ')!:0A"4670"70"46)"O:04"478)" criminal proceedings have been part of the spat. An )T!'"05$-)0;$8!#"0!7*"46)" $#37#)"!1,47$#",$85!#'" ;733",$$5):!4)";746"!#'" investigation.
SPORT
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EUROPE Football: In the Champions G)!21)"O:04":$1#*A"6$3*):0"
SPAIN Football: Barcelona’s Andres Iniesta is out for four weeks.
He tore a hamstring after 38 minutes in the Champions G)!21)"OL41:)"!2!7#04"KI" Milan. NEW ZEALAND V12+'U"C#23706"O:04%,6$7,)" prop Andrew Sheridan is out $B"46)"V12+'"J$:3*"I15"*1)"4$" !"06$13*):"7#[1:'"6)":),)79)*" ;673)"53!'7#2"!2!7#04"K:2)#47#!" $#"?!41:*!'<"@!:47#"f$6#0$#" has some combinations to O**3)";746"#$;"!0"6)"70"!30$" ;746$14"3$,-"I$1:4#)'"G!;)0" for the next two games because $B"0105)#07$#A"!#*"8!'"6!9)"4$" :)04"G);70"@$$*'";6$"!30$"6!0" 7#[1:'",$#,):#0<"
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BRIEFS B$33$;)*"+'"f)::'"T:1,-6)78):" ($113 million), Steven Spielberg ($107 million), Elton John ($100 million) and Simon Cowell ($90 million). The rest of the list features Dr Phil McGraw, G)$#!:*$"i7I!5:7$A"\$;!:*" Stern, James Patterson and Tiger J$$*0<" CANADA The Canadian government has ordered TV stations to tone down the volume of adverts. One hopes this is the start of a trend against a worldwide pet peeve. Manchester United (Reuters)
UK Football: Manchester United will raise two‐thirds of its planned $1 billion Singapore IPO through non‐voting preference shares, according to the Financial Times. The deal will be structured in a ;!'"46!4"NNg"$B"46)"9$47#2" rights in the club remain ;746"46)">3!():"B!873'<"X6)" 06!:)0";$13*"!30$"#$4"5!'" a guaranteed dividend or maintain the right to sell the shares back to the club. Football: Celtic will remain 7#"46)"C1:$5!"G)!21)"B$:"46)" time being after Sion lost their !55)!3"!2!7#04"*70Q1!37O,!47$#" B$:"O)3*7#2"7#)3727+3)"53!'):0<" The Swiss club was thrown out of the tournament, which handed Celtic a spot in the group stages in spite of losing 46)"Q1!37O,!47$#"53!'$="h%^<" Sion will be going to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport. X61:0*!'")9)#7#2",$13*"+)" interesting as it looks like both teams will pitch up in Madrid 4$"53!'"K43)47,$<" CROATIA Athletics: Usain Bolt overcame his head‐popping false‐ 04!:4"*70Q1!37O,!47$#"B:$8" 46)"^FF8"O#!3"7#"i!)21"4$" 5$04"670"0)!0$#/0"+)04"$B"_<Nc" seconds in Zagreb, Croatia, at !"J$:3*"I6!33)#2)"8))47#2<" \)"O#706)*";)33"!6)!*"$B"Y78" Collins who ran a 10.01.
LIFE USA j$:+)0"6!0":!#-)*"X'3):"P)::'"!4" the top of a list of showbusiness’ highest paid individuals as he raked in $130 million between @!'"EF^F"!#*"@!'"EF^^<"\)"70"
INTERNATIONAL Two train crashes in India (near Chennai) and Argentina (near Buenos Aires) have killed up to 16 people and wounded over 300. The death toll is set to rise as rescue workers in both countries continue to pull people out of the wreckage. The Argentine accident occurred when a train slammed into a bus. ARGENTINA Former Argentinean president Carlos Menem and his brother were acquitted of exporting guns to Ecuador and Croatia +)4;))#"^__^"!#*"^__d<"X6)" 9):*7,4",!8)"!B4):"!"46:))%')!:" 4:7!3<"J673)"46)"21#0"*7*"2$" from Argentina to Ecuador to Croatia, Menem claimed he did not know that their destinations, intended to be ])#)(1)3!"!#*"P!#!8!A";):)" being changed from what he expected. Menem ruled Argentina from 1989 until 1999.
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DALAI LAMA VISA APPLICATION TO BE PROCESSED “AS NORMAL” International relations minister Maite Nkoana‐Mashabane said on Tuesday at a government ,3104):"+:7)O#2"46!4"?$146" Africa’s mission in India had received a visa application from the Dalai Lama and would be 5:$,)007#2"74"!0"#$:8!3<"?6)" declined to comment further on the application. The Dalai Lama is applying for a visa to attend Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s 80th birthday celebrations in October. His holiness’s previous visa appli‐ ,!47$#";!0"*),37#)*"+'"?$146" either way on the correctness Africa over fears that it may and welcomed a Constitutional sour relations with China. Court ruling on the matter.
ANC TO CHALLENGE “DUBULA IBHUNU” HIGH COURT RULING
HEALTH MINISTER TARGETS FAST FOOD ADVERTISING
ANC spokesman Keith Khoza said on Tuesday that the party would be appealing the Equal‐ ity Court’s ruling that singing “dubula ibhunu” amounted to hate speech. He said the party is awaiting legal opinion on the ruling before deciding how to proceed. Handing down the ruling, Judge Colin Lamont said that words were power‐ ful and could lead to genocide. The Democratic Alliance said in a statement on Tuesday that the ruling has “ripened” the Equailty Act for higher scrutiny, but avoided opining
Health minister Aaron Motso‐ aledi has in recent weeks been $#"!",!85!72#"46!4"O:04"0!;" him target women who do not breast feed, then the alcohol industry’s advertising practices and, on Tuesday, the fast food industry’s targeting of kids. He announced plans to bar fast food companies from adver‐ tising their products during children’s TV programmes. It is estimated that 23% of children 7#"46)",$1#4:'"!:)",3!007O)*"!0" obese, increasing their risk of obesity‐related illnesses later in life.
Dalai Lama (Reuters)
ESKOM EXECS ESCAPE HELICOPTER CRASH Eskom’s CEO Brian Dames, three other company executives and two pilots sustained minor injuries on Tuesday when their helicopter crash‐landed near Morwaneng, 45 kilometres from Groblersdal. All six es‐ caped from the wreckage be‐ fore it caught alight, according to Netcare 911 spokesperson f)=:)'"J7,-0<"X6)",!10)"$B"46)" accident will be subject to an investigation.
TSHWANE POLICE CHIEF UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR FALSE PLATES Tshwane’s deputy metro police chief Ndumisa Jaca stands ac‐
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MALEMA DISCIPLINARY HEARING POSTPONED TO THURSDAY
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (Reuters)
,10)*"$B"&$147#2"46)"9):'"3!;0" his department is supposed to enforce. Jaca allegedly used false number plates on his car and motorbike, and now faces investigation by the Road Traf‐ O,"@!#!2)8)#4"I$:5$:!47$#<" Ashref Ismail, RTMC spokes‐ man, said Jaca is being inves‐ tigated and had been given an opportunity to reply.
MADIKIZELA-MANDELA IN HOSPITAL AFTER ANKLE SURGERY Recently announced head of the housing ministry’s sanita‐ 47$#"4!0-"4)!8"J7##7)"@!‐ dikizela‐Mandela is recovering in Life Brenthurst Clinic after minor surgery to her ankle, the ANC said on Tuesday. Madiki‐ zela‐Mandela was admitted on ?!41:*!'A",$853!7#7#2"$B"5!7#" in her ankle. ANC spokesman
Keith Khoza was unsure of when she would be released.
OMBUD RULES AGAINST SOWETAN FOR PORNOGRAPHIC PICTURES The Press Ombudsman ruled $#"@$#*!'"46!4"X6)"?$;)4!#" newspaper’s publishing of the 4;$"[1047,)"$H,):0"6!97#2"0)L" in the workplace was not in the 51+37,"7#4):)04<"X6)"?$;)4!#" was ordered to publish an !5$3$2'"$#"740"O:04"4;$"5!2)0A" where the original pictures were published. Deputy press ombudsman Johan Retief said that the story itself was in the public interest as it involved two public servants. He said however that the pictures were pornographic and should not have been published uncen‐ sored, and as prominently as they had been.
The ANC disciplinary hearing of the ANC Youth League’s top‐ O9)")L),1479)0";733",$#47#1)"$#" Thursday, according to ANC spokesman Keith Khoza. Into its second week, the hearing has been dogged by problems of availability of the youth league members, their representatives and members of the disciplin‐ ary committee, and had also adjourned on Monday for Julius Malema to attend the hand‐ ing down of judgement in his hate speech trial at the Equality Court.
ZUMA: SA POLICY ON LIBYA UNAMBIGUOUS During his replies to oral ques‐ tions in the National Assembly on Tuesday, President Jacob M18!"0!7*"?$146"KB:7,!"!#*" the African Union did not rec‐ ognise Libya’s national transi‐ tional council and would not do so until certain conditions had been put in place. He said that while certain member countries had on their own recognised the ZXIA"?$146"KB:7,!";$13*"#$4" deviate from the position of the KW<"\)"!30$"0!7*"46!4"46)"?$146" African government had not apologised to Botswana for the ANC Youth League’s call to bring about regime change there, but said relations between the two countries remains strong.
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MANDELA
DIGITAL GRAPEVINE RUMOURS ON MADIBA DIED A QUIET DEATH Yet another rumour had it that the elderly Nelson Mandela had died, but thanks to Twitter the gossip died quickly. It apparently followed news that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela had been admitted to hospital. CARIEN DU PLESSIS reports. A few hours after the ANC sent out a statement on Tuesday wishing Mama Winnie Madikizela‐ Mandela a speedy recovery after a “successful .. minor foot operation”, which kept her in hos‐ pital overnight, the rumours about her ex‐hus‐ band started. Denials seemed to emerge on Twitter even before the actual allegations that former Presi‐ dent Nelson Mandela has died. Eyewitness News reporter Mandy Wie‐ ner tweeted that the rumour seemed to have started on Blackberry Messenger and asked her more than 16,000 followers to please not per‐ petuate it. Other journalists activated their carefully cultivated network of Madiba family members close to Madiba, who also denied his death. Presidency spokesman Mac Maharaj knew nothing about it either. One tweeter calling himself @plumbtifex even wryly commented that the advent of social Photo: REUTERS
media networks like Twitter and Blackberry had seen Mandela die many times. Mandela’s health had been a matter of na‐ tional concern, more so since a prolonged stay in hospital at the beginning of the year, which saw the world’s media camp outside the Milpark Hospital, and later in front of his Houghton home. In July, a few days before his birthday and what has now become Mandela Day, he moved back to his Qunu home, near the village where he was born, apparently for good. Rumours about Mandela’s death surface ev‐ ery few months, with far‐right‐wing groups fearing that his death would spark a slaugh‐ ter of whites by black people in what has been dubbed “the night of the long knives”. Mandela’s long‐time assistant Zelda la Grange eventually tweeted on Tuesday: “You want a rumour to stop? Stop speaking about it. Thank you!!” So rife were the rumours that #mandela trended in South Africa.
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MR ZUMA GOES TO PARLIAMENT
PRESIDENT'S DAY OF FUN AND AMUSEMENT IN PARLIAMENT President Jacob Zuma was all giggles in the National Assembly on Tuesday when he appeared to answer members’ questions. The President at times laughed before and after his responses. He even laughed while some members were posing their questions. Sometimes, Zuma was the only one in the room laughing, prompting OSIAME MOLEFE to ask the obvious question. A cynic would say that the President was laughing in the face of democratic process as the Speaker of Parliament, Max Sisulu, :)+1=)*"!#'"!*9!#,)0"B:$8"8)8+):0"$B" the opposition to quiz him on the Public Protector’s report into the SAPS building leases. So robust was Sisulu’s defence that at $#)"5$7#4"6)",!33)*"46)"O#*7#20"$B"46)"P1+37," Protector mere “allegations” and suggested 46!4"46)'";):)"01+[),4"4$"5:$5):"7#9)0472!47$#" by the police and public works parliamentary ,$88744))0A";6$"!:)":)97);7#2"46)":)5$:4<" ?$8)$#)")9)#"8$:)",'#7,!3";$13*"0!'"46!4" Zuma was laughing all the way to the bank as
he so passionately defended his family’s right to do business with the state through what has become known as Zuma Inc. T14"31,-73'A"!33"46)",'#7,0"6!9)"+))#",!33)*" to order in an orderly way. On DA parliamentary leader Athol Trollip’s questions on how he intends to reign in Zuma Inc. the President said, “I’m sure the honourable member wants us to chase shadows, to try to create impressions and 8!-)"46)8"B!,40A"+),!10)";)"6!9)"2$4"4$"6!9)" facts and say here is a thing that has been Photo: REUTERS
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SOUTH AFRICA
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WEDNESDAY - 14 SEPTEMBER 2011
GROOTES ASSESSMENT
ANC VS ANCYL
DESPERATELY SEEKING JULIUS: A SHOWMAN WITHOUT A SHOW The Julius Malema Disciplinary Hearings (the capitals are deliberate) have gone from the planned “twentytwenty bang-bang, you're out” affairs they were supposed to be to a Wagnerian five-day saga. In other words, it's going to take a long time. The eventual length of these proceedings will have implications for all the political figures involved. And possibly for the outcome as well. By STEPHEN GROOTES. J6)#"46)"KZIn0"4$5"$H,7!30"O:04",6!:2)*" @!3)8!";746"o0$;7#2"*79707$#o"!#*"+:7#27#2" 46)"#!8)"$B"46)"5!:4'"o7#4$"*70:)514)oA"74"3$$-)*" 37-)"46)";$:-"$B"!"8!04):"53!##):<"X6)",6!:2)0" ;):)"5:$=):)*"[104"+)B$:)"!"#!47$#!3")L),1479)" ,$88744))"8))47#2"46!4"46)#"B$,10)*"$#" *70,7537#)<"T14"P:)07*)#4"f!,$+"M18!"!#*"KZI" 0),:)4!:'%2)#):!3">;)*)"@!#4!06)"6!*"!30$" )#01:)*"46!4"!0"46)",6!:2)0";):)"#$;"7#"53!'A" 46)"ZCI",$13*#n4"B$:8!33'"*70,100"46)8"+),!10)" 46)'";):)"#$;"$#3'"!"8!44):"B$:"46)"#!47$#!3" *70,7537#!:'",$88744))<"X6)"B!,4"46!4"M18!" !#*"@!#4!06)"B$33$;)*"15";746"$46):",6!:2)0" B$:"@!3)8!"!#*"46)"3)!21)n0"3)!*):0"0))8)*"4$" 04:)#246)#"46)"785:)007$#"46!4"@!3)8!";!0"7#" *))5"4:$1+3)<" D#04)!*";6!4n0"6!55)#)*"70"46!4"@!3)8!A"
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WEDNESDAY - 14 SEPTEMBER 2011
GROOTES ASSESSMENT
ANC VS ANCYL
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WEDNESDAY - 14 SEPTEMBER 2011
GROOTES ASSESSMENT
ANC VS ANCYL
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WEDNESDAY - 14 SEPTEMBER 2011
SOUTH AFRICA
STEVE BIKO MEMORIAL LECTURE
BIKO LECTURE: KENTRIDGE WARNS AGAINST GOVERNMENT MEDDLING IN JUDICIAL AFFAIRS Few people are better suited to give UCT’s annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture than Sydney Kentridge, who represented Steve Biko’s family at the inquest into his death. And his performance last night vindicated the choice: a masterclass in appropriate commemoration, interspersed with some earnest warnings as to South Africa’s judicial path. By REBECCA DAVIS. WEDNESDAY - 14 SEPTEMBER 2011
SOUTH AFRICA
STEVE BIKO MEMORIAL LECTURE
Nkosinathi said: a view in keeping with the fact that Biko’s family were some of the highest‐ But it was Sydney Kentridge 5:$O3)",:747,0"$B"46)"XVIA"*)0,:7+7#2"46)"6)!:7#20" who the crowd had come at the time as a "vehicle for political expediency" to hear deliver a talk he which robbed them of their right for justice. But, quoting his father in a line we would hear more revealingly titled “Evil under than once during the evening, Nkosinathi said the sun”, from a series of part of the Biko tragedy was that the likes of Ecclesiastes verses in the Niewoudt “lost the face of their humanity”. Bible which deal with the UCT’s vice chancellor Max Price played up the links between his university and the Biko blight of oppression and Foundation, but also took the opportunity to power wielded corruptly. make it clear where UCT’s academic community stands on the Protection of Information Bill. Price pointed out that those journalists who blew the whistle on the circumstances of Biko’s For the audience gathered at UCT’s Jamieson *)!46"p"!8$#2"46)8"46)"V!#*"i!73'"@!73/0" Hall on Monday night, it seemed scarcely Helen Zille, sitting front and centre – might face credible that the man at the speaker’s lectern jail time under the current dispensation if the before them will be 90 next year. As he proved Secrecy Bill is allowed to pass into law without a in his address, Kentridge – who has been public interest defence. He called on the public described on more than one occasion as “the 4$"8!:,6";746"46)"V7264EY#$;",!85!72#"$#" advocate of the century” – still has a mind like Saturday to protect the public interest clause a subtle knife. He was there to talk about Biko, and defend the work of both journalists and and the major thrust of his content focused academics. on the Black Consciousness leader, but he But it was Sydney Kentridge who the crowd also made use of his platform to deftly thread had come to hear deliver a talk he revealingly together parallels between the apartheid regime’s judicial system and some of the threats titled “Evil under the sun”, from a series of Ecclesiastes verses in the Bible which deal with currently facing South Africa’s legal and media the blight of oppression and power wielded autonomy. Biko’s son Nkosinathi, now CEO of the Steve corruptly. “This will not be philosophical”, was the caveat with which he prefaced his address. “I Biko Foundation, initially took the stage. Just will talk about the death of Steve Biko”. And this six when his father was murdered, Nkosinathi he proceeded to do, with the matter‐of‐factness told of coming face‐to‐face with Biko’s killers of his delivery both belying and somehow B$:"46)"O:04"478)"!4"46)"XVI<"?5)!-7#2"7#" intensifying the poignancy of his content. At particular of police Colonel Gideon Niewoudt, he said: “I looked into his eyes, and I saw death”. times he had the air of the middle‐aged advocate he was at the time of Biko’s inquest, drily Niewoudt and his cronies “evaded justice”,
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outlining the contradictions between police testimony as to the cause of Biko’s death and the medical evidence of the true story. Kentridge had heard of Biko as a "militant young black leader" before his death, but never met him, and he was, he said, astonished by 46)":)!,47$#"4$"670"*)!46<"T7-$";!0"#$4"46)"O:04" person to die in the custody of the apartheid police, he pointed out: in fact, he was the 44th, and at least another 30 would meet similar ends in the decade after Biko's murder. The extravagant police fabrications around Biko's death are now a matter of historical record, +14"6)!:7#2"46)8"O:04%6!#*"B:$8"Y)#4:7*2)" hammered home again the breathtaking arrogance and mendacity that were the trademarks of the apartheid security forces. Kentridge's hypothesis is that Biko's eventual death was caused by the trauma to the head 7#&7,4)*"+'"!"5$37,)"+)!47#2";746"!#"$+[),4"37-)" a sandbag or a loaded hosepipe. The details of the inhumanity of his treatment in the hours after his beating, but +)B$:)"670"!,41!3"*)!46A"8!-)"B$:"*7H,134" hearing. Kentridge reminded the audience that after the beating Biko was stripped naked, shackled and left lying on urine‐stained blankets "to prevent escape". Biko was denied the right even to wear a pair of underpants "in case he used them to commit suicide". While in a semi‐coma, he was driven for 1,100km in the back of a lorry to Pretoria Central Prison rather than to hospital ‐ again supposedly because he was considered such an escape risk. He died on 46)"!B4):#$$#"$B"^E"?)54)8+):"^_qq"$#"!"8!4"7#" the jail ‐ what Kentridge termed at the inquest a "miserable and lonely death". The police $H,):0":)05$#07+3)"B$:"T7-$n0"*)!46";):)"#$4"
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reprimanded. In fact, two received promotions. K#*"*)0574)"Y)#4:7*2)/0")=$:40A"46)"7#Q1)04n0" verdict found nobody was to blame for Biko’s death. The reason for the sham verdict, Kentridge reminded us, was that the independence of the apartheid judiciary was undermined by biased judges appointed by the state. At this point there was an almost audible intake of breath from the audience seemingly putting two and two together about recent events around the appointment of the Chief Justice. And it did seem suddenly as if Kentridge might be heading for an explicit Mogoeng smackdown, saying that merit, not politics, should always be the criteria in judicial appointments (a statement met with loud applause from the audience). But Kentridge paused, allowed the clapping to cease, and then added pointedly that we should guard against “labelling any controversy a political appointment”. On the matter of the Secrecy Bill, which he never referred to by name, he was similarly trenchant, yet understated. All governments have secrets, and all governments want to keep them, he said, but "Biko's case shows us that wrongdoers should never be freed from the threat of exposure". Beware of any law ;67,6"0))-0"4$"047&)"46)"5:)00A"6)";!:#)*<" The biggest danger to democracy was not from sweeping acts of legislation, but from the incremental, creeping limitations on rights. Having dexterously worked these subtle warnings into his address, he returned to the subject we were there to honour. “Tonight we remember Steve Bantu Biko,” Kentridge concluded: “His life a South African beacon, his death a South African tragedy”.
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NTOMBOXOLO NYENDWANA’S HOME AFFAIRS TORMENT A Port Elizabeth seamstress living in a poverty stricken squatter camp in KwaNoxolo in the Eastern Cape city speaks out about the years of suffering she’s had to endure after trading sexual favours to a Home Affairs official in order to get an ID document she hoped would enable a better life. By MANDY DE WAAL. Ntomboxolo Nyendwana has always dreamed of being a teacher, studying at college, and getting a paying job so she could create a better life for herself and her children. The 41‐year‐ old seamstress currently exists on social grants and what she makes from sewing and selling pillows. She also does needle work and clothing repairs for cash. “In 1991, I was studying Matric and went 4$"\$8)"K=!7:0"4$"8!-)"8'"O:04"!5537,!47$#<" After that I got a letter to say I didn’t write my postal address (on the forms). I went back. They said I must apply again. They told me I must pay again. But when I went back they had
scratched my ID number out and told me that my number was wrong,” says Nyendwana. The seamstress was contacted by Home K=!7:0"$#,)"8$:)A"!#*"46)'"4$3*"6):"46!4"6):" O#2):5:7#40"$#"46)"*$,18)#4!47$#"6!*",6!#2)*<" By this time Nyendwana had gone back and forth 4$"\$8)"K=!7:0"8!#'"478)0A"+14"74";!0"$#3'"7#" ^__h";6)#"06)";!0"!4"46)"2$9):#8)#4"$H,)0"46!4" she was advised that she was one of two people with the same ID number. R\$8)"K=!7:0",!33)*"8)"!#*"0!7*"46!4"46):)"70" a person posing as myself. Or I am posing as her. Photo: REUTERS
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Feeling ashamed, Nyendwana never went back to Home Affairs for a while, even though 1994 brought democracy to South Africa and enabled her to vote for the first time. “I had to vote with a temporary ID because I had no ID book.” X6)'"0!7*"D"8104"+:7#2"8'"+7:46",):47O,!4)<"T'" that time I was studying for a BA in Education and the university told me if I didn’t get my ID sorted out I will be expelled. I wouldn’t get my degree.” When Nyendwana went back to Home K=!7:0"06)";!0"04!#*7#2"7#"!"Q1)1)";6)#"!" 2$9):#8)#4"$H,7!3"0!7*"6)",$13*"6)35"6):<"?6)" says she knew this man as a child, and that he -#);"6):"B!873'<"X6)"$H,7!3"4$3*"Z')#*;!#!" he had powerful connections in Pretoria that ;$13*"Q17,-3'"6)35":)0$39)"46)"8)00<"RD"05$-)" to this man. He said he knew people where the IDs were made and that he would sort everything out if I slept with him. I was afraid and I was desperate. I didn’t want to sleep with him, but I didn’t want to be expelled.”“He said to me I must come with him. I followed him and he took me to the toilet and there he slept with me. He just gave me a toilet paper to wipe 8'0)3B<"KB4):"46!4";)"8$9)*"+!,-"4$"46)"Q1)1)<" Instead of calling my name to help me he called someone else. I was so angry and frustrated
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with myself. I stood up, walked out and went home.” Feeling ashamed, Nyendwana never went +!,-"4$"\$8)"K=!7:0"B$:"!";673)A")9)#"46$126" 1994 brought democracy to South Africa and )#!+3)*"6):"4$"9$4)"B$:"46)"O:04"478)<"RD"6!*"4$" vote with a temporary ID because I had no ID book.” Eventually Nyendwana went back to Home K=!7:0";6):)"46)"0!8)"$H,7!3"4$3*"6):"06)" shouldn’t have her photographs taken outside, but inside. As she was having her photographs 4!-)#"46)"$H,7!3"!2!7#"!0-)*"6):"B$:"0)LA"0!'7#2" he would assist her with her ID process. “He kept asking me why I did not want to sleep with him again. I said I was asking other people to help me instead. I said to myself I would not sleep with him again. But I didn’t get any help with my ID, so I did sleep with him again a second time. But it hurt me.” A year later in 1995, Nyendwana still had no Di"+$$-<"?6)":)41:#)*"4$"\$8)"K=!7:0";6):)" !#$46):"$H,7!3"4$3*"6):"4$"2$"4$"6):")3*):0"!#*" slaughter a goat. “This person said there was so much darkness on me. I took it as an insult. K#$46):"3!*'";$:-7#2"!4"\$8)"K=!7:0"!0-)*" me to bring her Coke. She said I was such a regular I was supposed to bring something for her.” Each time Nyendwana returned to Home K=!7:0A"46)"0!8)"$H,7!3"46!4"06)"!33)2)0";!0" trading sex for favours, pestered her for sex. In 1996, Nyendwana returned to Home K=!7:0"*)8!#*7#2"5)#"!#*"5!5):<"RD"4$3*"46)8" I am going to write a letter to Pretoria to state 8'",!0)<S"Z')#*;!#!";:$4)"4$"\$8)"K=!7:0"7#" Pretoria but did not get a response. In January 1997 she received her ID book in the post, but with the wrong ID number. “My
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I went to this man and I said: “Do you know what you have done with me?” He said he was going to beat me. I said he could beat me because he had hurt me and the beating would not pain me more.”
other name is Patience. But in my book they wrote ‘Patient’ instead of Patience. I didn’t want to 2$"4$"\$8)"K=!7:0"!2!7#"+),!10)"D"6!*"01=):)*" so much. I would keep this ID safe with me.” Nyendwana resumed her studies but in 2005 when she went to draw funds from her bank account which her social grant was paid into, she discovered her bank card was blocked. “The bank told me there was another person in Grahamstown who had my name, surname and a temporary ID with my number. They said she got my money. The bank said I had to go to \$8)"K=!7:0"4$"2)4"46)8"4$"*$"!#"7#9)0472!47$#<S And so Nyendwana was forced to return 4$"\$8)"K=!7:0"!2!7#A"!"53!,)"06)"0!'0"6!0" brought her enormous hurt, shame, anger and frustration. “They gave me a letter for the bank. I asked them to look what is happening and on the computer they showed me this other person in Grahamstown with my name and ID. They said her children were eight, my children are B$1:<"D";)#4"4$"46)"?K??K"$H,)0"!#*"4670"5):0$#" had made a grant for her eight children. They had changed the address for my social grant to Grahamstown.” RD";!0"07,-";746";$::'<"K4"\$8)"K=!7:0A"46)" women said they will get me a new number. But I was worried that if I get another number I would
04733"01=):<S"K#*"0$"Z')#*;!#!"6!*"4$"!553'"B$:" an ID document yet again. She was forced to do so after her bank account was frozen. Nyendwana says each and every time she has had to go +!,-"4$"46)"\$8)"K=!7:0"$H,)0"74"6!0"+))#"!" shameful, tormenting experience for her. After applying for her ID document again earlier this year she wrote a six‐page letter to \$8)"K=!7:0"7#"P:)4$:7!"4$"4)33"46)8";6!4"6!*" 6!55)#)*"!#*"4$"*)0,:7+)"6):"01=):7#2<"RD"2$4"!" response from an assistant manager who said he was shocked and told me to write a statement. I got a phone call from a Mrs Naidoo to say she 6!*"05$-)#";746"4670"$H,7!3<S" Nyendwana says she didn’t know what further 4$")L5),4"B:$8"\$8)"K=!7:0<"RD";!0"467#-7#2" they would call me again but they didn’t phone.” A couple of months later Nyendwana got #$47O,!47$#"46!4"6):"Di"+$$-";!0":)!*'<"RX6)" O:04"5):0$#"D"8)4";6)#"D";)#4"4$"\$8)"K=!7:0" ;!0"46)"0!8)"$H,):<"D";!0"06$,-)*<"D"2$4"8'" new ID but I was so angry. I went to this man and I said: “Do you know what you have done with me?” He said he was going to beat me. I said he could beat me because he had hurt me and the beating would not pain me more.” The seamstress started scolding the 2$9):#8)#4"$H,7!3"!#*"!44!,-7#2"678<"X6)"5$37,)"
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were called, who tried to intervene and protect 46)"2$9):#8)#4"$H,7!3"B:$8"Z')#*;!#!<"K"B);" days later Nyendwana had a court protection $:*):"O3)*"!2!7#04"6):"+'"46)"$H,7!3<" Nyendwana says she has made a case against the police and is waiting for a case number. “Now that I have spoken out I feel better, but D"!8"#$4"+)44):<"X$"+)"6$#)04"D"!8"01=):7#2<" If I had my ID, I would be somewhere. I would be living in a decent place compared to where D"!8"3797#2<"X670"$H,7!3";!0"46):)"4$"0):9)"10<" He took me and made my life miserable. I am hurt. Very hurt. I wish men didn’t take women for granted. I feel I was taken for granted. How many people are in my situation like this? I am #$4"46)"O:04"5):0$#<"D"!8"#$4"46)"3!04"5):0$#<S 7@!9):7,-";!0"O:04"!3):4)*"4$"4670"04$:'"+'" the Daily Sun. Journalist Mkhuseli Sizani who wrote the story says he often gets calls from foreigners who complain about corruption and \$8)"K=!7:0"$H,7!30";6$"*)8!#*"+:7+)0"7#" order to secure documents. In August Daily Maverick ran a story about Zimbabweans who 0!'"46)'"6!*"4$"5!'"$H,7!30"!4"46)"@!:!+!04!*" Refugee Centre in Pretoria bribes to secure papers. RD"05$-)"4$"?$#4$"G101A"46)"\$8)"K=!7:0" regional manager for Port Elizabeth and Ronnie Mamoepa the national spokesperson who said they will follow this up. I am also going to continue writing on this matter, but I am just waiting for the arrest to happen and for the case number,” says Sizani. Mamoepa says he views the allegations in a serious light and that Home K=!7:0";733"7#9)0472!4)"!#*"R*)!3"6!:063'S";746" 46)"$H,7!3"7B"46)",$853!7#4"70"5:$9)#"4:1)< “This woman’s life has been shattered.
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“This woman’s life has been shattered. Because of this ID problem she hasn’t been able to become a teacher and the officials abused their power which is a bad habit for our country.”
Because of this ID problem she hasn’t been !+3)"4$"+),$8)"!"4)!,6):"!#*"46)"$H,7!30" abused their power which is a bad habit for our country.” Sizani says if the matter is proved to +)"4:1)A"46)":)!3"Q1)047$#";733"+)"6$;"8!#'" other people were victimised by the man. “It is terrible. What I want to know is was the delay in her ID intentional so as to make her vulnerable?” X6)"!33)2)*"0)L"$=)#*):/0"#!8)"6!0"+))#" given to iMaverick but is being withheld until a thorough investigation into Nyendwana’s complaint has been conducted.
READ MORE: 1. Hard times – the story of Zimbabweans trying to get legal at Marabastad in Daily Maverick 2. Weeping, hiding as Home Affairs officials held in The Star
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SENTENCES HANDED DOWN TO ANGOLA ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTORS Seventeen of the 24 people arrested during the anti‐gov‐ ernment rally in Luanda on 3 September have been given sentences ranging up to three months in jail. Three others were acquitted. Portuguese state newspaper Lusa reported that one of the defence lawyers said that the judge, acting un‐ der political pressure, refused to reduce some of the sen‐ 4)#,)0"4$"O#)0<"X6)":!33'";!0" organised by a youth move‐ ment calling for the resignation of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos who has been in power for over 32 years.
The head of Libyan transitional government Mustafa Abdul Jalil (Reuters)
warned against those who may try to hijack the revolution. >!**!O/0")L!,4"3$,!47$#"70"04733" unknown and the former lead‐ ):"6!0"9$;)*"4$"-))5"O2647#2" until victory.
LIBYA’S NTC HEAD DELIVERS FIRST SPEECH TO NATION
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT SAYS LIBYAN REBELS INVOLVED IN TORTURE AND KILLINGS
The head of Libya’s transitional government, Mustafa Abdul f!373A"*)379):)*"670"O:04"!**:)00" to the nation on Tuesday and outlined his plans to maintain the country as a democratic state based on what he called “moderate Islam”. Jalil – deliv‐ ering his address at Martryr Square, where the deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gad‐ *!O"6!*"*)379):)*"8!#'"$B" his speeches to the nation –
Amnesty International has ac‐ ,10)*"!#47%>!**!O"O264):0"$B" committing acts of torture and killings during their toppling of the former government. The :)5$:4"0!7*"46!4";673)">!**!O/0" forces committed most of the acts, the rebels had also been involved in similar acts in re‐ taliation. It called on the tran‐ sitional government to prevent further human rights abuses in the country. Fighting continues
in the country, particularly in T!#7"J!37*"!#*">!**!O/0"6$8)" 4$;#"?7:4)A";6):)"5:$%>!**!O" forces remain in control.
UK SENDS DETECTIVES TO HELP POLICE WITH MURDERKIDNAPPING AT KENYAN RESORT The UK has sent counter‐ terrorism detectives to the 31L1:'"Y)#'!#":)0$:4";6):)"!" British tourist, David Tebbutt, was killed and his wife, Judith, kidnapped by gunmen – be‐ lieved to be either al‐Shabaab militants or Somali pirates. The local police, who remain in charge of the investigation, have arrested a Kenyan man who they suspect helped coor‐ dinate the attacks. As the econ‐ omy in the area is driven by 4$1:708"!#*"O067#2A"3$,!30"7#"
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the resort town fear that the at‐ tacks will directly impact upon their livelihood. The resort’s website has been taken down since to the attack, displaying a message of sympathy for the deceased and his family.
FRANCE AND RWANDA BURY THE HATCHET Rwanda President Paul Kagame and his French coun‐ terpart Nicolas Sarkozy at‐ tempted to put aside their countrys’ long‐running dif‐ ferences on Monday during Kagame’s state visit. Kagame said the apology he had been calling for from France, for its alleged involvement in the genocide in his country, was no longer necessary and said the purpose of his trip was to help both countries establish a better relationship. Sarkozy, for his part, doubled France’s developmental assistance to Rwanda to $58 million and agreed to help with energy projects in the country.
ZIMPLATS AGREES TO TRANSFER 51% OF SHAREHOLDING TO BLACK ZIMBABWEANS Zimplats, which has been in a long‐standing dispute with Zimbabwean authorities over its indigenisation plans, met with the country’s empowerment ministry and has agreed to sub‐ mit a revised plan that will see
Robert Mugabe (Reuters)
it transfer 51% of its shares to black Zimbabweans. The com‐ pany’s original plan was reject‐ ed and it was given 14 days to resubmit a revised plan, or else. j$33$;7#2"46)")L57:7#2"$B"46)" 14 days, Zimbabwean authori‐ ties initiated plans to cancel the company’s mining licence. The new plan will be submitted by 15 November, the company said.
Gono and high ranking mili‐ 4!:'"$H,7!30";):)"!8$#2"46$0)" named in the cables, which were released without redacting the names of sources. The cables also contained allegations that MDC party members had ac‐ cused Tsvangarai and the people around him of being weak and indecisive, but Tsvangarai didn’t mention those at the rally.
MUGABE “SHOCKED” BY WIKILEAKS CABLES
GAMBIA NOT TAKING ASSASSINATION ACCUSATION LIGHTLY
Zimbabwe’s Prime Minis‐ ter Morgan Tsvangarai told a weekend rally at Gwan‐ zura Stadium in Harare that President Robert Mugabe was shocked by recent revelations in recently released Wikileaks cables. Tsvangarai said Mugabe registered his shock at Zimba‐ bweans “running to the Ameri‐ cans”. Zanu‐PF leaders such as Vice President Joice Mujuru, Reserve Bank Governor Gideon
Gambia has denied any knowl‐ edge of, or involvement in, July’s rocket attack on the home of Guinean President Alpha Conde. The statement released by the Gambian government called on Conde to refrain from making unfounded statements. Conde had on Sunday accused Gambia and Senegal of being aware of the attack, which he says was plotted in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.
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THE MECHANICS OF CHINA’S AFRICAN EXPANSION The success of Chinese companies in Africa has little to do with their cost effectiveness, meeting deadlines or ultimate quality. Reminiscent of dubious US-led funding projects in Central American countries in the last century, Chinese expansion in Africa has everything to do with the funding guarantees they bring - as a new deal in Kenya demonstrates. By SIMON ALLISON. Libya was supposed to host the Cup of Nations The “secret” memorandum of understanding between Kenya and the Great Wall Drilling Company was splashed across the pages of Ke‐ #'!/0"7#&1)#47!3";))-3'"46)"C!04"KB:7,!#<"X6)" deal was worth $400 million (nearly R3 billion), and will see the Chinese construction company +173*"NF"#);"2)$46):8!3";)330"7#"Y)#'!<"X6)" #);05!5):":!70)*"!"9):'"5):47#)#4"Q1)047$#<" Why are Chinese companies being commis‐ sioned, in secret, for projects that local compa‐ nies can complete at half the cost? The answer is, of course, money, and Chinese companies’ ability to virtually guarantee fund‐ 7#2"!#*"478)0,!3)0"B$:"I67#)0)%3)*"5:$[),40<" K346$126"46)"!2:))8)#4"047513!4)0"46)"Y)#'!#" 2$9):#8)#4";733"0))-"740"$;#"B1#*7#2A"46):)/0"!" 4!,74"1#*):04!#*7#2"46!4";6)#"Y)#'!"!0-0"46)" I67#)0)"CL5$:4%D85$:4"T!#-"B$:"!"3$!#A"74";733" +)"2:!#4)*A";746$14"4$$"8!#'"Q1)047$#0"!0-)*<" Photo: REUTERS
D4/0"6!55)#)*"+)B$:)"%"46)">:)!4"J!33"i:7337#2" Company is currently drilling 26 geothermal ;)330"7#"Y)#'!A"O#!#,)*";746"!"r_b"87337$#"3$!#" B:$8"46)"0!8)"+!#-< Organising a normal bidding process involv‐ ing local and international companies, would be ultimately cheaper for the government, but ;$13*"279)"74"46)"072#7O,!#4"6)!*!,6)"$B"O#*‐ 7#2"B1#*7#2"B:$8"7#4):#!47$#!3"+!#-0"$:"7#047‐ tutions, and having to deal with all the strings often attached to such loans – strings which raise questions of democracy, human rights and 478)3'"5!'+!,-< T14"46):)/0"#$"01,6"467#2"!0"!"B:))"2)$46):‐ 8!3";)33A"!#*"I67#!";733"6!9)"4$"+)"5!7*"+!,-"!4" 0$8)"478)"$:"!#$46):<"X670"87264")#*"15"+)‐ 7#2"8$:)")L5)#079)"p"O#!#,7!33'"$:"5$3747,!33'" – than just doing the process domestically from 46)"$140)4<""
READ MORE: 1. Kenya gives Chinese secret geothermal deal in Kenya’s The East African
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KENYAN GOVERNMENT BEARS BRUNT OF RAGE OVER PIPELINE DISASTER
The horrific pipeline explosion which killed more than 100 people in one of Nairobi’s poorest areas wasn’t directly caused by the government, but is widely seen as the result of a political system more concerned with tax evasion than with providing basic services and lifting people out of poverty. By SIMON ALLISON. “How morbid that the oil spill came through the sewer system; an emblem of the poor services $=):)*"7#"46)",!574!3/0"7#B$:8!3"0)443)8)#40<" Those that were caught in the epicentre of the blast had been scooping oil while mired knee‐ deep in excrement, possibly the most eloquent marker of their condition there could be,” writes @1:7467"@1472!"7#"Y)#'!/0"i!73'"Z!47$#A"46)"*!'" !B4):"46)"575)37#)")L53$07$#"7#"$#)"$B"Z!7:$+7/0" 03180"-733)*"8$:)"46!#"^FF< The prevailing sentiment in the aftermath of the man‐made disaster – the second to hit East Africa in days, after the ferry accident in Zanzibar – was anger at a government which has failed to lift its citizens out of the grinding poverty which )L!,):+!4)*"46)"4:!2)*'<"J6)#"46)"$73"575)37#)" sprung a leak, residents of the Sinai informal settlement rushed in with an assortment of mis‐ matched containers, determined to get their share Photo: REUTERS
of the black gold and perhaps a temporary re‐ 5:7)9)"B:$8"5$9):4'<"J6)#"46)"$73")9)#41!33'")L‐ 53$*)*A"46)'";):)"7#"74<"X6):)";!0"#$")0,!5)< The government was also blamed for the pipe‐ 37#)"+:)!-"7#"46)"O:04"53!,)<"K"4),6#7,7!#";746" 46)"Y)#'!"P75)37#)"I$85!#'"4$3*"46)"Z!7:$+7" ?4!#*!:*"46!4"R!#"!1*74"$B"46)"37#)"+)4;))#"Z!7‐ :$+7"!#*"@$8+!0!";733":)9)!3"6$::7O,"04:1,41:!3" weaknesses with vast areas of patchwork on pres‐ 01:70)*"575)0S<"X6)"575)37#)0";):)A"7#"$46):";$:*0A" !#"!,,7*)#4";!747#2"4$"6!55)#< This is, perhaps, the real price to pay for politi‐ ,!3"7#04!+7374'<"K0"Y)#'!"81**3)0"!3$#2";746"740" government of national unity arguing over con‐ stitutional reforms and tax rebates for MPs, basic 0):97,)0"!:)"$9):3$$-)*"!#*"74/0"46)"5)$53)";6$" 5!'"46)"5:7,)A"!0"!3;!'0<"""
READ MORE: 1. Why it had to happen in the Nairobi Star 2. Disaster offered a snapshot of all you need to know about slum life in the Daily Nation
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JONATHAN’S GUNS LOOM OVER JOS After months of violence, President Goodluck Jonathan’s given his army a blank cheque to sort out the problem city of Jos. Citizens of Jos, be afraid. The Nigerian army doesn’t have a stellar record of conflict resolution, preferring their justice rough and their executions summary. By SIMON ALLISON. Jonathan has had enough. The violence in the north and central parts of his large, disparate country has grown worse since he came to power six months ago, with bombings, shootings and sectarian violence becoming a feature of daily life, almost unremarkable in cities like Jos and Maiduguri. In Jos alone, more than 100 have died in the past two weeks. The latest incident was a twin explosion in the centre of Jos on Sunday night, which,despite not killing anyone, left the population badly rattled. It was immediately followed by a meeting of governors of northern states who’ve said they would resort to vigilantism to solve the crisis if necessary. So Jonathan is doing what Nigerian leaders *$"+)04";6)#"46)'"O#*"46)80)39)0";746"46)7:" backs to the wall, facing a situation they don’t know how to control: he’s sending in the guns. In a chillingly ambiguous statement,
46)"5:)07*)#4/0"$H,)"0!7*"74";!0"!146$:707#2" the chief of defence “to take full charge of the security situation in Plateau State immediately and take all necessary actions to stop the recent spate of killings in the state”. Plateau State, the central Nigerian province of which Jos is the capital, bills itself rather optimistically – misguidedly – as “the home of peace and tourism”. It is the faultline of the Muslim‐Christian divide in Nigeria and has been synonymous with sectarian clashes for years. Not that the violence has all that much to do with religion; after all, Muslims and Christian live together all over Nigeria in peace. In Jos, the religious element is most often a grand pretext for inherently local issues.
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around 10am. Seven people were coming from the direction of the mosque. When they saw the military, they ran into a house. My brother was behind them and also ran into the house. At the time they [the people coming from the mosque] were carrying nothing in their hands. One of the military men went into the house and brought them out of the house to the road. The military man told my brother to stand to the side. He then shot the group. Some were hit in the chest and stomach. He then said to my brother: ‘You go'. When my brother started moving he shot him in his leg. My brother went down. He then shot him in the side and the chest. He was shot with three bullets and died at that time. The military man then turned and left.” Given the army’s broad mandate from the president it seems unlikely that more restraint is going to be shown this time. “The decision “I think, having been to Jos, the central to send in the military is an act of desperation issue there is the relationship between the from Jonathan. If you are giving the military indigenous people and the settlers from other parts of Nigeria,” said David Zounmenou, senior full power and asking them to do everything possible to solve the problem, this will come at researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, in an interview with iMaverick. “For example, if the price of human rights,” said Zounmenou. Zounmenou suggests Nigeria’s government '$1";!#4"4$":1#"B$:"5$3747,!3"$H,)"7#"f$0A"'$1/9)" got to be a settler or you’ll have problems. It’s all might be better served by focussing on the about access to resources, and access to political social and economic issues which underpin power. What is happening in Jos has nothing to 46)"97$3)#,)A":!46):"46!#"B1)337#2"46)"O:)"+'" sending in more guns and people who use them do with religion.” with abandon. But Jonathan’s already made his Jos already has some taste of what it might decision, and the streets of Jos will echo with its mean when the military takes “all necessary actions” to solve its problems. Take this account :!87O,!47$#0"B$:"8!#'";))-0"4$",$8)<" from an interview conducted by Human Rights Watch in 2009, detailing the military response READ MORE: to a ostensibly sectarian clashes: 1. Jos unrest: Nigerian president Jonathan takes control on BBC News “I saw a dark‐green military vehicle pull 2. Nigeria: Arbitrary killings by security forces in Jos from Human Rights Watch 15"$#"46)":$!*";746"O9)"0$3*7):0<"X670";!0" 3. Why Jos will boil again in The Nigerian Voice
“The decision to send in the military is an act of desperation from Jonathan. If you are giving the military full power and asking them to do everything possible to solve the problem, this will come at the price of human rights”
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GERMANY Angela Merkel has the weight of the eurozone on her shoul‐ ders at the moment. The Ger‐ man Chancellor was scram‐ bling to perform damage control after Germany's econ‐ omy minister said this week‐ end that Greece would likely default on its debts. Merkel said that she had no reason to believe that Greece was not 2)447#2"740"51+37,"O#!#,)0"$#" track. There has been concern over the possibility that Greece might have to leave the euro, which would be a bit of an eco‐ nomic melodrachma. AFGHANISTAN The Taliban is at it again, at‐ tacking the US embassy and Nato HQ in Kabul on Tues‐ day. The insurgents took over !"#)!:+'"+173*7#2"!#*"O:)*" rockets into the compounds in Kabul's diplomatic quarter. It is understood that the militants were wearing suicide‐bomb vests. As of Tuesday evening, the death tally was up to six, including two civilians. Hillary Clinton said that the US would do everything they could to combat those responsible for the "cowardly attack". IRAN The two American hikers ar‐ rested in Iran two years ago
Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal (Reuters)
for straying across the border without permission have been granted bail. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, both of whom were convicted on suspicion of spying for the US, will pay $500,000 each in order to be re‐ leased, possibly in the next few days. Iranian President Ahma‐ *7#)[!*"0!7*"46)"+!73"$=):";!0"!" "humanitarian gesture", which is very kind after having kept them rotting in prison for two years for no reason. USA President Obama continues his roadshow to sell his jobs bill to the American people, on Tuesday visiting Ohio. He is on a mission to convince Congress to pass his $447 billion Ameri‐
can Jobs Act. In Ohio he's expected to especially stress his proposals for modernis‐ ing public schools, on which he's prepared to spend $25 billion. After Ohio he will trundle on to North Caro‐ lina on Wednesday. EGYPT Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan met with Egyptian leaders on Tuesday to strengthen strategic ties and, let's not kid, have a good bitch about Israel. Until recently, relations between Turkey and Egypt were quite cool, while relations between Israel and the two countries were reasonably warm. The Arab Spring and Palestine's upcom‐ ing UN bid for statehood have
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Yemen protests (Reuters)
served to change the landscape though, in addition to the Egyp‐ tian public's anger with Israel over recent attacks on security forces. It's suggested that Erdo‐ gan's anti‐Israel rhetoric may serve to whip up anti‐Israel sen‐ timent in Egypt even further. USA Two US senators have asked President Obama to sell 66 O264):"[)40"4$"X!7;!#A"*)0574)" the fact that this sale would anger China. The senators, John Cornyn and Robert Menendez, say that under the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, Washington is obliged to sell them the planes in order to ensure that Taiwan can defend itself. The precedent here is that the US sold Taiwan $6.4 billion worth of arms in 2010, which similarly displeased China. China's major beef with it all is that they see Taiwan as part of its territory. Taiwan, un‐ fortunately, doesn’t agree.
AUSTRALIA Obama's going Down Under. The White House has con‐ O:8)*"46!4"46)"W?"P:)07*)#4" ;733"97074"K104:!37!"B$:"46)"O:04" time in November. He was meant to visit twice before, but both times a Washington crisis had scuppered his travel plans. His visit is set to mark the 60th anniversary of the ANZUS de‐ fence alliance between the two countries. The White House described Australia as "one of the United States' closest al‐ lies", which seems like an obvi‐ ous attempt to make them feel special. YEMEN It looks like Yemeni President Ali Saleh may be on his way out. The Yemeni state news agency has reported that he has authorised his vice presi‐ dent to sign a power transition pact with the opposition. The opposition warned against
counting any chickens, but the decree "irrevocably" empowers Vice President Hadi to sign on Saleh's behalf. Saleh can't sign it himself because he is recuperat‐ ing in Saudi Arabia after being wounded in a bomb attack, one of many expressions of frustra‐ tion with his 33‐year rule. HOLLAND A group of victims of abuse by Catholic priests has asked the International Criminal Court to charge the Pope and top ]!47,!#"$H,7!30";746",:78)0" against humanity. The group, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), has O3)*"$9):"EFAFFF"5!2)0"$B"*$,‐ uments with the court in The Hague. Neither Benedict XVI nor the Vatican spokesman has commented yet, and the Inter‐ national Criminal Court has not yet answered the question of whether they have jurisdic‐ tion to prosecute the Pope.
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IN A SHOW OF SELF-CONFIDENCE, TALIBAN ATTACKS US'S AFGHANISTAN HEART The battle for Afghanistan continued on Tuesday as a multi-pronged attack by Taliban militants sowed chaos and confusion in the capital Kabul. A stand-off between heavily armed militants and Afghan forces lasted 19-hours. It was only early on Wednesday that the Afghan government confirmed that the siege had finally ended as the last remaining militants were killed. While the latest attack raises fresh doubts about the readiness of Afghan forces to assume control of the country when Nato withdraws, the staggering loss of life in this war has become a side-show to the political playmaking. By KHADIJA PATEL The Taliban marked the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Washington DC and New York with a vow to continue O2647#2"!2!7#04"46)"W?%3)*",$!3747$#"B$:,)0"7#" Afghanistan. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar, issued a statement urging the international ,$881#74'"4$":!33'"!2!7#04"46)"W#74)*"?4!4)0" for its continued "illegal occupation" of Afghanistan. “Every year, 9/11 reminds us of 46)"0!*"7#,7*)#4";6)#"46)"W?"!44!,-)*"46)" Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, especially when Afghans had no connection with the incident,” the message said. The Taliban !30$"9$;)*"4$",$#47#1)"740"O264"!2!7#04" foreign troops in Afghanistan. “These proud Americans should not forget that the Afghans
have stood resolute against enemies like rocks !#*"6!9)"7#&7,4)*"8!#'"3$00)0"$#"46)8<"X6)" invaders never expected such a response from Afghans and they are still astonished about how the Pashtuns have retaliated,” the message said. X)#"')!:0"8!'"0$$#"5!00"07#,)"46)"W?" marked the ouster of the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, but violence in the embattled country has peaked in recent months. Beyond 46)"!04$1#*7#2"O#!#,7!3",$04"$B"4670";!:A"46)" ever increasing cost of human life is outrageous. Recent months have seen high numbers of foreign troop deaths and record numbers of civilian casualties. War, they say, would end if the dead could return and in the absence of a Photo: REUTERS
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miracle, this war continues to rage. On Tuesday the reality of the war was once more propelled to the top of news bulletins as the Taliban struck at Nato and government positions across Kabul. Militants armed with :$,-)4%5:$5)33)*"2:)#!*)0"!#*"017,7*)"9)040" !44!,-)*"2$9):#8)#4"+173*7#20A"46)"W?")8+!00'" and Nato's main military base in Kabul. Chaos reigned in the Afghan capital as explosions !#*"21#O:)",$#47#1)*"4$":!443)"46)",74'"3!4)" into Tuesday evening. For more than six hours, X!37+!#"87374!#40"$,,157)*"46)"155):"&$$:0"$B" !#"1#O#706)*"+173*7#2"7#"Y!+13A"5)347#2"+133)40" !#*":$,-)40"4$;!:*"46)"W?")8+!00'A"Z!4$n0" Afghan headquarters and the country's National Directorate of Security. The choice of targets ;!0"5!:47,13!:3'"072#7O,!#4"p"46)0)"4!:2)40" represent the Taliban’s principal adversaries in the unrelenting war. It was well after 9pm in Kabul when local police declared the battle over and the gunmen killed. Bilal Sarwar, a BBC journalist in Kabul, reported on Twitter that the chief of police in the city, Ayub Salangi said the attackers had arrived in a minivan and wore burkas. Less than an hour after declaring the battle over and all 46)"21#8)#"*)!*A"21#O:)"):154)*"!2!7#"7#"46)" besieged building. While Afghan police began ,$8+7#2"46)"+173*7#2A"&$$:"+'"&$$:A"0)!:,67#2" for booby traps, a suicide attacker detonated 670"017,7*)"9)04"$#"46)"0)9)#46"&$$:<"P$37,)"46)#" believed that two more attackers had camped out $#"46)"#7#46"&$$:<"X6)"+!443)";$13*"2$"$#"')4<" Early reports indicate that the day’s drama has claimed seven lives and left 17 people injured. Four of the wounded were victims of the !44!,-"$#"46)"W?")8+!00'",$85$1#*<"D#"!" statement released to media, the American mission indicated that none of those injured
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;):)"W?",747()#0<"Rj$1:"KB26!#0";):)"7#[1:)*" in the attack on the embassy compound, none with life threatening injuries. They included three Afghan visa applicants and one local contract guard,” the statement said. For her 5!:4A"W?"?),:)4!:'"$B"?4!4)"\733!:'"I37#4$#" called the attack "cowardly" and insisted it ;$13*"#$4"*)4):"W?")=$:40"7#"KB26!#704!#< The attacks on Tuesday follow a similar !44!,-"$#"46)"$H,)0"$B"46)"British Council last 8$#46<"C7264"KB26!#"5$37,)"$H,):0"!#*"$#)" foreign national were killed when the Taliban marked the anniversary of Afghanistan's independence from Britain with an attack on the British Council building with a characteristic display of violence. Similar to Tuesday’s attack, the assault on the British Council compound began when a suicide car bomber detonated a vehicle at the front gate of the compound and then followed with a 07L%6$1:%3$#2"21#"+!443)"+)4;))#";)33%!:8)*" Taliban militants and Afghan forces. This spate of attacks will cast aspersions on the ability of Afghan security forces to take over security operations in the country after the scheduled withdrawal of Nato, but KB26!#"P:)07*)#4"\!87*"Y!:(!7"7#0704)*"7#" a statement released on Tuesday night that the attacks would not hamper the process of transition."The attacks cannot stop the process `4:!#0747$#e"B:$8"4!-7#2"53!,)"!#*",!##$4"!=),4A" but rather embolden our people's determination in taking the responsibility for their country's $;#"!=!7:0Ao"Y!:(!7"0!7*<"
READ MORE:
1. Taliban attacks near US embassy in Kabul raise questions of infiltration in The Christian Science Monitor 2. Militants Launch Attack on U.S. Embassy in Kabul in The New York Times 3. British Council 'not deterred' by Kabul attack in The Guardian (UK)
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IN CAIRO ERDOGAN EMERGES A GLOBAL LEADER The Turkish Prime Minister is on a tour of the revolutionary parts of North Africa. As he struts his way through his itinerary with stops in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, he carries a new mantle as global Muslim leader. By KHADIJA PATEL Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan received a hero’s welcome in Cairo on Tuesday morning. Thousands of Egyptians thronged to Cairo airport to welcome him to Egypt, chanting slogans in praise of him. The warm welcome extended outside of the airport and into Cairo’s streets where posters of the Turkish statesman decorated the city. Few
world leaders can boast such welcomes in their own countries, let alone a foreign one. With C:*$2!#/0"1#&7#,67#2"04!#,)"$#"D0:!)3A"X1:-)'" has endeared itself not only to Arab leaders B)*"15";746"6!97#2"4$"4$;"46)"D0:!)37"37#)A"+14" 8$:)"072#7O,!#43'A"46)"K:!+"5)$53)<"D#"X1:-)'A" Photo: REUTERS
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A Pew Research Center survey conducted in March-April this year and cited by Reuters showed that 78% of Egyptians had confidence in him, along with 72% of Jordanians and 64% of Lebanese. Almost 95% of Israelis assumed the opposite view. C:*$2!#"70"06$;#"$="B$#*3'"!0"46)"8$04"5$513!:" politician in the Arab world today. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in March‐April this year and cited by Reuters 06$;)*"46!4"qNg"$B"C2'547!#0"6!*",$#O*)#,)" in him, along with 72% of Jordanians and 64% $B"G)+!#)0)<"K38$04"_cg"$B"D0:!)370"!0018)*" the opposite view. Erdogan’s three‐day visit to Egypt is billed as an opportunity for the Turkish government to boost its standing in the Arab world following the popular uprisings of the "Arab Spring". Erdogan’s political posturing in the Arab ;$:3*"70")05),7!33'"072#7O,!#4"!0"74"072#!30"!" potentially tectonic shift in trade relations in the region. Turkey is busy sporting itself not just as a key political player on the world stage but also an economic powerhouse. Statistics indicate that in the second quarter of this year, Turkey was second only to China as the world’s fastest growing economy. Currently, the value of trade between Turkey and Egypt amounts to almost the same value
!0"4:!*)"+)4;))#"X1:-)'"!#*"D0:!)3<"K0"46)" clamour of the purse strings of a post‐Mubarak Egypt continues to unfold, reports suggest some 250 Turkish companies have rushed to invest $1.5 billion in Egypt. Turkey has clearly been cognisant of the pitfalls in souring its :)3!47$#0675";746"D0:!)3"p"!#*"74"6!0"8$9)*"4$" 87472!4)"!#'"!*9):0)")=),40"$#"740"),$#$8'<" D#"670"$5)#7#2"!**:)00"4$"!"8))47#2"$B" Arab League in Cairo on Tuesday, Erdogan ,$#*)8#)*"D0:!)37"5$37,7)0"!#*"0)#4"$14"!#" unequivocal message to the perceived Western hesitation to back a recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations. The recognition of a Palestinian state, Erdogan said, was "not an option but an obligation". He told Arab foreign 87#704):0"46!4"D0:!)3"6!*"70$3!4)*"740)3B"!#*"8104" "pay the price" for refusing to apologise for its *)!*3'":!7*"$#"!">!(!%+$1#*"!7*"&$4733!"3!04" ')!:<"J6)#"6)"!,,10)*"D0:!)3"$B"+)6!97#2"37-)"!" “spoiled child”, he earned the approbation of an Arab League fed‐up with leaders better known to compromise its ideals in foreign policies. Turkey
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Erdogan carried a message of alliance to the Arab world, a message that would have been entirely impossible to convey by previous Turkish governments.
6!0"0105)#*)*"87374!:'"47)0";746"D0:!)3A")L5)33)*" 4$5"D0:!)37"*753$8!40A"53)*2)*"4$"0155$:4"46)" Palestinians' statehood bid and vowed to send the Turkish navy to escort Gaza‐bound aid ships in the future. Erdogan certainly shows no indication of backing out of his antagonistic stance against D0:!)3<"RD0:!)3SA"6)"0!7*A"o8104"5!'"46)"5:7,)"B$:"46)" crimes it committed." Erdogan carried a message of alliance to the Arab world, a message that would have been entirely impossible to convey by previous Turkish governments. Turkey was known then to be publicly courting the European Union and condescending towards its "backward" Arab neighbours. Political analyst, Professor Juan Cole explains the shift in Erdogan’s government as a shift in ideology and identity. “Not only has Turkey moved away from a wounded Turkish secular nationalism, but Egypt has moved away from a naive Arab nationalism. With the fall of the Hosni Mubarak regime, Egypt is groping toward a new, multi‐cultural politics that makes a place for Muslim religious parties and for secularists alike. Many young Muslim Brothers speak favourably of a ‘Turkish model’,” Cole says. Adel Soliman, an Egyptian analyst quoted by Reuters, believes that though Erdogan certainly does talk the talk, it will not be able to walk it.
RX1:-)'A"B$:"!33"740"9):+!3"+!:+0"!4"D0:!)3A";$13*" not break with its former ally and, as a Nato member, (remains) aligned with the West.” Erdogan however increases in stature as !",)#4:!3"O21:)"7#"K:!+"5$3747,0<"X1:-)'"6!0" been a key mediator between Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and the United States during the violence between Syrian state security and the Syrian people. President Obama has sought advice on Syria from Turkey, and Erdogan signalled a new round of diplomatic pressure on Assad when he said that neither he nor the Syrian people believe Assad anymore because he has failed to carry out reforms. "As civilian deaths increase in Syria we see that reforms have not materialised and they did not speak 6$#)043'<"D4"70"#$4"5$007+3)"4$"+)37)9)"4670<"K#*" the Syrian people do not believe in Assad, nor *$"D<"J)"!30$"*$"#$4"+)37)9)"678Ao"C:*$2!#" said during his speech. Erdogan stopped just short of chorusing the likes of Saudi Arabia, the European Union and the United States in calling on Assad to resign. While all the other calls on Assad to step down have fallen on deaf ears, a Turkish call may not go unacknowledged. Erdogan is muscling his way not just through the Arab world, but across the globe..
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IRANIAN HIKERS TO BE FREED, AT LAST Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced that the two American hikers, sentenced just last month to eight years in prison, will be released in a “humanitarian gesture”. Why now? Ahmadinejad's address to the UN in New York next week may just have something to do with it. Not to mention attempts to reopen nuclear negotiations with the West. By THERESA MALLINSON. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, who maintain that they wandered into Iranian territory by mistake while hiking in the mountains along the Iran‐ Iraq border, have been inmates of Tehran's Evin prison since July 2009. Their companion, Sarah Shroud, was released in September last year on $500,000 bail, and returned to the US. Now, according to an announcement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on NBC's Today show, they too will be released shortly. “They illegally crossed our borders, and they were arrested by the border guards,” Ahmadinejad said. “We tried last year to free
one of the three persons, and we are also trying to make arrangements for the freedom of the other two. I think these two persons will be freed in a couple of days.” K4"O:04"23!#,)"4670"8$9)"0))80"01:5:707#2A" considering Fattal and Bauer were sentenced to a punitive eight years in prison on spying charges as recently as last month. But seeing as Ahmadinejad is set to address the UN in New York next week, the timing seems calculated. “It's not only about two people in Iran ... I think Photo: REUTERS
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Given concerns that Iran is using this enriched uranium not to build power plants, but nuclear weapons, it's going to take a lot more than the release of two hikers for the US – and other Western nations – to thaw towards the country, humanitarian gesture or not.
the problem is in the approach of the American politicians and leaders,” he said, alluding to the US's hostile attitude towards his country. “OK, these two persons will be released. Is it going to be over? We do it, for example, in (a) humanitarian gesture. Is it going to solve the problems? I hope so.” If by problems he's referring to the multitude of sanctions imposed on Iran owing to its nuclear programme, Ahmadinejad shouldn't hold his breath. In a letter to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, that was obtained by the Associated Press and Reuters on Tuesday, chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili indicated Iran's willingness to reopen negotiations with the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. While the letter claimed that Iran was “ready to co‐operate in ... nonproliferation and peaceful nuclear co‐ operation”, Western diplomats have dismissed it !0"!"R,6!:8"$=)#079)S<" Part of the letter reads: “The Islamic Republic of Iran as an active party to the
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non‐proliferation treaty (NPT) has always +))#"!#*"70"04733"$B"46)"O:8"+)37)B"7#"46)" necessity of realisation of the legal rights as well as obligations without any kinds of discrimination.” That's code for: “we believe we have the right to continue enriching uranium, (which we maintain will be used for building nuclear power plants)”. Given concerns that Iran is using this enriched uranium not to build power plants, but nuclear weapons, it's going to take a lot more than the release of two hikers for the US – and other Western nations – to thaw towards the country, humanitarian gesture or not. Bauer and Fattal's imminent release shows that they are just being used by Iran as pawns in the bigger game of its relations with the US. (Then again, that's why they were arrested in 46)"O:04"53!,)<e"D4n33"+)"!"612)":)37)B"4$"46)8"4$" be freed from this entrapment, and returned to normal life. Their families said in a statement: “While we do not have further details at this time, we are overjoyed by the positive news reports from Iran. Shane and Josh's freedom means more to us than anything, and it's a huge relief to read that they are going to be released”. If Ahmadinejad is true to his word and the two hikers are indeed released, soon )#$126";)n33"2)4"4$"O#*"$14";6)46):"670",3!78" that there are: “very good conditions here in prison... it's like staying in a hotel”, bears any relation to reality. We're not sure we trust him on that one.
READ MORE: 1. Iran will reportedly release two jailed Americans, in the New York Times 2. Iran to free US hikers jailed for spying, in the Guardian
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STRAUSS-KAHN IN THE FIRING LINE AGAIN It’s been a short reprieve for former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn. On Monday, only days after arriving back in his homeland of France, he was on the receiving end of three hours of questioning relating to another sexual assault case. By REBECCA DAVIS. It may be a case of travelling from the frying 5!#"4$"46)"O:)"B$:"?4:!100%Y!6#<"j:)06"B:$8" having rape charges against him in New York *:$55)*"+'"5:$0),14$:0A"?4:!100%Y!6#":)41:#)*" 4$"P!:70"4$"B!,)"j:)#,6"5:$0),14$:0"7#9)0472!4% 7#2"!":!5)",6!:2)"*!47#2"+!,-"4$"EFFh<"D#"4670" ,!0)"46)"!,,10):"70";:74):"X:704!#)"T!#$#A"hEA" ;6$"!33)2)0"?4:!100%Y!6#"!44)854)*"4$":!5)"6):" ;673)"06)";!0"7#4):97);7#2"678")7264"')!:0"!2$<" ?4:!100%Y!6#/0"3!;'):0",3!78"46!4"6)":)Q1)04)*" @$#*!'/0"8))47#2"4$",3)!:"15";6!4"46)"j:)#,6" 8)*7!",!33"Ri?Y"!=!7:)"DDS<"\)";$13*"6!9)"+))#" :)Q17:)*"4$"279)"!#"1#*):%$!46"4)0478$#'"!0"4$" 670"07*)"$B"T!#$#/0"04$:'< A preliminary investigation into the incident is !3:)!*'"1#*):;!'A"+14"74"70"#$4"')4"-#$;#";6)46):" j:)#,6"5:$0),14$:0"6!9)":)!,6)*"!"*),707$#"!+$14" Photo: REUTERS
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READ MORE: 1. Strauss-Kahn Questioned on Accusations of 2003 Sexual Assault, in The New York Times
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YEMEN
YEMENI GROUP WINS PRESTIGIOUS UN REFUGEE AWARD The UN refugee agency announced on Tuesday that its annual Nansen Refugee Award will honour Yemen-based NGO the Society for Humanitarian Solidarity for its work with refugees and migrants who make the treacherous sea journey to Yemen from the embattled Horn of Africa region. By KHADIJA PATEL. In August more than 3,700 Somali refugees travelled across the Gulf of Aden from the port of Bossaso in northern Somalia, in small open O067#2"+$!40"4$"m)8)#A";6):)"46)'":),)79)*" !14$8!47,"5$3747,!3"!0'318<"C0,!57#2"*:$1264A" B!87#)"!#*",7973";!:"46)0)":)B12))0"1#*):4$$-" !"4:)!,6):$10"[$1:#)'"4$":)!,6"0!B)4'"7#"m)8)#<" ?$"B!:"4670"')!:A"8$:)"46!#"bFAFFF"5)$53)"6!9)" 8!*)"46)"0)!",:$007#2"4$"m)8)#"B:$8"?$8!37!A" +:7#27#2"46)"#18+):"$B"?$8!37":)B12))0"7#"46)" ,$1#4:'"4$"^_EAFFF<" \$;)9):A"46)0)"!:)"46)":)B12))0";6$"01:979)" 46)"4:)!,6):$10"[$1:#)'<"C9):'"')!:A"61#*:)*0" $B"?$8!37":)B12))0"#)9):"8!-)"74"4$"m)8)#"!379)<" ]7,4780"$B"46)"5):73$10"[$1:#)'A"46)7:"*)!*"+$*7)0" $B4)#";!06"15"$#"46)"m)8)#7"06$:)<""D4"70")0478!4‐ )*"46!4"!4"3)!04"^EF"5)$53)"*:$;#)*"4:'7#2"4$"8!-)" 46)"[$1:#)'"4670"')!:< Photo: REUTERS
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READ MORE: 1. Yemeni NGO to receive Nansen Refugee Award for lifesaving work on AlertNet 2. Yemeni NGO receives annual UN refugee award in Khaleej Times
WEDNESDAY - 14 SEPTEMBER 2011
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RECORD MONSOONS DEVASTATE A STILL-REELING PAKISTAN Torrential rains have lashed the Indian sub-continent leaving thousands displaced in India, but Pakistan has once again been left gasping desperately for help as millions of displaced people are stranded without food. By KHADIJA PATEL. X6)"O21:)0"!:)"#$4"5:)44'<"@$:)"46!#"EFF"5)$‐ 53)"6!9)"3$04"46)7:"379)0A"^<q"87337$#"6),4!:)0"$B" 3!#*"6!9)"+))#"7#1#*!4)*A"7#,31*7#2"8$:)"46!#" bFFAFFF"6),4!:)0"$B",:$50"!#*"!"4$4!3"$B"c<q"873‐ 37$#"5)$53)A"7#,31*7#2"E<c"87337$#",673*:)#A"6!9)" +))#"!=),4)*"+'"46)"3!4)04"*70!04):"4$"674"P!-7‐ 04!#<""\)!9'"8$#0$$#":!7#0"6!9)"0;$33)#":79):0" !#*",!#!30"7#"46)"0$146):#"5:$97#,)"$B"?7#*6" ,!107#2"46)"&$$*7#2"46!4"6!0"!30$"+:$1264"46)" ,$88):,7!3",!574!3"$B"Y!:!,67"4$"!"2:7#*7#2"6!34<"" @7337$#0"$B"5)$53)"7#":1:!3"?7#*6"!:)"04733":)‐ ,$9):7#2"B:$8"&$$*0"3!04"')!:"46!4";):)"46)";$:04" )9):%:),$:*)*"7#"46)",$1#4:'<"J746"87337$#0"$B" 5)$53)"04733"*7053!,)*A"46)"3!4)04"&$$*0";733"5:$9)" !#")L!,47#2",6!33)#2)"4$"!#"1#5$513!:"P!-704!#7" 2$9):#8)#4<"G!04";))-A"P!-704!#7"P:)07*)#4"K07B" K37"M!:*!:7"!0-)*"W#74)*"Z!47$#0"?),:)4!:'">)#‐ ):!3"T!#"Y7%@$$#"4$"*),3!:)"!#")8):2)#,'"7#" Photo: REUTERS
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READ MORE:
1. Pakistan: Torrential rains and floods paralyse Karachi in BBC News 2. Report: Death toll in Pakistan floods reaches 218 in Monsters and Critics
WEDNESDAY - 14 SEPTEMBER 2011
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US 2012
GOP TAMPA DEBATE ZEROES IN ON RICK PERRY Anointed by the newest polling data, Republican front-runner Rick Perry was in the crosshairs of all of the other participants in the most recent debate over who will challenge Barack Obama come November 2012. By J BROOKS SPECTOR. The Monday evening debate, moderated by Wolf Blitzer and cosponsored by CNN and the Tea Party Express, a rather obviously partisan political action body, took place in Tampa, Florida. Florida is a state crucial for both parties’ hopes. Reliably Democratic for almost a century, Florida is probably the largest state that is consistently in play in American general elections.
Back in 1965, as he was about to sign the landmark Civil Rights Act he had bulldozed through Congress, then‐President Lyndon Johnson (a Texan himself) famously told a political friend that once he signed this bill and made it law he doomed the Democratic Party’s chances in the South for at least a Photo: Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. (REUTERS)
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Florida has become a battleground for presidential candidate hopes over the past several electoral cycles and was, of course, the state where a contested victory put George W Bush into the White House in 2001. generation. While his prediction largely came true, paradoxically it has also meant the Republicans have, in that same ensuing half century, become a starkly more southern !#*";)04):#"5!:4'A"061,-7#2"$="46)7:"$3*):" north‐eastern, internationalist, big‐business, suburban support. As a result, Florida is an important key to their success in national electoral campaigns. The state has a large, varied population that ranges ethnically from Cuban‐Americans, retired hyphenated‐Americans from north‐ eastern states, African‐Americans and White rural and small town voters whose sensibilities are similar to the populations of other southern states. Florida has become a battleground for presidential candidate hopes over the past several electoral cycles and was, of course, the state where a contested victory put George W Bush into the White House in 2001. Summing up the texture of this newest debate, Washington Post columnist Jonathan
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Bernstein wrote Tuesday morning that: “The problem with assessing these Republican presidential debates continues to be that there are only two people up there on the stage who are really, honest‐to‐goodness, running for president. I don’t know what Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul think they’re doing, but they aren’t serious candidates for the nomination and never have been….Are they trying to win a book contract or a slot on Fox News? Are they trying to nudge the party in their direction on the issues? If it’s the latter — why are they so obviously incapable of speaking about those issues with a minimal amount of knowledge? All I know is that it makes it hard to sort through what )=),4A"7B"!#'A"46)0)"*)+!4)0"6!9)"$#"V7,-"P)::'" and Mitt Romney. “Do these folks really believe that the biggest economic problem today is runaway 7#&!47$#k"X6!4"K8):7,!#0"!:)"*)05):!4)"4$":7*" themselves of Social Security? That policies enacted by Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2009 (whatever you think of those policies) caused a recession that began in 2007? That ‘exceptionalism’ is the beginning and end of foreign policy?…The audience has been trained by Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and the rest of that squad — and therefore a careful, cautious, Republican presidential candidate who is perfectly well‐versed in the issues, solidly conservative in the tradition of Ronald Reagan, and knows exactly what he or she needs to do to win the Republican nomination is going to sound like a nut half the time.” ?5),7O,!33'A""46)"4)854!47$#"70"4$"037*)"7#4$" the language of automotive writers: “I test
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At the start of this electoral cycle, it probably didn’t occur to most that the key issues of the Republican debate would be the nefarious influence of the Federal Reserve Bank or the purportedly fraudulent Social Security pension system.
drove the Rick Perry with its fast, powerful 8$4$:A":122)*"$=%:$!*"3$$-0A"+14"D"B$1#*" 740"047="04)):7#2"4)#*0"4$"5133"6!:*"4$"46)" right. Then there’s the Romney that comes with a classic, sleek chassis that comes from generations of grooming, but unfortunately the transmission suddenly shifts gears without warning. Of course, there’s are also the Bachmann, Paul, Santorum and Cain on the market now, but they are eccentric, even esoteric models. They have passionate fans but they simply don’t appeal to broader bands of buyers. That means they will end up being discontinued by their manufacturers.” At the start of this electoral cycle, it probably didn’t occur to most that the key issues of the Republican debate would be the #)B!:7$10"7#&1)#,)"$B"46)"j)*):!3"V)0):9)" Bank or the purportedly fraudulent Social Security pension system. And yet, on Monday #7264"V7,-"P)::'",!8)"1#*):"O:)"$9):"670" outlier position on Social Security, as well as his record of creating jobs in Texas.‐ and even his earlier advocacy of mandatory vaccination of Texas schoolgirls against a cancer‐causing sexually transmitted disease. Perry, of course, has written that Social Security is “violently tossing aside any respect for our founding principles of federalism and
limited government” and so Mitt Romney hammered away at Perry’s comments on Social Security, while fellow Texan Ron Paul, assailed him for state tax increases, and Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum went after the vaccination issue. Bachmann charged Perry had received campaign contributions from the drug company making the vaccine. Since being called out on his views over the past several weeks, Perry had backed away from his earlier harsh rhetoric about ?$,7!3"?),1:74'<"X670"478)"6)"$=):)*"15"RK" program(me) that's been there 70 or 80 years, obviously we're not going to take that away”. And then he counterpunched against Romney, accusing him of straining to scare the seniors with the federal pension system if he were elected. In Perry and Romney’s “broedertwis” over Social Security, Romney insisted Perry’s position could spell defeat for the Republicans next year – an acknowledgement of the importance of the senior vote. Perry retorted that Romney had himself argued in his own writing that if people did their own family O#!#,7#2"7#"46)";!'"46)"2$9):#8)#4"6!#*3)0" ?$,7!3"?),1:74'"74";$13*"+)"!",:787#!3"$=)#0)<" Coming right back at him, Romney insisted, “You've got to quote me correctly. What I said
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was taking money out of the Social Security trust fund is criminal and it's wrong.” Although all the Republican candidates have naturally been cosying up to Tea Party attitudes, Perry, Romney and Bachmann all said they opposed repealing the Medicare 5:)0,:7547$#"*:12"+)#)O4"p"!"4:13'"8![$:" 1#B1#*)*"37!+7374'"46!4"70"!"072#7O,!#4" contributor to the rapidly rising costs of the federal health insurance program for seniors. Surveys have repeatedly shown that very few Tea Party supporters are also in favour of repealing Medicare or Social Security ‐ despite 46)7:",$#4:7+147$#0"4$"B)*):!3"*)O,740< In fact, the winner of this particular debate may just possibly have been the man who wasn’t even there ‐ Barack Obama – as criticisms of his administration were less in the limelight than accusations between V)51+37,!#0"!+$14"46)7:"7#4):#!3"*7=):)#,)0<" And so, Republicans now have an increasingly stark choice. Should they go with an experienced, business‐savvy, mainstream Republican who is “next in line”, and who may be able to oust a wounded Democratic president? Or should they hold their collective breaths and roll the dice with a candidate who says he is prepared to make major changes in government priorities and spending, but who 8!'"+)";!'"4$$"B!:"$="46)",)#4:)"$B"46)":$!*" to win that crucial independent vote in the general election. Given the importance of Florida to the electoral chances of the Republicans, speculation is already beginning that the vice presidential nomination, regardless of whether Romney or Perry is the eventual Republican presidential candidate, would go
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Given the importance of Florida to the electoral chances of the Republicans, speculation is already beginning that the vice presidential nomination, regardless of whether Romney or Perry is the eventual Republican presidential candidate, would go to Florida Senator Marco Rubio. to Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Think about it: he’s youthful and handsome, not your standard issue, knee‐ jerk conservative, a real Floridian – and most important of all, a Cuban‐American Latino politician with charisma to spare. The Latino vote could be crucial in more states than just Florida, and if the Republicans play this )3),4$:!3",!:*"[104":7264A"74"87264"6)35"$=0)4" the Democrats’ usual reserve of African‐ American voter power.
READ MORE: 1. Perry assailed by GOP rivals, defends his record on AP 2. Rick Perry goes on defensive in Republican presidential debate in The Washington Post 3. Perry Is Target as Republican Candidates Take Aim on The New York Times 4. FACT CHECK: Social Security prompts debate miscues at the AP
WEDNESDAY - 14 SEPTEMBER 2011
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AMAZON
AMAZON TO LAUNCH NETFLIX-STYLE BOOKSTORE Would you subscribe to an online library? Amazon thinks you would. Some say that they are planning to launch a rental bookstore for ebooks in the Netflix mould. Amazon themselves don’t appear to be terribly bullish about the idea – their ebook library will only be available to a few. By SIPHO HLONGWANE According to the Washington Post, Amazon is thinking about making an online library for ebooks available to Amazon Prime subscrib‐ ers. For $79 a year, Amazon Prime subscribers get online video and unlimited deals on two‐ day shipping – and if the Wall Street Journal’s sources quoted by the Post are correct, access to an Amazon library. This will be a library in the proper sense of the word – only old titles will be available, and there is a limit on the amount of books each subscriber will be able to read for free per month. Amazon already allows rental of textbooks to students. Photo: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. (REUTERS)
The Washington Post said, “According to Jour‐ nal sources ‘familiar with the matter,’ Amazon is trying to sell the idea to publishers, who may +)";!:'"!+$14"46)")=),4"46!4"46!4"-7#*"$B"0):97,)" would have on the value of books and their part‐ nerships with bookstores”. The new service should go nicely with the new Amazon Kindle 4, which analysts say is something of an iPad rival. The company itself has not an‐ nounced when it will launch the new Kindle, but it could be before the end of 2011.
READ MORE: 1. Amazon aims for book rental service, says report in Washington Post 2. Amazon tablet could take on iPad on price, more in USA Today 3. Should I wait for the Kindle 4 in The Telegraph
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VODACOM THROTTLES HEAVY BLACKBERRY USERS, MTN MAY FOLLOW SUIT SOON People will take liberties when they think stuff is for free, won’t they. Vodacom has decided to clamp down on the most excessive users of the Blackberry Internet Service. By SIPHO HLONGWANE. According to mobile telecommunications com‐ pany Vodacom, they “studied usage patterns to better understand the causes of congestion at 5)!-"478)0"!#*"$#)"01:5:707#2"O#*7#2";!0"46!4" 8$:)"46!#"_cg"$B"T3!,-T)::'"*!4!"10!2)";!0"!4‐ tributable to less than 5% of users”. In English: they discovered that a tiny mi‐ #$:74'"$B"T3!,-+)::'"10):0";):)"46)",!10)"B$:" 8$04"$B"46)"*!4!"4:!H,"!4"5)!-"5):7$*0<"X610" the solution is to limit the amount of conges‐ 47$#"4670"7:-0$8)"87#$:74'",!#",!10)"+'"03$;7#2" 46)7:",$##),47$#"05))*0"*$;#<"?3$;):",$##),‐ 47$#"8)!#0"3)00"+!#*;7*46",$#018)*A";67,6" 8!-)0")9):'$#)")30)/0"+:$;07#2")L5):7)#,)" more pleasant. I37)#40";6$"10)"8$:)"46!#"^FF@+"5):"8$#46" ;$13*"+)"8$9)*"B:$8"46)"B!04):"h>"#)4;$:-"4$" 46)"03$;"E>"#)4;$:-<"K,,$:*7#2"4$"]$*!,$8/0" ,67)B"4),6#$3$2'"$H,):"K#*:7)0"i)35$:4A"$#3'" Photo: REUTERS
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READ MORE: 1. Vodacom defends Blackberry throttling in TechCentral 2. Vodacom takes aim at Blackberry “abusers” in Mail & Guardian
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ANGRY BIRDS
ANGRY BIRDS, THE SMASHING GAME CHANGER It’s a ridiculously simple game that has made its way into hundreds of millions of mobile devices around the world. Its wild success took its creators by surprise, but they are responding now. If you’ve never heard of Angry Birds, the Star Wars of mobile gaming, now would be a good time to get acquainted. By SIPHO HLONGWANE What do you do when you accidentally create the world’s next craze? Figure out if it’s marketable, if you’re of the ruthless cut of cloth. But what happens when you were just arsing about when you created something that quite literally everyone wants a piece of? In the case of Twitter, the founders aren’t in any hurry to turn it into their own private
mint, though investors from New York City to Moscow are slobbering at the thought. P!:4"$B"46)":)!0$#"70"46!4"46)'"6!9)#/4"O21:)*" how to sell Twitter’s most powerful asset: its social relevance. Possibly, Twitter’s founders just can’t be bothered. They didn’t come out Photo: REUTERS
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The game has spawned a massive global following. Rovio now sells over one million Angry Birds themed plush toys and t-shirts every month. There is a spoof trailer to an Angry Birds Hollywood film.
of the ambitious P!'5!3"8!O! stable for no reason. There’s no burning desire to quickly exchange the electronic grind of Silicon Valley for Miami blondes and yachts here. And so it is with Angry Birds. The puzzle video game has become a phenomenon. Over 12 million copies of it have been purchased from Apple’s App Store. Rovio, the company that develops and published Angry Birds, says that the game has been downloaded a staggering 350 million times across all platforms. T'",$85!:70$#A"46)"O:04"5):0$#" shooter Call of Duty managed, after eight incarnations, a paltry 55 million sells over six years beginning in 2003. Farmville, the farming simulation social network game, is three years old and is played by some 8.1 million people every day (the games aren’t quite comparable, but you get the idea of Angry Birds’ enormity). Angry Birds was launched in December 2009 to almost immediate critical and O#!#,7!3"01,,)00<"I6:70"\$34"!4"Macworld. com said, “Angry Birds is an addictive, clever and challenging puzzler; at $1, it’s certainly worth checking out.” Jonathan Liu at Wired’s Geek Dad blog was equally impressed. “At
$#3'"r<__"B$:"^Fc"3)9)30A"74/0"*)O#74)3'"!"2:)!4" buy and one that I’ve really enjoyed for way too many hours,” he said. “I had a great 478)"O21:7#2"$14"46)"+)04";!'0"4$"+:7#2" down the structures, particularly on some levels where hitting the right spot with the :7264"+7:*",!#"8!-)"!33"46)"*7=):)#,)<S" The game has spawned a massive global following. Rovio now sells over one million Angry Birds themed plush toys and t‐shirts every month. There is a spoof 4:!73):"4$"!#"K#2:'"T7:*0"\$33';$$*"O38<" Angry Birds Rio was launched to go with 46)"EF46"I)#41:'"j$L"!#78!4)*"O38"V7$<" There is talk of !#"!,41!3"O38 based on the game. Angry Birds has been a monumental success. So what next, Rovio? X6)"j7##0";6$"O:04",!8)"15";746" Angry Birds seem very aware of just how unrepeatable the scale of Angry Birds’ success is going to be. They don’t seem to be even bothering with trying. At the recent Disrupt conference hosted by Silicon Valley tech blog TechCrunch, the North American general manager for Rovio avoided questions on Rovio’s future products, and chose to focus on the success $B"K#2:'"T7:*0<"R\$33';$$*"70"6$4"B$:"46)"
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The next step for Rovio will probably be to finally bring the game to Facebook and devices such as the Barnes & Noble Nook, the Amazon Kindle and touchscreen Blackberry mobile devices. [Angry Birds] brand, and that the company would be engaging with new entertainment opportunities,” he said. “There's a very strong focus on Angry Birds to turn it into an entertainment franchise.” And beyond that? Stalbow pointed out that Rovio had created a very strong distribution channel for itself. Even though Angry Birds was the most popular paid app in the Apple K55"?4$:)A"46)",$85!#'":)B10)*"4$",$#O#)" themselves to the Apple distribution channel. The game is now available for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and the Nokia N900. It is also available on the Android marketplace, making it accessible to Samsung, Motorola !#*"\XI"8$+73)"*)97,)0<"?$#'":)!,6)*"!" deal with Rovio near the end of 2010, and the game is now available on the Playstation Portable device. In May 2011, an in‐browser version of Angry Birds was put in the Google Chrome web store, available for free.
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What Rovio has done is made sure that almost anybody with a mobile device worth speaking of not only knows about the game, but plays it. From there, an entire industry can be built around the brand. It is something that George Lucas did 05),4!,13!:3'";)33";746"46)"?4!:"J!:0"O38" 0):7)0A"!#*"i70#)'";746"O38"B:!#,670)0"37-)" Toy Story and Cars. No, the earlier comparison to Twitter doesn’t do Angry Birds justice. This silly game is probably much bigger than the celebrated social network. The next step for Rovio will probably be 4$"O#!33'"+:7#2"46)"2!8)"4$"j!,)+$$-"!#*" devices such as the Barnes & Noble Nook, the Amazon Kindle and touchscreen Blackberry mobile devices. Rovio will eventually use their Angry Birds riches to develop another multiplatform video game. If the ecosystem being built around the battle between the O9)"+7:*0"!#*"46)"5720"70"!#'"7#*7,!47$#A" Angry Birds will be with us for a long time still, in one form or another.
READ MORE: 1. What’s next for Angry Birds publisher Rovio in CNets News 2. Why is Angry Birds so damn popular in PC Mag
VIDEO: 1. Angry Birds in-game trailer 2. Angry Birds: the movie (trailer)
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9/11
WILL IT EVER BE APPROPRIATE TO TELL 9/11 JOKES? Is it too soon to tell jokes about 9/11? British comedian Jimmy Carr received an answer to that question in the way of an overwhelming "yes" when he risked a relatively mild September 11 gag last weekend. By REBECCA DAVIS. On the day of the 9/11 anniversary, Carr tweeted: "Sept 11th: date of terrible air disaster. When Eastern Airlines Flt 212 crashed in 1974. Killing 69. No one will forget that in a hurry". The re‐ sponse was one of outrage: many of Carr’s Twit‐ ter followers unfollowed him in protest immedi‐ ately. I!::"70"#$4"46)"O:04",$8)*7!#"4$"O#*"$14"46)" hard way that the world isn't ready for 9/11 jokes (at least, not the Western world. No word on how they feel about 9/11 jokes in Afghanistan). Russell Brand infamously rocked up to his job as an MTV presenter dressed as Osama bin Laden the day !B4):"_a^^A"B$:";67,6"6)";!0"7#04!#43'"O:)*<"K#*"W?" comic Gilbert Gottfried tried some 9/11 material at a Hugh Hefner event shortly after the attacks, say‐ Photo: REUTERS
ing he “had been delayed because he had a con‐ #),47#2"&7264"!4"46)"C857:)"?4!4)"T173*7#2o< But both Brand and Gottfried tried their 9/11 shtick almost immediately after the event. What Carr’s experience suggests is that even a decade later, people aren’t ready. Perhaps this isn’t sur‐ prising: 66 years after World War II, the closest we’ve come to Holocaust humour is Roberto Be‐ nigni’s “Life Is Beautiful”, and despite the fact that Benigni's own father had spent three years in the T):2)#%T)30)#"*)!46",!85A"6)"04733"B!,)*"O:)"B:$8" critics. There is, on the other hand, a proliferation of Hitler‐targeted humour: from Monty Python to the ‘furry Führers’. So perhaps the key for anyone keen to get a laugh out of 9/11 is – in the fullness of time – to go after Osama rather than the at‐ tacks themselves.
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MISS UNIVERSE
UNIVERSE, WE HAVE A NEW MISS In this crazy, strife-torn world there is one global event which gives us an opportunity to come together and stand shoulder-to-shoulder in shared humanity. For a few glittering hours on an evening of pageant, we remember what really matters: deciding who is the hottest 18 to 27-year-old woman in the Universe. By REBECCA DAVIS. WEDNESDAY - 14 SEPTEMBER 2011
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Miss Universe turned 60 in 2011, which makes her just nine years older than our new Chief Justice. And the old gal is going strong: organisers were predicting around a billion viewers for the Monday night TV spectacle. That means almost one in six of us watched it, which also means that almost one in six of us lied about not watching it. “But wait a second,” you cry, “isn’t there also a Miss World pageant? What’s 46)"*7=):)#,)kS"X6)"$+97$10"*7=):)#,)A" you fools, is that Miss Universe permits entries from the rest of the cosmos, although this year the representative from Mars had her Brazilian visa declined. (Pity, because apparently she’d have been a shoo‐in – legs from another dimension, they say.) No, this year the lucky winner was @700"K#2$3!A";6$"46)"\1H#24$#"P$04" gracefully noted was “one of the few blacks ever crowned Miss Universe”. Chalk the name of Leila Lopes up there with Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, and raise a glass to the post‐racial society where we can objectify black women as freely as we do their white sisters. South Africa, of course, was robbed; as you’ll know if you’ve watched the clip of our $;#"T$-!#2"@$#4[!#)"B)!:3)003'"O)3*7#2" the questions put to her in the notoriously
MISS UNIVERSE
... this year the lucky winner was Miss Angola, who the Huffington Post gracefully noted was “one of the few blacks ever crowned Miss Universe”.
taxing Q&A section of the competition. When asked if she believed in life on other planets (an understandable query, given the pageant's pan‐galactic focus), Miss South Africa replied: “I do not believe in life on other planets. I only believe that there is life on Planet Earth.” Finally, the insistence on empirical rigour so often missing from the extraterrestrial conversation. One contestant, who was never in with a shot, was Colombia's Catalina Robayo, who reportedly had to be instructed by organisers to please put on some underwear. Behaviour grossly unbecoming for a participant in an event synonymous with dignity and class. Can you believe we’ll have to wait a whole Earth orbit of the Sun for the next Miss Universe? In 2012, our money’s on Miss Uranus.
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SOUTH AFRICA The Lions have made three changes, including a positional switch, for Friday's Currie Cup clash against the Leopards in Potchefstroom. Among the for‐ wards, Johan Snyman replaces Wickus van Heerden who has a knee injury while at lock, and Michael Rhodes comes in !4"+37#*07*)"&!#-"B$:"i)::7,-" Minnie, who moves to the oth‐ er side of the scrum in place of Cobus Grobbelaar.
NEW ZEALAND England Team Manager Martin Johnson believes his captain G);70"@$$*'";733"+)"O4"B$:" Sunday's Pool B clash against >)$:27!"7#"i1#)*7#<"f$6#0$#" was frustrated after lock Court‐ ney Lawes received a two‐ match ban after he was found guilty of “recklessly striking” against Argentina. However, that disappointment was soon forgotten with the news that Moody is set to return to action and take over the captaincy from Mike Tindall, after shak‐ 7#2"$="!"5):0704)#4"-#))"7#[1:'< The eight matches played so far at Rugby World Cup 2011 have resulted in only one positional change in the latest IRB World Rankings. England are the side on the rise, trading spots with France to take over fourth spot and the mantle as the leading northern hemisphere nation
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behind New Zealand, Austra‐ lia and South Africa after their 13‐9 victory over Argentina.
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True to form, France coach Marc Lièvremont has made 11 personnel changes and one positional switch in his start‐ ing XV to face Canada on Sun‐ day. Wing Vincent Clerc and &'%6!3B"j:!#,$70"X:7#6%i1,"!:)" the only players to retain their original places in an all‐new backline while Aurélien Roug‐ erie shifts from centre to wing. There are seven changes to the pack where hooker William Servat is the only player to have started in last Saturday's 47‐21 win over Japan.
The Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa at St Andrews has once more been named “Scot‐ land's Leading Golf Resort” at the World Travel Awards 2011 Europe ceremony staged in Turkey earlier this month. The Old Course Hotel, located on the iconic 17th Road Hole of the Old Course at St Andrews and known as the “Home of Golf”, triumphed over strong competition from the likes of Gleneagles and Turnberry to win the award for an amazing seventh time since 2004.
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G79):5$$3"+$00"Y)##'"i!32‐ lish has earned the praise of chairman Tom Werner who reckons the Scot will revital‐ ise the club's former lustre. Werner has revealed that the Reds boss's latest tenure has 7#04733)*"6$5)"!4"K#O)3*"!#*" brought forth a realistic goal of lifting one or two cups in the not too distant future. Former Scotland number eight John Beattie has called for an extension of the premier Eu‐ ropean international competi‐ tion. With less than a week of World Cup rugby complete, the performances of some of the game's smaller nations have caused many to rethink their position in world rugby. Hav‐
ing seen Scotland struggle to 04!9)"$="V$8!#7!A"T)!447)"012‐ gests that the time has come to create a two‐tier European competition or an extended “Six Nations”.
The Oval and has been trou‐ bled by concussion and blurred vision since.
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INDIA Jacques Kallis will captain the Kolkata Knight Riders dur‐ ing their Champions League Twenty20 qualifying campaign as Gautam Gambhir continues to struggle with the head injury that ruled him out of India's one‐day series against England. Gambhir knocked his head on the ground after falling back‐ ;!:*0"7#"46)"O)3*"*1:7#2"46)" fourth Test against England at
After a week's break, the Fe‐ *CL"I15"53!'$=0":)018)"$#" Thursday with the third leg of the four‐event series, the BMW Championship, at the Cog Hill >$3B"I31+n0"Z$<"d",$1:0)A"i1+‐ sdread, in Illinois. The elite group of US PGA Tour hope‐ fuls, still chasing the $10m bonanza that will go to the eventual winner of the FedEx Cup, have been whittled down to 70, with Webb Simpson now topping the rankings after his 97,4$:'"7#"46)"i)140,6)"T!#-" Championship a fortnight ago.
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DEFOE: MODRIC MOVE NOT OVER YET Jermaine Defoe is relieved Luka Modric is still a Tottenham player, but expects the transfer furore around the midfielder to continue unabated. By Football365.com The prospect of Modric leaving White Hart Lane hung over Spurs boss Harry Redknapp's 6)!*"B$:"8$04"$B"46)"$=%0)!0$#A";746"46)"37443)" I:$!47!#"!*87447#2"6)";!0"7#"B!9$1:"$B"!"8$9)" to join London rivals Chelsea. T14"!4"3)!04"46:))"6)B4'"+7*0"3!4):"%"!#*",31+" chairman Daniel Levy reportedly reneging on a 5:$870)"4$"2:!#4"46)"53!'):"670";706"4$"3)!9)"7B"!" +722):",31+",!8)"7#"B$:"670"0):97,)0"%"!#*"@$*:7," is still at White Hart Lane. i)B$)"70":)37)9)*"46)"$=%O)3*"*:!8!"6!0"*7)*" *$;#"!#*")L5),40"670"4)!88!4)"4$"-#1,-3)" *$;#"!#*",$#,)#4:!4)"$#"46)"[$+"!4"6!#*<" oX6):)n0"!3;!'0"05),13!47$#"%"74n0"5!:4"!#*"5!:,)3" $B"46)"2!8)"%"!#*"74";733"04!:4"!2!7#"7#"f!#1!:'Ao" Photo: REUTERS
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VICKERMAN RELISHING THE BIG STAGE South African-born Wallabies' lock Dan Vickerman is relishing the chance of facing Ireland's Paul O'Connell in their Pool C clash in Auckland on Saturday. By PlanetRugby.com Although the pair have played against each other in the past, Vickerman spent several years living in Britain where he saw how good the British and Irish Lions captain is in the north‐ ern hemisphere's club competitions. o\)"70"!"8!0079)"O21:)A"!#*"!#"7#057:!47$#"B$:" 46!4"07*)Ao"0!7*"]7,-):8!#<"oX6!4"n0"#$4"$#3'"B$:" D:)3!#*A"+14"B$:"@1#04):"4$$A"+),!10)")9):'"478)" 6)"53!'0"6)"37B40"46)"21'0"!:$1#*"678< oD#"46)"37#)%$14"6)"70"B$:87*!+3)<"K:$1#*"46)" park, he is mobile and strong. Along with Brian O'Driscoll, he really gives Ireland that leader‐ ship quality, which is second to none.” K346$126"D:)3!#*"B!73)*"4$";7#"!#'"$B"46)7:" warm‐up matches and despite stuttering to a 22‐10 win over USA in their opening match, Vickerman expects a tough battle. "They're a very proud nation. Every time we Photo: REUTERS
53!'"!2!7#04"D:)3!#*A"46)'",$8)"$14"O:7#2A" !#*"-))5"46)"5:)001:)"$#"B$:"NF"87#14)0<" When they get a roll on, their backs are so dangerous. You've certainly got to be on your game against them," he said. @)!#;673)A"6)n0"4)!88!4)"K*!8"K063)'% I$$5):"70"6$57#2"4$"37#)"15"!2!7#04"$#)"$B" his heroes in Ireland captain and outside centre Brian O'Driscoll, in Saturday's clash. oT:7!#"70"!"B:)!-<"\)",:)!4)*"!"5:)44'"5!7#‐ B13":)0134"B$:"10"!4"I:$-)"P!:-"!",$153)"$B" years ago when he scored under the posts to draw the game," said Ashley‐Cooper. "He's !,67)9)*"0$"81,6<"K33"$B"10"7#"46)"K1007)" camp respect him so much. On a good day 6)n0"$#)"$B"46)"+)04"7#"46)";$:3*<"T!,-"7#" 2002 I was told by my coach to study Brian O'Driscoll because he was the best at what he did at 13. We're hoping he has a quiet night on Saturday," he added.
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DJOKERS WILD: IS NOVAK THE BEST EVER? When David Foster-Wallace wrote his rapturous piece on Roger Federer for The New York Times Magazine, a piece often lauded by people who don’t read sports essays as the best sports essay of all time, Roger Federer was considered by people who don’t watch tennis as the greatest tennis player of all time. Perhaps it’s time for a reappraisal. By RICHARD POPLAK. Men’s tennis is currently enjoying a gilded age. There are three players on the scene, all more or less in their prime, playing the game as the gods would. Like every endeavour, tennis is subject to the laws of progress: It gets incrementally faster, tougher and more specialised every time it’s played. This doesn’t ipso facto make it better than it was in the days of, say, Arthur Ashe. But watch a game from that era—before the likes of Rafael Nadal’s parents were born—and you’ll wonder if it was shot underwater, with a slo‐mo camera, by a cinematographer on Valium. This isn’t to denigrate the legendary Ashe. Rather, to point out how careful we need to be
when we bandy about tag “the best of all time”. Ashe played the game as well as he could, in a time before racquet and shoe companies spent more on R&D than the continent of Africa does on malaria medication. Ashe bequeathed a long line of excellence on players that steadily built on the game—from Connors to Borg to McEnroe to Sampras, to name but a few. That 37#)")=),479)3'")#*0"!4"46)",1::)#4"4:7B),4!U" Federer, Nadal, and recent US Open Champion and world number one, Novak Djokovic. When Foster‐Wallace wrote his Federer Photo: REUTERS
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For one thing, in the mid-2000s, Federer did not have an opponent worthy of him. Nadal was still too callow to be a consistent winner and Andy Roddick and Marat Safin had the misfortune of being born in an era when very, very good was nowhere near good enough. piece, he was considering his intangibles: not his speed and power necessarily, but the metaphysical way in which he seemed to read the game. We learnt how Federer “warped time”, and his ability to invert physical possibility through his inherent tennis genius. The piece concerned the art of watching Federer play tennis as much as it did Federer’s actual tennis playing, but it still managed to get one or two of the intangibles wrong. For one thing, in the mid‐2000s, Federer did not have an opponent worthy of him. Nadal was still too callow to be a consistent ;7##):"!#*"K#*'"V$**7,-"!#*"@!:!4"?!O#" had the misfortune of being born in an era when very, very good was nowhere near good enough. In taking the crown from Sampras at the tender age of 21, Federer signalled not just that a new talent would rule the scene, but that a new type of brilliance had emerged. It ;!0"#$"3$#2):")#$126"4$"6!9)"!"#1,3)!:"O:04" serve, strong moves on the baseline and a rush to volley. This isn’t to knock Sampras’s game, which was superbly varied and nuanced. It’s just that he didn’t look varied and nuanced compared to Federer. He looked instead like a Nike‐ branded mannequin holding a tennis racquet.
It was shocking. Watching them play, after so many years of Sampras dominating the game, was to understand the process of evolution as both Darwin and the creationists do: there was the science of the thing, and the fact that you could not discount the spark of a higher power. Advantage, Foster‐Wallace. But we must consider the two missing components from the Federer thesis—an edge and an enemy. Sampras was an old man when he passed on the crown. To win Grand Slams early in his career, Federer was playing V$**7,-A"?!O#A"G3)'4$#"\);744A"!#"!#,7)#4" and disinterested Andre Agassi, and a very young Rafael Nadal. In short, until Nadal came into his own, Federer hadn’t battled through a rivalry worthy of the name, nor was he playing opponents against which he could *)O#)"6780)3B< J)",!#"O**3)"!:$1#*";746"46)"#18+):" of Grand Slam title wins Federer has in his pocket, and the length of his reign atop the ATP rankings, but that won’t do as a gauge. No, when it comes to these things, the stats fail us, as they do so often. And it’s the emergence of Novak Djokovic that truly puts greatness in perspective. There is, of course, the problem of
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There is nothing Djokovic can’t do and watching him against Federer brings to mind j)*):):"!2!7#04"?!85:!0A";746"$#)"072#7O,!#4" *7=):)#,)"%"i[$-$97,"*$)0#/4"8!-)"74"3$$-")!0'<" He seems just as blown away by the magic of his playing as we are. Djokovic is dazzled by Djokovic, and that’s as it should be, because so much of ;6!4"6)"*$)0"06$13*#/4"+)"5$007+3)<"CH,7)#,'"70#/4" part of his programme. The man isn’t a robot, or a robot programmed to play like a human. If we once compared Djokovic to Ivan Lendl, those comparisons are no longer instructive. Lendl was a machine, while Djokovic is a conjurer. He :)*)O#)0"5:$2:)00<"J6!4";733",$8)"!B4):"i[$-$97,A" we wonder? What evolutionary quirk would it take 4$"+)44):"670",$8+7#!47$#"$B"05))*A"5$;):A"O4#)00A" control, creativity and‐yes—joy? No, after Djokovic comes the post‐Djokovic era. The Orcs will rule Middle Earth. Djokovic’s personality, which is in some ways And that’s the nub of it. There will be no unprecedented for a champion in any major post‐Federer era, because Federer, as supremely sport. Despite his early break out; despite the brilliant as he is, was bested by two successive fact that we knew he would be a star when he players who, by and large, had his number. We was still in his teens and regardless of the fact that he had some impressive wins under his belt know that when we watch Djokovic, and we know 4670"7#"46)"5!:4"$B"$1:"+:!7#0"46!4"70#/4"!=),4)*" without seeming to try, there was no real hint by statistical analysis or number crunching, that at the depth and breadth of his power. He was a joker, best known for his impressions of other we are watching one of the greatest sportsmen players, rather than his dominating them on the of our era. We know that every game he plays at the highest level is a work of art that speaks to court. our maximalist, postmodern generation. He is There is also the problem of Djokovic’s a mash‐up of everything that has come before inconsistency in the early part of his career, 678u;)"O#*"7#"670"3)L7,$#"@,C#:$)A"?!85:!0A" 46)"2:)!4"+31="$B"670":70)"15"46)"KXP":!#-7#20A" Lendl, Federer, Nadal, the lot. He is perfection which pointed more to his potential than his without being perfect, scrappy without being an actual prowess. But at the end of a middling 1#*):*$2A"&!55!+3'"1#&!55!+3)<"Z$9!-"i[$-$97," 2010, when he was merely good, he shed the may well be the best tennis player to play the last vestiges of his callowness—attribute it to 2314)#A"$:"O4#)00A"$:"46)"3$9)"$B"!"2$$*";$8!#u game, and one of the worlds’ greatest ever sportsmen. Game, set and match. and became sublime.
There is nothing Djokovic can’t do and watching him against Federer brings to mind Federer against Sampras, with one significant difference - Djokovic doesn’t make it look easy. He seems just as blown away by the magic of his playing as we are.
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THE RISE AND RISE OF JONATHAN TROTT Jonathan Trott had his first full season in English first-class cricket in 2004, finishing with 1,126 runs and a title medal. A sign of things to come. By PETER MAY. The Guardian reported from the campaign O#!3)"!4"Z$:46!854$#U"RX6)"0)!0$#"*:7++3)*" !;!'"!#*"46)#"*70!55)!:)*"7#"!"8$$*"$B" 7#,:)!07#2"4$:5$:v"J!:;7,-067:)";):)"^F_" B$:"O9)";6)#"46)"2!8)",$#9)#7)#43'")#*)*<" f$#!46!#"X:$44"6!*A"+'"670"04!#*!:*0A" ,:!;3)*"4$"hNS< X6)"87#*"+$223)0"!4"X:$44",:!;37#2"+'"670" 04!#*!:*0<"X6):)"!:)"478)0A"8$04":),)#43'" 7#"C#23!#*n0"$#)%$="liD"!2!7#04"D:)3!#*"7#" i1+37#A";6)#"'$1",$13*":)53!,)"46)":7264% 6!#*):"!4"46)",:)!0)";746"670"!#,)04$:"K3+):4"4$" 87#78!3"*70:1547$#A"!#*"KC"X:$44"*7)*"7#"^_^d<
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