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While you were sleeping: 23 August 2016

While you were sleeping: 23 August 2016

Mashaba elected mayor in tragic council meeting, Trump demands Clinton organisation closure, and Lochte loses lots.

“I know there are people who don’t read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.”

? Diane Setterfield

Story of the Day

Mayor Herman Mashaba: We’ll bring change to Joburg 

The DA on Monday took its third metro from the ANC following the local government elections. After a disrupted, delayed, and tragic day, Herman Mashaba was elected executive mayor of Johannesburg after opposition parties united against the ANC, writes GREG NICOLSON.
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While you were sleeping

DA takes the wheel in Joburg

After a marathon session at Johannesburg’s council meeting, and the passing away of a councillor, the ANC has lost control of the city. For the first time since the end of apartheid an opposition party has become the ruling one in Johannesburg. With Herman Mashaba now elected mayor, all eyes will be on the DA to prove itself. Read More

Israel retaliates against Palestine

Israeli forces have launched strikes against Palestinian positions in response to a rocket attack in Sderot. In mounting the attacks Israel has drawn the verbalised ire of Turkey. Regardless, Israeli officials remained adamant that they would retaliate in the event of future attacks. Read More

Trump demands closure of “corrupt” foundation 

Not content with being moderate for a week, Donald Trump has lashed the Clinton Foundation, demanding it be closed. Trump was alluding to “corrupt” donations made by Saudi Arabia. Although he may have a point, closing the Clinton Foundation, a key HIV/AIDS treatment organisation, to make said point would endanger millions of lives. At least, this is what the Clinton campaign machine argues. Read More

Lochte loses sponsors

Another day, another batch of sponsors have dropped US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte. In the wake of Lochte’s fabricated story about being mugged at gunpoint in Brazil, Speedo and Ralph Lauren, amongst others, were major sponsors to announce their cancelling of his sponsorship. For Lochte, being lofty and wafty about the truth has not paid off at all. Read More

In Numbers

94%

The effectiveness of a fecal transplant in curing the bowel disease CDI. Antibiotics are just 30% effective.

Today is International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.

A derailed train car hit a bar in Iowa. The name of the bar? DeRailed.

Facts of the Day

Weather & Financial Data

BFN: min: 2° max: 14°, sunny
CPT: min: 11° max: 17°, cloudy
DBN: min: 13° max: 18°, sunny
EL: min: 12° max: 20°, cloudy
JHB: min: -1° max: 21° cloudy
KIM: min: 2° max: 18°, cloudy
NLP: min: 6° max: 17°, cloudy
PMB: min: 3° max: 16°, cloudy
PKN: min: 5° max: 19°, cloudy
PE: min: 12° max: 17°, rainy
PTA: min: 2° max: 21°, cloudy

Oil=$49.39
Gold=$1,339.35
Platinum=$1,104.40
R/$=13.60
R/€=15.39
R/£=17.86
€/$=1.11
JSE All Share=52,828.93
DJIA= 18,547.78
FTSE 100=6,828.54
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FEATURES  

Photo: The new Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba (Greg Nicolson) Mayor Herman Mashaba: We’ll bring change to Joburg 
By Greg Nicolson
Photo: President Jacob Zuma jokes with Deputy President Cyril
Ramaphosa at the National Conference of the  African National Congress
(ANC) in Bloemfontein December 18, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings Zuma takes charge of state-owned entities – but where does this leave Ramaphosa? 
By Marianne Merten
Photo: Caster Semenya of South Africa on her way to win the women's
800m Final race of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Athletics, Track and Field
events at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 22 August 2016.
EPA/YOAN VALAT Sport and gender: Can of worms, open 
By Marelise van der Merwe
Photo of Raymond Suttner by Ivor Markman. Op-Ed: Does the ANC face defeat in 2019? 
By Raymond Suttner
Photo: The King of Kingdom of Swaziland, Mswati III arrives at the
fourth EU-Africa Summit of Heads of States at the European council
headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 02 April 2014. EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ Op-Ed: Swaziland hosts a lavish party while people starve 
By Sibusiso Nhlabatsi & Bill Snaddon
Photo: Ira Birch, of Richmond, Virginia, holds two pictures of Donald
Trump and Hillary Clinton with money in their mouths in Cleveland Public
Square during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, USA,
20 July 2016. EPA/JUSTIN LANE US 2016: Presidential campaign truth telling and the creation of scripted reality 
By J Brooks Spector
Photo: Wayde van Niekerk (C) of South Africa on his way to win the
men’s 400m final of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Athletics, Track and
Field events at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 14 August
2016. Van Niekerk set a new World Record time of 43.03 seconds. EPA/YOAN
VALAT Analysis: Olympics success shows SA could be an Olympic powerhouse. Over to you, Sascoc. 
By Antoinette Muller
Photo by Jan Klívar via Flickr. Cricket: The poor sods just can’t catch a break 
By Antoinette Muller
Photo by Petur-t via Flickr ArcelorMittal to pay R1.5bn price fix fine 
By News24
Zsofia Foldhazi from Hungary falls off horse Christino during the Show
Jumping of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Modern Pentathlon events in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, 19 August 2016. EPA/NIC BOTHMA While you were sleeping: 22 August 2016 
By John Stupart

OPINIONISTA

Muhammad-Sayed.jpg Hero-worshipping and cults of personality have no place in our organisation and society 
By Muhammad Khalid Sayed
John-Matisonn.jpg On Strategy II: DA-EFF 1, ANC 0 
By John Matisonn
ian-von-memerty.jpg The shifting consciousness of the local election 
By Ian von Memerty
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