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While you were sleeping: 21 September 2016

While you were sleeping: 21 September 2016

USA blames Russia for aid strike. Trump(s) get xenophobic, again, and Kaepernick reveals death threats.

“I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.”
 Joni Mitchell

Story of the Day

False start for Ramaphosa’s campaign as Cosatu wimps out on official endorsement 

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s (non)campaign to succeed President Jacob Zuma as ANC leader next year is in further trouble. Trade union federation Cosatu was meant to be the first structure in the alliance to back Ramaphosa officially by arguing that the ANC should keep the tradition of deputy leaders ascending to the top job. But Cosatu continues to flounder due to internal divisions and some of its leaders wanting to toe the line of the Zuma-aligned “premier league” faction. Without a constituency, platform, a voice or even a campaign song, Ramaphosa is in serious trouble. By RANJENI MUNUSAMY.
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While you were sleeping

US blames Russia for aid strike

The deadly airstrike in Syria that killed 20 aid workers, including the International Committee of the Red Cross regional director, is likely Russia’s fault. American sources claim two Russian Su-24 aircraft were the only planes operating in that airspace at the time. Russia, meanwhile, continues to deny all responsibility. Read More

NYT partner with Google to fight comments

The New York Times has announced the introduction a Google-incubated algorithm designed to moderate online comments. Dubbed ‘Jigsaw’, the programme should be able to simultaneously slay online trolls left, right and centre, while providing legitimate commentary on its articles. Read More

Trump(s) up xenophobia speak post attacks

Never one to give up an opportunity to open his mouth, Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jnr have lashed out at foreigners in the wake of the weekend’s terror attacks. Trump reiterated the dangers posed by refugees, while Trump Jnr likened the threat to that of poisoned Skittles. Skittles, in turn ,replied that refugees were people, and Skittles were delicious. Read More

Kaepernick’s protest draws death threats

For San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, his ongoing protest of standing for the national anthem is certainly no game. The NFL star has revealed that he regularly receives death threats for his silent protest. Kaepernick contnues to kneel during the anthem as a protest against racial inequality and injustice before each game in the NFL regular season. Read More

In Numbers

31%

Of women in Hong Kong who decline to have children because, according to a local survey, they “don’t like kids”. 

Facts of the Day

Today is the International Day of Peace.

Tonga has not been colonised or conquered once in its history.

Weather

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FEATURES  

Photo: Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa speaking about the SoNA at the
New Age Business Briefing breakfast at Grandwest in Cape Town. 18/06/2014
Kopano Tlape GCIS False start for Ramaphosa’s campaign as Cosatu wimps out on official endorsement 
By Ranjeni Munusamy
Photo of Allister Sparks by Media24. Allister Sparks: An editor in the vanguard of a Golden Age of South African Journalism 
By J Brooks Spector
Photo: President Jacob Zuma with Executive Chairperson of the Jacob
Zuma Foundation Dudu Myeni on arrival at the student beneficiaries
programme graduations at the International Convention Centre in Durban. 4
October 2014  (Photo: GCIS) SAA: If we don’t fix it someone else will, Deputy Minister of Finance warns 
By Marianne Thamm
Photo: Students from Wits University demonstrate during the second day
of #Feemustfall demonstration against the announcement of fee increases at
universities across the country, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 September
2016. The ministry of education announced an eight percent increase of
university fees following calls by student demonstrators of no increase.
The demonstrations are set to continue. EPA/KIM LUDBROOK #FeesMustFall: South African students reject Nzimande’s subsidy, call for free education 
By Greg Nicolson
Photo: South African president, Jacob Zuma during the State Of the
Nation Address in Cape Town, South Africa, 12 February 2015. The State of
the Nation address was disrupted by the EFF resulting in the party being
ordered out of the chamber by security forces.  EPA/RODGER BOSCH/POOL Op-Ed: How to get out of the Zuma fix we are in? 
By Wilmot James
Main photo: A student from the University of Witwatersrand tries to
break through a barricade formed by private security guards. Photo: Ihsaan
Haffejee In photos: Wits students clash with security 
By GroundUp
Student leaders addressed protesting students on UCT campus today.
Photo: Ashleigh Furlong GroundUp: Protesting UCT students reject Nzimande’s fees plan 
By GroundUp
Police and demonstrators clashed in Langa on Tuesday. Photo: Ashraf
Hendricks. GroundUp: Langa hostel dwellers protest against lack of progress 
By GroundUp
Photo: Syrian refugees wait for United Nations Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon to arrive, at a Syrian refugee camp in al-Dalhamiyyeh Syrian
refugee camp in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon, 25 March 2016. UNHCR estimates
over 1.5 million Syrian refugees are currently living in Lebanon. EPA/WAEL
HAMZEH ICG: Lebanon needs help to cope with huge refugee influx 
By International Crisis Group

OPINIONISTA

Judith-February.jpg It is The Age of Unreason. It is The Age of Impunity. 
By Judith February
Thabo.jpg Blade’s fee ‘fix’: More questions than answers 
By Thabo Shingange
Saliem-Fakir.jpg Going green is not just a white issue 
By Saliem Fakir
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