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While you were sleeping: 03 May 2016

Bitcoin founder reveals himself, Leicester City make history, and Trump eyes Indiana for a win
While you were sleeping: 03 May 2016
John Stupart
By John Stupart
3 May 2016
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"There's a point, around the age of 20, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” 

– Ursula Le Guin

 

Story of the Day

EFF manifesto: A radical reinvention of ANC’s failed cadre deployment policy 
The EFF has something in the 2016 local government elections that its two main opponents, the ANC and Democratic Alliance, do not have: a blank slate. With the EFF never having contested municipal elections before, all eyes were on their manifesto to see what would be on their target list. True to form, the EFF is setting out to do things differently and is exploiting what the ANC tried and failed to do – introducing a New Age revolutionary fighter, and perhaps some radical social engineering, coming soon to a local council near you. By RANJENI MUNUSAMY.

While you were sleeping

Bitcoin inventor reveals himself
The creator of Bitcoin is possibly Australian entrepreneur, Craig Wright. Wright claimed to be the crypto currency's inventor while a conference on Bitcoin was underway. Critics believe Wright's reveal to be a bad thing, as it sheds some of the mystery around Bitcoins. Anyone over 40, however, will still have no idea what they are.
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Trump looks to Indiana for victory
The Orange Menace is focusing his lidless eye upon Indiana's primary today. If successful, even partially, in the next 10 states, Donald Trump appears set to secure the Republican nomination. For Ted Cruz, the Indiana primary might well determine his fate.
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US government slams Greenpeace TTIP leak
The United States government has denounced as "flat-out wrong" interpretations of the US-EU trade agreement leaked by Greenpeace. Rather than destroy the environment, as argued by Greenpeace, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) seeks to remove trade barriers and ultimately make all economic flows between the EU and US far easier.
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Leicester City make history
The Foxes will be cheering well into Tuesday after securing the English Premier League Championship. A heated match between Tottenham and Chelsea, resulting in a 2-2 draw, prevented the former from holding on to a sliver of chance at the championship. For Leicester City, movie scripts telling their tale are probably already in the mail.
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Picture of the Day

In Numbers

1838
The year in which Missouri declared it legal to kill Mormons. This law was rescinded in 1976.

Facts of the Day

Today is International World Press Freedom Day. Included in this is the commemoration of the conclusion of the Windhoek Agreement, which saw African journalists compile a statement of press freedom principles in 1991.

Fact of the day: Vegans rejoice! Oreos are technically vegan-friendly. This is due mostly to the fact that the entire cookie contains zero meat or dairy products.

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FEATURES

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By Ranjeni Munusamy
Photo: ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe and ANC spokesman Zizi<br />Kodwa. (Greg Nicolson)Analysis: Love during the Time of Zuma 
By Stephen Grootes
Photo: Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal (Wikimedia Commons)AmaBhungane: ‘Choose between mining and bloodshed’ 
By AMABHUNGANE
Photo of #RUReferenceList protest by Rhodes University.J’accuse: Life after the #RUReferencelist 
By Marianne Thamm
Photo: David Beresford (GuardianUK)David Beresford: Unfashionable liberal and master storyteller 
By Phillip Van Niekerk
Main photo: A military truck is stationed at the 'Grand Place' in<br />front of the City Hall in Brussels, Belgium, 21 November 2015. Last night<br />Belgium raised the alert status at Level 4/4 as 'serious and imminent'<br />threat of an attack, the main effect are closing of all Metro Line in<br />Brussels, all soccer match of league one and two cancelled countrywide.<br />Belgium government said 'the advice for the population is to avoid places<br />where a lot of people come together like shopping centres, concerts, events<br />or public transport stations wherever possible. EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQAnalysis: The Islamic State may be losing ground, but not influence 
By J OPPERMAN & C DOUCHEZ-LORTET
Photo by Manuela Cigliutti via Flickr.Health E-News: Medicine and morality on South Africa’s drug routes 
By HEALTH-E NEWS
Photo by Andrew via Flickr.AGOA, Inc: When Chickens Come Home to Roast 
By J Brooks Spector
Main Photo: Leicester City supporters react as they watch the English<br />Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Totthenham Hotspur in<br />Leicester, Britain, 02 May 2016. Leicester was crowned English Premier<br />League champions for the first time in the club’s history clinching<br />the title after a tie between Chelsea and Tottenham. EPA/FACUNDO<br />ARRIZABALAGABarclays Premiership: Dilly-ding, dilly dong! Leicester City have won! 
By Antoinette Muller
Photo: Somali police officers inspect the scene of a car bomb attack<br />in Mogadishu, Somalia, 11 April 2016. A suicide bomber exploded a car bomb<br />outside a restaurant in the capital on 11 April, killing at least five and<br />wounding several others, according to media reports. Somalia's Islamist<br />militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack. The<br />latest attack comes just two days after another car bomb explosion killed<br />at least three in Mogadishu. EPA/SAID YUSUF WARSAMEWorld Press Freedom Day: How reporters risk death in Somalia 
By Simon Allison
Photo: Chad Le Clos of South Africa on his way winning the men’s<br />100m Butterfly Final during the FINA Swimming World Championships at Kazan<br />arena in Kazan, Russia, 08 August 2015. EPA/PATRICK B. KRAEMERSascoc: Business class seats to MPs while athletes struggle
By Antoinette Muller
Photo: Protesters carry paintings to be burnt, 17 February 2016<br />(Ashley Furlong for GroundUp)GroundUp: Students call for UCT lecturer to be removed 
By GroundUp
Photo: Armed groups burn trucks during a confrontation with<br />self-defense groups as they try to recover the control of the municipality<br />of Antunez, Michoacan State, Mexico, 10 January 2014. Armed civilian groups<br />controlling the access to their cities deter drug cartels from entering<br />their territories. The Mexican government said that these groups, grown in<br />several parts of the country, are to be considered out of the law. The<br />government promises to reinforce security in the regions in which the<br />self-defence groups operate. EPA/ULISES RUIZ BASURTOICG: A Very Modest UNGASS Drug Policy Review 
By International Crisis Group

OPINIONS

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By Jackie Shandu
IvoVegterBWProphets of doom in high places 
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Herman-Mashaba.jpgFighting for Jozi: My five top priorities 
By Herman Mashaba

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