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While you were sleeping: 11 May 2016

Rousseff in impeachment appeal drama, Hyperloop gets French, and world's oldest axe fragment unveiled.

11 May 2016

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”

– Barbara Taylor Bradford

Story of the Day

Madonsela: ‘You don’t need to throw stones anymore’

Burning schools is never justified. That was Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s message on Tuesday, speaking at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The threat of violence has gone beyond protest and into Madonsela’s life recently, but her message remains the same: we must pursue lawful, democratic means of confronting the country’s challenges. By GREG NICOLSON.
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While you were sleeping

Rousseff makes last ditch appeal

Not one to go down without a fight, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court against her impending impeachment vote. The Brazilian senate will vote on the matter on this week, and could possibly reach a verdict by Thursday. Read more

Sanders seizes Virginia

Bernie Sanders continues to nip at Hillary Clinton's heels, taking the state of Virginia with a margin of at least 11 percent. The unchallenged Donald Trump won in West Virginia and Nebraska. Although Clinton is virtually guaranteed the Democratic vote, Sanders' persistence continues to challenge several Clinton policy problems. Read more

France backs Hyperloop

The French National Rail Company has announced, through Hyperloop, their backing of the supersonic transportation project. Hyperloop achieved $80 million in a second round funding, with progress on a working prototype going well. It'll still be years before you can be jettisoned across the world in a tube though. Read more

World's oldest axe fragment found

A rock flake belonging to a piece of an axe has been found in Australia. The fragment is believed to be from a period of human arrival around 50,000 years ago. This discovery could imply that humans moving out of Africa and the Middle East invented the axe only once settled in Australia. Read more

In Numbers

99.7

The vaccination rate of Mississippi. The highest rate in the United States.

Facts of the Day

Today in 1997 saw Deep Blue defeating chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. It was the first such triumph of a supercomputer over a human in chess history.

Fact of the day: A submerged submarine has only ever once deliberately destroyed another submerged submarine.

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	amaBhungane: Broken Trust in Mapela – the people, the kgoshi and the cool R175m By AMABHUNGANE
	Cape Times Dasnois settlement: No place for truly independent editors By Marianne Thamm
	Op-Ed: How we made newspaper history at the Cape Times the night Madiba died By Tony Weaver
	Secrecy surrounds state meeting with the Gupta Four banks By Marianne Merten
	Jozi Cats: Africa’s first gay rugby club has an important role to play in SA By Antoinette Muller
	The Zol Bill: Enact it as a living legacy to Oriani-Ambrosini, says IFP whip By Marianne Merten
	Desperation, Inc: Pensioners’ Parliament protest – A Long Walk to Nothing By Marelise van der Merwe
	ISS: Replacing Dlamini-Zuma won’t be business as usual By ISS TODAY
	A Festival on Fire: The Phenomenon of AfrikaBurn By Nadia Rosenthal
	The American Broedertwis: Trump vs the Establishment and Nearly Everybody By J Brooks Spector
	GroundUp: Pilanesberg’s Game of Thrones By GroundUp
	Right of Reply: Misreading a parliamentary report By Daily Maverick
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OPINIONS

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	The Return of Bantu Education? By Gavin Davis

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South Africa

South Africa

While you were sleeping: 11 May 2016

Story of the Day

Madonsela: ‘You don’t need to throw stones anymore’

While you were sleeping

Rousseff makes last ditch appeal

Sanders seizes Virginia

France backs Hyperloop

World's oldest axe fragment found

In Numbers

Facts of the Day

Weather & Financial Data

Now on Daily Maverick

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