--- title: "While you were sleeping: 31 May 2016" description: "North Korea's missile test a giant failure, Haiti's election should be scrapped, and Djokovic in for a rough week at Roland Garros." type: "NewsArticle" publisher: "Daily Maverick" site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za" section: "Newsdeck" author: "John Stupart" author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/johnstupart/" canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-while-you-were-sleeping-31-may-2016/" published: "2016-05-31T06:17:53" lang: "en-ZA" word_count: 1181 --- # While you were sleeping: 31 May 2016 > North Korea's missile test a giant failure, Haiti's election should be scrapped, and Djokovic in for a rough week at Roland Garros. By John Stupart · Published 31 May 2016, 08:17 SAST ## Content | \| \\| **Tuesday, 31st May***“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”* **–** **Christopher Marlowe** \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \| \| --- \| | | --- | | \| \\| # Story of the Day \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\\| ![Image](//gallery.mailchimp.com/6170d6a6d93cac57e83ba137f/images/2a73a1b7-8dcc-4167-a376-338aa13e8f68.jpg) \\\| \\\| --- \\\|\\\| ## [Al-Maite Fail: When the hole in your head just won’t quit](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-al-maite-fail-when-the-hole-in-your-head-just-wont-quit/)We tend not to pay too much attention to the International Relations portfolio. With the Presidency, National Treasury, the Police, Education and others preoccupying the news, we are inclined to think that matters like foreign relations are hunky-dory because, well, we are not at war and Donald Trump would probably have about 23 other countries to bomb first. Judging by Al Jazeera’s interview with International Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, clearly our cocksureness is misplaced. If the interview was any reflection on how our diplomatic relations are handled, South Africa is in serious peril. It is Nkoana-Mashabane rather than scenes of violence of social upheaval that needs to be banned from television screens. By RANJENI MUNUSAMY. [Read more](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-al-maite-fail-when-the-hole-in-your-head-just-wont-quit/#.V00Alvl95hE) \\\| \\\| --- \\\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # While you were sleeping \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| ## North Korean missile launch a failureSouth Korean officials have reported a launch on Tuesday of a ballistic missile by the North has failed. Believed to have been a medium-range Musudan missile, with a range of over 2,000km, the North has yet to successfully test the thing. Perhaps they haven't tried switching it off and on again. [Read more](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-s.-korea-says-north-ballitic-missile-test-failed/#.V00LYed95Jk) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| ## Germany to vote on Armenian GenocideGermany's parliament will vote on Thursday to decide whether the Armenian Genocide really was, well, a genocide. This spectacular waste of resources for the sake of political semantics has raised the ire of Turkey, who warned Germany on Monday of "destroying" its relationship. [Read more](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-germany-risks-turkey-wrath-with-armenian-genocide-vote) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| ## Commission recommends scrapping Haiti electionAn independent commission announced on Monday that Haiti's election results be scrapped. Corruption and general idiocy were to blame for the failed October elections. In a stunning example of fraud, the commission noted, "the number of votes that could not be traced almost exceeded the number of legitimate votes obtained by politicians". [Read more](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-haiti-commission-recommends-scrapping-vote-results) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| ## Djokovic faces hectic scheduleAssuming rain does not cause another washout at Roland Garros, Novak Djokovic has got one hell of a schedule ahead of him this week. He will face his last-16 tie on Wednesday, quarter-final on Thursday and semi-final on Friday – if there are more delays on Tuesday. "Cramp management" would not even begin to describe Djokovic's week ahead. [Read more](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-tennis-weather-leaves-djokovic-facing-hectic-paris-schedule) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # In Numbers \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| **30** \\| \\| --- \\|\\| The amount of potatoes, in tonnes, required to create enough fuel for a German V2 rocket. \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # Facts of the Day \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| Today in 1902 the [Treaty of Vereeniging](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Vereeniging) was signed that **ended the Boer War**, gave the British control of South Africa and left bitter resentment all round.Fact of the day: **You can have high blood pressure just in the doctor's office**. This condition is called 'white coat syndrome'. \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # Weather & Financial Data \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| BFN: min: 5° max: 20°, sunny CPT: min: 13° max: 20°, cloudy DBN: min: 17° max: 25°, sunny EL: min: 15° max: 27°, cloudy JHB: min: 6° max: 20°, sunny KIM: min: 8° max: 21°, sunny NLP: min: 3° max: 21°, sunny PMB: min: 7° max: 26°, sunny PKN: min: 6° max: 21°, sunny PE: min: 17° max: 27°, cloudy PTA: min: 6° max: 22°, sunny \\| \\| --- \\|\\| Oil=$49.76Gold=$1,205.57 Platinum=$970.20 R/$=15.82 R/€=17.62 R/£=23.16 $/€=1.11 JSE All Share=54,474.09 DJIA=17,873.22 FTSE 100=6,270.79 [Source](http://dailymaverick.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6170d6a6d93cac57e83ba137f&id=6c17d969dc&e=371f6bebf2) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # Now on Daily Maverick \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| **FEATURED**\\\| ![Image](//ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/kST0p5UZNl22oLJQ37-x87nX4FI1ZbAwdfpfjojyl3wUeH6qzEBXSgJD7CNK8_F8c6sRUW71qkO3khH4valmgpUP3s2VYzDBXtxPBGA2Ya76hpsJMnLn0WYEGMGbX_Iip98cfEf8sDRXEd6ryyVycuMYv42NlENL=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70Ranjeni-Maite-Nkoana-Mashabane.jpg)Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane Al Jazeera interview." /> \\\| [Al-Maite Fail: When the hole in your head just won’t quit](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-al-maite-fail-when-the-hole-in-your-head-just-wont-quit/) By Ranjeni Munusamy \\\| \\\| --- \\\| --- \\\| \\\| ![Image](//ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/QZ_Ha-XkhhHDkFapms9O5vswAQtJ6tzPwyT2-b-4Utli8mZvQL7yizeSTzQkpmEGJhvcSUANkSOZ9nC7cnquiqimLX2PFfx5KAIKp_Yk97npwKc7q7ZeIM_Y0taLGNg7o9wpUzcCY8eulg=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70Marianne-SFFsale.jpg)during the State of the Nation Address speech debate in the National assembly in Parliament, Cape Town, 16-18 February 2016. 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Footage includes training of ‘cubs’, children jihadists, seen performing different kinds of exercises in the name of the Caliphate: from singing nasheeds to reading the Qur’an and handling different kinds of weapons." /> \\\| [Born to Terror: A glimpse into the future of jihadism](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-born-to-terror-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-jihadism/) By Jasmine Opperman \\\| \\\| ![Image](//ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/1dO3L0hxdEstyTfJXMK7WOWgxCWqUZSm1XB94yXJmXso4tODNddwcCZbBJHswdNzUv3YydJodtPrfTe6eH52jroUEYWeVz9euswL0ELFgUvmyx9PDk0ZWxZlWR7FkpwYTadp_xQL86aR5NDnGmA7LPywN9reFw=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70Grootes-ZumaGordhan-khumbaya.jpg)township with the ANC's 102nd birthday celebrations in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, Wednesday, 8 January 2014. Picture: SAPA stringer" /> \\\| [Op-Ed: Singing Kumbaya to avoid a ratings downgrade? No, Mr President.](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-op-ed-singing-kumbaya-to-avoid-a-ratings-downgrade-no-mr-president./) By Stephen Grootes \\\| \\\| ![Image](//ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/q9jE_fVl08cLlR8cp_NPUuEVPioX6S8OFYYNzASe8aPabpJe7u32WZlTupI8jdWfYTAaOs3a6UQKYdb0vLCdu-eHXfv4DzBPl3Onin34iBDp4SB0jLXWzmnrOFZaphQsoIddh7Uw7znCbqz5u-zzGWb2bXoInP7rFro=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70Soweto-uprising-callout-Guardian.jpg)Antoinette Sithole, runs beside them. (Sam Nzima)" /> \\\| [The Soweto Uprising: Share your experiences, pictures and perspectives](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-the-soweto-uprising-share-your-experiences-pictures-and-perspectives/) By The Guardian \\\| \\\| ![Image](//ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/pl3VUl9dVPCbap44xMWi5c3uCe9gZDKshXC0KuCPDhEL5_tO6GPybHw9gNfX4Tje9Pm-fnH2kU9c7gzoOgwyTbm_sU-W8dhoJf55NPBa1Q3gEqKZcQMorXXw1ym4WXplh0Fe2paklBQzMm2Mxup8eQ=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70Nicolson-SABC-protests.jpg)the corporation’s first quarterly media briefing in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 28 January 2015. Picture: SAPA stringer" /> \\\| [Cosatu: SABC protest policy assumes we’re imbeciles](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-cosatu-sabc-protest-policy-assumes-were-imbeciles/) By Greg Nicolson \\\| \\\| ![Main photo: Snake oil. (Jeremy Weate via Wikipedia)](//ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Jx89TIJ3FZaORx7SXRdtJk8X2jEHA0KLPfREhLB8cH2p71kwrkfXpWjgusUgKiwNvWgqvpoMt4dxxAF39t_MJz4yLjCkj65-dP6KKnXehVZHQJbLoDTCNMOz7b5aFqyUB2JH3gf8g0gT3JTKjLYi=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70GroundUp-CompMedicine.jpg) \\\| [GroundUp Op-Ed: Complementary medicine companies are destroying consumer protection](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-groundup-op-ed-complementary-medicine-companies-are-destroying-consumer-protection/) By GroundUp \\\| \\\| ![Image](//ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/7Mrb7aqMPVXmp0ZAUZhE2IDTeIcdNCgrit5wN1yO0J9bcPDbdDAsq64YH9YwG8QjMTv1RSVHCxXPT__FMj7d0Pg-6yqDCYvsenyvPz0wHbX7NhPnkF0vkOyuS74BHJpt34jrWcfgifA_AlHsRpSf1s3uKa_1Qf15=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70Simon-Hissene-Habre-conviction.jpg)trial at the Palais de Justice in Dakar, Senegal, 20 July 2015. EPA/STR" /> \\\| [Habré’s historic conviction sends mixed messages to African dictators](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-habrs-historic-conviction-sends-mixed-messages-to-african-dictators/) By Simon Allison \\\| \\\| ![Image](//ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/XbeUJga6L0ZlaQZrrT4R5mumb8M6UxnCzp4z45b7xPlwD0IvaNP9D2ujKpd-JBOzuXej9ts3jKhxI6fHIYF75fxgdgPBbQoBs2x5THP_tRCMJAXgYH9dgkpAX-7uiCosW4IbFSJwSL7c0UdMCgyiqVU=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70Merten-local-government.jpg)service delivery riot near Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, 11 September 2013. Dozens of people were arrested outside Johannesburg as a protest against the government's provision of services turned violent. Millions of poor South Africans are still living in shacks without running water and lights decades after the end of Apartheid. EPA/KIM LUDBROOK" /> \\\| [Is it time to rethink local government?](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-is-it-time-to-rethink-local-government/) By Marianne Merten \\\| \\\| ![Image](//ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/4U9KB9cV2rrtfVYKyGh77M2YaYJsFt5jCXZFyDVqk_-90iiygsRC61oOm7GqKH_DY8bFPfSgFjxlwlPmMlBMJl1qxIQx59SsoRnGZeLJx-wmxihoSxwy1Iy39TCnfNEOzjTCYrlCLWuXyE_4hhKaymu5FZRtWAhQAqrA=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70ICG-Pakistan-s-Jihadist-Heartland.jpg)Islamabad, as they protest the execution of former police guard Mumtaz Qadri, after he was hanged to death in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 29 February 2016. Pakistan on 29 February hanged the ex-police guard who killed a former governor for opposing the country’s controversial blasphemy laws, which impose the death penalty in some cases, officials said. An anti-terror court handed Qadri the death penalty, and his appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court and the president of Pakistan. EPA/SOHAIL SHAHZAD" /> \\\| [ICG: Pakistan’s Jihadist Heartland, the Southern Punjab](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-icg-pakistans-jihadist-heartland-the-southern-punjab/) By International Crisis Group \\\| \\\| ![Image](//ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/XN0aBeaY4_6QijxD4nY5sAYRs_rsmeW5rLID1bdkpbbOIjxob3_eHiLXUbHdBH652eukSKE_NoYIZFFeWyP_RqZC88WdNd-cDPEAubQbci8b09RXx2FkMhJqMTSjU10S6Yi0A_uJd2-cAFRHANtol6_Dkn1tWkdmrw=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70ICG_Buhari-s-Nigeria-Boko-Haram.jpg)girl Amina Ali Nkeki and baby (L) with Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State (C) at the presidential villa in Abuja, Nigeria, 19 May 2016. Amina Ali Nkeki was found in the Sambisa Forest near the border of Cameroon. Nigerian Military found her carrying a baby and with a suspected member of the Boko Haram Islamist group. 218 girls remain missing after their abduction from Chibok secondary school in north-east Nigeria in 2014. EPA/STRINGER" /> \\\| [ICG: In Buhari’s Nigeria, Boko Haram is off balance but other troubles surge](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-31-icg-in-buharis-nigeria-boko-haram-is-off-balance-but-other-troubles-surge/) By International Crisis Group \\\| \\\| ![Image](//ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/7imy4y5NDtFEi3eaefX15TfKyJLp8XMAJtwdXCttpcmuBdDOwgbPdDxax_F2Sj7PkvAFnuJXrxbbTWg1s6IdMDzl4QkY39UHMzzXrRhJCQ_2RVYkO5lQYpusmISn26JN1cGMSA=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70h_52787675.jpg)beside German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the German military cemetery at Consenvoye, France, 29 May 2016, to commemorate victims of the First World War on the 100 year anniversary of the Battle of Verdun. The Battle of Verdun in World War I between German and French troops lasted over 300 days and saw the deaths of more than 300,000 soldiers on both sides in 1916. The town in the northeast of France became the epitome of brutal trench warfare during the First World War. EPA/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN" /> \\\| [While you were sleeping: 30 May 2016](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-30-while-you-were-sleeping-30-may-2016/) By John Stupart \\\| \\\| ![Image](//ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/1WTpZkqnGudmSFbEHdc-xbeG6baGbMa3lG54CwFuo570VqRTDOtXGn1AhojwNnyaeIzQNSb2Vr4liK3IVxpAA3alRC8V73RDDqP-DG40X29A3OZ6oQS7w0akMOtSFUdIfZDAvQ=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70h_52778668.jpg)EPA/PAUL ZINKEN" /> \\\| [Weekly Wrap: 28 May](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-30-weekly-wrap-28-may/) By ANDREA TEAGLE \\\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| **OPINIONS**\\\| ![IvoVegterBW](//ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/ciAM4qJZ9CPpJ6XmXCdbBFz1Y2aIPzZuGHPIazJ1l0J8zeq3LCw_6oQSOIWk6fEGCdH4uhbdnu1k4IYbqrBrUK9kn4HKjda7rq38xP2mlJ4ht2_djFdi3F_eSKa-xb7dlwShfH3Q5yFambesu4_BNRcHsDOkkUE2U-E=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70562c5ffb4076dfd1ddee1be88f4bf94a.jpg) \\\| [We love to be afraid of the future](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2016-05-30-we-love-to-be-afraid-of-the-future/) By Ivo Vegter \\\| \\\| --- \\\| --- \\\| \\\| ![Michael-King.jpg](//ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/gJhfaM0_z1uT4C6w3dJ5nupAS-m1PSPERVyNQi1uboNE8882slqs5__BoL_odx0OqzmbNgclDhlH9DsH9p3SeFYv_5YGR0KtVcS0l2uvLhnb-OF-CZdwcpPjcMlVtpfCzQ0M0pg1=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70Michael-King.jpg) \\\| [Union Capture: Would the real elephant in the room blink](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2016-05-31-union-capture-would-the-real-elephant-in-the-room-blink/) By Michael Kahn \\\| \\\| ![Melanie-Boehi.jpg](//ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/zBB4WGU0TLPBAuhSu4xdyYoOL7lzY3I_Zxl5jZ_ry4bGvi8GX7_1leK_CdJUJOSQp-alXyqp2VQJ99h0EkhD_AqWsgmGeuispb2Iz3Fgc5nfk7ZxyMeSlkSY1ZZ_SaS5CDkF-Y2Xmg=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70Melanie-Boehi.jpg) \\\| [Remembering apartheid’s botanical diplomacy at the Chelsea Flower Show](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2016-05-31-remembering-apartheids-botanical-diplomacy-at-the-chelsea-flower-show/) By Melanie Boehi \\\| \\\| ![John-Matisonn.jpg](//ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/0JAYUJogpSh2wmTv8vCNvBc0A5yOJnfFg_x_S_cNrX--xpKvt2zsDL3m8879ypEEICZXcbmA_DUqoLaq0wwNFPenjVUlItO15QOlaff0C-Gci-etFNDOwdipu3bXR-2FaKL1O-B4QA=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70John-Matisonn.jpg) \\\| [Age of Uncertainty, 2016: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique… and the US](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2016-05-30-age-of-uncertainty-2016-south-africa-zimbabwe-mozambique-and-the-us/) By John Matisonn \\\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| |