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While you were sleeping: 3 June 2016

While you were sleeping: 3 June 2016

Happy ending for lost Japanese boy, Clinton verbally clobbers Trump, and dogs domesticated in both Europe and Asia.

TGIF, 3rd June
 
“I don’t know how to get things started… It’s like there’s this great big wheel I’ve got to start rolling only I don’t seem to have the muscles to get it going.” 

 Carol Shields

Story of the Day

Captura Continua: Silence of the ANC lambs as another Gupta revelation emerges 

The South African Communist (SACP) has made a new claim about how the Gupta family flaunted its inside information on state affairs. SACP second deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila claims one of the Gupta brothers informed Northern Cape leaders when the local government elections would be held before the date was announced by President Jacob Zuma in April. The SACP has now vowed to step up the battle against the surrender of South Africa’s “sovereignty to a family and an ANC faction”, even though the ANC has shut down its internal probe into state capture without receiving the SACP’s submission. By RANJENI MUNUSAMY.
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While you were sleeping

Hokkaido child found

Yamato Tanooka, the 7-year-old boy left in the woods by his parents, has been found alive and well. He was discovered in an empty barracks building belonging to the Japanese military. It is believed Tanooka had taken shelter there since Saturday. Read more

Niger Delta Avengers kill six

Members of the Niger Delta Avengers are believed to be behind an attack on a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation boat. Although the militants have denied the attack was their doing, state authorities are blaming Thursday’s attack on them regardless. Read more

Clinton begins Trump offensive

Hillary Clinton has gone on the attack against the Orange Menace. Citing his general mental instability, Clinton stressed Donald Trump was unfit to possess nuclear codes. Trump, meanwhile, tweeted that Clinton, ahem, “doesn’t even look presidential!” If this is the calibre of his retorts going into the presidential race, Trump may have a hard few months ahead of him. Read more

Doggie domestication in Europe and Asia

New research released in the United States has indicated a double domestication of wolves. The creation of our furry friends may have occurred both in Asia and Europe roughly 12,500 to 15,000 years ago. Domesticated from once-proud wolves, your trembling, hypochondriac Pomeranian that will only eat prime fillet evidently holds a truly magnificent lineage. Read more

In Numbers

10,700

The length in miles (17,000km) of the world’s longest rail route, spanning Europe and Asia.

Facts of the Day

Today in 1965 Ed White became the first American to complete a walk in space.

Fact of the day: Kim Jong-ll would spend at least $1 million per year on Hennessy.

Weather & Financial Data

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Ranjeni-Silence-of-the-ANC-Lambs.jpg Captura Continua: Silence of the ANC lambs as another Gupta revelation emerges 
By Ranjeni Munusamy
Photo: A supporter of Republican US presidential candidate Donald
Trump gestures towards a protester as Trump speaks during an airport
campaign stop in Millington, Tennessee, February 27, 2016. REUTERS/Karen
Pulfer Focht You always feel like somebody’s watching you? They probably are. 
By Heidi Swart
Photo: A picture dated 31 March 2007 shows the Coerecius family
outside an unserviced house on a farm in the Oudtshoorn district of South
Africa's Western Cape Province. EPA/JON HRUSA General Household Survey 2015: The education and income numbers don’t add up to great results 
By Marianne Merten
Photo: The Farlam Commission into the Marikana Massacre sitting in
Rustenburg, with Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega being questioned. 
Rustenburg, 5 April 2013. Photo Greg Marinovich ‘Breathtakingly inaccurate’: Phiyega castigated as Claassen inquiry moves to a close 
By Greg Nicolson
Photo by EPA/JAGADEESH NV Perfect Storm of kids at risk: Why a third of SA’s children are sexually abused 
By Marelise van der Merwe
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By J Brooks Spector
Photo: President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (Wikimedia Commons) ISS Today: Swiss bankers stirred, but not shaken, into returning Africa’s stolen loot 
By PETER FABRICIUS
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By RYAN CUMMINGS
Photo of Johannesburg by INDIVIDUELL MÄNNISKOHJÄLP via
Flickr. Op-Ed: Expansion of low-cost housing for all is a necessity for inner-city Johannesburg 
By JP MISAGO & M WILHELM-SOLOMON
Photo: A file picture dated 01 May 2007 shows a dead bull on a dry
plain in central Mali.  EPA/NIC BOTHMA ISS Today: Climate change and conflict – how Mali can grow more resilient 
By ISS TODAY
Artists perform during the opening show directed by German director
Volker Hesse, on the opening day of the Gotthard rail tunnel, the longest
tunnel in the world, at the fairground Rynaecht at the northern portal in
Erstfeld, Switzerland, 01 June 2016. The construction of the 57 kilometer
long tunnel began in 1999, the breakthrough was in 2010. After the official
opening on 01 June, the commercial opperation will commence on December
2016. EPA/ALEXANDRA WEY While you were sleeping: 2 June 2016 
By John Stupart

OPINIONS

Marianne-Thamm-new.jpg From Italy with Love: Jacob Zuma’s lessons from Silvio Berlusconi 
By Marianne Thamm
Lauren-Hutton.jpg The doldrums of South African foreign policy 
By Lauren Hutton
Robyn-Wolfson-Vorster-Bio-pic-01.jpg Fearing the foreigner: When child protection and institutionalised xenophobia collide 
By ROBYN WOLFSON VORSTER
phillip dexter.jpg The National Democratic Revolution: Rewind, Reform, Run and Hide – or Reboot? 
By Phillip Dexter
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