--- title: "While you were sleeping: 28 July 2016" description: "Obama heaps praise on Clinton at DNC, Turkey mounts larger crackdown, and Gilmore Girls to return." type: "NewsArticle" publisher: "Daily Maverick" site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za" section: "South Africa" author: "John Stupart" author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/johnstupart/" canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-07-28-while-you-were-sleeping-28-july-2016/" published: "2016-07-28T06:12:50" lang: "en-ZA" word_count: 766 --- # While you were sleeping: 28 July 2016 > Obama heaps praise on Clinton at DNC, Turkey mounts larger crackdown, and Gilmore Girls to return. By John Stupart · Published 28 July 2016, 08:12 SAST ## Content | \| \\| *“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”* –**George S Patton Jr** \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| | | --- | | \| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # Story of the Day \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\\| ![Image](//gallery.mailchimp.com/6170d6a6d93cac57e83ba137f/images/d808228c-1604-4377-819f-41e9fda31778.jpg) \\\| \\\| --- \\\|\\\| ## [TRAINSPOTTER: Fringe Festival — how Gayton McKenzie spells the onset of the coalition era](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-07-27-trainspotter-fringe-festival-how-gayton-mckenzie-spells-the-onset-of-the-coalition-era/#.V5l7Kbh9600)“I actually pray every night for a white rhino to die,” says former gangster and newly minted political boss Gayton McKenzie. “Why am I saying this? Because when the last white rhino is dead, maybe people will start caring about the coloured man in this country, who is truly going extinct.” McKenzie is now a (very) minor political boss. His Patriotic Alliance (PA) party may have only garnered 13,500 votes in the 2014 national campaign, and he may be running in only two municipalities (Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay), but the former bank robber believes that the PA is the future. Fringe parties with specific constituencies – in this case, coloured folk in Cape Town and Johannesburg – will become kingmakers. Welcome to the beginning of the Israel-style Coalition Era, Mzansi. By RICHARD POPLAK. [Read more](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-07-27-trainspotter-fringe-festival-how-gayton-mckenzie-spells-the-onset-of-the-coalition-era/#.V5l7Kbh9600) \\\| \\\| --- \\\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # While you were sleeping \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| ## Obama lavishes Clinton with praisePresident Barack Obama's turn to talk at the Democratic National Convention saw him heaping scorn upon Donald Trump while lavishing praise on Hillary Clinton for breaking through the glass ceiling. Obama's speech was met with wild cheers from the DNC audience. [Read More](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-07-28-urgent-obama-hails-clinton-for-blasting-through-glass-ceilings) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| ## Massive petrochemical strike plannedA planned petrochemical workers' strike is set to begin from today. If widespread, this could result in shortages from refineries run by Shell, BP, Chevron and Sasol. \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| ## Turkey crackdown cracks harderThe post-coup suppression of virtually anything resembling civil society continued throughout Wednesday. Following the arrest of 47 journalists, President Tayyip Erdo?an has also ordered the closure of 45 newspapers, 16 television stations, 23 radio stations, three news agencies and 15 magazines. Just weeks after the coup attempt, this may well be the tip of the crackdown spear. [Read More](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-07-27-turkey-pm-warns-post-coup-crackdown-not-over) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| ## Gilmore Girls revival confirmedNetflix confirmed four 90-minute episodes of the hit show of yore for a Thanksgiving release (midnight, 25 November). For anyone even slightly close to a '70s or '80s birth date, Gilmore Girls would definitely stir some nostalgic nerve endings. South Africa, it seems, will be included in this worldwide release. [Read More](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-07-28-netflix-to-give-gilmore-girls-thanksgiving-release) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # In Numbers \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| **19** \\| \\| --- \\|\\| The number of cars that Ohio's 'poop bandit' has pooped on for three years. He remains at large and well fibred apparently. \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # Facts of the Day \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| Today last year **Clive Rice** passed away.**In 2017 San Francisco**will require all new buildings to have solar panels installed on or in them. \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # Weather & Financial Data \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| BFN: min: 0° max: 14°, cloudy CPT: min: 11° max: 18°, rainy DBN: min: 12° max: 28°, cloudy EL: min: 13° max: 21°, cloudy JHB: min: 0° max: 17° sunny KIM: min: 2° max: 15°, cloudy NLP: min: 5° max: 24°, sunny PMB: min: 2° max: 19°, sunny PKN: min: 3° max: 20°, sunny PE: min: 11° max: 19°, cloudy PTA: min: 2° max: 17°, sunny \\| \\| --- \\|\\| Oil=$43.49 Gold=$1,327.44 Platinum=$1,120.92 R/$=14.31 R/€=15.74 R/£=18.80 €/$=1.09 JSE All Share=53,764.26 DJIA= 18,472.62 FTSE 100=6,750.43 [Source](http://dailymaverick.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6170d6a6d93cac57e83ba137f&id=6c17d969dc&e=371f6bebf2) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # Now on Daily Maverick#### **FEATURES**\\\| ![Photo: Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie (Richard Poplak)](//ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/49y1VF6t823sc1uw2Tg7uCykkjYI82G5FYZQsBLn14bO5XGIadahX0VKCWpUWT-0eWh49z-B0lD9ssyppZBRvnmm2rQhecMw_zUH1cusNulWLPSJTx_Ck0LFuRkXE0wTsTj9m5lsnSKtcDnY_RPF_A=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70Poplak-Gayton-McKenzie.jpg) \\\| [TRAINSPOTTER: Fringe Festival — how Gayton McKenzie spells the onset of the coalition era](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-07-27-trainspotter-fringe-festival-how-gayton-mckenzie-spells-the-onset-of-the-coalition-era/) By Richard Poplak \\\| \\\| --- \\\| --- \\\| \\\| ![Photo: Judge Siraj Desai (Photo: BDLive)](//ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/NG_UkK_0zd7roKxAnY6HId_ZHslV_sD8MLRZQQf7nL0bZwBhhqswcGvaN5CVY5_Wv7qXQoINCJlvJBPz8pgkfyxyMRzbfgWU7tj27MhQ_KDLV8n5hWFqpPXTCu1J9QfV9lS8QvASJTsKWNSrrg=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70Marianne-PProtector.jpg) \\\| [Op-Ed: Filling Madonsela’s shoes – new Public Protector must not be politically embedded](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-07-28-op-ed-filling-madonselas-shoes-new-public-protector-must-not-be-politically-embedded/) By Marianne Thamm \\\| \\\| ![Image](//ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/skfSbTnwc1ND09S3xhqTxWL6pEH93fcUJ_jnbV6tXUHZg9fKP5cFRgy8xgtqkTj4ZjFjoR4Mvc42Kcp_hSxGSNYUUV7soM43vwQm74j945ekjeeYlJg49lZHrPe1cClnFwB5aDcnm9Lqf50DMV5s0FTqoA=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70Merten-political-killings.jpg)‘Rogue Unit’ Investigations during a media briefing at Imbizo Media Centre in Cape Town. 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