--- title: "While you were sleeping: 6 December 2016" description: "Prominent Tamil leader dies, emergency stations at LA Metro, and Dylan, Clapton scripts go under auction." 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/2016-12-06-while-you-were-sleeping-6-december-2016/" published: "2016-12-06T06:05:05" lang: "en-ZA" word_count: 694 --- # While you were sleeping: 6 December 2016 > Prominent Tamil leader dies, emergency stations at LA Metro, and Dylan, Clapton scripts go under auction. By John Stupart · Published 6 December 2016, 08:05 SAST ## Content **Tuesday, 6th December** *"She had this amazing capacity to turn sadness into anger and anger into action, which meant nothing ever kept her down for long"* **Ransom Riggs** ![Elections aftermath: Why did the ANC ignore its own research?](//i1.createsend1.com/ei/d/1B/87F/094/csimport/849x493q70Bloom-Biggerthantheweather-MAIN-I.050818.jpg) STORY OF THE DAY [Bigger Than The Weather II: The corporate cover-up goes deeper](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-dhslry-l-u/) By RANJENI MUNUSAMY In July 2016, we published an investigative feature that implicated the TUI Group, the world’s largest travel and tourism conglomerate, in a web of deceit and fraud that involved the deaths at sea of three South African sailors. The story reached over 100,000 readers worldwide, and was picked up by the international pro sailing community. We have since learnt that the cover-up goes a lot deeper than we reported, and that one or more of the sailors “almost certainly” could have been saved. TUI has been found guilty of manslaughter before: could it happen again? By KEVIN BLOOM. WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING [Popular Tamil leader dies](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-dhslry-l-x/) Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the chief minister of south India's Tamil Nadu state, has passed away. The 'Iron Lady of India' died after being hospitalised for a fever. Jayaram enjoyed widespread popularity throughout India. Hundreds of devotees have since flocked to the hospital in Chennai where she had been treated. [LA Metro in security clampdown](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-dhslry-l-m/) Security at transit stations has been ramped up for Tuesday after an anonymous caller threatened to blow up a Los Angeles subway station. As the caller specifically mentioned the Universal City station, near the popular Universal Studios theme park, police and undercover security will be deployed throughout the network. [Abe announces Pearl Habour visit](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-dhslry-l-f/) Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Pearl Harbour in December. With the anniversary looming on 7 December, Abe will be the first Japanese leader to visit the iconic naval base. The visit mirrors President Barack Obama's trip to Hiroshima and will commemorate those that fell during the battle. [Dylan and Clapton pieces under the hammer](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-dhslry-l-z/) Original manuscripts by Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton are to go on auction, Sotheby's announced late on Monday. Included in the collection is an original version of 'Blowin' in the Wind', which is expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000. Original lyric sheets of 'Layla', Clapton's hit song, are also set to go under the hammer. — IN NUMBERS 28,000 The number of rubber duckies in a shipping container lost at sea in 1992. They are still being found worldwide. FACT OF THE DAY It is **St Nicholas Day.**Santa Claus traditionally places small toys in children's shoes today. This might not be such a major tradition in the southern hemisphere. Every **Miss America**since 1960 is still alive. 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