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While you were sleeping: 5 April 2017
ANC to decide its direction, Syrian gas attack kills dozens, and Marmite good for your brain.
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
“If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the
Chuck Yeager
The ANC is facing a bombardment of calls demanding that President Jacob Zuma
The country’s gaze will descend upon Luthuli house today. With it will be possibly the most important press briefing of the organisation’s post-apartheid history. With pro-Zuma lackeys already claiming a Tuesday NWC meeting decided to support Zuma until his departure in 2019, there remains a glimmer of hope that the party once characterised for railing against injustice might find its struggle roots once more.
Outrage at Syrian chemical weapons attack
A Syrian chemical attack against a rebel-held north-west Syrian town on Tuesday has left dozens dead. With 58 civilians dead in the town of Khan Sheikhun, the Security Council is scheduled to meet today to discuss possible actions to take against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. A regime which the United States just this week decided not to focus on changing
North Korea fires another missile
A medium-range ballistic missile was fired by North Korea into the Sea of Japan overnight. The United States confirmed the launch and responded with Rex Tillerson stating: “The United States has spoken enough about North Korea. We have no further comment.” Whether anything will be done about the launch, however, remains unlikely.
The yeast-based jar of delicious goodness or the hellish vessel of dark portent and bitter tastes, depending on your viewpoint, is undeniably good for you, brain science says. A new report by psychologists at the University of York in northern England has determined that a spoonful of Marmite a day left test subjects with higher levels of brain chemicals associated with healthy heads. Is it worth the price of eating Marmite? Science cannot answer such a mystery of life.
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