--- title: "While you were sleeping: 31 May 2017" description: "UN urges greater climate change activism despite US threats, MEC confirms hospital investigation report to be released, and Keri Russell gets Hollywood star." 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/2017-05-31-while-you-were-sleeping-31-may-2017/" published: "2017-05-31T06:04:03" lang: "en-ZA" word_count: 725 --- # While you were sleeping: 31 May 2017 > UN urges greater climate change activism despite US threats, MEC confirms hospital investigation report to be released, and Keri Russell gets Hollywood star. By John Stupart · Published 31 May 2017, 08:04 SAST ## Content **Wednesday, 31 May 2017** *“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”* **Neil deGrasse Tyson** ![Image](https://i2.createsend1.com/ei/d/54/60E/EE1/csimport/849x493q70Poplak-Ramasatu1.050620.jpg) STORY OF THE DAY [TRAINSPOTTER: Ramasatu! Cyril Ramaphosa/Cosatu vs. Zuma/The You Know Whos](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-kjutjuk-l-u/) By RICHARD POPLAK On Tuesday, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke before hundreds of Cosatu delegates at the sixth Central Committee in Pretoria. He named no names, but spoke about capturing the forces that have captured the state. Meanwhile, outside the confines of the faux-Hellenic Saint George Hotel, at the house of South African Communist Party leader Solly Mapaila, Zuma’s proxies ramped up the war. [UN urges guerrilla climate activism amidst US wavering](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-kjutjuk-l-o/) As US President Donald Trump and his administration seriously consider pulling out of the Paris Climate Deal, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has shifted tack, urging greater participation. Except this time on Tuesday night, Guterres opted to ignore the Trumps of the world and encouraged "the cities, the states, the companies, the businesses -- to remain engaged". [US intercepts test ICBM](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-kjutjuk-l-b/) American anti-ballistic missile systems successfully intercepted and destroyed a test ICBM late on Tuesday. Clearly aimed at shaking a bigger missile stick back at North Korea, the test saw the interceptor destroy a fast-moving ICBM-type missile in the exo-atmosphere. [Hospital roof collapse report to be released](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-kjutjuk-l-n/) Gauteng Infrastructure MEC Jacob Mamabolo has confirmed that his department will release findings of an investigation into the collapse of a roof at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. In March, part of the hospital roof collapsed, revealing that a second part of the hospital's ceiling was also unstable, which led to scepticism over the structural integrity of the entire facility. [Walk of fame star for Russell](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-kjutjuk-l-p/) Actress Keri Russell has been awarded a Hollywood walk of fame star. Known largely for her role as a KGB operative in The Americans, non-Millenials will remember Russell as the star making her debut in JJ Abrams' Felicity: Two very different kinds of television series. — PICTURE OF THE DAY BY EPA/NIC BOTHMA South African surfer Jeremy Johnson rides a wave at Dungeons offshore reef in the Atlantic Ocean outside Cape Town, South Africa, 30 May 2017. The big wave surfing season during the southern hemisphere winter is driven by storms in the South Atlantic which generate powerful swells that break on the Cape's outer reefs. Big wave surfers are in training for the Rebel Session big wave competition later in the season. ![Image](https://i4.createsend1.com/ei/d/54/60E/EE1/csimport/h_53554907.182448.jpg) IN NUMBERS 1 The order of magnitude in excess waste created by coffee pods versus traditional drip coffee brewers. 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