--- title: "While you were sleeping: 5 July 2017" description: "Sagan breaks Cavendish's shoulder, Korea laughs off ICBM launch, and Hotdog eater a \"hero of America.\"" 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/2017-07-05-while-you-were-sleeping-5-july-2017/" published: "2017-07-05T06:00:18" lang: "en-ZA" word_count: 815 --- # While you were sleeping: 5 July 2017 > Sagan breaks Cavendish's shoulder, Korea laughs off ICBM launch, and Hotdog eater a "hero of America." By John Stupart · Published 5 July 2017, 08:00 SAST ## Content **Wednesday, 5 July 2017** *“America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”* **Walter Cronkite** ![Image](https://i2.createsend1.com/ei/d/52/C17/D5B/csimport/849x493q70Poplak-economic-commission-war1.050817.jpg) STORY OF THE DAY [TRAINSPOTTER: Deep inside the war at the ANC policy conference’s Economic Transformation Commission](http://subscriptions.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-khlulht-l-x/) By RICHARD POPLAK The mysteries of the 5th ANC National Policy Conference are manifold, but there are several open secrets – on the issue of the economy, President Jacob Zuma’s “radical” faction is pitted against deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa’s “constitutional” faction, a battle for the future of the party that also determines what South Africa will become: either a developing nation in the throes of a fierce reconfiguration of its economy; or a country attempting the sober implementation of policies rubber-stamped by policy wonks here and in Davos. 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