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While you were sleeping: 20 July
Trump regrets attorney-general appointment, McCain diagnosed with cancer, and Dali to be exhumed.
Thursday, 20 July 2017
“I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”
Albert Camus
STORY OF THE DAY
Nothing to see here: KZN Law Society refuses to investigate Zuma’s lawyer Michael Hulley
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In April this year, ousted National Director of Public Prosecutions, Mxolisi Nxasana, deposed a damning affidavit accusing President Jacob Zuma’s legal adviser, Michael Hulley, of attempting to induce him to lie – under oath – that the President had not pressured him into leaving office. The capturing of the NPA by President Zuma is a matter of national public interest, as is the allegation that the President’s legal adviser might be guilty of defeating the ends of justice. The KZN Law Society, however, doesn’t think it’s worth investigating.
Trump regrets attorney-general appointment
Another day and another Trump controversy. President Donald Trump said late on Wednesday that he regretted his choice of Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Sessions recused himself from overseeing an FBI probe into Trump
McCain diagnosed with brain cancer
A procedure to remove a clot from John McCain’s eye resulted in a diagnosis of brain cancer. The senator and former presidential candidate
Antidepressants during pregnancy autism risk – study
Children exposed to antidepressants during
Dali to be exhumed in paternity case
A fortune-teller in Catalonia has claimed to be surrealist Salvador Dali’s only known child. As a result of some nifty litigation, forensic teams will open the tomb of Dali and collect DNA samples to verify the claim. If true, Pilar Abel could be entitled to at least some of Dali’s substantial estate.
IN NUMBERS
80,000
The number of years it would take to read all the books in the British Library if you read five books a day.
FACTS OF THE DAY
Today is International Chess Day. In South Africa, all the pawns are kept in government.
Billionaire oil tycoon J Paul Getty had a pay phone in his home so he wouldn’t have to pay for guests’ calls.
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