--- title: "While you were sleeping: 28 August 2017" description: "Houston hit hard by flooding, Trump talks wall talk, and Kendrick Lamar award MTV prize." 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/2017-08-28-while-you-were-sleeping-28-august-2017/" published: "2017-08-28T05:41:03" lang: "en-ZA" word_count: 686 --- # While you were sleeping: 28 August 2017 > Houston hit hard by flooding, Trump talks wall talk, and Kendrick Lamar award MTV prize. By John Stupart · Published 28 August 2017, 07:41 SAST ## Content **Monday, 28 August 2017** *"I feel like we should stop calling feminists 'feminists' and just start calling people who aren't feminist 'sexist' – and then everyone else is just human."* **Maisie Williams** ![Image](https://i2.createsend1.com/ei/d/49/87A/8D2/csimport/849x493q70carien-MotshekgavsDlamini1.053235.jpg) STORY OF THE DAY [ANC Leadership Race: No space for conscience, or Motshekga, in Dlamini's Women's League](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-ulhlcd-l-p/) By CARIEN DU PLESSIS Divisions in the ANC have surfaced this weekend with the ANC Women’s League reprimanding its former president, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, for being ill-disciplined after she apparently addressed meetings under the gender banner. In this, the year of Oliver Reginald Tambo with the ANC website proudly displaying the slogan: “Let’s deepen unity!”, the ANC seems to be significantly more divided than it has been in recent times. [Houston struck by massive flooding](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-ulhlcd-l-x/) Unprecedented flooding has struck Houston, shutting down all airports and killing at least three people so far. A category 4 hurricane has hit Houston dead on. The fourth largest city in the United States, it appeared that at least 2,000 people had been rescued in its wake so far. [Trump talks about his wall](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-ulhlcd-l-m/) While Houston remained underwater, President Trump insisted on Sunday that Congress or Mexico must find a way to pay for his precious wall. Tweeting on the wall and a possible NAFTA treaty pull out, Trump has set himself on a collision course with his own party, making an "or else" deadline. What could possibly go wrong? [Australia's largest bank under the microscrope](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-ulhlcd-l-c/) Australia's Commonwealth Bank (CBA) became the focus of an independent inquiry on Monday. The CBA has been accused of breaching anti-money laundering legislation, more than 50,000 times. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will now be taking a long hard investigatory look at CBA. [Kendrick Lamar awarded MTV award](http://email.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-ulhlcd-l-q/) Rapper Kendrick Lamar has won MTV's Video of the Year on Sunday. Lamar won the award for his video "HUMBLE", a sarcastic interpretation on fame and fortune. Performing HUMBLE at the awards, the subtle Lamar used dancers dressed as ninja to climb a burning fence. There clearly is no end to Lamar's artistic boundaries. — IN NUMBERS 100x More likely to be bitten by a human in New York City than by a shark. FACTS OF THE DAY Today in 1933 the first **Afrikaans Bible**was introduced. It was unveiled at a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein. Next to a Bok van Blerk concert, this was possibly one of Bloemfontein's most exciting moments. 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