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While you were sleeping: 3 November 2017
Catalan leaders arrests, Trump wants the death penalty for attacker, and dead turtles found in ocean.
TGIF, 3 November 2017
“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
Elizabeth Gaskell
STORY OF THE DAY
ANC Leadership Race: Dlamini Zuma supporters in battle to secure the final prize – the Eastern Cape
By CARIEN DU PLESSIS
Supporters of ANC MP Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma’s presidential campaign have been fighting tooth and nail to keep control of the ANC’s largest province, KwaZulu-Natal. About a week ago they also bagged the prized – and somewhat coy – Mpumalanga, the second-largest province and the party’s kingmaker.
Many of Catalonia’s deposed leaders were arrested by early Friday morning. The arrests were executed following a Spanish judge’s order that they
Trump to push for death penalty on NY attacker
President Donald Trump has called for the death penalty for Uzbek national Sayfullo Saipov. Saipov was arrested after killing eight people in Tuesday’s vehicle rampage. Trump wants federal law to kick in, calling for the death penalty. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, however, has stated that this “is an individual who should rot in prison for the rest of his life”.
Prosecutors will argue for a longer sentence to be given to Oscar Pistorius, as the current six years is “shockingly low”. The NPA, evidently more concerned with Pistorius than the Guptas, Zuma, or state capture in general, is to present its case to the SCA in Bloemfontein.
Hundreds of dead sea turtles found
Hundreds of dead sea turtles were discovered off the coast of El Salvador. Between 300 and 400 dead turtles were floating near Jiquilisco Bay. Local officials stated that they had no idea what caused their death. A similar occurrence in 2013 was attributed to toxic algae.
IN NUMBERS
10
The number of days Google took to decide to buy Youtube.
FACTS OF THE DAY
Today in 1936 Franklin D Roosevelt becomes president of the United States.
Harvard’s first black faculty member was a dentist. Dr George Franklin Grant also invented the wooden golf tee.
FEATURED ARTICLES
Op-Ed: A Dlamini Zuma victory will repudiate the establishment’s news media bias
BY JESSIE DUARTE, SEFORA (SISI) NTOMBELA, NOMVULA MOKONYANE &
A column by PIERRE DE VOS
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