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AFRICA’S BEST READ September 20 to 26 2019 Vol 35 No 38 @mailandguardian mg.co.za Cyril’s Just another Boks vs It’s getting KZN victim: All Blacks: crowded backers The woman Blockbuster in the in R290m a country start to the Bosasa case fraud row forgot World Cup courtroom Page 12 Pages 10 & 11 Sport Page 6 A ‘freeEXCLUSIVE ride’ for Floyd Illicit proceeds from VBS bank allegedly used to pay for luxury Range Rover TPage 3 PHOTO: DAVID HARRISON WHAT’S ON AT WITS BUILDING SMART LOCAL GOVERNMENTS The Wits School of Construction Economics and Management invites you to an Economic Forum with Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. The discussion aligns with the vision of the National Development Plan to eliminate poverty and reduce inequality by 2030. The Economic Forum is an international discussion platform that engages the world's best thinkers in robust economic dialogue to analyse and understand the complexities of economic growth. The discussions provide a global platform for in-depth economic debates with leading academics, industry professionals, investors, policy makers and students. DATE: Friday, 27 September 2019|TIME: 17h00 - 20h00|RSVP: [email protected] VENUE: Senate Room, 2nd Floor, Solomon Mahlangu House, Braamfontein Campus East 2 Mail & Guardian September 20 to 26 2019 IN BRIEF Fransman strikes ppmm Peter 411.39411As of July this is the level 39 of carbon dioxide deal with accuser NUMBERS OF THE WEEK Former ANC Tabichi in the atmosphere. A safe number is 350 Western Cape The amount Peter Tabichi, the Kenyan winner while 450 is catastrophic chairperson Marius of the Global Teacher Prize for 2019, gives to Data source: NASA Fransman, who local community projects from his salary every month.80% was accused of The Franciscan monk met with Donald Trump this sexual assault by a Why we children woman he’d hired to week and is set to address the 74th United Nations work in his offi ce, has general assembly are marching over had the charges against him withdrawn. This was the result of “informal mediation” the climate crisis between Fransman and his accuser, said the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). So a deal was done. The original charges date back Today, people in more than to January 2016, when Fransman took the 120 countries are marching to complainant with him to the ANC’s birthday demand more be done about celebrations in North West, booked a shared the climate crisis. On Monday, room, and tried to have sex with her that The weight in grams of the smallest-ever non- night. An ANC disciplinary committee found the United Nations is holding a Fransman guilty and suspended his party human surgical patient — a pet fish. Veterinar- climate summit. The loudest voices membership for fi ve years, but it took the NPA ians in the United Kingdom successfully removed demanding action are those of until December 2018 to charge him. a tumour from its belly this week children. To acknowledge that, this climate column is written by two Bad driving, suicide or murder? pupils who are marching today The CR17 money The amount lost came from Bosasa by the SABC over The 9number e tend to ignore the fact chief Gavin Watson, three years for of people arrested that we are under attack by who died in a solo R3.8bnhaving to buy sports broadcasting rights. The for setting alight three ourselves. car crash on August W state broadcaster is broke and cannot afford houses belonging to There is no plan B. There 26. His death has is no planet B. If we don’t fi x what we’re been presumed, thus to pay for the screening people they accused of being doing then this is the end, this is the fi nal far, to be a suicide. He rights for the Rugby responsible for the brutal murder of a 97- straw. was facing an inquiry at the South African World Cup year-old woman in Malavuwe, near Our government is not paying atten- Revenue Services, besides the many claims of Thohoyandou in Limpopo tion. Adults are not taking this seriously. his misdeeds that emerged at the Zondo com- Businesses are overusing, abusing. mission looking into state capture. Watson’s This is real, we need to wake up, do family commissioned a forensic pathologist to The number of children who have died in the United States something. look into his death, and is now thinking it looks this year after being left in parked cars. A two-year-old So we are. Your own children are trying more like murder. There are many unanswered from New Mexico was the latest victim after a babysitter to take a stand against this crisis. questions to do with the death, said the family. left the child in a car for hours We are protesting because we want to And, said Jared Watson, Gavin’s nephew, if it try to stop this. We might not be heard, was murder, there “can only be one person” Graphic: JOHN McCANN Compiled by: ATHANDIWE SABA 42 but we can try to make a diff erence. We responsible. He wouldn’t name that person. want a better future. Wow! We love a good conspiracy theory. South African accused Greta Thunberg says: “I want you to act and convicted of being a TWEET OF THE WEEK as if our house is on fi re, because it is.” US drones on over Iran drug mule in Thailand, We need to spread awareness and take On the international front, the United States has been released and action. is upping sanctions against Iran because of is on her way back Many adults think that the smallest the drones (and alleged cruise missiles) that home. She was arrested things won’t make a diff erence, but it will. bombed Saudi oil fi elds and reduced the global Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi We want a better future. We want future oil supply, pushing up prices. That’ll always Airport in December 2011 generations, and our children, to know rile the US. The Houthi rebels of Yemen, where and found to have about our home as a beautiful place. We want Saudi Arabia is conducting a war of bombings 1.5kg of cocaine hidden them to know about the Amazon as a and massacres of civilians, claimed responsi- in her fake dreadlocks. beautiful place and not as a desert. bility for the attacks, but the US and its bosom Nobanda was sentenced To get there — we need to create a new buddy Saudi Arabia insist Iran is responsible. to 30 years in jail, but her revolution. Admittedly, Iran supports the Houthis, Iran sentence was progres- We are the youth, the generation that and Saudi Arabia being long-standing rivals sively reduced; it added says “stop”. So we’re doing just that. And for superpower roles in the region. Saudi up, ultimately, to we need you to join us. This world belongs military spokesperson Turki al-Malki eight years. Thailand’s King Maha look forward to the former president’s appear- to all of us. said the attacks came “from the Vajiralongkorn off ered a general ance in the show — he has a great track record Put pressure on the government. Think north” and called them “an amnesty to many prisoners upon of prize-winning performances in Parliament about what we could do long term. Think assault on the international com- his accession to the throne in May and at the Zondo commission. about the youth, our future on the only munity”. Yemen lies to the south this year. During her time in jail, place that can sustain our lives — Earth. of Saudi Arabia. Nobanda studied towards a degree Mkhwebane exceeded fi shing haul We are only attacking ourselves. Our by long distance, and is now “ready to President Cyril Ramaphosa says that, besides home and our future is dying, quickly. It’s Sex traffi cker gets life x 6 plus become a productive mem- exceeding the limits of the complaint against shrivelling up like a prune, decomposing 129 years ber of society”. his campaign’s fi nances, the public protec- into nothing. We need to start helping our Ediozi Odi, convicted of tor got way more than she actually asked Earth. We can’t kill it. — Luca Botes and sex traffi cking, has been Get ready for ‘Zuma: for by way of fi nancial information from his Lara Botes (both 13, not related and slapped with six life Reality Take Two’ campaign for the ANC presidency, known as friends since the age of two) sentences plus 129 years. Nonkanyiso Conco, CR17. He is taking her report on review, and Judge Natvarlil Ranchod who has borne one of it is now before the court. Protector Busisiwe heard months of evidence former president Jacob Mkhwebane was asked to look into the against Odi, described Zuma’s many children, R500 000 donation to CR17 from corruption- as either a sex traffi cking is set to become South accused company Bosasa (now African Global “kingpin” or a “brothel mas- Africa’s Kim Kardashian. Operations), but she went “fi shing”, he said, for Published by M&G Media Ltd, SUBSCRIPTIONS ter”. Among the victims giving Producer Legend Manqele more facts related to CR17 more broadly. And Eighth Floor, Metal Box, Inquiries: 011 447 0696 or evidence were three girls aged announced that he would she sure hauled up a lot of fi sh. The Financial 25 Owl Street, Braamfontein SMS “subs” to 34917 Werf, Johannesburg, South Complaints: 0860 070 700 13 to 14.