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AFRICA’S BEST READ July 26 to August 1 2019 Vol 35 No 30 @mailandguardian mg.co.za Protect us from this mess OWho’s feeding the PP her info? OWho’s paying for CR? OWho really has the power? Pages 3, 4, 5, 8 & 23 PHOTO: MADELENE CRONJÉ 2 Mail & Guardian July 26 to August 1 2019 INSIDE IN BRIEF NEWS Little red trolls stick ANC on horns of protector dilemma it to Hanekom NUMBERS OF THE WEEK One opposition party want to keep her and In a revelation that The estimated the other lose her, and the ANC is divided 3 was a shock to eve- death toll from The percentage of the ryone except former Hurricane Maria, Who breathes the worst air in SA? president Jacob South African Reserve 4which645 devastated Puerto Rico in Sep- Jo’burgers do! 6 Zuma — who sees Bank's legal fees public tember 2017. This week thousands of spies lurking every- protector Busisiwe Puerto Rican protesters took to the EFF off to court to support protector where at the best of Mkhwebane has been The party has applied to join the case 8 times — it emerged this 15% streets demanding the resignation of ordered to pay out of her past week that ANC parliamentarian and Governor Ricardo Rosselló over a tranche own pocket by the Constitutional Court Deviations dodge due process former Cabinet minister Derek Hanekom of leaked chat messages containing a The attorney general has found that plotted with the Economic Freedom Fighters joke about the dead bodies of the municipalities are making use of a process to bring down Zuma. This happened in the hurricane intended only for emergencies 9 middle of the eighth vote of no confi dence to victims US be brought against Zuma, and the EFF (along Cuba HEALTH with the South African Communist Party’s 400km An SMS a day saves lives Solly Mapaila) were doing all they could to get A mistake demonstrates the power of health ANC MPs to vote with their consciences rather HaitiH reminders for young people with HIV 10 than their paychecks. Ironically, it was the R1.9bnThe amount EFF that revealed the Hanekom connection, Naspers chief AFRICA thereby stabbing him in the back and causing executive Bob Choppies chief faces the block more ructions in the ANC. Seems like the main van Dijk was Is Africa’s fastest-growing supermarket Panama political programme of the little red trolls is, in paid over the chain a victim of its own success? 16 fact, to stab everyone in the back. That is, eve- Bob previous financial ryone who’s not a former Zuma follower and/ van Dijk Why debt is a human rights issue or leader of the “state capture” faction. year, according to the SADC countries service loans instead of technology giant’s 2019 providing services 18 Mkhwebane sides with EFF remuneration report Having found that Pravin Gordhan, now min- ister of public enterprises but then head of the South African Revenue Service, did all sorts of The amount the live action 890 The number of Sport allegedly illegal things at Sars, public protector remake of The Lion King raked drunk drivers Busisiwe Mkhwebane is now going to probe in over its opening weekend arrested in the appointment of new Sars head Edward Johannesburg in Kieswetter. This clearly aligns her agenda with that of the Economic Freedom Fighters, June. This is accord- who have had it in for Gordhan ever since Sars ing to the Johannesburg hit EFF chief Julius Malema with a huge tax metropolitan police de- bill. The EFF’s Floyd Shivambu concocted a partment’s crime statistics How to breed conspiracy theory against Gordhan, too. The released this week the Barretts EFF recently lost a defamation case brought by Trevor Manuel, who was part of the committee 3 seeking a new Sars head, after the EFF accused $185-million by:Graphic: JOHN McCANN Compiled SARAH SMIT him of nepotism because he was supposedly related to Kieswetter and in business with Churchillian qualities, MEME OF THE WEEK BUSINESS him. Those accusations proved to be false, and as in “we’ll fi ght them on Mining houses celebrate high prices the EFF is now in hock for R500 000 in dam- the beaches” (except he PGMs to blame for the boom 22 ages, but it looks like they want another bite means immigrants — and at the Kieswetter apple — and Mkhwebane is possibly EU customs offi - COMMENT & ANALYSIS giving it to them. cials). Nobody except a The destructive protector few ancient, addled British Getting rid of Mkhwebane won’t be easy 23 Hate speech tweeter Sparrow dies Conservative Party mem- Penny Sparrow, the white South African bers can see any value in Boorish Boris blues woman accused of racism and prosecuted for giving Johnson any power, Trump-on-Thames is no friend of the poor 25 it, has died of lung cancer. In 2016, Sparrow and most of the world is posted three comments on Facebook, raging fi nding it hard to wish this EDUCATION about litter and black people on the beaches rich, racist, xenophobic, Training new teachers diff erently is key of KwaZulu-Natal. The fi rst complained about dishonest toff well in his ‘Lifeworthy’ skills can prepare learners for a “monkeys that are allowed to be released on new job. future we can only partially imagine 30 New Year’s Eve and New Year’s day on to pub- lic beaches”. The second said: “I do know some And Mueller sticks it FRIDAY wonderful and thoughtful black people. This to Trump Tracing the evolution of online news lot of monkeys just don’t want to even try.” The Meanwhile, in the United An extract from Matthew Buckland’s third was a blunt statement of intent: “From States, the “nemesis” of posthumous book 43 now I shall address the blacks of South Africa the American Boris has as monkeys,” she wrote. She was charged in testifi ed in Congress Science of making art the Equality Court and in the Umzinto magis- about his report on the US An interview with Masande Ntshanga, trate’s court with crimen injuria. 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