EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: ANC looks to winning provinces and game for guns
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world After losing the major metros, the ANC appears to be pinning its hopes on Mpumalanga, the Free State and North West in the 2019 general election. President Jacob Zuma praised these provinces, which won all the achievement awards handed out by the party at its annual anniversary celebration on Sunday. Arms dealer Fana Hlongwane is suing Absa for R7m, claiming he has a constitutional right to a bank account. In My Opinion Matters of debate A University of Cape Town convocation meeting in December followed what has become an inevitable pattern: student protestors trampled on protocol, abused their position, destroyed debate, disseminated much hate in doing so and collapsed the event. And, as ever, there were no consequences, writes Gareth van Onselen. Zimbabwe proposes to pay China 35 young elephants, eight lions, 12 hyenas and a giraffe to settle debt for arms bought to help prop up Democratic Republic of the Congo President Laurent Kabila,...
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