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it happened overnight<br />
politics<br />
<strong>south</strong> <strong>africa</strong><br />
Iconic Myanmar activist, Aung<br />
San Suu Kyi has criticised<br />
South Africa for dilly-dallying<br />
on whether or not to give the<br />
Dalai Lama a visa to attend<br />
Desmond Tutu’s birthday<br />
party. She also said the<br />
country lacked “enthusiasm”<br />
for democracy elsewhere in the<br />
world. She said, “Sometimes<br />
we get the feeling perhaps that<br />
[…] South African authorities,<br />
do not support the struggle for<br />
democracy and human rights<br />
as enthusiastically as, for<br />
example, do individuals like<br />
Archbishop Desmond Tutu.”<br />
The UDM has requested the<br />
public protector to investigate<br />
the Independent Electoral<br />
Commission’s offices in<br />
Centurion, involving a lease<br />
worth over R100 million paid<br />
since March 2010. This is quite<br />
a hike in rent, considering the<br />
previous offices, for which the<br />
IEC (in this case, you and me) is<br />
still allegedly paying R750,000 a<br />
month.<br />
usa<br />
Presidential candidate Mitt<br />
Romney has also stuck his<br />
finger into Rick Perry’s racial<br />
slur situation. In case you’re<br />
unaware, the Washington Post<br />
broke a story over the weekend<br />
which claimed Rick Perry used<br />
to entertain people at a hunting<br />
farm his family leased called<br />
“Niggerhead”. Romney called the<br />
name “offensive”, and he follows<br />
Herman Cain in condemning<br />
Perry about the situation.<br />
MyanMar<br />
A Chinese government-owned<br />
firm has expressed shock at<br />
Myanmar’s President Thein<br />
Sein’s decision to stop building<br />
briefs<br />
Rick Perry and Mitt Romney (Reuters)<br />
the Irrawaddy River dam after<br />
weeks of public protest and<br />
outrage. In fact, China Power<br />
Investment Corp may go the<br />
legal route in ensuring the<br />
world’s largest hydro-power<br />
project gets back on the go.<br />
While Sein will be wary of<br />
angering China, Myanmar’s only<br />
real significant economic ally,<br />
this could help his controversial<br />
government’s image at home.<br />
libya<br />
The head of the transitional<br />
national council, Mahmoud<br />
Jibril, announced that the<br />
processes for elections will<br />
start once Muammar Gaddafi<br />
is captured, and not, as<br />
originally planned, when the<br />
country is fully liberated,<br />
i.e. when all pro-Gaddafi<br />
resistance is stomped out. The<br />
city of Sirte is proving a tough<br />
nut to crack for TNC forces,<br />
and no one is even 100% sure<br />
that Brother ex-Leader is there.<br />
tuesdAY - 4 october 2011
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