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IT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT BRIEFS
POLITICS
LIBYA
Libya, US distances itself and!"#$%&'$(%)"**"+%(",-.,#/%0'"123%4"54%$,35%6!%4-$.3*%*7‐82*7%92:5";4%&.#.'7/%6!%#$%"33$<%release of $1.5 billion frozen92:5"%&.,*4=
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UK
A-"#%+,7%0'2#24-%#'"*2#2$,%$&%#-'$<2,@%#-2,@4%"#%H$32#28"3%37"*7'4%<"4%7I7(H32+7*%:5%"%>8$##24-%H'$#74#$'%<-$%#-'7<%:3.7%H"2,#%"#%*7H.#5%H'2(7%(2,‐24#7'%!28D%B37@@=%J$4#%$&%#-7%H"2,#%(2447*%#-7%92:7'"3%K7($‐8'"#4%37"*7'%",*%3",*7*%$,%-24%
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NIGERIA
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USA
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HUNGARY
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LIBYA
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IT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT BRIEFS
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SENEGAL
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SOUTH SUDAN
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SOUTH AFRICA
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NIGER
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
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BUSINESS
US
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US
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SPORT
UK
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ITALY
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SOUTH AFRICA BRIEFS
ANC YOUTH LEAGUE CALLS
FOR REOPENING OF ARMSDEAL PROBE
Well, well…what have we wrought, President Zuma? Itis obviously posturing aheadof their disciplinary hearing,but when your Youth Leaguesounds like the opposition by 8"332,@%&$'%U83"'2+8"#2$,V%$,%#-7%arms deal, something is clearly rotten in the state of Denmark.
At a meeting where the ANCYLin Limpopo took it upon them‐selves “to respond to some of these mass media contrivedstories about the organisation,attacks on our leaders and theH$32#28"3%32&7%$&%#-7%?!Bn9V/%provincial chairperson FransMoswane said there were some
unanswered questions over thearms deal. The subtext in thisstatement was that you, Presi‐dent Zuma, will have to answerthem should you persist with
your action against the league. Your move, Mr President.
FALLOUT FROM ARDGATE
CONTINUES
Supersport and the South Af‐rican Rugby Union will behauled before Parliament’sportfolio committee on sport toexplain Ard Matthews’ butch‐ering of the national anthemat the announcement of theSpringboks world cup team,according to Sapa. The com‐
mittee would like to preventsuch incidents from happen‐ing in future and for that, wetruly thank them, despite thefun we’ve had coming up with
Ard puns. To his credit, the Just
Jinjer front man has made it hismission to teach others to singthe anthem properly and hasposted a YouTube video of himsinging the anthem the way heshould have sung it.
TUTU: WHITES CARRY GUILT
Archbishop Emeritus Des‐
($,*%A.#.%24%-$3*2,@%+'(%on his stance that a wealth‐tax would relieve whites of the guilt they obviously carry around. Yesterday, at an eventorganised by the Institute of
Justice and Reconciliation,he said that whites carry guiltbecause they refuse to accept
where their position of privi‐
lege has come from. He saidgestures matter in humanity.The other speakers, City Press7*2#$'%f7'2"3%L"`"W77/%B$.,823%for the Advancement of theSouth African Constitution
chairman Sipho Pityana andStellenbosch Institute for Ad‐ vanced Study director Profes‐sor Bernard Lategan, agreed
with him, but undoubtedly,there are many out there whodo not.
WIKILEAKED US EMBASSY
CABLE: ANC THINKING LIKE
THE NATS
Wikileaks released a cablefrom the United States Em‐bassy in Pretoria that said thestruggles of the shack dwellers’movement, Abahlali baseM‐
jondolo, against the ANC gov‐ernment parallel those of the
ANC against the apartheid‐era
Arch Desmond Tutu (Reuters)
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government, Sapa reported.The notion expressed in thecable may cause some embar‐rassment, but only because it isclose to the bone. The US Em‐bassy in Pretoria on Thursday emphasised that the cables donot express US foreign policy.
MANYI CLARIFIES
GOVERNMENT POSITION ONLABOUR
At a post‐Cabinet media brief‐ing on Thursday, governmentspindoctor Jimmy Manyi reit‐erated government’s positionon the country’s labour lawsand job creation. This follows+,",87%(2,24#7'%R'"E2,%)$'*‐han’s comments – subsequent‐ly backed up by Trevor Manuel– that labour laws need to berelaxed to create employment.Manyi said only the labourdepartment was in the lead onlabour matters and that thecountry’s laws were in compli‐ance with the UN’s Interna‐tional Labour Organisation,
which advocates “decent work”.
DA LAUNCHES YOUTH WAGE
SUBSIDY INITIATIVE
The Democratic Alliance onThursday launched their youth
wage subsidy initiative at apress conference with shadowminister of trade and indus‐try Tim Harris and nationalspokeswoman Lindiwe Mazi‐
buko. The campaign launcheda website that tracked thecost of the jobs lost due to the“delays” in implementing thepolicy, which is only scheduledto kick in on 1 April 2012. If thecampaign succeeds, it will alsoconveniently (for the DA) drivea wedge between the ANC, whoproposed the youth wage sub‐sidy, and its tripartite alliancepartner Cosatu, who are bit‐terly opposed to it.
SOCIAL COLUMNIST DIES
)<7,%)233/%&$'(7'%>.,*"5%Times columnist and socialite,died on Wednesday night after"%3$,@%233,744=%)233%<"4%D,$<,%
for her acerbic and entertain‐ing write‐ups of the South
African social scene. Tributespored into radio stations, newssites and the social networks.)233%<"4%Yg%57"'4%$3*=
COMMUNITY REELING
FROM EASTERN CAPE BUS
ACCIDENT
The Western Cape community of Rheedendal near Knysna isstill reeling from a tragic ac‐cident that killed 14 childrenand the driver after a schoolbus’s brakes failed, causing it toplunge into a river on Wednes‐day. The 32‐seater bus wasH"8D7*%<2#-%g\%8-23*'7,=%A-7%T$"*%A'"o8%J","@7(7,#%B$'‐poration will be investigating
the accident.
ANC MP GUILTY OF
MISLEADING PARLIAMENT
Parliament’s joint committeeon ethics and members’ inter‐ests announced on Thursday that it had found ANC MP andchairman of the social devel‐opment committee YolandaBotha guilty of misleadingParliament. Botha allegedly @"E7%"%8$(H",5%$E7'%TgP%(23‐lion in tenders in exchange forshares in the company for herfamily and the renovation of her home. She failed to declareboth and has been reprimand‐7*%",*%+,7*%hP%*"54O%4"3"'5=
Jimmy Manyi (Reuters)
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SOUTH AFRICA LAND REFORM
government spokesman Jimmy Manyi said it in
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This is much closer to the actual policy
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expected to be tabled in March or April last year, then in August, but it wasn’t even ready
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The delay was due to the debate raging
within the ANC on the matter, and apparently
also because the team which drafted the
document embarrassingly didn’t quite come
up with what the minister and the ANC had in
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Most of the proposals have been reportedon extensively and they were amongst those
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Some of the things the policy won’t include
are: expropriation without compensation,
as called for by the ANC Youth League, a
restriction on land ownership by race, and a
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But there will be a Land Management
Commission, a Land Valuer‐General (who will
help negotiate reasonable prices for the land to
avoid exorbitant pricing, although the need for
this has been questioned by critics, who said
government should just implement its existing
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Board, with local management committees, and
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This four‐tier system includes state andpublic land leaseholds, private land freehold
title with limited extent, foreign precarious title
with regulatory limitations, obligations and
conditions (to prevent the country from falling
into rich and foreign hands) and communal
tenure for mixed use with institutionalised
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The “land ceilings” imposed on foreign
ownership have been controversial, although
not as controversial as the outright prevention
of foreign land ownership in the country, which
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investors and they have argued that foreign land
owners are in a minority in South Africa anyway
(a 2006 survey found less than 5% of South
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and legislation development in the department,explained to iMaverick that foreign land
ownership would be dealt with in the Land
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Some of the things the
policy won’t include are:
expropriation without
compensation, as called for
by the ANC Youth League, a
restriction on land ownership
by race, and a blanket ban on
foreign ownership.
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would steal money from government and
2,E74#%2#%2,%3",*%2,%$#-7'%8$.,#'274=He also gave an example of a Norwegian
national who recently bought land in the
Eastern Cape with money he stole from the
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The bill would also seek to impose a ceiling
on the amount of land foreigners can own,
and deal with the issue of “sensitive land”,
such as land close to military bases, which
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are sometimes bought by foreigners for
speculation purposes alone, releasing it later
on the market at “exorbitant prices”, while the
government might want to develop this land
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or private owners would not be able to turn a
productive farm into, say, a game farm or one
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Also, “we are expecting to be able to say to
a foreigner intending to purchase agricultural
land that he may need to partner with a
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released on Thursday (the paper on the
National Health Insurance two weeks ago
was released the day after Cabinet approved
it and published the next day) because it
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Cabinet meeting needed to be added, and
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READ MORE:1. Analysis: Valuing land, the next frontier in Daily Maverick
SOUTH AFRICA LAND REFORM
Also, “we are expecting to be able to say to a
foreigner intending to purchase agricultural land
that he may need to partner with a South African
in specific cases,” Sunday Ogunronbi said.
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SOUTH AFRICA COSATU
So strongly in fact that it issued a separate
addendum to the statement just to tackle this
issue. It hit out at Gordhan, and just about
everyone else who has entered the fray
on the side of those who want to "furtherexploit the workers".
There was plenty about he who won't be
singled out, but you'll have to read further to
get to that.
Because crucially important is that Cosatu
now believes the Constitution needs to be
changed to speed up land reform. It's about
clause 25, the property clause, that, depending
on who you vote for, protects the lawfulownership of property, or perpetuates an
apartheid economy. For Cosatu, of course, it's
the latter. For it's secretary‐general Zwelinzima
Vavi, this is "not just about land, it's an
2,7C."32#5%244.7/%",*%<7%"'7%H3"52,@%<2#-%+'7%
here". His point, and you've heard it before, is
that we cannot go on having the rich and poor
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we need some real meaningful change. Of
course, he's right, it's the how you do it that we
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But Cosatu, unlike some, is quite pragmatic
in it's approach. It's careful about changing the
Constitution, in fact, it understands why there
would be strong, principled opposition to doing
so. So it's open to other suggestions about how
to get around this problem.
Now onto the fun part. You know who
we mean. Last Friday, Cosatu said it wasn't@$2,@%#$%8$((7,#%$,%#-7%*2482H32,"'5%"`"2'4%
of an individual. Well, they tried to contain
themselves on Thursday, but battled a little.
First there was a lament that "some elements
in the Youth League use their power to
blackmail leaders". The point is that essentially
the league has been saying to ANC leaders, if
you don't back our policies "you won't see the
light of day in Mangaung". Cosatu's point isthat you must win people over through force
of argument, not through force of blackmail.
Cosatu also strongly endorses the ANC's
resolution on discipline from its national
general council (NGC) last year. That's a coded
way of saying that discipline is a good thing.
There was even a comment that "we want to see
decisiveness from ANC leaders on matters of
discipline". Of course all of this was "not about
individuals" at all. You get the drift.
Now to a crucial question. Six weeks ago, in
response to a question, Vavi looked the political
hack pack in the eye and said, "there is a battle
underway for the soul of the ANC, and I don't
For Cosatu, of course, it's the latter. For it'ssecretary-general Zwelinzima Vavi, this is
"not just about land, it's an inequality issue,
and we are playing with fire here".
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D,$<%<-$;4%@$2,@%#$%<2,q=%A-7%+@-#%$&%8$.'47%
is between Cosatu and the SACP on one side,
and that person and his League on the other.
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looking now?" The answer was very revealing.
Vavi started by talking about tenderpreneurs,
and then came the money byte, "the majority
of South Africans will not allow the country to
be pulled in this direction, even in Mangaung,
I don't believe the delegates we saw at the NGC
will say it's okay to allow this."
So, it really does seem that something has
shifted, that Cosatu is happier now than it was
six weeks ago. There's only been one big event
since then, so clearly it now has what it wanted.
Happiness rules the land in a workers paradise.
Except. Cosatu's central executive committee(CEC) is stressing unity. Way too much. There
was a whole section in the written statement
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the kicker. The CEC has a rule that unions and
their members are not allowed to talk about
succession. That's not ANC succession, that's
Cosatu succession. Vavi had said previously
his term that ends next year would be his last,
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There's also been talk of a bit of a bust‐up
between the miners and the steel‐workers over
who will take over.
If you get a sense of deja vu, well that's
because it was just three days ago that the
ANC's national executive committee made
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inevitable. And while Cosatu has a fairly solid
history of managing these issues well, things
they are a‐changing, as the ANC could tell you.
This issue is probably in hand for the moment,
but it needs to be watched closely. It could be
leading to something.
But for now everyone is focused on someone
else. Even though his name wasn't mentioned atCosatu House at all yesterday. But Vavi couldn't
resist one little jibe. While refusing to give any
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let slip that "I looked through the newspaper
cuttings of Tuesday’s ANC press conference,
and, I smiled".
And who can blame him.
SOUTH AFRICA COSATU
"the majority of South Africans will not allow
the country to be pulled in this direction, even inMangaung, I don't believe the delegates we saw
at the NGC will say it's okay to allow this."
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AFRICA BRIEFS
ZIMPLATS WARNSINDIGENISATION WOULD HURTOPERATIONS
Impala Platinum’s Zimbabweoperations, Zimplats, said onThursday that implementingthe Zimbabwe government’spolicy of indigenisation –
which requires that foreign‐owned companies transfer51% of their shareholding toZimbabwean blacks – wouldcripple their operations. Earlierthis week, the company saidthe government had rejectedthe companies proposed indi‐genisation plan, saying it wasnot enough and giving them 14days to provide a revised plan.
HRW: NIGERIA’S ECONOMICAND FINANCIAL CRIMESCOMMISSION A FAILURE
Nigeria’s anti‐corruption unit, which was created in 2002, hasfailed to do its job, according toHuman Rights Watch. The unithas been hogtied by political in‐terference and a weak judiciary.
Transparency International’scorruption perception indexhas consistently ranked Nigeriain the top ten most corrupt na‐tions until 2005 when it movedamong the top 50. Despite some-2@-]H'$+37%"''74#4/%#-7%8$.,#'5%still struggles with the percep‐tion and reality of corruption.
BURKINA FASO RECOGNISESNTC, OFFERS GADDAFIASYLUM
Ever so slowly and nation‐by‐nation, African countries havebegun to recognise the na‐tional transitional council asLibya’s government, followingtheir having captured Tripolithis week and driving Muam‐("'%)"**"+%2,#$%-2*2,@=%0.#%recognising the NTC’s legiti‐("85%-"4,O#%4#$HH7*%0.'D2,"%
f"4$%&'$(%$`7'2,@%)"**"+%"453.(=%0'$#-7'%97"*7'%)"* ‐*"+%H'$:":35%<$.3*%,$#%"887H#/%"4%0.'D2,"%f"4$%24%"%42@,"#$'5%to the International CriminalCourt and would be obliged toarrest and extradite him on the
warrant the court has issuedfor the former Libyan leader.
LIBYA AND SOUTH AFRICA TOSWAP CAF HOSTING DUTIES
That was quick. The South African Football Associationsaid in a statement that it hadstruck and agreement withLibya’s football federation,presumably run by the nationaltransitional council, to movethe 2013 Africa Cup of Nationstournament from Libya toSouth Africa. In exchange, the2017 tournament, which was
supposed to be in South Africa, will be moved to Libya. TheConfederation of African Foot‐ball’s executive committee willratify the decision when they meet in Cairo on 28 September.
FNB Stadium, Johannesburg (Reuters)
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CAMEROON GOVERNMENT
LOSES ALLIANCE PARTNER
The National Union for De‐mocracy and Progress, a Cam‐eroonian political party in analliance with the ruling Cam‐
eroon People’s DemocraticMovement, announced onA-.'4*"5%#-"#%2#%<233%:7%+73*2,@%its own candidate in the nextnational elections. The movecomes after the agreement ithad signed with CPDM ex‐pired. However, Africa Reviewreports that NUDP felt the alli‐ance had no substance or ben‐7+#%&$'%#-7(=%B"(7'$$,%@$74%
to the polls in October.
MYSTERY SEAWEED WASHES
UP IN SIERRA LEONE
In a scene reminiscent of a sci‐+%($E27%:7&$'7%2#%"33%@$74%-$'‐'2:35%<'$,@/%",%.,2*7,#2+7*%type of dead seaweed has been
washing up on the shores of Sierra Leone. So concerned the
west‐African nation has beenthat it has formed a presiden‐tial task team headed up by the
vice president to investigate.Scientists from neighbouring
Senegal have arrived in thecountry to help the task team.
SOUTH SUDAN ETHNIC
FIGHTING DISPLACES
THOUSANDS
The newly formed nation of South Sudan may have beencelebrating independence a
few months ago, but is faced <2#-%42@,2+8",#%",*%@'$<2,@%problems. The UN estimates#-"#%7#-,28%+@-#2,@%2,%e$,@372%state has displaced 26,800 peo‐ple, according to Africa Review.The clashes between the LouNuer and Murle communitieshave been over food, cattle andother resources.
YOUTHS BURN TANZANIA
n$.#-4%2,%A",1",2"%47#%+'7%#$%"%bar on the popular resort islandof Zanzibar in protest againstalcohol sales, Sapa reported.The island had experiencedsimilar attacks in the late 1990sand early 2000s.
UN FOOD PROGRAMME
IN RWANDA IN FUNDING
SHORTAGE
A funding shortage has forcedthe UN’s World Food Pro‐gramme to half its supply of food to Congolese refugees inRwanda. World food prices,
which have been increasing
rapidly over recent years, havemade the funding crisis worse.The programme estimates itneeds $3.8 million to cover theshortfall. The majority of therefugees in Rwanda are Congo‐3747%,"#2$,"34%<-$%-"E7%l7*%#-7% E2$37,#%8$,l28#%2,%#-72'%8$.,#'5=
NIGER WITHOUT POWER FOR
UP TO 48 HOURS
Niger has been experiencingpower shortages this week.Some towns’ power supply havebeen out since Monday, whichthe nation’s electricity com‐pany has attributed to a failedhigh‐voltage line from Nigeria.
South Sudan (Reuters)
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arica libya
In a little display of semantic gymnastics
South Africa requested that references to
Libya's national transitional council, or the
rebels, be removed from the proposal itself and
be replaced instead with “relevant authority”.South Africa’s initial refusal to agree to the US-
backed proposal was couched in concern that
an agreement to channel funds to the NTC
amounted to recognising the Benghazi-based
group as the legitimate representatives of the
Libyan people while removing specic mention
of the NTC allows South Africa to continue
along its path of measured caution on the war
in Libya.
South Africa and the African Union (AU)
have still not recognised the NTC as the
legitimate government of Libya .Well-placed
sources speculate that upon the conclusion of
the AU peace and security council meeting in
Addis Ababa on Friday, the African Union and
South Africa will admit that Muammar Gadda
is no longer the legitimate representativeof the Libyan people. It is also believed the
AU and South Africa will take steps towards
recognising an interim government in
place of Gadda. Signicantly, that interim
government for South Africa and the AU must
be dierentiated from the NTC in its current
form. The AU will demand, in accordance with
the much-ignored “roadmap” that has informed
its diplomacy on Libya so far, that the interim
government include elements from all sectors of
Libyan society. Tripoli must feature there just as
prominently as Benghazi. So too, must Libyantribes be considered in the make-up of the
interim government.
South Africa’s belated agreement to the
unfreezing proposal demonstrates uid a
stance the South African one on Libya is.
South Africa agreed to sign the unfreezing
proposal on condition the reference to the NTC
in the proposal be removed and replaced with
“relevant authority”.
The haggling at the UN over the $1.5 billion
is set to mark a precedent on what exactly
the fate of Gadda’s billions will be. Early on
Thursday the NTC announced they would seek
to free a whopping $5 billion in frozen assets to
“jump-start Libya’s economy and provide vital
relief to its citizens”. This initial sum is set to be
the rst of many transfers to Tripoli.South Africa’s agreement to the US-backed
proposal comes at the cost of great diplomatic
wrangling. On both sides of the Atlantic,
Western leaders expressed dismay at South
Africa’s refusal to the proposal, insisting
that the delay incurred by South Africa’s
refusal would be to the detriment of the
South a’s eted geement to the uneezng popos
demonsttes how fud stne the South an one on l
s. South a geed to sgn on ondton the eeene to the
NTc n the popos e emoved nd eped wth “eevntuthot”.
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spokesman Clayson Monyela assured the
assembled media that South Africa wasnot opposed to unfreezing funds for the
humanitarian assistance of the Libyan people.
Monyela went on to reiterate that South Africa
had not yet recognised the NTC. The UN,
Monyela pointed out, had also not recognised
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people. The AU, he said, will meet in Addis
Ababa to pronounce on who exactly the
legitimate government of Libya is and thenact on the distribution of frozen funds. By the
end of Thursday however, the action of the
South African mission to the UN to agree to
the unfreezing proposal indicates the AU had
already agreed that the Libyan people are not
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There is little doubt, however, that South
Africa faced tremendous diplomatic pressure
to agree to the unfreezing proposal. If South
Africa is indeed the fat kid in the diplomatic
playground, as one diplomat put it, then
South Africa has also been picked on like a fat
kid in a high school playground. A day after
the South African mission to the UN decided
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assets, the South African position on Libya
was lambasted by diplomats on both sides of
the Atlantic. It was clear to the US and its allies
pushing the proposal that South Africa had to
be pushed into a grudging acceptance of the
proposal. On Thursday, British Prime Minister
David Cameron called President Jacob Zuma.British foreign secretary William Hague called
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Their message to South Africa was
unequivocal, sign the damn proposal.
So desperate were British politicians to twist
the arm of their South African counterparts
that British defence secretary Liam Fox resorted
to psychological bullying. "They wanted the
world at one point to stand with them againstapartheid. I think they now need to stand with
the Libyan people, help unfreeze their assets
and allow their authorities to get access to the
capital they need to rebuild the country, and
it's disappointing the stance they have taken so
far. I hope that even now they will change their
minds," he said of South Africa on BBC radio.
Minds have now been changed. The coveted
$1.5 billion will soon make its way to Libya,
but it remains unclear how, if at all, the TNC
will acquiesce to a transitional government
that stunts its own power in the country.
Besides, it may well be some time before Libya
actually sees the requisite peace to form such
a government. The bombs continue to fall,
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foreseeable future continues to smoulder.
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There is little doubt, however, that South Africa faced
tremendous diplomatic pressure to agree to the
unfreezing proposal.
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chaos remains the order of the day in Tripoli.
A dirty bomb does not actually reach a critical
mass explosion, but, nevertheless, it can scattera thoroughly lethal cloud of radioactive debris
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talking about. After his time with the IAEA as
its deputy director, he is now a senior fellow at
the Belfer Center for Science and International
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his ties with the West and bring his nation
back from its international coventry, Muammar
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nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
Libya's uranium enrichment programme, and
the more sensitive material and documentation
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hands. This followed nine months of secret
talks between Libyan, American, and British$o82"34=%92:5"%7E7,#."335%"@'77*%#$%":2*7%:5%
the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and to
allow for inspections and monitoring. The last
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December 2009.
While the Libyan insurgency has now
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redoubt in the Libyan capital, the ongoing
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rebels supporting the transitional nationalcouncil have not yet completely overwhelmed
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situations like this that also mean chaos and
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course, the resulting burning, looting, pillaging
and plundering after many military victories is
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called world attention to possibilities in Libya
that could follow the very troubling precedent
that took place at the Tuwaitha atomic research
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was forced from power. In an online posting
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story did not end in a radiological disaster”. But,
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security concerns still linger”.L72,$,7,%,$#74%#-"#%*74H2#7%#-7%7"'327'%
stand‐down from a Libyan nuclear programme,
the country’s Tajoura research centre still stocks
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waste and low‐enriched uranium fuel from
three decades of nuclear research and radio
isotope production. Tajoura has a 10MW reactor
A dirty bomb does not actually reach a critical
mass explosion, but, nevertheless, it can scatter
a thoroughly lethal cloud of radioactive debrisacross an entire city.
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and is located some 34km east of Tripoli.
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be thankful that the highly enriched uranium
stocks are no longer in Libya, the remaining
material in Tajoura could, if it ended up inthe wrong hands, be used as ingredients for
dirty bombs. The situation at Tajoura today
is unclear. We know that during times of
regime collapse, lawlessness and looting
reign”. In the careful language of nuclear
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the transitional national council needs to be
cognisant of the dangers of the material stored
"#%A"W$.'"%",*%2#%,77*4%#$%U#"D7%#-7%,78744"'5%steps to secure these potentially dangerous
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warn the rebels, the west, the UN and anybody
else who might possibly be listening that
relying on luck is not an option.
The current regime in Libya is accountable
for the security of nuclear and radioactive
material. But once a transition occurs, the
TNC will become responsible, as it will be
in charge of all weapons and dangerous
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including a much‐publicised stockpile of bulk
mustard gas at a site southeast of Tripoli. The
TNC needs to be aware of the nuclear and
radioactive material sitting around Tajoura.
And it should assure the world that it accepts
its responsibility and will take the necessary steps to secure these potentially dangerous
radioactive sources.
Technically, experts call the threat of
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make with very hard‐to‐get‐your‐hands‐on
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means hard to do but with some really nasty
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U*2'#5%:$(:V%24%#7'(7*%"%U-2@-%H'$:":232#5/%3$<%
8$,47C.7,87%"8#V%k%3744%3$44%$&%32&7%2&%"8#."335%
.47*/%:.#%'7"335%7`78#2E7%"4%(7",4%$&%#7''$'242,@ whole nations and populations.
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Fitzgerald of the UK’s International Institute for
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number of nuclear and radiological materials
at Tajoura that could be used by terrorists
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A.<"2#-"%U4-$.3*%4#",*%"4%"%3744$,%&$'%#-7%,77*%
for nuclear security precautions in the situationtoday in Libya”.
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the king of kings of Africa, as he continues
to try to elude his pursuers through the back
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thing back in 2003 when Libya renounced
building of a crude nuclear and handed over
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out‐of‐the‐way place, or is standing before the
International Criminal Court or a courtroom
in Tripoli, the rest of us are going to be able to
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:7@2,%#$%(2(28%A$(%B3",85O4%-$''2+8%48'2H#=%%
READ MORE:1. Experts warn of Libya dirty bomb from Reuters
2. Nuclear Security Concerns Linger in Libya at Harvard’s
Belfer Center blog, “Power and Policy”
3. Libyan Nuclear Weapons at Global Security website (for
a history of the 2003 agreement and its aftermath)
4. Nuclear Weapons and the Libyan Intervention in The
National Interest
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WORLD BRIEFS
WORLD
USA
An Associated Press report hasfound that some 9/11 chari‐ties have taken the Americanpublic for a ride. For instance,one Arizona charity raisedmore than $700,000, largely from schools, in order to makea giant memorial quilt. Thereain't no quilt. They found thatin almost every category of 9/11charities, there was some formof dodginess – and many of these NGOs continue to raise($,75=%>-"(7&.3%4#.`=
USA
Hurricane Irene looks like itmight be headed towards NewEngland. The problem is thatthe inhabitants of cities like
Washington, Philadelphia andNew York have absolutely noexperience with hurricanes,so they’re worried they mightnot know how to access infor‐mation put out by the FederalEmergency Management Agen‐
cy (FEMA). FEMA is the same"@7,85%#-"#%8$(H37#735%4#.`7*%up when it came to HurricaneKatrina.
USA
A new poll spells mixed newsfor Obama. On the one hand,86% of Americans polled see
the economy as "poor". How‐ever, 47% think he deservesre‐election, which isn't a sig‐,2+8",#%*'$H%&'$(%#-7%3"4#%H$33%stat of 47%. And even better,
most people still think every‐thing is George W. Bush's fault, with 51% putting the blameon Dubya compared with 31%hatin' on Obama.
ISRAEL
Former Fox News presenterGlenn Beck is in Jerusalemdoing some morale‐raising.
He told the (overwhelmingly American, Christian) audi‐ence that "evil is growing" and"darkness is falling". Cheery 4#.`=%L24%473&]*783"'7*%(2442$,%is to "restore courage" to Israel.
You have to imagine that what‐7E7'%8$.'"@7]'74#$'"#2E7%7`78#4%his visit might have for thecountry would be outweighed
:5%#-7%RT%,2@-#("'7%$&%"o32‐ation with this right‐wingnut‐job.
LIBYAi.28D%)"**"+%'$.,*].Hc%"4%of Thursday evening, he wasstill at large, but anyone who+,*4%$'%D2334%-2(%24%3$$D2,@%"#%"%reward of around R12 million.Rebels looting his compoundhave made some interestingdiscoveries. Firstly, accordingto his passport, the real spell‐2,@%$&%-24%,"(7%24%)"#-"+=%
Secondly, they found a photoalbum containing only pics of Condoleeza Rice. Someone'sgot a crush...
UK
The UK's Home Secretary,Theresa May, held talks withexecs from BlackBerry, Twitter
Rick Perry (Reuters)
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and Facebook to discuss whatto do about youth using socialnetworking to mobilise dur‐ing riots. There had been a lotof panicky reports beforehand
that the government was plan‐ning to seek special powers toshut down the sites during civilunrest (shades of Egypt andChina), but they've said thisisn't true and they will merely "cooperate", whateverthat means.
USA
Ah, the glorious clarity of hindsight. Former US VP DickCheney says that he askedBush to bomb Syria ages ago,in 2007. He claims this inhis forthcoming autobiogra‐phy, "In My Time", which hitsshelves next week. Cheney takes advantage of the plat‐form to also diss Colin Powell,
who he says was undermining,",*%)"**"+;4%2,"($'"#"%B$,*2%Rice was apparently "naive".
INDIA
India's PM Manmohan Singhhas, like a Jewish mother,begged anti‐corruption activist
Anna Hazare to eat something. Well, he's appealed to him to
8"33%$`%-24%H.:328%-.,@7'%4#'2D7=%Singh said he respected andsaluted him and wants him toend it because "his life is muchtoo precious". Not because it'shugely politically inconvenientfor you to have the entire coun‐try out on the streets protest‐ing, Mr Singh?
SWEDEN
Flatpack furniture will neverbe the same. Hot on the heels
of the revelation that CocoChanel spied for the Na‐zis comes the news that theSwedish founder of the Ikeafurniture chain, Ingvar Kam‐prad, was an active recruiterfor a Swedish Nazi group.This is the claim of a newbook about Mr Kamprad, andit seems solid. Kamprad nowsays his involvement was a
stupid youthful mistake. Youknow, like smoking.
USA
The early frontrunner in theRepublican presidential cam‐paign was Mitt Romney. But,$<%#-7%2(H788":35%8$2`7*%Romney has been beaten in a
YouGov poll by Rick Perry, theTexan governor who enteredthe race late. This is bad news
for anyone who believes in cli‐mate change or evolution. Thesilver lining is, though, thatloony Michele Bachmann isnowhere in the race.
CHINA
B-2,";4%:77+,@%.H%2#4%(232#"'5%– news that should make all of us a tiny bit afraid. The Penta‐
gon says China will have a big‐ass modern military by 2020,and they also say this couldthreaten stability in the region.China has said the US is exag‐gerating. Actually what they said, in an impressive display of mastery over slightly archaicEnglish idioms, was that it was"cock‐and‐bull”.
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WORLD INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
jurisprudence from the judicial body designed
as humanity’s answer to evil in this world.
It hasn’t been easy. The trial was suspended
twice, with the prosecution at fault both times:
+'4#/%&$'%&"232,@%#$%&.335%*2483$47%"33%2#4%7E2*7,87%to the defense team, including some which
was potentially favourable to Lubanga, who
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and again, for defying a court order to reveal
the identity of an intermediary used by the
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were resolved, eventually, but highlighted the
enormous sensitivities involved in assessing
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There’s not much the ICC can do to guarantee
the safety of witnesses from its base in The
Hague, with its limited resources, especially
when witnesses believe that Lubanga remains
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nonetheless, it’s a foundation of the court that
the accused has access to information which
might be used against him.
The prosecution wasn’t helped by two
witnesses who admitted to fabricating evidence
while on the witness stand, recanting their
written statements. One later claimed that he’d
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his original statement once he’d been given
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done, especially given that the defense had all
along been arguing that prosecution witnesses
were making it all up. The defense later usedall these irregularities to argue that the case be
thrown out of court. This motion was denied
by the judge, who nonetheless concluded
that questions remain about whether the
prosecution has abused the judicial process in
some areas.
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the ins and outs of the case, a guilty verdict is
likely to be seen as a vindication for the court’s
slow and methodical approach to evidence
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expect a hailstorm of criticism, particularly
from the Great Lakes region where there’s less
doubt about Lubanga’s guilt than there is about
the ability of the ICC to deliver justice.
The ICC has only been around a few years, but
is already plagued with some serious problems,
most serious is its lack of international appeal.
While some 139 countries have signed up, this
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The prosecution wasn’t helped by two
witnesses who admitted to fabricating evidence
while on the witness stand, recanting their
written statements.
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that’s over a third of the world’s population not
involved. Their reluctance to participate is toprotect their own soldiers from prosecution,
which is practically a confession that they’re up
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slick‐haired, press conference‐loving Luis
Moreno Ocampo, who seems more interested in
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recent history of indictments seems to coincide
with news cycles particularly well. Take the
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charged with murder and persecution. These
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but the formal charges only came up once
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And from an African perspective, the ICC’s
got a serious image problem. Judging by its
indictments, war criminals are always Africanand usually black. Of the six “situations”
under investigation by the ICC, all are in
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Uganda, Sudan, Libya and Cote D’Ivoire. No
Afghanistan or Iraq on that list, no Syria or
Iran, no Mexico, no USA. It seems there haven’t
been any crimes against humanity in any other
continent over the last few years, which is either
because they’re all so much more peaceful
than this barbaric Africa we live in, or there’s afundamental problem somewhere along the line
with how cases are opened and investigated.
It’s the latter. The ICC is hamstrung by the
fact that it can’t launch its own investigations
except in exceptional circumstances, relying on
referrals from participant countries or from the
UN Security Council. This means they’re asked
to investigate usually when countries can’t
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African states), or when there’s a very broad
international consensus – a consensus which
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remembered that the future of the court itself
is still on trial, and without a few procedural
tweaks and a genuine commitment to justice
everywhere, it will lose its legitimacy very
quickly, and the dream of an international
solution to the world’s very worst problems will
be lost along with it.
WORLD INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Of the six “situations” under investigation by
the ICC, all are in Africa – the DRC, CentralAfrican Republic, Uganda, Sudan, Libya
and Cote D’Ivoire.
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BUSINESS BRIEFS
SA
The JSE All Share ended down0.9% to close at 29,349. AfricanBank Investments led the Top40 shares south, losing 3.6% as+,",82"3%4-"'74%2,%@7,7'"3%#$$D%"%hammering. Standard Bank alsolost 3.3%. Exxaro Resources, thecoal producer, gained 3% as mostminers closed up on the day.
Striking miners and the pooreconomic climate generated4$(7%D2,*%$&%:7,7+#%&$'%>$.#-%
Africans. Eskom, South Af‐rica’s electricity parastatal,reported that demand for elec‐tricity from heavy users haddecreased, allowing the util‐ity to get through the coldestmonths of the year without
having to enforce rolling black‐outs. “Strikes in the metals and(2,2,@%478#$'4%#$$D%42@,2+‐8",#%3$"*%$`%#-7%454#7(%*.'‐ing some of the coldest winter
weeks,” said CEO Brian Dames.Eskom is also aiming to in‐crease stock levels by 10% to 40days, ahead of the rainy season.
Mass US retailer, WalMart, is
setting up local investmentMassmart to aggressively takeon South Africa’s dominantgrocer’s Pick n Pay, Shopriteand Spar. The retailer an‐nounced its intentions to dou‐ble its share of food sales by engaging in a price and margincutting programme.
GLOBAL
UK
Hedge managers are bracingthemselves for more knee‐jerk
restrictions by European mar‐ket regulators as they considermore bans on short‐sellingtrades. Four countries institutedbans on short‐selling earlier thismonth, although this measureproved fruitless in the wake of
wild market swings. France,Italy and Spain will see the banslapse this week whilst the ban in073@2.(%24%2,*7+,2#7=%
The Bank of England an‐nounced that would not beengaging in further monetary stimulus despite the poor eco‐,$(28%7,E2'$,(7,#%",*%+,",‐cial turmoil of recent weeks.
According the BOE, the over‐all climate is still brighter now
than it was in the lead up to the+,",82"3%8'2424=
Diageo, the world’s largest spir‐it producer, announced betterthan expected earnings report‐ing a 16% increase for the full
year‐ended 30 June. The Brit‐24-%("D7'%$&%>(2',$`%j$*D"%and Johnnie Walker Whisky promptly announced a further10% earning increase forecastfor the next period.
US
Tim Cook, the current COO of Apple Inc, issued a statement
on Thursday in an attemptto assure the market he is ca‐H":37%$&%+332,@%#-7%4-$74%$&%#-7%legendary Steve Jobs, as CEO.Cook’s current responsibilitiesinclude everything from manu‐facturing to customer service.
After initially dropping 7% onthe news in European trading,
Bank of England's Mervyn King (Reuters)
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shares recovered to a 2% loss inearly New York trading.
03$$(:7'@%#-7%,7<4%",*%+‐nancial information service
provider, agreed to buy LegalT747"'8-%+'(/%0!?%&$'%W.4#%.,‐der $1 billion. The deal is partof wider strategy to incorporatenew products to the data ter‐minal used by traders and ex‐ecutives around the world.
Shares in Bank of America,surged 12% on the back of a $5billion investment commit‐
ment announced by BerkshireL"#-"<"5/%^"''7,%0.`7#O4%investment holding company.BOA will sell cumulative per‐petual preferred shares toBerkshire, paying an annualdividend of 6%. The deal alsoincludes warrants that allowBerkshire to buy 700 million
shares of BOA stock at a strikeprice of $7.14 each.
Expectations are rife that FederalReserve Chairman, Ben Ber‐
nanke, will not announce any further stimulus packages for aUS economy that is still growingand experiencing rising prices.
SOUTH KOREA
Samsung again denied ru‐mours it was set to snap upHewlett‐Packard’s PC businessand become the world’s largest
PC maker. Samsung is the big‐gest producer of memory chips",*%8$(H.#7'%l"#%48'77,4=
CHINA
Microsoft announced a partner‐ship with a Chinese softwarecompany to develop and market
cloud‐computing products in thacountry. Solutions to large enter‐prise clients such as online retailerbanks and government industries
would be targeted in the move, thcould see the US software giantadopt a template for its emergingmarket expansion plans.
GERMANY
The country’s highest court willpass judgment on 7 Septemberon whether the Merkel govern‐ment broke the law with last‐
year’s bailouts of debt‐strickeneurozone countries. If found tobe illegal, Berlin’s room to moveand manage to the European crsis will be severely hindered.
Audi AG, the luxury car manu‐facturer is bucking worldwidetrends and actually hiring more4#"`%#$%2,8'7"47%H'$*.8#2$,%37E ‐
els. Topping the list is the A8l"@4-2H%47*",%#-"#%<233%477%"%&.'ther 57% boost in capacity levelBMW, Merc and Audi all expectto report record deliveries this
year on the back of growing de‐mand in, you guessed it, China.
BELGIUM
The European Union is prepar‐
ing to release blocked Libyan&.,*4/%$,87%#-7%@'77,%l"@%-"4%been given by the United Na‐tions. Libya’s new government
will require funding to keep staemployed civil servants remu‐nerated and start the process ofrebuilding the country after the'7@2(7%8-",@7]2,4H2'7*%+@-#2,@
Bill and Melinda Gates (Reuters)
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BUSINESS MASSMART
cautioned analysts that it'd be best to consider
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Massmart reported a R918.8 million profit
on Thursday, on R53.1 billion in revenues, anincrease of 11.6% for the year.
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to start losing out to somebody else soon.
READ MORE:1. Massmart results statement (PDF)
BUSINESS MASSMART
Ironically enough, Massmartis happy to talk about its
determination to expand intoevery Southern African countryexcept Zimbabwe – because itconsiders "indigenisation" rulesthere to be a clear messagethat foreign investors aren'twelcome.
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BUSINESS MUSA KALENGA
the power of what Kanye West lives for.
Kalenga’s a youth marketing expert.
Scratch that. He’s a sassy, smart man who
has the key to decoding consumer behaviour
in youth markets. The problem with callingsomeone legitimate a youth marketing expert
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a compliment, because the term’s become
muddied by a legion of pretenders. Kalenga’s the
real deal, which is why everyone wants to hear
him speak about how to get inside the head of
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to get a handle on.
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you know is that geography is becoming
increasingly irrelevant when it comes to
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would draw a distinction between a 19‐year‐old
living in Rosebank, and a person of the same
age living in Soweto.
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are being blurred by access to information.In future, it could be likely that marketers
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of access they have to information. Who you
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you’re connected to, rather than by external
aspects of your life like geography. “Whether
you are in Braamfontein or Soweto, if you have
a BlackBerry you have a shared outlook on life
because of your access to information. There’s
been a massive blurring of outlook because of
information access,” says Kalenga.
However the move into the digital worldhasn’t yet blurred divisions between Cape Town
and Johannesburg. Kalenga says what drives
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complex. “Johannesburg is viewed as a place
with bright lights and opportunity beyond
what people can dream of. This is driven by the
Jo’burg dream which centres on making your
dreams come true. There’s a bling theory to
Johannesburg which is all about big spending
and big brands.” In Jozi, the moola matters
because it can get you Louis Vuitton. The Cape
Town youngsters are a lot more nurturing and
sensitive, and there, it’s about the culture.
“In Cape Town, life and identity is more
about cultures, sub‐cultures and urban
cultures. There is this strong notion of
supporting the underdog,” says Kalenga.“There’s this pervasive understanding of the
need to support brands that haven’t made it
big in the city, but to which you have a strong
connection and which resonate with you.
Cape Town youth are risk takers, and are a lot
more adventurous and open to trying out new
brands.”
The first thing that Kalenga will have you know is that
geography is becoming increasingly irrelevant when itcomes to defining youth.
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Back in Jozi, people stick to what is popular
and what’s ‘in’. This could be why Cape Town
is a more nurturing environment for emerging
brands, particularly in the technology, food,
social media, fashion and hospitality sectors.There’s much more consumer tolerance for
experimentation, and often, brands make it
good in Cape Town before spreading across the
rest of the country.
Take Head Honcho, that cool clothing
apparel brand that started in Cape Town by
Nick Kaoma and Mzoxolo Gcwabe in 2008.
UA-75%<7,#%,"#2$,<2*7%":$.#%+E7%($,#-4%
ago. They had loads of followers in Cape Townamongst aspirant, modern achievers. From a
psychographic perspective, these people have a
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these youth it is by their attitude which
embraces the progressive mentality that’s
coming up in Africa,” says Kalenga.
Head Honcho has positioned its brand slap‐
bang in the middle of that empowering attitude
with a slogan that demands of its followers:
“Live Progressively”. “Head Honcho has been
endorsed by AKA who was a member of a
group, but who has started a solo career. Head
L$,8-$%-"*%2*7,#2+7*%-2(%"4%$,7%$&%#-72'%
ambassadors and he’s dressed by them, and
he has a strong presence in social media. The
partnership has worked well because AKA is
now one of the top rotational players on 5fm
and Head Honcho has supported him and
helped get him there.”
Community and co‐operation are hugeamongst urban youth, and Kalenga says that
this is a modern mash up of the Ubuntu cliché,
although he’s loath to use the word because it’s
so dated. “Both AKA and Head Honcho were
at the early stages of their career and they saw
that they could add value to each other and
that’s what has worked to reinforce both their
brands.”
Today’s urban youth a developing incommunities rather than developing on their
own. “Young people in cities are actualising
much sooner than people from previous
generations. They understand the value they
can add to society and often hook up with
others who also get this and mutualise much
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their way,” says Kalenga.
Grolsch was clever and spoke directly to
this communal value with a brand campaign
called “Mavericks by Grolsch”. The beer
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together once a month for discussions that
mattered to this group. “Every young person
who is achieving wants to connect with others
BUSINESS MUSA KALENGA
Head Honcho has positioned its brand slap-bang in the
middle of that empowering attitude with a slogan that
demands of its followers: “Live Progressively”
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who are doing the same sort of thing. Thatcampaign was incredibly successful because
it appealed to ability to this desire to connect,
but in a manner in which these young people
were adding value to each other’s lives and
businesses,” says Kalenga.
Those are the brand wins. But what about
youth brands that have tanked? AmaKipKip
<"4%"%5$.#-%:'",*%l"E$.'%&$'%($'7%#-",%"%
month with a series of T‐shirts that made a
strong social statement. The brand changed the
colours of their shirts and the typography but
kept the original design. “I bought a lot of their
4#.`/%:.#%"4%#-7%'",@7%7E$3E7*%H7$H37%'7"3247*%
that they could reproduce these T‐shirts
themselves considerably cheaper. They had an
Asian supplier of their T‐shirt who decided to
4#$H%4.HH352,@%?("_2H_2H%",*%("D7%D,$8D%$`4% which were sold at China City which devalued
the brand.” Kalenga says innovation is crucial
to keeping a brand relevant and alive in youth
markets.
And what about one last parting shot?
If there’s one thing brand owners need to
remember about urban youth marketing what
should that be? “Never underestimate the
power of information,” says Kalenga. “Mobilesharing and own media is saturating the lives
of younger generations. 50% of all content
consumed by 18 to 20 year olds is content that
they have created, or that someone they know
has created. There’s so much referencing to
each other content, and the creation of tribes
around content and content sharing.”
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“consumer segment” to connect to because
unlike older audiences, they don’t readily listen
to or absorb marketing messages. Connecting
with urban youth is all about listening,
understanding and relating authentically using
shared interests that add value. Which means
that this is the generation that could possibly
be the smartest because they’re demanding
that brands wake up and start treating themlike real people who deserve more. Enough with
being mere numbers that turn revenue.
READ MORE:
1. The Class of 2015 Likes Nike and Blackberry, Not MTV and
Abercrombie in Forbes
2. The Worst of Youth in Slate
BUSINESS MUSA KALENGA
Urban youth are the most difficult local “consumer
segment” to connect to because unlike older audiences,
they don’t readily listen to or absorb marketingmessages. Connecting with urban youth is all about
listening, understanding and relating authentically using
shared interests that add value.
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LIFE, ETC BRIEFS
USAMichael Jackson's old man‐ager has died. Frank DiLeo,
who managed MJ through the\P4/%24%*7"*%"#%vh%"'%4.`7'‐ing complications from heartsurgery. Towards the end of
Jacko's life, DiLeo returned to work with him on the "This IsIt" tour.
CHINA
Palaeontologists have discov‐ered a 160 million‐year oldChinese fossil of a shrew‐likecreature that they say is theearliest known example of ananimal with a placenta. This,then, is the evolutionary pointat which marsupials and non‐
marsupials split. Or, if you'reRick Perry, the point at whichGod invented placentas.
SAUDI ARABIA
More news from animal his‐tory, namely that Saudi ar‐chaeologists have found tracesof a civilisation that starteddomesticating horses 9,000
years ago. That's 4,000 years7"'327'%#-",%#-75%+'4#%#-$.@-#=%The reason they know they
were doing this is because they found a metre‐tall statue of ahorse, which suggests they hada close, though not inappropri‐ately close, relationship withthe beasts.
USA
Jim Carrey, who it is compul‐sory for journalists to refer toas "rubber‐faced funnyman JimCarrey", has posted a bizarre
video on his website declaring
his love for “The Amazing Spi‐der Man” actress Emma Stone,27 years his junior. In the touch‐ing/creepy declaration, he sayshe'd like to "go camping andplay Yahtzee" with her. Unclearif the latter is a euphemism.
USA
Forbes Magazine's annual 100
Most Powerful Women list isout. Number one is GermanChancellor Angela Merkel,
with Hillary Clinton at num‐ber two. Oprah has dropped11 places – from 3 to 14 – sincelast year, probably as a result of ending her show. The top celebis Lady Gaga at 11.
SOUTH AFRICA
;?'*@"#7;%24%$o82"335%$E7'%<2#-%the publication of a grovellingapology letter on Ard Mat‐thews's website. Titled "sorry South Africa", it pitifully records
his shame and misery aftermangling the national anthem,saying it was the "longest anddarkest day of his life". Quitesweet, though a pity he spelt thename of the anthem wrong.
INDIA
Scientists at CERN are get‐#2,@%83$47'%#$%+,*2,@%#-7%L2@@4%
Boson, aka the "God particle", which is proving as elusive as)"**"+=%A-75;E7%:77,%3$$D2,@%for it for more than 50 years. Theparticle is theoretical only, so itmay not even exist, which wouldsuck. It supposedly confers mass.No, we don't really understandmuch about it either.
Angela Merkel (Reuters)
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USA
Never again need you worry about your cellphone runningout of juice mid‐call. Research‐ers at the University of Wis‐consin have invented a deviceto be placed in shoes and con‐
vert the energy you expend in walking into electrical current.They call this process "reverseelectrowetting". Except obvi‐ously it'll only work as long as
you're willing to walk, so pre‐H"'7%#$%@7#%+#=
USA
And here's some morecompletely unsurprisinggay‐related news: they'reeverywhere! In the States, atleast. US gays are no longerliving ghettoised existences inSan Francisco and New York,according to the latest censusdata. They're in Detroit, they'rein Pennsylvania, they're inDelaware. But mostly they're inProvincetown, Massachusetts, <-28-%24%$o82"335%#-7%gayest place in America(proportionally).
USA
Mazeltov, bisexual men: you$o82"335%7I24#p%?%,7<%4#.*5%:5%Northwestern University has8$,+'(7*%#-"#%("37%:247I."3‐ity is actually a thing and not
just a halfway house on theroad to gay. They establishedthis by attaching sensors togenitals and making the sub‐
jects watch porn. Millions of bisexual men around the worldmust have woken up withsmiles on their dials today after-"E2,@%2#%$o82"335%8$,+'(7*%that they weren't just making4#.`%.H%"33%"3$,@=
Hillary Clinton (Reuters)
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SA
Football: South Africa will hostthe 2013 African Nations Cupand not the 2017 edition, theSouth African Football Associ‐ation have revealed. Accordingto a brief statement on SAFA's$o82"3%<7:42#7/%<2#-%92:5"%8.'‐'7,#35%&"82,@%H$32#28"3%.H-7"E"3/%the two countries will swaptheir respective tournaments.
T.@:5c%>-"'D4%8$"8-%e$-,%Plumtree has made fourchanges to his team for Satur‐*"5;4%B.''27%B.H%83"4-%<2#-%#-7%)$3*7,%92$,4%2,%e$-",,74:.'@=%9<"12%JE$E$%24%:"8D%&'$(%#-7%>H'2,@:$D4%",*%'7H3"874%d*<"%
Ndungane, who is with theT.@:5%^$'3*%B.H%4C."*=%d#-7'%8-",@74%2,%#-7%:"8D]32,7%4774%
veteran Stefan Terblanche re‐#.',2,@%#$%H"'#,7'%J757'%0$4‐(",%2,%(2*+73*/%<-237%B-"'3%J897$*%24%:"8D%"#%48'.(]-"3&%2,%H3"87%$&%B$,'"*%L$`(",,=%
f$$#:"33c%R$3$D<",7%("5$'%f'7**5%)'7"E7'%24%"HH"337*%"#%
>?f?%&$'%($E2,@%0"&",";4%NPMN% ?fBd!%C."32+7'%"@"2,4#%>27''"%97$,7%#$%J:$(:73"%>#"*2.(/%in Nelspruit. The match wasH'7E2$.435%48-7*.37*%#$%#"D7%H3"87%"#%#-7%R7#7'%J$D":"%>#"‐dium but SAFA has changed#-7%E7,.7/%477(2,@35%<2#-‐$.#%",5%8$,4.3#"#2$,%<2#-%#-7%R$3$D<",7%(.,282H"32#5=
GLOBALJ$#$'%'"82,@c%f$'(.3"%d,7%4.H'7($%07',27%G88374#$,7%:7‐327E74%J28-"73%>8-.("8-7'%<233%:7%"%q+'4#]83"44q%#7"(%H'2,82H"3%should he decide to ever godown that avenue. Schumachercelebrates two decades in F1 at#-24%<77D7,*;4%073@2",%)'",*%R'2I%"'%("D2,@%-24%*7:.#%&$'%
e$'*",%"#%>H"]f'",8$'8-"(H4%on August 25, 1991, the scene of -24%+'4#%'"87%E28#$'5/%$,7%57"'%3"#7'=%?'%47E7,%^$'3*%B-"(‐pionships and 91 races, Schum‐"8-7'%'7#2'7*%2,%NPPv/%$,35%#$%'7#.',%2,%NPMP%#$%*'2E7%&$'%J7'‐cedes GP.
T.@:5c%%G,@3",*%8$"8-%J"'‐
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#$%#-7%#7"(%#-"#%3$4#%#$%^"374/% when he named his side to faceF'73",*/%2,%#-72'%+,"3%^$'3*%Cup warm‐up match. Chris
Ashton, Andrew Sheridan and e"(74%L"4D733%W$2,%J",.%A.2‐3"@2/%e$,,5%^23D2,4$,%",*%A$(%Croft in the starting lineup for>"#.'*"5;4%@"(7%2,%K.:32,/%"& ‐#7'%G,@3",*%4#.(:37*%#$%"%MQ]Q%*7&7"#%2,%B"'*2`/%#<$%<77D4%
ago.
US
)$3&c%R-23%J28D734$,%24,;#%-$3*‐2,@%:"8D%-24%&7732,@4%$,%<-$%should be captain FreddieB$.H374;%+'4#%<23*%8"'*%H28D%&$'%the upcoming Presidents Cupmatches in Australia. And that
J28-"73%>8-.("8-7' (Reuters)
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(",%24%87'#"2,35%,$#%A2@7'% ^$$*4/%:.#%'"#-7'%6>%R)?% <2,,7'%_77@",%0'"*375/%@$3&%
,7<74#%'242,@%4#"'=%?%(7445%*2E$'87/%"%47'2$.4%D,77%2,‐ W.'274%",*%"%4<2,@%8-",@7%#-"#%4#233%24,;#%<$'D2,@%(7",4% ^$$*4%<233%,77*%"%<23*%8"'*%#$%("D7%2#%2,#$%#-7%6>%team for the Presidents Cupmatches in November.
Golf: South African Retief
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cident at his home on Florida.A-7%)$$47%4,.8D%2,#$%#-7%f7*GI%B.H%H3"5]$`4%"'%+,‐24-2,@%MPM%$.#%$&%#-7%MNg%C."32‐+7'4/%",*%,77*4%#$%("D7%#-7%8.#%"#%A-7%0"'83"54%2,%"%,7<% e7'475%#-24%<77D%2,%$'*7'%#$%D77H%-24%47"4$,%"32E7=%)$$47,%decided to move his boat intothe garage because of the ap‐
proaching Hurricane Irene, butthe front wheel of his trailerran over his right foot and frac‐tured his big toe in the process.
SPAIN
The Spanish football leagueX9fRZ%",*%#-7%H3"57'4;%.,2$,%X?fGZ%-"E7%"@'77*%#7'(4%$E7'%unpaid wages that will allow#-7%9"%92@"%47"4$,%#$%4#"'#%#-24% <77D7,*=%A-7%+'4#%'$.,*%$&%matches in the top two divi‐sions were postponed as dis‐8.442$,4%:'$D7%*$<,%$E7'%#-7%
value of a fund to cover unpaidH3"57'%4"3"'274%"#%83.:4%<-$%"'7%
4#'.@@32,@%+,",82"335%$'%-"E7%gone into administration.
GERMANY
0"57',%J.,28-%<2,@7'%?'W7,%Robben has admitted a move to9"%92@"%@2",#4%0"'873$,"%<$.3*%be a “fantastic option” for him.A-7%K.#8-%4#"'%-"*%H'7E2$.435%spent two seasons at the Span‐24-%83.:;4%:2##7'%'2E"34%T7"3%J"‐drid following his rise to prom‐2,7,87%"#%R'7(27'%97"@.7%83.:%Chelsea. In response to specu‐3"#2$,%32,D2,@%-2(%<2#-%"%($E7%#$%#-7%B"(H%!$./%#-7%NY]57"']$3*%2,424#7*%-7%<"4%-"HH5%2,%)7'(",5%:.#%<$.3*,;#%'.37%$.#%a move to the current Champi‐$,4%97"@.7%8.H%-$3*7'4=%
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Ferrari says they’re still in it to win it, but their
actions tell us they’re hedging their bets. The
team has started work on their 2012 car hoping
to be competitive from the word go compared
to their 2011 campaign, which hasn’t really got
going. For some perspective, at this stage last year, Fernando Alonso was only ten points behind
eventual driver’s championship winner Sebastian
Vettel. This year, he is 89 points behind and the
team is, at best, driving for second position as
their current third place in the constructors’
championship is not under any threat.
Neither championship is won yet for Red
Bull, but if comments from Vettel and team
principal Christian Horner are anything to
go by, the team will be looking at victories as
bonuses because, save for major cock‐ups in
multiple races, the 2011 season is theirs to lose.
In driver news, Bruno Senna has replaced
Nick Heidfeld at Renault for the next two
races. Speculation is that the team is trying to
make this more of a permanent arrangement.
Heidfeld only got the seat because RobertKubica was sidelined by the life‐threatening
injuries he sustained in crash during a rally.
Kubica has been undergoing rehabilitation and
is expected to have one more surgery on
his elbow.
Other Spa news is that Charlie Whiting, the
race control guy, has barred the use of the drag
reduction system at Eau Rouge complex – the
breathtaking series of left‐right‐left corners
<-7'7/%2,%NPPP/%J2D"%LxDD2,7,%H.337*%$`%
what is arguably one of the greatest passes in
grand prix history. The guy he made the move
on was seven‐times world champion MichaelSchumacher, who this weekend is celebrating
20 years since his Formula 1 debut. A special
celebration was held for him at the circuit on
Thursday where everyone wished him many
more races. Hip, hip, old guy.
Weather and tyres have made or broken
races this year, so with sunny skies predicted for
Sunday, we’ll have to rely a jumbled grid from
a potentially wet qualifying and tires to bring
the drama. Pirelli have said there will be a big
H7'&$'(",87%*2`7'7,87%:7#<77,%#-7%(7*2.(%
and soft tyre compounds that will be in use this
weekend. Big as in more than a second, mainly
because of the length of the track, so expect
#$%477%$E7'#"D2,@%($E74%"4%*'2E7'4%$,%*2`7'7,#%
4#'"#7@274%+,*%#-7(473E74%$,%#-7%4"(7%H"'#4%$&%
the track.Prediction: Should it remain dry through
qualifying and if Hamilton can do a better
job of making the soft compound last, he will
take Belgium again with Vettel shadowing him
home. As always, Alonso remains the joker in
the pack, so third place is between him and
Mark Webber.
Ferrari says they’re still in it to win it, but their
actions tell us they’re hedging their bets. The team
has started work on their 2012 car hoping to be
competitive from the word go
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