Global South African News Wrap 30 July 2012

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Global South African Weekly News Wrap Up 30 July

2012

Contents

De Klerk: Mbeki, Mandela era of reconciliation is over .......................................... 2Boeremag treason finding is first since 1994 ............................................................. 3Malema's Zuma remix ................................................................................................. 4SACP seeking more influence in Cosatu ................................................................. 5Inequalities threaten SAs economic growth report ............................................ 7DA on early campaign trail with fresh economic policy .......................................... 8Zanu (PF) rejects parts of draft constitution .......................................................... 10Political killings about positions, money ............................................................... 11Education crisis not Verwoerds fault but present governments Ramphele ... 12Angie fights for job .................................................................................................... 13'Africa still lacking a great deal' ............................................................................... 16Chorus forming against JZ ....................................................................................... 17Cwele rethinks refusal to discuss bill..................................................................... 19Western Capes growth of 3,1% beats national economy ...................................... 20Launch of DA vision comes with countrywide campaign ...................................... 21Madonsela probing education problems in three provinces .................................. 23


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26 July 2012

Mail and Guardian

Nickolaus Bauer

De Klerk: Mbeki, Mandela era of reconciliation is over

Former president FW de Klerk has called on all South Africans to be more politically

active to combat the ANC's national democratic revolution.

We must not be critics, sitting on our couches, blowing off steam in our homes. All

South Africans must get onto [the] playing field and become politically active, De

Klerk said in his closing address at the FW de Klerk Foundations discussion in

Johannesburg about the recent ANC policy conference.

The ANC policy conference resolved to charter a new economic future for South

Africa based on rapid transformation through concentrated land reform and greater

state activity in the economyparticularly the mineral sector.

It is understood these reforms would occur within the context of the ANC and its

alliance partners national democratic revolution.

The national democratic revolution wants to transform us into a communist state.

This is dangerous. Communism has been proved to fail, De Klerk said.

De Klerk said the rhetoric employed by the ruling party was becoming increasingly

hostile towards white South Africans.

The Mandela and Mbeki era of reconciliation is over, he said.

White males are quite unjustly blamed for the continuing triple crisis of

unemployment, inequality and poverty.

De Klerk claimed the ANC was using racism as a smokescreen to hide their failures

in management and governance, citing the Limpopo textbook crisis as a case in point.

The fact that the president blames this on the presidency of [Hendrik] Verwoerd is

unacceptable, it is strictly a management issue. It did not derive from apartheidit isinexcusable, he said.

While De Klerk conceded mistakes had been made in setting about black ownership

in the South African economy, it was wrong to say the Constitution was a barrier to

bringing about equality.

The black share of the South African economy has grown exponentially and

dramatically. It is the job of government to improve that, he said.

De Klerk said the overwhelming majority of South Africans, irrespective of race or

colour, were prepared to take hands to build the country, but it was up to them toensure a better future.


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Choose the political party which is nearest to what you believe in. But it is important

that you become politically active, that is the most effective way of bringing about

change, he said.

27 July 12Business Day

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Wyndham Hartley

Boeremag treason finding is first since 1994

Boeremag leader Mike du Toit has been found guilty of treason, in what is reportedly

the first treason conviction in the post-1994 era.

Most famously, former president Nelson Mandela was once charged with high treason

in 1961 but was acquitted.

The charges for which he was sentenced in July 1964 to life imprisonment were for

sabotage and not high treason.

Yesterday media sources reported that Du Toit had been found guilty of treason for

playing a leading role in a plot to overthrow the African National Congress-led

government by violence. Judge Eben Jordaan, according to Sapa, said during a

previous court appearance that Du Toit, a former university lecturer, was the author of

a blueprint for a violent coup and had discussed the plan in detail with others.

Du Toit and 21 others were arrested in 2002. They were charged with high treason,

murder and attempted murder.

The alternative charges on the indictment were for sabotage and terrorism, the

manufacturing of explosives and the illegal possession of firearms. The murder charge

stems from the death of a woman killed in 2002 when her shack was hit by flying

debris after the bombing of a railway line.

The attempted murder charge arises from a plan to kill former president Mandela.

Earlier this week, Judge Jordaan rejected the defences contention that the charge of

high treason was irreconcilable with the constitution, and he said the countrys

founding law granted rights and responsibilities to the state, its structures and its

citizens, and specifically outlawed citizens from taking part in an armed struggle.

The judge also pointed out that the Boeremag accused were not on trial for minor

political deeds but for forming an organisation and recruiting members to overthrow

the existing government through violence.

The essence of the Boeremags extraordinary plot as penned by Du Toitwas to

chase millions of black South Africans out of the country while taking over militarybases and creating widespread unrest, ahead of taking over the government.


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A key element to the creation of that chaos was to be the assassination of Mr

Mandela.

27 July 2012The Times

Quinton Mtyala

Malema's Zuma remix

Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has again launched a blistering

attack on President Jacob Zuma, questioning his multiple marriages.

He said the ANC president was a "questionable leader" and a laughing stock

internationally.

Delivering a lecture on former president Nelson Mandela at a packed Cape Peninsula

University of Technology lecture hall yesterday, Malema said Zuma, who is a

polygamist, undermined the rights of women.

"This thing of marrying so many women should be questioned in a society where we

seek to create a gender-equal society. If a man can marry four [wives], it means that

even a woman should be allowed to do the same," said Malema.

Sporting a black beret with a y outh l eague logo , Malema accused Zuma of hidingbehind his culture .

ANC icon Winnie Madikizela Mandela recently joined the bandwagon, questioning

Zuma' s marital choices.

But Zuma this week brushed off the criticism, saying it was "not wise to discuss

personal things unless those things impact on what you do".

But Malema slated Zuma, saying he was "bombarding" South Africa with his

"culture", and had gotten married "every December".

He said Mandela, who is of royal lineage, had never used his culture to define his

leadership.

"When he assumed the position of president, he knew that the unity of the country

was more important than the promotion of his culture.

"He knew that he was no longer a chief ... he was the president of all cultures, and not

of his tribe," said Malema.

He again questioned why Zuma avoided court to answer to charges of corruption for

which his former financial adviser, Schabir Schaik, was jailed.


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Malema said the tapes used by the National Prosecuting Authority to drop charges

against Zuma back in 2009 did not exist.

He said if they did, they should be released to DA leader Helen Zille, who has won a

Supreme Court of Appeal case compelling the authority to release the tapes to the

DA.

Malema further claimed that the dropping of charges against Zuma on the eve of the

2009 elections was as a result of pressure applied on the NPA.

Drawing comparisons with Zuma's peers, Malema said that when Deputy President

Kgalema Motlanthe's partner, Gugu Mtshali, was accused of corruption, Motlanthe

had called for an investigation by the public protector into the allegations.

"That's statesmanship, that's being honourable, that is being a man who takes the

office of the president very seriously," said Malema.

The youth league wants Motlanthe to replace Zuma at the ruling party's elective

conference in Mangaung, Free State, in December.

30 July 2012

Business Day

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Natasha Marrian

SACP seeking more influence in CosatuLink to Zuma causes jostling ahead of federations national congress, writes Natasha

Marrian

THERE are moves to identify a challenger to replace Congress of South African

Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi at the federations coming

national congress, although a bid to unseat him would be challenging.

Mr Vavi has held the position since 1999 and was forced to withdraw an earlier

decision not to stand for re-election this year after the federations 2009 conference,

with Cosatu reminding Mr Vavi that the decision not to contest was not up to him.

Insiders say the congress, to be held in Midrand from September 17, could be deeply

contested, particularly around the position of the general secretary. Some sections of

the federation want to see Mr Vavi replaced but have acknowledged that he is a "very

powerful man" and that his challenger would have to be "brave".

It is understood that no names have been put forward formally, but those against Mr

Vavi believe the most senior and respected leader who could take him on would be

National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) general secretary

Fikile Majola.


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Unions said to be aligned to the faction wanting Mr Vavi replaced include the

National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Nehawu, the South African Democratic

Teachers Union (Sadtu) and the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru).

However, the affiliates themselves are divided over the matter.

Those supporting Mr Vavi are the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa),some sections of Sadtu and the South African Municipal Workers Union, and the

South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union.

Mr Vavis sometimes brutal honesty on matters affecting the federation and the

alliance with the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist

Party (SACP) has rubbed some up the wrong way, leading to the rise of a lobby

against him that is influenced heavily by the leadership of the SACP.

A senior leader of a large Cosatu affiliate says the SACP strategy has been to "co-opt"

key presidents and general secretaries into its central committee to influence the

federation from the inside.

A most recent example of this was the election of the NUM president, Senzeni

Zokwana, as SACP chairman. Also, Sadtu president Thobile Ntola, who is close to

Mr Vavi, failed to make it back on to the SACPs central committee. Sources say the

SACP and federation leaders, who are also among its top brass, were coaxing Mr

Majola into taking Mr Vavi on.

Cosatu president SdumoDlamini on Friday dismissed the claims of an attempt to

replace Mr Vavi. "Those coming up with that are mischievous," Mr Dlamini said, and

there was no talk of replacing anyone.

Leaders of Cosatu who feature strongly in the SACP include Mr Dlamini, NUM

general secretary FransBaleni and Mr Majola.

Centre for the Study of Democracy director Steven Friedman said the SACP influence

was an attempt to put its "stamp" on Cosatu in relation to ANC politics, in the build-

up to the ANCs elective congress in Mangaung in December.

SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande is a close ally of President Jacob Zuma ,

who is set to stand for a second term as the governing partys president.

The tussle between those supporting and those against Mr Vavi was playing out in

Cosatu provincial congresses.

Last week, Sadtu and Numsa aired their differences through press statements, with the

teachers union attacking Mr Vavi and Numsa defending him.

One of the points of contention between the two arose from the provincial elective

conference in which supporters of Mr Vavi fielded a candidate for the position of

chairman who was apparently suspended by the national leadership of his own union,

the NUM.


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Sadtu Mpumalanga secretary Walter Hlaise said the candidate was allowed to stand

despite his suspension, which violated the NUMs constitution.

It is understood that the candidate, Lucky Dlangamandla, was aligned to the former

NUM deputy general secretary, Oupa Komane, who challengedand lost toMr

Baleni for the position in May. Mr Vavi apparently intervened to allow MrDlangamandla to stand, but the latter failed to obtain the necessary majority to win the

position. Mr Vavi declined to comment.

Mr Friedman said Cosatu has traditionally managed contestation well within its ranks

a challenge to the general secretary would not be a "problem" for the union.

30 July 2012

Business Day

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Sapa

Inequalities threaten SAs economic growth report

INEQUALITIES in SA are threatening economic growth, with children born into

poor families unlikely to ever escape poverty or reap the rewards of living in Africas

largest economy.

A sobering assessment by the World Bank, released last week, found that a childs

gender and ethnicity, combined with a lack of education, largely determine that

persons chances of success in life even now, 18 years after the end of apartheid.

"SA displays strikingly high and persistent inequality and marginalisation for an

upper middle-income country," said the World Bank report.

Although SA has made great strides in transforming the economy, which has

produced one of the continents fastest-growing black middle classes, poverty levels

and unemployment remain high outside urban centres.

SA is often compared to Brazil, which also has a big income gap, but while the Latin

American country has narrowed the divide over the past decade, here the chasm is as

deep as ever, the World Bank said.

The richest 10% of South Africans account for 58% of the countrys income, while

the bottom 10% account for 0,5%, the World Bank said.

The bottom half earn less than 8% of the countrys income. The country would

struggle to grow the economy until its riches were spread more evenly, the World

Bank said.

Labour analyst Andrew Levy said that the challenges of inequality were "deep rooted

and not unique to SA".


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"History has shown that societies that have emerged from any kind of unjust system

of governance struggle with inequality," Mr Levy said. But he added that the new

government "could have done better".

Much of the blame is laid on the education system. The World Bank found that black

children from rural areas with parents who did not finish school were most likely notto finish school or to have access to healthcare.

"The only way to reverse the trend of inequality is to invest in education," economist

Azar Jammine said.

30 July 2012

Business Day

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Carol Paton

DA on early campaign trail with fresh economic policy

The DAs central argument is that the ANCs policies perpetuate a situation where

large numbers of people are shut out of the economy, while a few insiders are

protected at the expense of the many

THE Democratic Alliance (DA) has launched into election campaign mode by

unveiling an economic policy designed to catch votes and drive a wedge between the

African National Congress (ANC) and voters.

The new policy will form the backbone of a big campaign on job creationan issue

on which the ANC is deeply vulnerableaiming to persuade voters it is possible to

create jobs with the right policies.

The DAs central argument is that ANC policies perpetuate a situation where large

numbers of people are shut out of the economy and doomed to be outsiders, while a

small number of "insiders"such as unionised workersare protected at the

expense of the many. Opposition from the Congress of South African Trade Unions to

the youth wage subsidy proposed by Finance Minister PravinGordhan, the DA argues,

is a case in point.

Through its focus on jobs and the launch of an intense campaign which will last two

years, the DA aims to win Gauteng in the 2014 election. Party officials said the party

was now "in campaign mode and is not going to stop".

DA leader Helen Zille said On Sunday the partys core message to voters would be

that "it can be easier to get a job and to create jobs".

The partys policy proposed a raft of incentives such as a wage subsidy and an

opportunity voucher systemand practical measures aimed at giving a leg-up to

those excluded from economic activity due to low skills and poverty.


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It is a departure from earlier DA policies, which have tended to be big business-

oriented, and placed heavy emphasis on privatisation and the free market to the

exclusion of incentives and state intervention.

The new policy takes a "pragmatic approach", according to the DAs documents. "We

do believe the state has a role to play in compensating for market failures and creatingincentives," Ms Zille said.

"This probably is a departure from previous policies. Big business remains very

important but what we dont like is monopolistic big business. We want to see as

much competition as possible."

The unifying theme of the policy was to break down the structural barriers that

"inhibit opportunity" and which strengthened the insider-outsider dynamic.

Strong emphasis was placed on removing the high barriers to entry of the labour

market, which the DA said "exclude millions of South Africans from accessingemployment opportunities" and made it difficult for them to start businesses.

On breaking down the insider-outsider divide, the DA proposed:

to raise South Africas growth rate to 8% through a range of measures such as a

lower tax burden for companies;

fixing education through legislation to stop teachers striking; scarce-skills

allowances for teachers; a nationwide bursary scheme; testing teachers knowledge;

and setting minimum standards for principals;

fixing skills training through a vocational and apprenticeship system; relaxing

immigration requirements and expanding student financial aid;

providing incentives to encourage the employment of young people through, for

instance, a youth wage subsidy; the establishment of job zones with more relaxed

labour laws and bigger tax incentives for companies;

enhancing the asset base of the poor by distributing shares in state-owned

enterprises; offering incentives for employee share ownership schemes and employee

bonuses; providing a new grant to the poor on the basis of community involvement;

encouraging the growth of small businesses through reduced regulation and red tape;

a voucher support programme to small start-up businesses; providing cash-flow

assistance to small businesses by allowing them to offset losses against another years

profits; and establishing a venture capital fund to encourage new business growth.

Ms Zille said the incentives and grants being proposed were not "new dependency-

creating grants" but were aimed very carefully at providing people with access to jobs

and participation in the economy.


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30 July 2012

Business Day

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Tawanda Karombo

Zanu (PF) rejects parts of draft constitution

Zanu (PF) is unhappy with a clause relating to provincial governors and resident

ministers, who are currently presidential appointees

THE Zanu (PF) party led by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has rejected parts

of the countrys draft constitution.

The document was crafted by a parliamentary select committee after four years of

acrimonious debate. It has to be validated by Zimbabwes parliament before being put

to citizens in a referendum. Only then can Zimbabwe hold elections again.

The draft was given to Zimbabwes political parties two weeks ago and has been

endorsed by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirais Movement for Democratic Change.

Zanu (PF) was unhappy with a clause relating to provincial governors and resident

ministers, who are currently presidential appointees. The draft constitution proposes

that the party with the majority of seats in a province nominate two candidates for the

positions, one of whom the president will appoint.

The former ruling party was also not happy with a clause proposing the restructuringof the attorney-generals office.

"We were asked to renegotiate and realign the document with the publics views. On

the whole, 97% of the document has been endorsed by the politburo," Justice Minister

Patrick Chinamasa, Zanu (PF)s chief negotiator, said at the weekend.

Political analysts suspect there could be further "stalling" on the finalisation of the

new supreme law for Zimbabwe.

"A new constitution is a pre-requisite for fresh elections but the time-frame is being

stretched for far too long and I suspect this is a delaying tactic," said Moses Mhunga,a political analyst.

A Zanu (PF) politburo member said the partys supreme decision-making body

between congresses had failed to adopt the draft constitution due to "petty"

differences among officials. Another meeting of the politburo has now been slated for

Wednesday.

Bulawayo-based analyst DumisaniNkomo said yesterday "the best approach would be

to encourage dialogue from everyone".

There are indications Zanu (PF) could launch a no-vote campaign when Zimbabwespopulace decides on the final version of the constitution in the referendum.


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30 July 2012

Business Day

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Genevieve Quintal

Political killings about positions, money

POLITICAL killings in SA are not about political dominance but about getting to the

trough first.

"Some of these guys literally come out of severe poverty and if they get kicked out

they will be back there ," said Frans Cronje, deputy CEO of the South African

Institute of Race Relations. "The stakes are high its about money."

The number of politicians murdered in the past five years has shot upespecially

between 2010 and 2012. KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga seem to be the worst

affected, with 41 and five killed, respectively.

Mr Cronje said: "Yes, SA is a democracy but I cant think of another country that

has this problem We have been hard pressed to find a single person killed over an

idea. It all depends on tenders and corruption," he said.

African National Congress (ANC) KwaZulu-Natal secretarySihleZikalala said the

party had quite a few officials killed in the past two years, but it was difficult to

pinpoint motives.

"We have called for serious interventions to crack all these cases. Its destabilising the

party ," he said.

Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) MP Albert Mncwango said political tension in

KwaZulu-Natal was because of the IFP breakaway group the National Freedom Party

(NFP). Mr Mncwango said quite a number of councillors in his party had been killed

in the past five years. "A rough figure, which is subject to verification, is around 10.

We believe it was always politically motivated," he said.

Former IFP chairwoman ZaneleMagwaza-Msibi and her backers launched the new

opposition to the IFPthe NFPin January last year. The NFP claims 22 of itsmembers have been murdered since its launch. Many of these murders had been

blamed on the IFP.

Mr Mncwango said this was unfortunate. "In all their murders, that they say are

politically motivated, I cant think of any IFP member who has been apprehended ,"

he said.

NFP general secretary NhlanhlaKhubisa said the party had never blamed other

political parties for the spate of murders. "We say its politically motivated because it

started immediately when the party was formed and, of course, in some cases there

was some kind of political intolerance." Mr Khubisa did, however, say that it was notNFP members killing other NFP members.


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Mr Zikalala said the problem surrounding tenders could not be ruled out but that

would form part of the ANCs investigation into the reason for political murders.

30 July 2012Cape Times

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Leanne Jansen

Education crisis not Verwoerds fault but presentgovernments Ramphele

The monumental failure in SA education was not former Prime Minister Hendrik

Verwoerds fault, but the current governments.

So said anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele here at the weekend.

Commenting on a Talk Radio 702 interview with President Jacob Zuma, in which he

blamed the architect of apartheid, Verwoerd, for the mess in schools, Ramphela said

children under apartheids gutter education were better educated than todays.

Ramphele was speaking at the Educational Management Association of SA

conference at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

By Jove, at least the kids could write and read. And many of them understood historyand understood geography, she said.

In the radio interview, Zuma also defended Basic Education Minister Angie

Motshekga and the government on the Limpopo textbook saga.

Ramphele said she could not understand why no heads were rolling and citizens

were not jumping up and down about the crisis.

SA could self-destruct before 2020 if it continued on this downward trajectory, she

added.

The time had come to question the credentials of SAs leaders.

In Asian countries, their cabinets included engineers, finance experts, architects,

lawyers, people with experience and technical expertise who were capable of

directing, intervening and managing a modern political and economic system.

Look at us. Give me a profile ofour cabinet and tell me whether or not the capacity

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In a double whammy, Wits education professor Mary Metcalfe told the meeting that

education in SA was a burning platformthat was disappearing under the nations

feet despite it being critical for survival.

Metcalfe said a 2007 survey found two million had not reached matric and of those,

half had not passed grades 7 and 8.

Regarding the outlook of school-leavers, she asked: With what sense of selfesteem

and belonging and worth? And what did we do to them in the time that they were in

our schools that gave them a sense of dignity and self-worth and the possibility of

contributing to society?

While she believed the Basic Education Departments Action Plan to 2014 provided

the right framework to improve learning, we are short of human resources and

money on a scale to address the burning platform.

She cited research in KZN, Mpumalanga and Gauteng, which had revealed thatteachers felt they must deliver miracles.

Ramphele had stronger words. Theres no excuse why any child anywhere should

not have textbooks, let alone thousands upon thousands of children whose future arebeing destroyed on our watch.

She took aim at the SA Democratic Teachers Union, saying they were letting down

the country.

Particularly in the poorest areas, teachers are failing us and when you look into

what the problem is, you find that teachers are being forced to defend mediocrity.

A focus group member summed up the problems thus: We are just confused

cockroaches.

30 July 2012

The Time

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Amukelani Chauke

Angie fights for job

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga was fighting for her political life

yesterday as senior ANC members added their voices to the clamour for her to resign.

As pressure mounted on Motshekga to step down over her handling of the Limpopo

school textbook crisis, the minister cancelled her attendance of an ANC Women's

League event yesterday so she could attend the final day of the ruling's party's

national executive committee lekgotla, where she has been savagely criticised.


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Motshekga is the president of the women's league and a staunch supporter of

President Jacob Zuma. Critics say this has made Zuma reluctant to risk firing her

ahead of the ANC's elective conference in Mangaung in December.

According to the Sunday Times, the textbook crisis dominated the four-day ANC

lekgotla in Irene, near Pretoria, with several party heavyweights calling forMotshekga's axing.

The paper quoted a member of the national executive committee as saying: ''The

reports were clear ... she must go. Everybody here feels that she must leave. Even

Zuma supporters are finding it very difficult to defend her."

Monitoring and Evaluation Deputy Minister ObedBapela yesterday seemed to add his

voice to those calling for Motshekga to step down.

Addressing the Moral Regeneration Movement in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg,

Bapela said: "We are saying let us build morals that say if one day I do wrong, I willbe the first one to say publicly, I erred, I'm sorry, and leave the position. Today we are

wrong and we still continue in our position as if nothing has happened."

Seven months into the school year, thousands of pupils in Limpopo - and, it emerged

last week from several other provinces too - have reportedly still not received all their

textbooks.

Motshekga has refused to quit, and reportedly blamed education officials for non-

delivery.

Insiders at the lekgotla told the Sunday Times that David Makhura, Gauteng's

provincial secretary, tore into Motshekga, saying the crisis illustrated a "complete

failure of leadership in dealing with the issue".

ANC secretary-general GwedeMantashe is expected to announce the outcome of the

meeting, including an overview of discussions related to the textbook scandal, today.

KenetsweMosenogi, the ANC Youth League's acting secretary-general, on Saturday

reportedly said in one of the commissions at the lekgotla that Motshekga must resign

because she was undermining the ANC government's commitment to education.

The youth league yesterday reiterated the call, and also said it expected Motshekga to

apologise to the nation for failing the young people of Limpopo.

"The ANC has committed itself to prioritising education. Never must tenders, service

provider issues or bureaucratic bungles deny young people, our future, an opportunity

to education," it said.

In an interview with Talk Radio 702 last week, Zuma defended his decision not to act

promptly to fire Motshekga, and said there were processes and investigations that still

needed to be concluded before any action could be taken.


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As calls for her to step down grow, ANC insiders are said to have started to speculate

that Zuma could use "his ex-wife's [NkosazanaDlamini-Zuma] appointment'' as head

of the AU commission as an opportunity to reshuffle his cabinet.

Yesterday, spokesman for the Presidency, Mac Maharaj, said though the media and

commentators were free to speculate on a reshuffle and on Motshekga's future, Zumahad not indicated if he was planning to do so.

Maharaj said Dlamini-Zuma still had, according to AU rules, up to three months from

the date of her appointment to take up her new position, and that the president would,

when that time comes, approach a replacement before making an announcement.

Yesterday, author and political analyst McebisiNdletyana said: "If all reports [about

Motshekga's poor performance] are anything to go by", then resigning would be the

right thing to do.

Ndletyana said a possible cabinet reshuffle to redeploy Motshekga should not bedismissed.

"There is a possibility ... Ordinarily the president would not have wanted to have

another cabinet reshuffle so soon after another reshuffle.

"But he has an opportunity because he has to fill in a position that has been vacated by

his ex-wife [Dlamini-Zuma].

"So this then presents him with an opportunity to juggle ministers around but it

increasingly [seems] that the textbook scandal will not go away and, based on the

evidence that is also emerging, it appears that the minister knew about this earlier than

she let us believe," he said.

The textbook debacle has led to four investigations - a fact-finding probe by former

Higher Education director-general Mary Metcalfe, which produced a damning report,

as well as ongoing inquiries by an interministerial task team appointed by Zuma, the

Public Protector and Limpopo province.

While pressure mounts on her to resign, Motshekga has insisted that she performed

throughout in the manner that was expected of her, and said she has implemented

crucial policies in her department.

Motshekga is behind the implementation of the new Curriculum Assessment Policy

Statement system for Grades 1-3 and Grade 10.

In 2010, she was hailed for scrapping the outcomes-based education curriculum,

which was said to have disadvantaged hundreds of thousands of pupils since it was

introduced in 1998.


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30 July 2012

The Time

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Sapa

'Africa still lacking a great deal'

Lack of infrastructure development was the biggest challenge facing Africa, newly

elected African Union commission chairman NkosazanaDlamini-Zuma said in

Pretoria yesterday.

Speaking to representatives of the Progressive Women's Movement of SA, Dlamini-

Zuma said the AU's goal of more integration could be realised only if infrastructure

on the continent was drastically improved.

"How do we connect ourselves?" she asked, pointing out that transport and

communication links moved outwards from the continent.

She said there could be no integration, as envisaged by the AU, unless there was

proper infrastructure linking African countries.

Dlamini-Zuma said she thought integration would be helped by the Pan African

Parliament becoming a legislative body that would "harmonise legislation" across the

continent.

However, she said continental integration could not be successfully achieved becausewars were raging across Africa.

"How do you build a railway in the middle of a war?" she asked.

She said that though the continent had many problems it also had many opportunities

and should take advantage of them.

The opportunities include enormous agricultural, energy and human resources

potentials.

"The challenge is how to use these resources for the benefit of Africa," Dlamini-Zumasaid.

With regard to her appointment as AU commission chairman, she said: "When I go

there, I will be working as a servant of Africa and not South Africa."

She said the direction the AU took would need to be determined with the involvement

of its member nations' citizens and not by its governments alone.

"If it is left to governments it is not going to go anywhere fast," she said.


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30 July 2012

The Time

Page 7

Justice Malala

Chorus forming against JZ

One thing I will say about President Jacob Zuma's rise to power in the period to 2007:

it gave us a large number of melodious songs.

One of the most memorable is a ditty loved by FikileMbalula, then the ANC Youth

League president, called "DedelaAbanye, DedelaUmsholozi! (Make way for others,

make way for Zuma)".

No matter what you thought of Zuma, when his supporters were in full flow with thissong you couldn't help but follow your swaying hips.

As its sweet melody rose above the University of the North campus in Polokwane in

December 2007, one could not help but admit that the end was nigh for President

Thabo Mbeki, at whom the song's message was aimed.

Only those die-hards who would not face the truth - and possibly misled Mbeki into

standing against Zuma - believed the man had a chance. Mbeki endured a humiliating

defeat.

This song has been inserting itself into my consciousness of late. This is because I amhearing more and more of the dispassionate, scientific-minded ANC members and

leaders saying that the tide is turning against Zuma inside the ANC and that it is

possible that KgalemaMotlanthe will defeat him in Mangaung in December.

For the past few years I have been saying that, if the ANC were to hold an elective

conference today, Zuma would win it. I based my assessment on a number of factors.

The first is that Zuma is the incumbent and that comes with benefits. And he has party

secretary-general GwedeMantashe, who has his hands firmly on the machinery of the

ANC and of the government, at his side.

From the office of the secretary-general they can keep a beady eye on rebellious

regions and branches, and clamp down hard on them. They have oversight over who

will come to conferences and who among them may vote.

What happened recently at the Free State conference of the ANC, from which huge

swathes of the branches were barred, is evidence of what can happen in these

circumstances.

Zuma also has his hands on the government and it is the government that opens the

door to patronage.


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In KwaZulu-Natal, some six municipalities are under administration. In North West,

there are running battles between an MEC who is trying to put a rich municipality

under administration and ANC members. You might wonder why.

A possible reason is that, if you really want to loot, it is at municipal level that a

regional structure of a ruling party can siphon resources direct from the people'scoffers. Incumbents who came in with the Zuma wave last year are using these

resources in their re-election campaigns.

Zuma also seemed to have the numbers on the ground. Following regional and

provincial conferences across the land, Zuma seemed to have the solid support of the

party's biggest province, KwaZulu-Natal. He also had Mpumalanga, the Free State

and creditable chunks of the rest of the country.

He has the SA Communist Party, plus about half of Cosatu, behind him.

The ANC Women's League is also behind him, which is the only reason ANCWomen's League president Angie Motshekga has kept her job as education minister.

But there are cracks in this coalition. Zuma was roundly pasted at the party's policy

conference when his endorsement of the "Second Transition" concept was rejected.

In KwaZulu-Natal, not all regions are behind him, and rebellion is brewing in

Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the Free State. The ANC Youth League, which carried

him to power, now detests him.

Motlanthe's backers are becoming confident. Apparently his reticence on succession

is not fear but strategy. Motlanthe, some ANC leaders say, has been advised not to run

a long and bruising battle. Instead, he should hold his fire, wait and see.

Come October he will begin a fast and furious campaign that will, they hope,

bamboozle and stagger the Zuma coalition.

It is being said that Motlanthe is under immense pressure from ANC veterans - who

were humiliatingly scolded by Zuma publicly at the policy conference - to "save" the

party from what Zuma has turned it into.

Will he do it? Reports indicate that Zuma thinks he will, which is why an emissarywas dispatched to ask Motlanthe to join the Zuma camp as deputy president for a

second term.

Many this week pointed to Zuma's losses at the policy conference and his bumbling

interview on Talk Radio 702 to remind me of Freedom Front leader Pieter Mulder's

comment about Mbeki in 2007: "Die gas is uit die bottel van die Mbeki era (The gas

is out of the bottle of the Mbeki era)."

I think Zuma is still the stronger contender but is the soundtrack of history changing?

Is that DedelaAbanye, DedelauMkhuluwa that I hear?


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27 July 12

Business Day

Page 3

Carol Paton

Cwele rethinks refusal to discuss bill

The General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill is contentious as it merges several

intelligence bodies into one and increases the powers of the minister of state security

STATE Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele is "rethinking" his earlier refusal to enter

into any further engagement with Parliament or the public on the controversial

General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill, his special adviser, Bob Mhlanga, said

on Wednesday.

The bill, introduced in Parliament in February, is contentious as it merges several

intelligence bodies into one, increases the powers of the minister of state security, and

allows intelligence agencies to intercept "foreign" electronic communications without

a warrant.

Following public submissions in March, Mr Cwele told the ad hoc parliamentary

committee responsible for the bill he did not intend to respond to any of the matters

raised. However, speaking at a panel discussion on the bill at the Institute of Security

Studies this week, Mr Mhlanga said "there would be further public participation in

this bill".

"We are still negotiating on the form that this is going to take but the message is that

we have not completely shut out engagement. We will have to go back to the ad hoc

committee and respond," he said.

At Wednesdays discussion, the bill was criticised by intelligence expert Laurie

Nathan of the Centre for Mediation in Africa at the University of Pretoria, and

journalist Sam Sole. Mr Nathan said that in merging the domestic intelligence

functionvested in the National Intelligence Agencyand the foreign one

previously carried out by the South African Secret Serviceinto the State Security

Agency (SSA), there was a risk that the caution that should be applied in gathering

domestic intelligence to protect privacy would be contaminated by the lax approachapplied to spying on foreign countries.

The three agencies are already effectively merged by a presidential proclamation

issued in 2009. However, legislation is still required. All three agencies have been

rocked by political and management instability over the past year, with the top official

in each having resigned.

The bill would also give the minister greater powers to make appointments in the

department and to vet individuals for clearance.

A key function is to make provision for the interception of "foreign signalsintelligence", which means any communicationwhether by telephone, e-mail,


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Skype or voice over the internetthat originates outside of SA. Known as bulk

interceptions by the intelligence world, this involves electronic scanning of thousands

of communications for key words and will be allowed without obtaining the

permission of a judge. This is unlike the monitoring of domestic communications,

which requires judicial approval as set out in the Regulation of Interception of

Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act (Rica).

Mr Sole said the interception of foreign communications without a warrant provided a

loophole in the law which allowed the agencies to carry out a range of activities as

many domestic electronic communications originate on servers in other countries.

Mr Mhlanga disagreed, saying it was impossible to use the provision to monitor

domestic communications. It was common international practice, he said, that bulk

interceptions did not require judicial authorisation. The US, Canada and the UK, for

example, do not need judicial permission for bulk monitoring.

Bulk monitoring and interceptions of data are a growing concern in Europe and theUS for citizen groups, political parties and the media. New technologies, which allow

analysis of masses of electronic communications, enable governments to store private

information in case it becomes significant some day.

27 July 12

Business Day

Page 3

Bekezela Phakathi

Western Capes growth of 3,1% beats nationaleconomy

Report shows economic activity in the Western Cape grew by 3,1% during 2010, after

contracting by 1,3% in 2009

THE Western Capes economy is set to continue outperforming the national economy,

with growth probably coming from the retail and financial services sectors, provincial

finance and economic development MEC Alan Winde said yesterday.

A quarterly report commissioned by the provincial government and released by theBureau for Economic Research yesterday showed that economic activity in the

province grew by 3,1% during 2010, after contracting by 1,3% in 2009. This increase

is higher than that of the national economy, which grew only 2,9% in 2010. The

report also found the provincial economy had created 5000 jobs in the first quarter of

this year.

The latest figures could somewhat boost the Democratic Alliances (DAs) drive to

put the economy, especially job creation, at the heart of debates leading up to the

2014 general election. The DA controls the Western Cape and has in the past used its

track record in the province to drive its campaigns.


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Speaking during the official release of the report, attended by local entrepreneurs, Mr

Winde said although the provincial economy had created 5000 jobs during the first

quarter of this year, the recorded gains remained modest compared to the growth in

the labour force (those willing to participate in employment).

"Unemployment in the Western Cape, therefore, remains too high at 22,8%, but is stillsignificantly lower than the national unemployment rate of 25,2%," Mr Winde said.

The report showed that although business confidence in the province fell to 45 index

points from 49 during the first quarter of this year, in line with national trends,

confidence in the province was still higher than that in SA.

"The review of our economy shows that we are moving in the right direction. We

have made many gainswe have significantly higher business, wholesale and

manufacturing confidence than has been recorded nationally," Mr Winde said.

He said the provincial government had a number of planned interventions toencourage more growth in the local economy.

"We are working very hard to get rid of the red tape, which we think is critical. We

also need to improve skills of our people ... broadband is also a very important driver

for the growth of the economy."

Craig Lemboe an economist at the Bureau for Economic Research, said yesterday the

agricultural sector had created the most jobs in the province during the first quarter.

27 July 12

Business Day

Page 3

Karl Gernetzky

Launch of DA vision comes with countrywidecampaign

Democratic Alliance spokesman Mmusi Maimane says Saturdays says the partys

launch of an alternative vision for achieving high economic growth rates will be

accompanied by a six-weekcampaign to demonstrate the partys political will

TOMORROWs launch by the Democratic Alliance (DA) of an alternative vision for

achieving high economic growth rates and job creation will be accompanied by a six-

week campaign to demonstrate the partys political will, national spokesman Mmusi

Maimane said yesterday.

The DA is the largest opposition party in SA, but critics point to a lack of solid

alternative policy positions as an impediment to further growth in its popularity

among voters.


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At Freedom Park in Pretoria tomorrow, DA leader Helen Zille will present the partys

plan, which Mr Maimane described as the "most comprehensive and detailed

economic plan the party had produced". He also said it represented a "well tested,

well researched, alternative vision".

Speaking at a media briefing, DA federal chair man Wilmot Jamescredited withdeveloping the plansaid consultation within the party had been "exhaustive".

While it was also the culmination of months of consultation with academics, and local

and international economic and financial institutions, there was also "some

experience" from governing the Western Cape built in the document, Mr James said.

Despite being a nationally focused plan, the party would implement its policy

recommendations in the province where possible, he said.

The plan is based on five key themes: education, support for business startups, a youth

wage subsidy, the role of infrastructure in growth, and lowering taxes to stimulateinvestment.

Although DA officials declined to give detailed information of the plan, citing

tomorrows launch, finance spokesman Tim Harris outlined a number of policy

proposals that would be included in the document.

The proposals included reducing the inflationary effect of public sector wage

increases, a reduction of red tape for small businesses, and regulatory changes to

"limit the negative impact" of the "bureaucratic and inefficient" sector education and

training authority system.

The document will also propose "opportunity vouchers" which could offer youths the

means to further their studies, or could serve as "seed capital" for starting a business

or securing a loan, Mr Harris said.

Neren Rau, CEO of the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said

clarity was needed on how the connection between economic growth and job creation

could be better addressed through policy.

SAs "jobless growth" was particularly worrying. Even high rates of growth would be

inadequate for job creation, and SA was "structurally indisposed" to achieve them, hesaid.

Genuinely addressing the challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises

rather than simply acknowledging them was lacking in the governments policy

stance, and was something the chamber would look for in the DA plan, Mr Rau said.

"We wouldnt want the DA to fall into that trap," he said.

The chamber would therefore welcome any proposals to reduce red tape and increase

the ease of doing business, he said.


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The DAs public relations campaign will include, among other measures, the use of

billboards and posters, and branch activities.

26 July 2012

Mail and GuardianSapa

Madonsela probing education problems in threeprovinces

Public protector Thuli Madonsela says her office came late to the education debacle

but she's now investigating textbook problems in three provinces.

"We have also written to the department of basic education and asked them to statewhat is being done to prevent this from happening again ... and whether it is clear

what books should be delivered to who by what time," Madonsela told the New Age's

breakfast briefing on Thursday.

Her office was investigating three complaints regarding textbooks.

One was the recent destruction of books in Limpopo where a contractor claimed they

were being paid by government to shred the books. The investigation was to find out

whether there was any maladministration in that regard, she said.

The second case was a complaint about some schools in the Free State that had notreceived textbooks yet.

"In Gauteng we have one complaint that books for next year have not been approved

yet," said Madonsela.

Madonsela said her office came into the textbook saga late and found that government

had appointed task teams to investigate.

She said there were some informal complaints about schools in the Eastern Cape that

did not have enough teachers.

"We want the department to give us an indication of what has been the level of

compliance in all provinces this year and what mechanisms are in place to make sure

that these problems do not happen again next year."

Madonsela said depending on the outcomes of the investigations, she would indicate

to the department what should be done to remedy the situation.

Minister Angie Motshekga was in Limpopo meeting stakeholders in education. She

also met the province's education minister Dickson Masemola on Tuesday.


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