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Africa Month CU Postings to Whatsapp, 4 May 2017 (2) Click the links to connect to full text SADTU reiterates rejection of appraisals for principals SADTU deputy general secretary Nkosana Dolopi said there was no need for performance contracts as principals had signed employment contracts with employers which state what they are required to do. "What we are saying is the department should provide all the tools to make it possible for principals to do their work before they start judging performance. You have rich and poor schools. What system will they use to measure the principals from these different schools?" Dolopi asked. "Principals in poor schools are disadvantaged. They do not have the tools, so the department should first fix the entire system before talking about performance contracts." - https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/labour/2017-05-04-sadtu-reiterates-rejection-of-appraisals-for-principals/ Seizure of a cargo of phosphate rock destined for NZ The cargo is a commodity used in the manufacture of agricultural fertilizer. The ship remains at Port Elizabeth. Polisario leader Emhamed Khadad said "the mining and export of what is a non-renewable resource from a place under occupation where the UN has tried to pursue the peaceful assurance of a basic right to the Saharawi people is wrong on many levels. It is a violation of well-settled principles of international law. It is morally indefensible. And it's bad business. This resource needs to stay in the ground until the Saharawi people [get their freedom]" - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1705/S00006/seizure-of-a-cargo-of-phosphate-rock-destined-for-nz.htm NZ-bound $5m phosphate shipment held up in SA over political squabble Polisario complained that the shipment had been transported unlawfully from the disputed territory of the Western Sahara. The seizure may be a test for the Polisario's use of a European court decision last year that ruled Western Sahara should not be considered part of the Moroccan kingdom in EU and Moroccan deals. The United Nations had been trying to reach a resolution for many years. Tensions flared last year when UN peacekeepers had to step in between Moroccan forces and Polisario brigades in the buffer zone near the Mauritania border. - http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/92229904/nzbound-5m-phosphate-shipment-held-up-in-south-africa-over-political-squabble Phosphate shipment seized over illegal mining claims Much of the world's phosphate, which is vital for plant cell metabolism, is mined in the Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony that Morocco overran in the 1970s. A dissenting organisation, Polisario, regards itself as the legitimate ruler of the Western Sahara and sees Morocco as an invader. The shipment was detained in Port Elizabeth after Polisario won a European Court ruling that goods produced in Western Sahara were not to be regarded as products of Morocco. - http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/330078/phosphate-shipment-seized-over-illegal-mining-claims Most CU topical postings are now made to Whatsapp via the Whatsapp-style link with a caption. 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