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Africa Month CU Postings to Whatsapp, 26 May 2017 Click the links to connect to full text Motshekga exonerates SADTU in jobs for cash scandal Basic Education minister Angie Motshekga exonerated SADTU members from the jobs for cash scandal' which has caused much criminal behaviour' especially in Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal. "No evidence points to SADTU' which has been instrumental in the improvements we have seen in rural and poor schools'" said Motshekga. - http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2017/05/24/motshekga-exonerates-sadtu-in-jobs-for-cash-scandal ANC man hopes film provides great escape One of the most daring prison escapes in South Africa's history will be immortalised in a film based on Tim Jenkin's book, Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison. Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is lined up to portray ANC Jenkin, the Capetonian who, with Stephen Lee and Alex Moumbaris, walked out the front door of Pretoria Central in 1979 after cutting wooden keys in the prison workshop. - http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2017/05/25/ANC-man-hopes-film-provides-great-escape ANC statement on by-elections results The ANC welcomes the release of results of the by-elections held in two provinces yesterday, 24 May 2017. We congratulate the IEC. 18 wards were contested in 2 provinces, 17 in KwaZulu-Natal and 1 in the Western Cape. The ANC appreciates the support it received. Even though we have never outrightly won the Nquthu Municipality, we are nonetheless disappointed with the loss of majority in wards in the municipality. - http://www.anc.org.za/content/anc-statement-elections-results Address by President Jacob Zuma during the 2017 Africa Day Celebration We are grateful to our forebears for their commitment to the liberation of every inch of African soil. This was stated boldly by President Kwame Nkrumah who said at the dawn of the independence of Ghana that: "Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa." The infrastructure development programme is championed by African Heads of State and Government. We want to produce modern transport and telecommunication networks connecting Africa. We need roads, bridges, railway lines, trains and modern aviation systems. - http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/speeches/address-president-jacob-zuma-2017-africa-day-celebration%2C-sefako-makgatho-presidential Address by DP Ramaphosa at the 19th African Renaissance Conference Agenda 2063 is a call to action to all Africans and people of African descent to take personal responsibility for the destiny of the continent, championed by Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. The plan calls for the development of an African private sector. It is about fostering pan-African businesses through the growth of regional manufacturing hubs and scaled up intra-Africa trade. - http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/speeches/address-deputy-president-cyril-ramaphosa-19th-african-renaissance-conference%2C-inkosi-albert Zuma Marks Africa Day With Plea For Unity South African President Jacob Zuma called for continental unity in his Africa Day speech yesterday. Mr Zuma told his audience in the capital Pretoria: "We are grateful to our forebears for their commitment to the liberation of every inch of African soil. "We want to produce modern transport and telecommunication networks connecting Africa," he said "We need roads, bridges, railway lines, trains and modern aviation systems." - http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-fc57-South-Africa-Zuma-marks-Africa-Day-with-plea-for-unity#.WSepiOt9600 Nato To Join Air War In Syria And Iraq NATO's secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg confirmed in Brussels that the alliance would join the US-led bombing coalition in Syria and Iraq ("Operation Inherent Resolve") as a bloc. Meanwhile those countries' armed forces kept on hammering Isis, without the US-led coalition's help. Two Syrian army fronts advancing from the east and west met in Khunayfis, southwest of Palmyra, eliminating a pocket of Isis resistance in the desert. - http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-af35-Nato-to-join-air-war-in-Syria-and-Iraq#.WSepDut9600 Trump Urges Rise In Military Spending Leaders of other NATO states stood in awkward silence as US president Trump told them to dig deep for more weaponry, ahead of the Western alliance's summit in Brussels. As it emerged that the Manchester suicide bomber had fought in the NATO-backed overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadaffi before joining the West's war on Syria, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) spokesman Andrew Smith said: "We don't know where these weapons will end up or who they will be used against." - http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-6873-Trump-urges-rise-in-military-spending#.WSeo9-t9600 US Naval Incursion In South China Sea Infuriates Beijing Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Ren Guoqiang said two Chinese navy frigates had warned off the US navy guided missile destroyer USS Dewey after it entered Chinese territorial waters without permission. Meanwhile Taiwanese President Tsai Ing Wen, wearing a helmet and flak jacket, observed the joint army, navy and air force manoeuvres simulating a Chinese invasion of the western Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait. - http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-186c-US-naval-incursion-in-South-China-Sea-infuriates-Beijing#.WSepTOt9600 Activists Slam Montenegro Expansion The former Yugoslav republic of Montenegro is set to join Nato next month, in the first eastward expansion of the Western alliance in eight years. Russia has opposed the move by successor states of Yugoslavia, one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement bloc of nations, to military subservience to Washington. "Nato is not a force for peace but for war and its expansion threatens more war," said Stop the War convener Lindsey German. - http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-9029-Nato-Activists-slam-Montenegro-expansion#.WSepX-t9600 Army Begins All-Out Assault On City Held By Jihadist Terrorists Filipino troops began fighting in earnest yesterday to drive Isis affiliate Abu Sayyaf out of the southern city of Marawi, which the terrorists had seized on Tuesday night. The death cult had torched the cathedral, taken 14 hostages, including a Catholic priest, and beheaded a police chief. [This report is confusing, because the Morning Star editors are running a campaign against the Philippines president Duterte, who can do not right in their eyes, not even when he is fighting the liver-eaters.] - http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b662-Philippines-Army-begins-all-out-assault-on-city-held-by-jihadist-terrorists#.WSepLOt9600 Most CU topical postings are now made to Whatsapp via the Whatsapp-style link with a caption. The above is a collection of the latest postings. Items that have already been sent by e-mail through this channel are not included. [cid:[email protected]] Joe Slovo and Ruth First __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of detection engine 15478 (20170526) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ________________________________ [http://imageshack.com/a/img32/381/6b28.png] E-mail Disclaimer: The information contained in this communication is confidential and may be legal privileged. 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