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S.Africa’s former pres says recent court judgement and inquiry treatment against him too similar with apartheid modus operandi to be ignored,dares them to arrest

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Messages of support poured to South African former president Jacob Zuma following a judgement from the highest court in the land , compelling him to appear before a graft inquiry to answer questions,a statement shared by local state broadcaster’s journalist read in the morning, mentioning no names specifically but states that they are members of the ruling African National Congress(ANC) while others were general members of the public.

Written in a first person,the statement accuses local courts of having granted the an anti-graft-watch dog’s then office holder,Adv Thuli Madonsela an power to strip the president off his powers as a president.

Than the president being the one appointing a judge to head an inquiry,it was the Mrs. Madonsela who directly elected the Chief Justice of the country to make appointments,also Mrs. Madonsela said an commission of inquiry into allegations of top level graft had to investigater Mr. Zuma and the Gupta brothers because her term was running out .

But Mr. Zuma asks how did the courts allow the special kind of proceedings to take place because,he states,it is the office of the anti-graft-watch-dog that carries out the investigations not a holder.

The Chief Justice had to appoint a judge to head the commission because Mr. Zuma as a president was directly implicated on the allegations,Mrs. Madonsela said back then,it was not clear why a deputy president was not a choice.

In a judgement last thursday,read by one of ten judges who were listening to the application on the 29th of Dec 2020,the court warned Mr. Zuma that the accusations against him were serious and he had no right to remain silent before the commission.

But on monday,the former president who still remains influential within local politics, accused the court of being politicised to an extent that it followed apartheid routes on the nature of how it used to target freedom fighters such as Robert Sobukwe .

‘In this circumstances ,I am left with no other alternative but to be defiant against injustice as I did against the apartheid government’ vowed the 79-year old who retreated to his hometown of the south eastern coast province of Kwa-Zulu Natal.

Political foes on the far-left opposition declared the unusual open court defiance an immediate warrant for the arrest of the former president .

‘I am again prepared to go to prison’ Mr. Zuma repeated the remarks which he made few years back ,again,citing his previous sufferings and jail time with Nelson Mandela under the apartheid regime.

(Reporting made in South Africa;Editing by Senior Chief Bureau)

Trump to meet with NATO chief

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‘On Tuesday, 3 December 2019,the NATO Secretary General ,Mr. Jens Stoltenberg will meet the President of the United States of America,Mr. Donald Trump ‘.

The meeting will be held in London,where the European and American nations’ military organization will be celebrating a 70th anniversary.

According to NATO’s official press update made last night.

(Reporting filed in New York; Editing by Bureau Editor)

‘Astana format’ tool for Syria—Putin

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Russian president told reporters that an Arab-world and U.N. moderated peace process called Astana format is the way to restore the west asian country that is being engulfed by a local blood-fight attracting international interference,since from 2011.

‘We believe this format is the most effective tool for overcoming the crisis in Syria’

Mr. Putin made the remarks during a joint-press briefing held in Moscow— along with his Turkish counterpart, president Erdogan—on tuesday and was later quoted by a statement from Kremlin website.

Mr. Recep Erdogan was due for bilateral talks in Russia and by next month both leaders will again meet in Ankara for the peace-restoration attempts summit—originally convened by Iran,Russia and Turkey.

The statement said.

(Reporting made in Russia;Editing by Bureau Editor)

S.African president accuse U.S. of ‘jealously’ amid trade standoff

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The leader of Africa’s most industrialised economy,president Cyril Ramaphosa reportedly alligned his country with China in the trade war with the United States.
President Cyril Ramaphosa publicly accuses the United States of being jealous,according to Times Live website reports later friday citing Mr. Ramaphosa’s words at a local business conference.
The president received an overwhelming criticism later last month after delivering a national parliamentary opening speech in Cape Town.
During the televised proceedings,known locally as the State of the nation address or shortened as SONA,Ramaphosa said that he was dreaming of a newly found ‘city’ built in a modern ‘technology’,saying that China’s Xi also recently built such city.
For some in his own African National Congress(ANC) and to the broader sphere,this was seen as a shift from the pledge that the president made— when he took power from the ousted Zuma early in 2018—.
Ramaphosa promised to revive the economy that currently has a record of almost 30% unemployment-rate and the state-owned companies continue to dip into financial crisis.
This week alone,the public broadcaster SABC and military weapons manufacturer Denel,requested for a financial bailout from the government.
The news website cites directors of top local wireless providers namely Vodacom,MTN and Cell C including state’s Telkom as drivers of the president’s latest policy stance.
(Reporting filed in South Africa;editing by Junior Chief Bureau;Correction: added or removed Sunday Times or Times Live on paragraph two updated a last paragraph)

Human behavior propels the markets—analyst

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‘The mere fact that we have the existence of [asset] bubbles indicates that markets are still run by emotions’

Sheba Jefari said referring to trading,while reponding to the subject.The analyst heads a technical analysis framework within Goldman Sachs(GS).The podcast was later contained in a weekly official maillist update of both the S&P 100 and 500’s constituent.

(Editing by Senior Chief Bureau)

S.Africa ANC senior politician hands over money to potential poor voters tells to not vote for a “…white man”

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In a footage broadcast last night by a local broadcaster eNCA,Ace Magashule was seen in a ‘door-to-door’ campaign attracting voters for his ruling African National Congress(ANC),at some stage after a conversation with a household,a woman in her late years,the Secretary General closed off by handing some hundreds of bank notes to the woman,followed by her scream mixed with tears amid a great surprise.

Later on,Mr. Magashule could be heard from the same footage—at the back of a van in the cold and rainy Cape Town weather on saturday midday—warning the attracted audience against voting for what he he calls a “white man”,charging that a human of such a racial group has never cared for a pain of a “black man”—so would his led-government.

Possibly referring to the official opposition Democratic Alliance(DA) which has a mixed racial make-up from its voters up to its leadership and having being founded by a caucasian.

(Reporting filed in Cape Town;Editing by Assistant Editor)

Zimbabwean communication chief says unrest “characterised” by crime

ERMELO|SOUTH AFRICA(GMT:+0200 )

One police officer was stoned to death Sunday at the peak of Zimbabwean protests,communications chief was heard from media briefing as saying Tuesday.

The protests by the public entering the third day comes just after medical professionals agreed to end a prolonged strike over salaries they say are low.

This is a bad track for Mngangagwa who promised to revive the Southern African country’s economy which collapsed under the rule of Mugabe which lasted for decades,until he was dropped through bloodless coup in late 2016.

The latest uprisings were seemingly ignited by an announcement of the president that fuel costs were to be increased .

Since then,few were reportedly dead amid clash with armed forces and other law enforcement from the streets of capital Harare,that was before the communication chief decided to shut down the internet.

The numbers of deaths conflicts from each reports.

The intervention of  military forces during protests in the country has became a phenomena,even after the period of ex-guerilla Robert Mugabe.

(Editing made in Durban)

BHP says completes buy back

S&P/ASX 200(5 589,50  DOWN BY 68,80 OR 1,22 %)

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Australian minerals company BHP had finished an off-market buy back of group—BHP Group Limited—worth $5.2 billion.
It said in a statement Monday also announcing its special dividend worth.

 
‘The final transaction size of A$7.3 billion has enabled BHP Group Limited to buy back approximately 265.8 million BHP Group Limited shares’ the ASX 200 constituent further stated,adding that such transaction represented 8.3 p/c issued share capital of the group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Additional reporting made in Sydney)

CORRECTED:Facebook,Inc did not say their online site accounts were compromised

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‘ We don’t know yet if anyone’s Facebook information was accessed’ the American online social media company said adding that it was doing the best to procted the site users.
Attackers have stolen tokens through a malware system that targeted the biggest social media site,this was discovered on the 25th,according to the notification sent to users who may have been affected—seen by SAMM News Saturday 

‘Access tokens’ informs the statement from the site founded by then computer programmer student in the early 2000’s ‘are the equivalent of digital keys that attackers could then have used to take over other people’s accounts.’ 

Social media companies have been recently under pressure from authorities in Europe and America on concerns arising from user’s information and so-called fake news

‘We’re continuing to investigate the situation and have informed law enforcement about the issue.’ 

The brief statement continued on one of rare cases that appears to be serious in nature.
Upon the discovery of such an ‘attack system’ ,some users were logged out—the option that may renders the account status as offline,depending on the access method used,an attempt to ‘log in’ may require a password also depends on user settings—,no further details were made on what may have happened once the affected user then tried to ‘log in’.
But the statement further reads that once the social media giant ‘logs’ people out,in the process of investigating such threat,the users will then be informed in details on their account security status with regards to the attack.

(Add: an earlier version of this report appeared under the heading ‘Facebook,Inc tell some users accounts were compromised by cyber criminals matter reported to authorities’,the heading was updated on our twitter handle with link only available to news-outlets subscribers only until it was corrected;editing by Senior Chief Bureau )