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While you were sleeping: 11 April 2016

While you were sleeping: 11 April 2016
Yemen enters a fragile truce, Sanders balances his Middle East policies, and Frenchman to paddle across the Atlantic.

























“You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”
 
– H.L. Mencken

























Story of the Day



































Gone Guptas: ‘We must crush the head of the snake’ – EFF 
Two months ago, the Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema focused his radar on the Gupta empire and demanded that the family leave South Africa. Over a week ago, he made the extraordinary allegation that President Jacob Zuma had carried R6-billion out of South Africa to Dubai on behalf of the Guptas. On Sunday it was reported that the Guptas had fled the country to resettle in Dubai after announcing last week that they had resigned all their directorships in their South African companies. While the EFF is claiming victory, they still have one more target in their “Zupta Must Fall” campaign. By RANJENI MUNUSAMY.
















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Truce takes hold in Yemen
A fragile peace has descended upon Yemen as a midnight ceasefire agreement takes effect. Fighting had flared up just hours before, as warring factions exchanged fire north of the capital, Sana'a.
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Brussels attack switched from France
As investigators closed in on Islamic State attackers in Brussels, the target shifted from France to Belgium. According to prosecutors currently charging Mohamed Abrini, or the "man in the hat", the original intention was to strike Paris again.
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Sanders to pursue a balanced Middle East Policy
If elected president, Bernie Sanders has said that he would take a far more balanced approach to the Middle East. Potentially the first Jewish US president, Sanders criticised Israel's role in the 2014 war and sympathised with the Gazan people's suffering.
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Frenchman embarks on paddling record
A French stand-up paddler embarked on a record-breaking journey on Sunday. Nicolas Jarossay will attempt to cross 5,000 km of Atlantic Ocean to become the first paddler to do so. At the end, 'legs of steel' won't quite describe it.
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In Numbers



































13,000









 

The dollar amount stolen by 'Non Erata', a player in a massively multiplayer game called EVE. He thieved the in-game currency equivalent after infiltrating a group over a six-month period.

















Facts of the Day

































Today in 1979 Idi Amin was deposed. The Ugandan dictator ultimately spent his years in exile in Saudi Arabia.

Fact of the day: Squirrels will adopt other baby squirrels if they are abandoned or orphaned.





















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Photo: Atul Gupta and President Jacob Zuma at the BidWest Wanderers,
<br>30 March 2012. Gone Guptas: ‘We must crush the head of the snake’ – EFF 
By Ranjeni Munusamy
Photo: General Mthandazo Berning Ntlemeza (Lucky Nxumalo for
<br>Netwerk24) State Capture: Keeping up with No 1, Hawks boss asks for a jet and more money 
By Marianne Thamm
Photo: Blackboard by Parée via Flickr. Luminaries, Comrades and Objectors: A growing army of Zuma’s opponents 
By Greg Nicolson
Photo of the Mulungushi station by the authors. Decline and Regeneration: Zambia’s ghosts of development past 
By Greg Mills & Dickie Davis
evita-free-speech-image(22).jpg Video: Evita's Free Speech, Ep.33 – How to replace a president 
By Pieter-Dirk Uys
Photo by South African Tourism via Flickr. Health-E: Death, dying and silence in the Eastern Cape 
By HEALTH-E NEWS
Photo: Diane Victor’s ‘Pasiphaë’ being boarded
<br>up at UCT yesterday. Photo: Ashleigh Furlong GroundUp Report: Prominent artwork covered up at UCT 
By GroundUp
Photo: Residents of the Slovo Park informal settlement near
<br>Johannesburg, South Africa, rescue their remaining posessions during a
<br>fire, Sunday 24 August 2003. 
<br>EPA PHOTO EPA NEO NTSOMA Upgrading informal settlements: The importance of the Slovo Park judgment 
By NOMZAMO ZONDO & LAUREN ROYSTON
Photo: Portrait shows Florence Thompson with several of her children
<br>in a photograph known as Drift Equals Disaster: When Public Policy is frozen in the headlights 
By J Brooks Spector
Photo: The SA Select Women’s Sevens team from 2014 (Photo by
<br>blitzbokke.com) SA Women’s Hong Kong Sevens win a bittersweet reminder of crushed Olympic dreams 
By Antoinette Muller
Photo: Gwede Mantashe (Greg Nicolson / Daily Maverick) Mantashe's dire warning to ANC: 'We are losing the trust of the people' 
By Reuters


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phillip dexter.jpg The ANC, Nkandla and #ZumaMustFall: A Watershed or a Drowning? 
By Phillip Dexter
Herman-Mashaba.jpg Heaven or Hell: Put Jozi back on the High Road 
By Herman Mashaba
Elisha-Kunene.jpg Black on Black Disrespect: Why the opposition’s race to the left is good for the ANC 
By Elisha Kunene