Malema warns of EFF-led land seizure campaign

[Click here for the web version of this email]( [Daily Maverick] Wednesday, 12 September 2018 “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” Leo Tolstoy Story of the Day [Crime stats from Hell – brought to you by years of instability, political pliancy and the SAPS’s internecine battles]( By Marianne Merten With an official murder rate of 57 South Africans killed every day – and murder is a yardstick for crime generally – Police Minister Bheki Cele on Tuesday did something politicians usually don’t: a straight admission that police had “dropped the ball”. That comes against the backdrop of the Cabinet security cluster of police, state security and defence not having meet for two years, and 250 vacancies in the Hawks, the elite investigating directorate. After too many years of neglect, and sometimes plain sabotage, the chickens are coming home to roost. While You Were Sleeping [Hurricane Florence draws a bead on US coast]( Hurricane Florence is set to damage North Carolina over the next two days. Florence is deemed to be the region's most powerful hurricane in three decades and thousands of Americans living in its path have already evacuated. [EFF warn of land seizure campaign]( EFF leader Julius Malema has told the AFP that his party would ramp up the seizure of unoccupied land. Huffing the fumes of election fever next year, Malema stated that poor, young South Africans are fed up with the ANC. He said:"It's a completely new generation running out of patience." [Spain demolishes Croatia 6-0]( World Cup runners-up Croatia looked anything but their tournament selves on Tuesday. The Spanish squad defeated their rivals 6-0 in a Nationals League match, led by a superb effort by Marco Asensio. 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