NEC hands Zuma another lifeline

[Daily Maverick] AFTERNOON THING with JOHN STUPART Tuesday, 29th November 2016 Shining a light into a dark corner of the underworld. [Buy it now.] WHILE YOU WERE WORKING [NEC stand up for Zuma] It had leaked out long before the NEC's statement this afternoon, but the ANC NEC ultimately decided to prioritise Jacob Zuma over the fate of the party and quite possibly the country. The NEC stated that it was "more urgent to direct the energies of the ANC in its entirety to working towards the unity of the movement." Opposition parties must now surely be rubbing their hands in gleeful anticipation of 2019. [ANC & SACP to remember Castro] Forget about the NEC's shenanigans, the ANC and SACP are focusing today on memorialising Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Castro died aged 90 on Sunday. Both organisations are planning memorial events today to celebrate one of Communism's darkest stars. Cuban immigrants in the USA, meanwhile, are still celebrating. — A funny and brutally honest account of Cliff’s journey. [Buy it now]. [Plane crash in Colombia leaves 76 dead] An aircraft transporting Chapecoense Real, a Brazilian football club, crashed in the mountains near Medellin this morning. Carrying 81 passengers including crew, just six were found alive, one of whom died en route to hospital. The LAMIA airlines charter reported 'electrical failures' shortly before crashing. [Ukraine places mammoth dome on Chernobyl] The world's largest moveable structure was capped over the Chernobyl nuclear reactor today. Weighing 36,000 tonnes, the structure is taller than the statue of liberty and three times the mass of the Eiffel Tower. The dome costs 2.2-billion dollars and will keep in leaking radioactive dust. — Tales of bravery, courage and heroism. [Buy it now]. FEATURED ARTICLES [Reality Check: How 'rogue unit' allegations weakened SARS and undermined its authority] [Reality Check: How 'rogue unit' allegations weakened SARS and undermined its authority] BY Marianne Thamm [Reporter's Notebook: Waiting for post-Zuma] [Reporter's Notebook: Waiting for post-Zuma] BY Greg Nicolson [Maimane: “It’s not just Jacob Zuma, it’s a united crime syndicate”] [Maimane: “It’s not just Jacob Zuma, it’s a united crime syndicate”] BY Simon Allison OPINIONISTAS [Raise High the Roof Beams, Cadres] [Raise High the Roof Beams, Cadres] A column by Mark Heywood [Fillon, Erdoğan, Trump and the Rise of the Far Right: Is the Left in a Shambles?] [Fillon, Erdoğan, Trump and the Rise of the Far Right: Is the Left in a Shambles?] A column by Yonela Diko [FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO A FRIEND] Copyright © 2016 Daily Maverick, All rights reserved. You are receiving this mail because you are awesome and on the Daily Maverick First Thing subscriber list. [Preferences] | [Unsubscribe]