Zuma's very special birthday week

[Daily Maverick] WEEKEND THING with JOHN STUPART Saturday, 15 April 2017 "His Majesty we all acclaim. King Champagne is his name." Die Fledermaus PICTURE OF THE WEEK BY EPA/JOERG KOCH Visitors look at an artwork by WENU artist collectiv (four urban artists from Hong Kong and Berlin called Steak, Mo, Gogoplata, Friendly) at the 'Magic City - The Art of the Streets' exhibition in Munich, Germany, 13 April 2017. The exhibition features modern Street Art in all its diversity and takes place at the Olympic Park. The exhibition runs from 13 April to 03 September. THIS WEEK'S WRAP-UP [Presidential protest present]( Roughly 100,000 South Africans marched under a combined banner of 10 opposition parties this week. Demanding the end of Zuma's grip on power, a unified voice of resistance was summoned. Because this also happened to be President Zuma's birthday, the #1 person of interest this week responded by eating cake and dancing awkwardly in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the country. [UDM attempts to help the ANC save itself]( The UDM of all parties was able to move forward the parliamentary battle against Zuma. The party was awarded the opportunity to present a case to the Constitutional Court to have an impending no-confidence vote made anonymous. If successful, the UDM would have allowed the ruling party one last chance to find its collective backbone. It will however also delay the vote, which could only take place in May. [SA makes its case at the ICC]( While the country resisted Zuma, a team of lawyers were explaining to the International Criminal Court why Omar al-Bashir was not arrested when visiting South Africa. Although bizarre on the face of it, the attendance of South Africa, let alone an explanation, was not really mandatory, since no country has yet faced consequences for ill-explanation. At the end of it, however, the defence and rebuttal of the ICC may well help the court better structure its terms for when genocidaires can and can't be arrested. [MOAB message from US]( On Thursday the US reported that its military had dropped a Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or MOAB, or 'Mother of All Bombs' on a Daesh complex in Afghanistan. Arguing for its tactical necessity, it was difficult not to draw euphemistic parallels between Trump's desire to wield power in the region, his tiny hands, and the array of complexities in between. — FACT OF THE DAY A study has found that venting one's rage on the internet only makes one angrier. Trolls of the world take note. EDITOR'S PICKS [TRAINSPOTTER: At the National Day of Action, Malema makes friends — 100,000 of them]( By RICHARD POPLAK [Secret Ballot? Eyes turn to early May and a new date for Zuma No Confidence motion]( By MARIANNE MERTEN [House of Cards: Ntlemeza gets the axe but his troubles are far from over]( By MARIANNE THAMM [Putting land at the heart of radical economic transformation – a perspective from the ground]( By SITHANDIWE YENI — [Video of the week]( VIDEO OF THE WEEK [MOAB - Mother of All Bombs GBU-43/B]( astromicwm IN OTHER NEWS Police in Austin, Texas busted a major prostitution ring after receiving some rather incriminating evidence. An industrial waste disposal unit on the premises had become clogged with condoms, leading officials to think something was up. The property's owner, Juan Wang (that is indeed her name) was arrested on the site after a police raid found her in a room with a naked man. [FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO A FRIEND]( Copyright © 2017 Daily Maverick, All rights reserved. You are receiving this mail because you are awesome and on the Daily Maverick First Thing subscriber list. Keep up to date on all DM activities by [clicking here](. [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](