1. Nic Dawes will take over as editor of the Mail & Guardian from Ferial Haffajee, who is off to City Press. Dawes joined the M&G from ThisDay in 2004 as an investigative and political reporter.
2. The cops are patrolling the National Prosecuting Authority’s Pretoria headquarters as tension mounts over whether the charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma will be dropped. UDM leader Bantu Holomisa says he has reliable information that they will indeed be dropped. Read the IOL story here.
3. Here a great story from the M&G about teenage boys at one of SA’s elite soccer academies improving their football skills by doing ballet. Click here.
4. Madonna has been sent packing by a Malawian court, saying she can’t adopt a second child in the country becuase the law requires that prospective parents be resident in the country for 18 to 24 months. Hmmm. That doesn’t say much for the first adoption process. Read the BBC story here.
4. Jacob Zuma has explained his remark that the ANC will rule until Jesus returns, saying it was a “political expression” (read the IOL story here) while the ANC Youth League is being pretty rude to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu about his statement earlier this week that he was not looking forward to having Zuma as SA’s president. Read The Times story here.
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