Taloyor's 50

Charles Taylor,the former president of Liberia has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for war crimes commited in Sierra Lione during the Civil war in the '90s.
" Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is the first former head of state to be convicted by an international tribunal since the Nuremberg trials at the end of World War II. He was sentenced by the international criminal court at the Hague. " (http://bostonglobe.com/news/world/2012/05/30/charles-taylor-sentenced-years/YGcCFguXhULDTxeTWJkpXN/story.html

I have never seen anyone other than the black leaders being convicted and sentenced in this court,which makes me wonder about the type of precautions and protocols that are followed to charge Leaders of such crimes....

Mdluli saga

Suspended Mdluli is under investigation for allegedly abusing state resources. This was brought forward by Tokyo Sexwale the Minister of Human settlement to the Public protector Thuli Madonsela,to investigate the matter. Mdluli brought the dark cloud onto himself by alerting president Zuma of the plot by some members of the ANC to outvote the president at the Mangaung Conference.

Why not Prositute Mdluli?

WHY the Advocate Mdluli is not yet standing trial for the allegations he's facing....considering that he is friends of the President an the one who gave Zuma heads up when he was being investigated by the Scorpions,it is quite clear to me that the Presidency is tempering with the investigation against Mdluli.

Emotional Advocate

The ANC advocate who was suppose to be the rock for the ANC during the Spear of the Nation Hearing in court yesterday could not bear with the judges' questions and decided to go for the Breakdown route ( cried )! leading to the postponement of the hearing....How can a proffessional of his calibre,hired by the big boys of the country allow his Emotions to get the better side of him. Will the ANC still have faith in him to win the trial for them? I personally would not let him continue representing me or my party for that matter,what he showed there was a sign of weakness.

NUM fights!

NUM, the biggest COSATU affiliates,are fighting over the nominations & salaries of their members just before their election conference to be held in few weeks to come....Now to me seems like every political activity going on in this Country is Money driven with ppl coming Second.

Justice,Justice,Justice !

Hope the sentencing of the Eugene Terreblanche's killer,will be severe as possible because no man is allowed to kill a fellow man in this beautiful country of ours regardless of what they are or what they might have been.Lets prove that our Justice system is for all.

Trouble @ Goodman gallery

The Potrait of President Jacob Zuma,with his Genitals exposed caused chaos @ Goodman gallery at Johannesburg yesterday,when two gentlemen ruined the painting with Red & Black paint and got them arrested while at it. Now the Question I have is....Was the potrait of Racial statement or was the artist practising his Freedom of Expression right...?

Sarkozy laughs off Gaddafi election-fund claim

Paris

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has dismissed a report that deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had sought to fund his 2007 campaign as a ploy by Socialist opponents to distract attention from the public reappearance of disgraced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

A week ahead of Sunday’s decisive second-round presidential vote, investigative website Mediapart said it had uncovered a document from Libya’s former secret services showing that Gaddafi’s government had decided to finance Sarkozy’s run at the presidency when he was interior minister.

Sarkozy, whose government played a key role in the demise of Gaddafi, has repeatedly denied receiving any money from the former Libyan leader, who was captured and killed by fighters from the Libyan National Liberation Army last year.

Sarkozy said the Socialists were using the report as an attempt to distract attention from the reappearance of Strauss-Kahn, who had been the runaway favourite for the party’s presidential ticket before he was arrested last May on charges of sexually abusing a New York hotel maid.

In an interview published by London’s Guardian newspaper on Friday, Strauss-Kahn said operatives linked to Sarkozy had torpedoed his presidential bid by ensuring his sexual encounter with the maid was made public.

“You see that this is an attempt to create a distraction after the return to public life of Strauss-Kahn,” Sarkozy told Le Parisien-Dimanche newspaper. “They don’t want anyone to remember they wanted to make him the next president of the French republic.”

The Socialists’ candidate, Francois Hollande, leads Sarkozy in opinion polls by around 10 percentage points ahead of the second-round vote.

Mediapart, staffed by a number of veteran French newspaper and news agency journalists, said it had a 2006 document signed by Gaddafi’s former intelligence chief, Moussa Koussa, which stated that his government would pay e50 million (R511m) for Sarkozy’s campaign.

Later yesterday, in an interview on Canal+ television, Sarkozy said the document was a fake.

“It’s a disgrace. It’s a fabrication,” he said. “Mediapart is a habitual liar… It is an office in the service of the Left… Who led the coalition to topple Gaddafi? It was France! I was perhaps the leader. Do you think that if Gaddafi had anything on me I would have tried to oust him?”

Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the document was “false, or at least impossible to verify, which comes from a dictatorship which France helped to topple”.

“It is a calumny, an absurdity,” he told Europe 1 radio, adding that it was ridiculous to talk of e50m to finance a campaign that cost e20m and for which accounts were publicly available.

The Mediapart website, which gained prominence in 2010 when it broke news of a major political funding scandal around Sarkozy’s UMP party and L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, called for an official investigation.

Having earlier denied it, Sarkozy acknowledged on Wednesday that his government had considered co-operation with Libya in civil nuclear energy. He raised eyebrows when he invited Gaddafi to Paris in 2007. – letting him pitch his Bedouin-style tent by the Élysée Palace.

http://www.iol.co.za/the-star/sarkozy-laughs-off-gaddafi-election-fund-claim-1.1285863