It all sounds a bit like the Virginia situation where the Republicans suddenly found another vote so the vote is tied between the Dem and Rep, so not a coin toss decides the seat. Slightly better than what’s happening over there, but not much.

I guess at least there’s still time to work on people’s consciences before next year. And to bribe them too of course.

Apparently the ANC top has decided to leave the fate of the 68 votes to next year. However, they did do a recount of the other votes + fifteen (it is not clear whether these fifteen are part of the 68 or not, but I think so) and the difference between Mr Maghashule and Mr Mchunu stands at only 9 votes now. We didn’t have to wait until 18 hours, but we do have to wait until the year 18.

I remember the study. I also remember I had a couple of questions about how it was done. I’m not questioning it. It’s just that I think the quality of the police is very variable across the country because standards vary so much in different jurisdictions. (We have one for the whole country. ) Some are good and some are terrible, and the bad ones didn’t get sufficient focus because the results were averaged out.

I need to look into the SA situation more. I knew about the new head of the party because it’s on the news here, but not the other situation. It sounds like it’s a situation that needs to go to court, so I hope it does.

I’ve been looking out for a short video that describes what’s happening in SA so I can tweet it and post it here. There are a couple of other situations where I’d like to do the same, like the new government in Austria and the coalition with a far-right party, the increasing number of far-right politicians in the European parliament, what’s going on with Brexit, an update on the Rohingya, Russia/Syria etc. If I had the skills and equipment, I’d make the effort to do the research and make the videos myself and stick them on YouTube.

What I completely fail to understand is why the victim was not just given 2 tickets, one for missing front numberplate, and one for tinted windows. Why arrest the man?
On the other hand, with the reputation of the US police, I guess we may be thankful he wasn’t shot dead. I guess those body cameras the Pasadena policemen were wearing may have saved his life.
Note, contrary to popular belief, coloured ‘suspects’ are not proportionally more often killed by police than white ones in the US, at least it is not firmly established (according to a comprehensive study by a coulored professor I can’t find right now, maybe later, there are studies with different results too), but are much more likely to be harassed and shoved & punched around.

I hope they are too. No matter the situation, excessive force is being used. One cop holding the suspect down while the other lays into him with a weapon is never acceptable.

That standing penguin on the right is a kind of puppet or robot, it seems.
That police tweet, if the police want to keep some kind of credibility, those 2 officers should be fired and charged with assauļt.

Actually, I remembered what the proper tweets were, and put them. If you feel like having a look, the correct ones are there now.

That means the tweets that were supposed to be in the duplicates are missing and I’ve copied the wrong tweets in!

I can’t remember what was supposed to be there now, so I’ll just have to delete the ones that are wrong.