Disciplinary switched to arbitration

Reprieve could see Verryn back in the pulpit soon

Thabiso Thakali, Saturday Star, Johannesburg, 30 January 2010

A week after the storm over his suspension by the Methodist Church, controversial cleric Paul Verryn has won a reprieve which could see him back in the pulpit soon.

Verryn's lawyers, the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), revealed yesterday that his disciplinary hearing had been postponed indefinitely.

Hands off Bishop Paul Verryn!

 

  

Numsa Statement On Bishop Paul Verryn!

28 January 2010

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) notes with serious concern the personal and venomous offensive targeted and directed towards Bishop Paul Verryn.

We are suspicious that this offensive is being lurched against Bishop Verryn forms part of the broader agenda to discredit his person and social standing in society. The bourgeois media has been co-opted consciously or unconsciously to prosecute Bishop Verryn through public opinion.

Two, three, many Paul Verryns!

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No, Mister, You Can't Share My Pain

No, Mister, You Can't Share My Pain

John Maxwell, Jamaica Observer, 17 January 2010

If you shared my pain you would not continue to make me suffer, to torture me, to deny me my dignity and my rights, especially my rights to self-determination and self-expression.

Six years ago you sent your Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to perform an action illegal under the laws of your country, my country and of the international community of nations.

It was an act so outrageous, so bestially vile and wicked that your journalists and news agencies, your diplomats and politicians to this day cannot bring themselves to truthfully describe or own up to the crime that was committed when US Ambassador James Foley, a career diplomat, arrived at the house of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide with a bunch of CIA thugs and US Marines to kidnap the president of Haiti and his wife.

National Planning Commission: nominations needed without delay

On-line Nominations to the National Planning Commission

The above is a facsimile of the Presidency’s National Planning Commission nomination form. Click here, or on the image, to go direct to the form online.

The Revised Green Paper on the National Planning Commission was published on 15 January 2010. It includes an invitation to nominate for the members of the Commission (before 10 February 2010). Click here to read the Green Paper in HTML, or here to download the original PDF version from the Presidency web site.

National Planning Commission, Revised Green Paper

  

Revised Green Paper: National Planning Commission

  

Published 15 January 2010

  

Source:

http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/docs/pcsa/planning/gp_nsp.pdf

Conclusion:

“The Revised Green Paper: National Planning Commission is thus now published in the Gazette, proclaiming the establishment of the Commission and inviting nominations.”

Karima Brown on ANC 98th Anniversary Rally

  

No red faces, but rifts remain

Karima Brown, Business Day, Johannesburg, 11 January 2009

EVEN crafty political play by the South African Communist Party (SACP) at the weekend’s African National Congress (ANC) anniversary celebrations could not hide the bitter rivalry within the ruling party, and divisions between the party’s youth league and the SACP.

Both parties came to the ANC’s 98th birthday celebrations in Kimberley prepared to battle it out in public amid reported plans to embarrass SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande. Sources in the alliance said the bid to embarrass Nzimande, apparently led by ANC Youth League (ANCYL) president Julius Malema, was meant to avenge similar treatment Malema and other senior ANC leaders got at the SACP congress in Polokwane last year.

ANC 98th Anniversary Statement

Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the occasion of the 98th anniversary of the ANC

January 8th, 2010, Galeshewe

Comrades and Compatriots

It is now 98 years since the founding of our movement - the African National Congress. It has been 98 years of principled struggle for a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa.