http://politics.za.net/articles/2006/08/16/midweek-news-snippets en-us 40 Third world country. First world politics. <ul> <li>Western Cape ID leader Simon Grindrod <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&#38;click_id=6&#38;art_id=vn20060816015327904C701364">gets into a shouting match</a> with <acronym title="African Muslim Party">AMP</acronym> councillor Badih Chaaban. As they are both mature politicians, cooler heads prevail&#8230; and they both lay criminal charges against each other.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><acronym title="Independent Electoral Commission">IEC</acronym> chairperson Brigalia Bam possibly disqualifies herself from overseeing national elections by stating she hopes the <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&#38;click_id=6&#38;art_id=vn20060816012711989C505355">next president of SA is a woman</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad remembers that <a href="http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=280966&#38;area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/">maybe he did meet</a> with French arms company Thomson <span class="caps">CSF</span> prior to Thomson (now Thint) winning a large chunk of change in the multi billion dollar arms deal, although he remembers nothing about the meeting.</li> </ul> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:57:00 -0400 urn:uuid:fffb803599646447cb5ad02136fd173d Farrel http://politics.za.net/articles/2006/08/16/midweek-news-snippets ID Elections The Executive <p>That answer is straight out of the Ronald Regan political playbook.</p> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:33:49 -0400 urn:uuid: http://politics.za.net/articles/2006/08/16/midweek-news-snippets#comment-572 <p>Seems like some form of memory training course should be a priority for members of the SA government?</p> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:16:07 -0400 urn:uuid: http://politics.za.net/articles/2006/08/16/midweek-news-snippets#comment-569