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Seething Sri Lanka stops president’s brother flying out of the country

Seething Sri Lanka stops president’s brother flying out of the country

UDITHA JAYASINGHE and DEVJYOT GHOSHAL SRI Lankan immigration officials stopped the president's brother and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country on Tuesday, as anger mounted over the island's worst economic crisis in decades. It was not clear where Rajapaksa, who also holds U.S. citizenship, was trying to go. He resigned as finance minister in early April as street protests surged against shortages of fuel, food and other necessities, and quit his seat in parliament in June. His elder brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, will resign as president on Wednesday to make way for a unity government, after…
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Running blind folded

Running blind folded

MOSIBUDI MANGENA A Cuban mathematics and science tutor who was part of a group I was working within the Department of Education, was bemused by the tendency of South Africans to call big meetings to attend to issues that should be dealt with routinely and administratively. Her observations came to mind when we saw ministers with large entourages of police running helter-skelter in Diepsloot trying to solve the problem of crime and illegal immigration.  Frankly, it was embarrassing. It exposed an alarming collapse of systems and processes. That should be a routine and ongoing activity of the police and immigration…
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