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Viewing cable 10PRETORIA2, SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
10PRETORIA2 2010-01-04 06:57 2011-08-24 01:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Pretoria
VZCZCXRO1864
RR RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHSA #0002 0040657
ZNR UUUUU ZZH(CCY ADX06A8F8 WSC1664 532A)
R 040657Z JAN 10 ZDS
FM AMEMBASSY PRETORIA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0768
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE
RUEHTN/AMCONSUL CAPE TOWN 7482
RUEHDU/AMCONSUL DURBAN 1545
RUEHJO/AMCONSUL JOHANNESBURG 9837
UNCLAS PRETORIA 000002 
 
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 
SIPDIS 
 
C O R R E C T E D  C O P Y ( ADDED PARA MARKINGS ON PARA 2) 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KDEM PGOV ASEC SF POL PAS ECON
SUBJECT: SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER 
DECEMBER 25-31 
 
1. (SBU)  This was written in partnership with the Open Source 
Center's Pretoria Bureau.  The newsletter is open to contributions 
from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to 
highlight political trends.  Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or 
Jonathan Smallridge for more information, or to make contributions. 
The newsletter also is available on the Political Section's blog, "A 
View from South Africa," found on intelink.gov. 
 
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Domestic News 
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Trafficking Suspect Denied Bail 
 
2. (U) A 34-year old Thai woman arrested for human trafficking was 
denied bail by the Rustenburg Magistrate's Court on December 29 
because she was deemed to be a flight risk. Giang Brooderyk was 
arrested on November 26 for allegedly assisting women from Thailand 
to enter South Africa illegally.  The accused allegedly promised the 
women work at her massage parlor, but then forced her victims into 
prostitution.  The case has been postponed until February 1 for 
further investigation. Pretoria News, December 31. 
 
President Zuma to Wed, Again 
 
3.  President Jacob Zuma plans to marry Thobeka Mabhija on January 
4.  Details of the wedding are being kept under wraps.  The ceremony 
is scheduled t take place exactly two years after President Zuma 
married Nopumelelo Ntuli.  The new first lady-to-be was born in 1973 
in Durban and has a bachelor's degree in business from the 
University of Zululand.  President Zuma is also currently married to 
Sizakele Khumalo.  President Zuma and Home Affairs Minister 
Nkozasana Dlamini-Zuma were divorced in 1998, and Zuma's former wife 
Kate died in 2000.  The Sowetan, December 20, 2009. 
 
 
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International News 
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South Africa to Strengthen Ties with BRIC Countries 
 
4.  (U) Business Day reported on 29 December that South Africa 
planned to strengthen trade ties next year with other dynamic 
industrializing economies such as China, India, and Brazil, which 
united in a common front at this month's climate change talks in 
Copenhagen.  The common position of the four countries, which all 
have industrializing economies but are burdened with severe 
developmental challenges, is a binding force in international 
negotiations on a number of fronts as they resist attempts by 
developed nations to categorize them as developed, rather than 
developing.  What the world needed with trade and climate change 
negotiations, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said this week, 
was for developed countries to make big concessions to developing 
countries to build a fairer world. Instead, strong demands for 
concessions were made against the larger developing countries, 
including SA.  As far as strengthening south- south trade was 
concerned, Davies said discussions were in the pipeline on an 
enlargement of the trade agreement between India, the Southern 
African Customs Union (Sacu) and Latin American trade grouping 
Mercosur. [Johannesburg Business Day Online in English -- Website of 
privately owned regional newspaper; URL: http://www.bday.co.za/] 
 
 
Gips