24638: SIDATIRE (comment) Re: 24627: Zekora: "Unique skills" land Aristide top cabinet job in South Africa

[sak-pase@bimini.ws]

<sidatire@hush.com>

I do hope everyone realized this was a "poisson d'avril" as 
indicated by the reporter's name. An African news portal, 
allafrica.com, was the only one to pick up the story as if it were 
real. The Daily Dispatch published an article listing various April 
Fool's Day stories in the South African press, "Our April Fool’s 
joke had them really fooled" which mentioned this story.

Excerpt: "According to Business Day, the ousted Haitian leader 
Aristide’s Cabinet appointment would be to help boost the 
repatriation of Africans with hopes that the resultant cash inflow 
could lead to a 3,5 percentage point boost to South Africa’s 
economic growth rate."

source: 
http://www.dispatch.co.za/2005/04/02/Easterncape/bfoolsday.html