African Press Review 20 December 2012

What we can learn from the Mayans. A former miners' leader becomes deputy ANC chief and gets a cool reception from unions and a warm one from markets. Discord continues at the head of Kenya's Jubilee Alliance. Mwai Kibaki bows out. Ugandan school students gat a few more days off. And Kenya tries to keep refugees in camps.

Given the fact that tomorrow is the end of the Mayan calendar and of everything else according to some cheerful souls, South African financial paper BusinessDay publishes an opinion piece headlined "What we can learn from the Mayans about the end of time".

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