tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48307818742295639662024-03-11T09:24:50.822+02:00Olumide Fafore's Blogolumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.comBlogger5498125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-73057698699836831612021-05-31T15:48:00.001+02:002021-05-31T15:48:46.961+02:00 B A N T A S T I C W E E K E N D P R E S S R E L E A S E<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_esffPPaNfxmP60bAk-YCpq7MnUA8T32KvyGTIp95dYLkAzw9govpTXJo5Tamf1zAskax8FH0POlg_C0973qnowROyJ18VFp-rqxhhto_jfjVc0P176YDTDaM5Kgs1ynqet4Cg1cV40cv/s2048/BAN-T+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1370" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_esffPPaNfxmP60bAk-YCpq7MnUA8T32KvyGTIp95dYLkAzw9govpTXJo5Tamf1zAskax8FH0POlg_C0973qnowROyJ18VFp-rqxhhto_jfjVc0P176YDTDaM5Kgs1ynqet4Cg1cV40cv/w268-h400/BAN-T+1.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdfAjEsCZvIxzHrTfw5OFXJabTnEsQt_ZAihciVu7Ru9GHgWVlC4zbDhS5GLxH6jzNSNXKMaAZS-o8_AJy2hzPyApETaSDD_Z4stm1mNi_0VHhvlVHEKUWTLByodfbtToXSU6G5v0a15WE/s2048/BAN-T+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1370" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdfAjEsCZvIxzHrTfw5OFXJabTnEsQt_ZAihciVu7Ru9GHgWVlC4zbDhS5GLxH6jzNSNXKMaAZS-o8_AJy2hzPyApETaSDD_Z4stm1mNi_0VHhvlVHEKUWTLByodfbtToXSU6G5v0a15WE/w268-h400/BAN-T+2.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBgfegHanfev6XRS9vvx0QTml6WV96Y52jEIWNLWMzxemMN_HpAIVJEfWfAjmiVHu90YNC43c1QjfXJXGT_3O6Z4H3oqcimM1QglpQWKsspuCeZL8p_btOnBSo9n_qYrv4KuInyjFuukCY/s2048/BAN-T+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1370" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBgfegHanfev6XRS9vvx0QTml6WV96Y52jEIWNLWMzxemMN_HpAIVJEfWfAjmiVHu90YNC43c1QjfXJXGT_3O6Z4H3oqcimM1QglpQWKsspuCeZL8p_btOnBSo9n_qYrv4KuInyjFuukCY/w268-h400/BAN-T+3.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7o6z9g6TFt4JWA2S4KuQrKE0BvUSXZLzZDPEd7hlGoZhSi_c3enFcX6zNVinZ5hAGdKOeEXSqthcj00X_sxaKltYIi3RYTfJdzWsJirgaKDAt9X26oO113RK0DQk4rmngfIgngRNTTiV/s2048/BAN-T+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1370" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7o6z9g6TFt4JWA2S4KuQrKE0BvUSXZLzZDPEd7hlGoZhSi_c3enFcX6zNVinZ5hAGdKOeEXSqthcj00X_sxaKltYIi3RYTfJdzWsJirgaKDAt9X26oO113RK0DQk4rmngfIgngRNTTiV/w268-h400/BAN-T+4.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1fW5Ojdk7NIBJDo53snyBTSThXN3s-Wz3mUalFgOLCBNzCCHa84WvNGMVxLweUFURyksfh7RO9HQ8KDxqNrTFl2Ymb-pVtlNcnWXxNMkCgpoBkepuGaqEh2LrDRry60FfPVFwAAwesIhyphenhyphen/s2048/BAN-T+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1370" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1fW5Ojdk7NIBJDo53snyBTSThXN3s-Wz3mUalFgOLCBNzCCHa84WvNGMVxLweUFURyksfh7RO9HQ8KDxqNrTFl2Ymb-pVtlNcnWXxNMkCgpoBkepuGaqEh2LrDRry60FfPVFwAAwesIhyphenhyphen/w268-h400/BAN-T+5.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>The fresh prince of Mageba Ban-T is back on your favourite streaming platforms with his latest single offering, Bantastic weekend. Released on the:
28 May 2021
Please find attached Ban-T’s press kit with the following for your perusal: <div><br /></div><div> 1. Artist Bio </div><div>2. Press release </div><div> 3. Press images </div><div style="text-align: center;"> 4. Artwork
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qs9bloe3znbriz8/AABbToT0VCQIz32uAeaHVE9ya?dl=0
Single: https://li.sten.to/BantasticWknd
Social media links: <span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div> Twitter:https://twitter.com/whysobantastic?s=21</div><div> Instagram: https://instagram.com/whysobantastic?igshid=13e1ali2pmddr
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialBanT
Youtube: https://youtu.be/08cEJilFcS4</div><div> Publishing information:
Song title: Bantastic weekend
Artist: Ban-T
Composers: Baanthata Mokgwathi, Takunda Muusha, Riley C </div><div> Songwriters: Baanthata Mokgwathi, Jitowe Tshombela </div><div> Publisher: encore live entertainment group
Samro no:2373370
IRSC code: ZA-ERB-21-00001</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/08cEJilFcS4" width="320" youtube-src-id="08cEJilFcS4"></iframe></div></div>olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-33187072969288571842021-04-09T12:02:00.001+02:002021-04-09T12:02:29.003+02:00(PR) DOJA CAT RELEASES NEW SINGLE “KISS ME MORE” FT. SZA NEW ALBUM PLANET HER SET FOR RELEASE SUMMER 2021<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfC0bfbTFAoG-WUGEo7eXmZlOLfhxZimhfNc4tg1EUSd84tiN2FdlqxgG2xZakv-NYiafxfvqHRnMsLervZn2JAOacBaAKGxXTJgm_ZnKYJXu8dPUkGB9ApwCInthVu6Ye-Erdx3NwIxa/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="468" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfC0bfbTFAoG-WUGEo7eXmZlOLfhxZimhfNc4tg1EUSd84tiN2FdlqxgG2xZakv-NYiafxfvqHRnMsLervZn2JAOacBaAKGxXTJgm_ZnKYJXu8dPUkGB9ApwCInthVu6Ye-Erdx3NwIxa/w400-h400/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">WELCOME TO<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><i><u>PLANET HER<u></u><u></u></u></i></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">DOJA CAT RELEASES NEW SINGLE “KISS ME MORE” FT. SZA<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">NEW ALBUM<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><i><u>PLANET HER</u></i><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>SET FOR RELEASE SUMMER 2021</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></b></p><div lang="EN-ZA" link="#0563C1" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_4869699643080335046WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">April 9<sup>th</sup>, 2021 – Los Angeles, CA – Today, global superstar<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Doja Cat</b><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>unveils the first taste of<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Planet Her</i></b><i>.</i><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>“<b>Kiss Me More</b>” ft.<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><b>SZA</b>, the highly anticipated first single off her much buzzed about new album was written by Doja Cat, SZA, Yeti Beats, Rogét Chahayed, tizhimself and Carter Lang and produced by Yeti Beats. It arrives with an epic music video, directed by Warren Fu (The Weeknd, Kehlani), which offers the first glimpse into the brand new world Doja is creating.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Doja’s domination continues with the news that her 3<sup>rd</sup><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>album,<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Planet Her</i></b><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>is coming summer 2021 via Kemosabe/RCA Record</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Check out “<b>Kiss Me More</b>” ft. SZA –<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fsmarturl.it%252FxKMMx%252Fyoutube%26data%3D04%257C01%257Csivuyise.mfenyana%2540sonymusic.com%257Cd9d3612b60f845ddc28208d8fb0c2449%257Cf0aff3b791a54aaeaf71c63e1dda2049%257C0%257C0%257C637535376950054254%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%253D%257C1000%26sdata%3DC%252BkfPuakPYGsuZi6%252FlGkQv0TeYgtNqg1CjdHSWngTGY%253D%26reserved%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1618047265088000&usg=AFQjCNH0zWgUShLs9EjQaxzcsfTHsywlhQ" href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsmarturl.it%2FxKMMx%2Fyoutube&data=04%7C01%7Csivuyise.mfenyana%40sonymusic.com%7Cd9d3612b60f845ddc28208d8fb0c2449%7Cf0aff3b791a54aaeaf71c63e1dda2049%7C0%7C0%7C637535376950054254%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=C%2BkfPuakPYGsuZi6%2FlGkQv0TeYgtNqg1CjdHSWngTGY%3D&reserved=0" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">HERE<span></span></span></a></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p></div></div><div lang="EN-ZA" link="#0563C1" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_4869699643080335046WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Just last month, 3-time GRAMMY nominee Doja Cat, took to the Grammy Stage for a show stopping performance of her smash hit “<b>Say So</b>” which was highly celebrated. She also graced the cover of V Magazine and released the music video for her runaway viral smash “<b>Streets</b>” which was directed by Christian Breslauer and starred actor/model Kofi Siroboe.<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><img border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-image-whitelisted="" height="400" id="m_4869699643080335046Picture_x0020_1" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=3b35e9a189&attid=0.2&permmsgid=msg-f:1696548016414793262&th=178b596ea6cc1e2e&view=fimg&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ8hpHxrkNGcOG5CJOTAH9tY1-mRKufWxIgd9dvD5iXPctbSDPM_Y8HHNPGDgDH3bHrvYtU3kXpVcNbF5Nvab4zBpU_8Mba0BD8RMfsVl_MNjQU9lItyJ4sxM3I&disp=emb" style="cursor: pointer; height: 4.8333in; outline: 0px; width: 3.625in;" tabindex="0" width="300" /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Photo Credit: Jamal Peters</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">About Doja Cat:</span></u></b><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Born and raised in L.A., 3-time GRAMMY nominee Doja Cat made her first upload to Soundcloud in 2013 at just 16-years-old. She developed a knack for music by studying piano and dance as a kid and listening to the likes of Busta Rhymes, Erykah Badu, Nicki Minaj, Drake, and more. Soon, she went from obsessing over <i>Catwoman</i> (the Halle Berry version) to <i>“crate digging”</i> on YouTube. The budding talent taught herself Logic and how to compose on a midi controller. Signed to Kemosabe/RCA in 2014, she released her <i>Purrr! EP </i>and followed that with her debut album<i> Amala </i>in spring 2018<i>, </i>but it was her August 2018 release of “Mooo!” which catapulted her into the mainstream and was met with critical acclaim.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.55pt; margin: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Doja Cat released her sophomore album<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Hot Pink</i><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>in November 2019 to mass critical acclaim, the album was a platinum success with over<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>10.3 billion<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>streams worldwide.<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Hot Pink</i><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>features “Juicy” which hit #1 at Rhythm radio, “Say So” her Grammy nominated #1 smash record and “Streets”, the viral sensation that soundtracked the ‘Silhouette Challenge,’ one of the biggest TikTok trends to date.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.55pt; margin: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The success of “Say So” which hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has been RIAA certified 3x platinum and<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>streamed over 5.4 billion<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>times catapulted Doja into global superstardom. In 2020 she took home the Best New Artist Award at the MTV VMAs, the MTV EMAs and the AMAs (where she also won the Best Female Soul/R&B Artist Award.) She has been nominated for countless awards including 3 GRAMMY Awards, 4 American Music Awards, 4 MTV VMA Awards, 2 BET Awards, and 2 People’s Choice Awards. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.55pt; margin: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Doja’s creativity and showmanship as a performer have been praised time and time again, she has delivered unique and show stopping performances on nearly all the major Award Show stages including the GRAMMY Awards, the American Music Awards, the Billboard Awards and the MTV VMA and EMA Awards. Her last tour sold out in 10 minutes and she has played numerous festivals including Rap Caviar Live Miami, Posty Fest, Day n Vegas and Rolling Loud LA.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">About SZA:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Born in St. Louis and raised in Maplewood, NJ, nine-time Grammy nominee SZA released her major label debut album<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ctrl<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(TDE/RCA) in 2017. Revered for its raw and honest lyrics, it landed at No. 1 on<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Billboard</i>’s R&B Albums chart, No. 2 on the R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and No. 3 on the<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Billboard 200</i><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>chart, according to Nielsen Music.<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Pitchfork </i>proclaims it “an opulent, raw R&B album that constantly tests the borders of the genre.” The now RIAA-certified 2x Platinum album<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>received five Grammy nominations in 2018 and more than half the songs on<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ctrl</i><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>are now certified Platinum and Gold. Her hit song “All the Stars” with Kendrick Lamar from<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Black Panther: The Album, Music From and Inspired</i><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><i>By,</i><span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span>earned her another four Grammy nominations in 2019. SZA has won various awards since the release of<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ctrl<span class="m_4869699643080335046apple-converted-space"> </span></i>including Billboard Music Awards’ Top R&B Female Artist, BET Awards’ Best New Artist, Soul Train Music Awards’ Best R&B/Soul Female Artist and Best New Artist, MTV Video Music Awards’ Best Visual Effects for the “All The Stars” with Kendrick Lamar and NAACP Image Awards’ Outstanding New Artist in 2018. 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Both celebrities has been seen together several times alighting social media speculations that they might be dating. Janelle Monae ditched her ex-girlfriend Tessa Thompson at the 2019 Met Gala and they have been avoiding each others since then.<br />
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Although Lupita Nyongo has never publicly identified as LGBTQ, Janelle Monae came out as pansexual in a 2018 Rolling stone interview. Maybe this is the beginning of a power couple romance.olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-31464875512480963712019-11-05T12:04:00.001+02:002019-11-05T12:04:25.396+02:00Opinion: Irrelevant political impasses keep Africans destitute By Tapiwa Gomo<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #140b14; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "HelveticaNeue-Light","Helvetica Neue Thin","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 29px; list-style: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a aria-label="Visit Wikipedia" class="eHAdSb" data-ved="0CAIQjRxqFwoTCKCxo9no0uUCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFlag_of_the_African_Union&psig=AOvVaw26BeKb8jljHKt7LPX_YBCf&ust=1573034605315000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCKCxo9no0uUCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD" jsaction="focus:kvVbVb; mousedown:kvVbVb; touchstart:kvVbVb;" rel="noopener" rlhc="1" role="link" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #2962ff; font-family: Roboto,HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><img alt="Image result for african union logo"" class="n3VNCb" data-noaft="1" height="294" jsaction="load:XAeZkd;" jsname="HiaYvf" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQt9AN8gvzlep_xvEx-Ilw9rE-SOXd1GMK5RKEA4RLnuy_m6Ynh" style="background-color: #232425; background-image: linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(44, 44, 45) 25%, rgba(44, 44, 45, 0) 25%, rgba(44, 44, 45, 0) 75%, rgb(44, 44, 45) 75%, rgb(44, 44, 45)), linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(44, 44, 45) 25%, rgba(44, 44, 45, 0) 25%, rgba(44, 44, 45, 0) 75%, rgb(44, 44, 45) 75%, rgb(44, 44, 45)); background-position: 0px 0px, 10px 10px; background-size: 21px 21px; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(41, 98, 255); margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="400" /></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #140b14; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "HelveticaNeue-Light","Helvetica Neue Thin","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 29px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">By definition, democracy is a form of a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. It also presumes that the people have the authority to choose their governing legislation. Some cornerstones of democracy include freedom of assembly and speech, inclusiveness and equality, membership, voting, right to life and minority rights.</span><br />
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Democracy places power on the people than the elected leadership. And the leadership that arises from democratic leadership is supposed to be servant leadership, which answers to the wills of the electorate. </div>
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It is a concept that rose to challenge many centuries of unchecked autocratic leadership which was based on either ascribed leadership of the monarchies or religious institutions of governance. The problem with this mode of governance was in its lack of guarantee that progenies or heirs apparent of these institutions would produce people capable of effectively running the affairs of a nation. Because of this astrictive nature, it meant that competition or alternative ideas towards national development were not allowed space.</div>
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While democracy has a much longer history, it gained momentum during the second industrial revolution when labour movements, academics and industrialists protested calling for the introduction of a people-driven democratic system of governance independent from traditional institutions of governance. Traditional government systems were seen as barriers to emerging capitalism, technological revolution and competition of ideas. </div>
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Modernisation, an offshoot of industrialisation, has become a pillar of social change and economic development. Once industrialisation is allowed to flourish, it triggers a penetration into all aspects of life of a society, creating social, economic and political opportunities, which together transform and improve the standards of life of a society. And these together result in self-reinforcing processes that transform social life and political institutions, empowering the masses to participates on issues to do with their lives – thus growing democracy. </div>
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In Africa, since independence, there has never been a time when the people’s political will has been respected and allowed to dictate the course of a country without powerful politicians meddling in the electoral processes. In fact, politicians have exercised more power over the people than the other way round. If political power retention delivered economic growth, perhaps, there would be less qualms, but most if not all the time, it delivers poverty and destitution. </div>
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People argue, through the voice of the opposition parties, that they have disapproved the status quo through vote casting. They often appeal to the regional and international community to intervene and rescue their stolen wishes from the autocrats who wield the means of political power. </div>
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Once this happens, all doors to escape the political impasses shut as the sitting and yet unpopular governments claim interference by external forces in its domestic affairs and that becomes an excuse for adopting an arrogant attitude, human rights violations, plunder of national resources and a deliberate disregard for national development. Political opposition in Africa is the biggest excuse for plunder and abuse of national resources. </div>
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The international and regional community may be tempted to react by imposing sanctions on the sitting government as a means to force behaviour change, while funding civil society organisations to sabotage the sitting government into submission. Both sanctions and internal protests have had the effect of disrupting the normal functioning of a nation, but most importantly, they create a situation of insecurity which dissuades investment and economic growth.</div>
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A government whose power is sustained by plundered national resources is now pitted in a long standing battle with donor-funded opposition parties and civil society organisations. The tendency of investors has been to either wait until this battle or impasse is over, or fund one of the sides to access free natural resources. Again, the biggest loser is national development.</div>
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There are several examples of these impasses across Africa which perpetually block progress. In South Sudan, the major political problems oscillate between President Salva Kirr and his former vice-president Riek Machar. They often drag their tribes into what looks like personal differences to give it national significance. This has led some analysts to argue that South Sudan can only have a new and promising beginning if both leaders left the political arena. Zimbabwe is in a similar situation where the opposition, civil society organisations and the West are pitted against Zanu PF and the African leadership. And again, it can also be argued that if Zanu PF and the MDC vacate the political arena, Zimbabwe will see better days. </div>
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The challenge with these arguments is that vacation from political office must, in most cases, occurs through an electoral process which is managed by the same people who need to vacate political office. Democracy favours outcomes from its processes. It is these processes that African leaders have mastered and are manipulating to retain power. In the absence of an alternative mode of changing power, most African countries will remain in the throes of destitution because democracy is unable to rescue them from these impasses. </div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-62627056041757921822019-10-28T14:20:00.000+02:002019-10-28T14:20:45.418+02:00Fillipe Nyusi Declared Winner of Mozambique Disputed Presidential Elections...<img alt="Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi give a press conference at the President of Mozambique's office in Maputo." class="media__image media__element" height="266" src="https://www.enca.com/sites/default/files/2019-08/President%20Filipe%20Nyusi.jpg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-image: none; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px rgb(88, 88, 88); box-sizing: border-box; color: #585858; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; max-width: 616.6px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" title="Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi give a press conference at the President of Mozambique's office in Maputo." width="400" />1<br />
President of Mozambique: Fillipe Nyusi<br />
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Incumbent President Filipe Nyusi was declared the landslide winner in <a href="https://www.enca.com/news/mozambique-announce-election-results-next-week" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007ec7; text-decoration: none; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.25, 0.1, 0.25, 1); word-wrap: break-word;">Mozambique's election this month,</a> despite claims of widespread cheating, the electoral commission announced on Sunday.</div>
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Nyusi of the ruling Frelimo party scored 73-percent of the vote, ahead of Ossufo Momade of Renamo, the rebel group turned opposition party, with almost 22 percent, commission chairman Abdul Carimo told a press briefing.</div>
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Renamo protested the outcome, saying the ballot was tainted by "massive electoral fraud".</div>
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Nyusi had been widely predicted to win based on unofficial results from the October 15 vote, and Frelimo had already organised victory celebrations in the capital on Sunday.</div>
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After thanking voters for believing in him and the Frelimo party, Nyusi reached out to his rivals to work together.</div>
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"I want to express my respect to the opposition parties and give my hand to my Brothers Ossufo Momade, Daviz Simango and Mario Albino," Nyusi told supporters at a Frelimo conference centre in Matola, a suburb of the capital Maputo.</div>
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"We must work together to develop our country," Nyusi said.</div>
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Frelimo won 184 parliamentary seats, a major jump from the 144 achieved in the 2014 polls.Conversely, the largest opposition lost 29 seats compared with the 89 it attained previously.</div>
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Just over 50-percent of the 13-million registered voters cast their ballots.</div>
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The polls marked the first time Mozambicans elected provincial governors, who were previously appointed by the government.</div>
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Nyusi, 60, became Mozambique's first president not born in the south when he took over from Armando Guebuza in 2015.</div>
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Frelimo, which has ruled since Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975, took a popularity hit when it was revealed the government had secretly borrowed $2 billion (1.8 billion euros), sparking one of Mozambique's worst financial crises.</div>
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Nyusi's second term will see prosecutions in the "hidden debt" scandal, which has scared away donors and investors.</div>
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Frelimo suffered its worst-ever performance at the ballot box last year, scoring 51.8-percent in local elections.</div>
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Nyusi, while battling an Islamist insurgency, is tasked with maintaining the peace mandated by an accord reached in August.</div>
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The long-awaited deal turned the page on decades of conflict and disarmed Renamo's armed wing.</div>
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Renamo called for fresh elections last week, accusing the government of breaching the peace deal by using violence and intimidation on voting day.Mozambican civil society and international observers have flagged numerous alleged attempts to stuff ballot boxes and chase away election monitors, as well as hundreds of thousands of so-called "ghost voters" on the electoral roll.</div>
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The Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) said it was regrettable that irregularities in voter registration had not been addressed before the vote.</div>
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The election campaign was one of the most violent in the country's history, with at least 10 people killed in the run-up to the polls, according to a local observer mission.</div>
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Among the killings was the murder of a prominent election observer -- suspected to have been carried out by a special police unit -- and that of the Renamo Women's League leader, whose bullet-ridden body was found with her husband's in the western province of Tete.</div>
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Frelimo has hailed the elections as free and fair, while observers from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) also approved of the election, saying the run-up to the vote and the balloting itself were "generally peaceful and conducted in an orderly manner".</div>
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Despite numerous opposition party complaints, SADC observers have endorsed elections in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Botswana in recent months, declaring them all to be free and fair.</div>
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Mozambique is still picking up the pieces after Cyclone Idai decimated the second city of Beira in March, displacing nearly two million people.</div>
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On the plus side, Nyusi will preside over an oil boom in the north of the former Portuguese colony.</div>
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<br />olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-46471279816581806892019-10-28T14:06:00.000+02:002019-10-28T14:06:01.545+02:00Opinion: THE ART OF COMBATING XENOPHOBIA THROUGH CULTURAL DIVERSITY By Lisa Bokani Motsu <img alt="THE ART OF COMBATING XENOPHOBIA THROUGH CULTURAL DIVERSITY" class="img-responsive" height="240" src="http://www.thepatriot.co.bw/media/k2/items/cache/3df7e0c4dbf2b00cc8137cb5226ec807_XL.jpg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 248.56px; letter-spacing: normal; max-width: 415.17px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; width: 415.17px; word-spacing: 0px;" width="400" /><br />
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;">“To oppose knowledge? God forbid! Nay, for God, knowledge is the most glorious gift of man and the most noble of human perfections. To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honour and glory of the world of humanity, and the greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error” </span></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;">Abdu'l Baho</span></b></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.66px; line-height: 17.33px;">This expression of love has been replaced with hate, tolerance with intolerance, peace with war, happiness with sadness and unity with division. The world is crying, the world is bitter, the world has changed and yet we go on and hold sermons, preaching the value of benevolence. We were created as rational human beings who are ought to think and reason unlike animals found in the wild but then we have adopted character traits of some of these wild animals and we see ourselves not looking up to that fundamental purpose of why we exist as humans. We are now self-made hypocrites as we continue to sermonize the art and value of humankind, as we continue propagandizing and ranting out sermons and talks that we fail to act upon.</span></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.66px; line-height: 17.33px;">‘Love for all and love for our people.’</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.66px; line-height: 17.33px;"> Where did that all go? Where did it vanish to? The minute we turned a blind eye on humanity, we killed peace. The minute we decided to over value our desires more than spreading love, we killed peace. We slaughtered ourselves in the daylight and look at us now. We are filled with so much hate and animosity towards one another. Lifeless bodies lie on<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>the streets, human blood flows from one end to another, anger and detestation rules, peace hides away for the two do not meet. It has become so easy to kill and take away life though we were never created nor given the right to end the lives of those around us. We are busy preaching the art of tolerance when we cannot begin to practice what we preach. The golden rule has not been taken heed of as if it doesn’t exist. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.66px; line-height: 17.33px;">The mass killings of people that recently transpired has effected nothing good but<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>unfathomable agony and discomfort to those that recognize and believe what humanity is. An important and vital matter that should be denoted and understood so well is to highlight that, acts of xenophobia do not affect a country alone. Xenophobia is more of like a smoulder that flinches in a wilderness and spreads out to other regions. Xenophobia affects everyone and every country in the world. The main aim of this writing is to thoroughly use and depict how cultural diversity is a fundamental tool in dissolving xenophobia turns.<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>The existence of cultural diversity does away with negative acts of Xenophobia, and it starts with us people training our minds to accept the idea of cultural diversity because it appreciates the fact that people of different races can actually co-exist regardless of their differences. Cultural diversity is appreciating and accepting the manifestation and representation of different cultures within a society or area. It is all about understanding and coming to terms that, a wide range of cultures exist in this modern society hence as people we must learn and execute the behaviour of tolerating these different cultures. Tolerating in the sense that, we critic not human traits like race, religion, age, gender, ethnic group, nationality, skill as well as capability and many others such related. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.66px; line-height: 17.33px;">It is through cultural diversity that development is promoted as it allows and grants each and every one a platform to give out a helping tool to contribute positively towards the society that one lives in, regardless of our differences. The existence of a variety of cultures within a society emphasize on hard work and improvement of our living standards. Different cultural ideas are more than acknowledged and respected. We have community donations that offer a helping hand also, and these contributions which are from differing ethnic groups are accepted and moreover encouraged by our leaders. For example, in Botswana, the building of Moeng College by Bangwato and the University of Botswana which was established by Batswana back then in which each Motswana gave out cattle for the purpose of constructing the University we pride ourselves with now.<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>We can never deny that indeed, regardless of colour, race, gender, ethnicity and tribe then we are moving two steps towards promoting development.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.66px; line-height: 17.33px;">On the other hand, tolerance also plays a major role in promoting development. It instils a sense of acceptance and responsibility towards a human being. This is the willingness to allow people to do, say, or believe what they want without criticizing or punishing them. Tolerance involves the spirit of accepting each other’s diversity, belief system, thought patterns and perspectives of the world. It is the state of absence of war, a state of physical, social, economic and psychological well-being. It is indeed the common brotherhood and sisterhood of humanity. It is born out of love of self and love for others. It emanates from acceptance of diversity. It comes out of respect of human rights such as freedom of expression, freedom of association and<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>many other such.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.66px; line-height: 17.33px;">One may ask, how then does tolerance help in promoting development? The spirit of tolerance deals with the absence of discrimination, injustice and marginalization. The fact that we have many different cultures, languages and ethnicities does not give us the permission to judge one another. However, it gives us the opportunity to protect and safe keep our God given gifts for the sake of coming generations. It is through tolerance that development can be achieved as most people are taught and given full access of education so as to be enriched and equipped with information on the significance of tolerating one another regardless of our flaws as human beings. In that way, people are empowered to know what is right and wrong as well as becoming full responsible citizens. We can never go wrong with education if people are taught about issues relating to tolerance more often as it is a tool which can change the mindsets of human beings and to change the world as much as possible. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.66px; line-height: 17.33px;">Most countries work tirelessly day in and day out to combat intolerance and animate tolerance among its citizens. Acceptance requires more access to knowledge and information, development in this case is achieved as policies are set up, seminars and press conferences are held so as to render out more and unlimited information to the public. Tolerance has become a dictum preached all almost every day; it arises from deep within our hearts. If we cannot accept others for who and what they are and instead we begin to magnify our differences, this may then lead to a conflict, which can and will affect the level of furtherance and become a major drawback to us. When we tolerate ourselves and tolerate our neighbours then we are building an empire that can never be shaken in the very same world we live in. If I accept my neighbour’s differences just exactly the way I tolerate mine, I will not seek to hurt my neighbour. Where we have disagreements, I will sure build bridges and mend fences. For betterment to prevail even furthermore then we need to foster acceptance of diversity and respect human rights. Education and more access to information about tolerance give out a helping hand for the purpose of attaining development. This is because, it builds better communities, richer cultures and through advancing science, brings economic, social, cultural and psychological well-being to the world . Development in a country or to the world at large must therefore begin with the knowledge of acceptance which is the element of tolerance and cultural diversity.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.66px; line-height: 17.33px;">I have neither fear nor terror to emphasize that cultural diversity and tolerance softens the human hearts. If we desire a better place, then we must first build it. Time will allow us to accomplish our heart desires for it is worth it. If the world is to realize these two main traits, there is nothing that can hinder us to increase our progression as a nation. I am engulfed with the verve and credence that indeed cultural diversity and tolerance promote development. The same development that can do away with xenophobia acts because we would automatically realize that, it is not even beneficial to spread hate but the idea of loving one another is key to an improved community and more affluent cultures. If we need unity, peace, love and tolerance then, man must stop building walls but enough bridges. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.66px; line-height: 17.33px;">I am for cultural diversity and I am for tolerance for I am building a foundation block for development. Our differences make us one. We are one. Not a two-way route but one. One globe, one nation, one people. One world. Why hate when we could spread endless love and make a better world to live in. We are humans and so we need to see humanity. </span></div>
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Technology has completely changed virtually every aspect of our society over the past few decades, from the way we work to the way we socialize and everything in between. One of the differences that have been most noticeable is the change in the way that children play and interact with each other from previous generations. Although technology does provide many positive benefits for learning, it also can have several negative effects on child development and quality of life.</div>
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One of the biggest differences in the way that children live today is that they don’t get as much exercise as they used to. This is because technology such as computers, smart phones and television encourages them to be sedentary when they get home from school, as opposed to going outside and playing with other kids. Child obesity rates have risen drastically over the past several decades. In 2012, the child obesity rate was measured to be 18 percent, which is an 11 point difference from the obesity rate in 1980. While many schools and parents have made strides to change this by promoting organized exercise both during and after school, we still have a long way to go in helping kids playing in more conventional ways. More pics after cut</div>
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In addition to not getting enough exercise, many kids do not experience the benefits of spending time outdoors when they are heavily reliant on technology for entertainment purposes. Spending time outdoors has a huge number of positive effects on the body — it provides you with exposure to sunlight, which supplies your body with Vitamin D. This helps to <a data-href="http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2015/03/06/spending-time-outdoors.aspx" href="http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2015/03/06/spending-time-outdoors.aspx" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-shadow: inset 0px -2px 0px #fff, inset 0px -4px 0px #a9dade; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; display: inline; font-family: Open Sans,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.93px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; line-height: 31.37px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">fight infections and keep your skin healthy.</a> Additionally, regular exposure to sunlight helps to keep your sleep cycle regular by influencing the body’s production of melatonin. Recent research has shown screens from devices such as tablets and smart phones emit harmful blue light that can cause headaches, eye strain and irritated eyes for children. Furthermore, sleep is also disturbed by harmful <a data-href="http://www.ocushield.com/why" href="http://www.ocushield.com/why" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-shadow: inset 0px -2px 0px #fff, inset 0px -4px 0px #a9dade; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; display: inline; font-family: Open Sans,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.93px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; line-height: 31.37px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">blue light</a> when children are exposed to screen time in the evening due to the suppression of the hormone melatonin which regulates the sleep wake cycle. This makes it increasingly difficult for a child’s body to effectively prepare to get ready for a goodnights sleep.</div>
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Technology also has profound impacts on the way children think and feel. Since technology is full of stimuli and often requires paying attention to many different things at once, children who play many video games or spend most of their time online tend to have<a data-href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-prime/201212/how-technology-is-changing-the-way-children-think-and-focus" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-prime/201212/how-technology-is-changing-the-way-children-think-and-focus" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-shadow: inset 0px -2px 0px #fff, inset 0px -4px 0px #a9dade; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; display: inline; font-family: Open Sans,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.93px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; line-height: 31.37px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> less of an ability to focus </a>than kids who use technology minimally. It can also affect the way kids process information — when kids are exposed to high levels of technology, they tend to think through things only superficially and don’t develop the ability to think critically or be creative when learning new concepts.</div>
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Technology changes the way kids socialize and interact with others, which can have huge impacts on their mental and emotional well-being. It has now become common knowledge that high levels of social media use, in both kids and adults, can lower self-esteem and create negative moods. However, all types of technology can actually have negative effects on children when used in excess, because they lower children’s frequency of interacting with their peers. This makes it more difficult for them to pick up on social cues and develop meaningful relationships with others — something that can have serious negative consequences as they grow and develop. They also have a difficult time developing emotions the same way other kids would if they spend too much of their time with technology and not enough time being engaged while in the presence of others.</div>
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This isn’t to say that all technology is bad, or that children should never use technology. Technology provides tons of positive opportunities for learning, entertaining, and socializing, but it should be monitored and used appropriately. Here are some tips to help head off these problems and encourage responsible technology use with your children.</div>
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Instead of prohibiting technology use altogether, set daily limits for how long children can use technology each day. Talk with them about what seems reasonable and keep their schedules in mind. For many kids, once they get their initial fix of technology after a long day at school, they’ll get the same level of satisfaction that they would if they’d been using the technology for hours. If your children are fighting you on these rules, try explaining to them the negative effects that technology can have — this will help them understand why it’s important.</div>
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If your kids are eager to participate in exercise, spend time outdoors, or socialize with friends in ‘real life’ instead of online, encourage them! Help them sign up for a sport or schedule a play date, or let them meet up with friends for an informal game of tag (in a safe place, of course). If you show your support for these beneficial activities more than you encourage them to use technology, kids will feel more comfortable making them part of their routine.</div>
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When you and your kids do use technology, use it purposefully. During their designated screen time, encourage your kid to pick a TV show they are really excited to watch, or have them only use their social media when they want to send a message to friends. This will help them enjoy technology more and will prevent the mindless usage that is problematic for many people.</div>
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Set a good example as a parent. If your kids see you on your phone or computer constantly, they will also want to use technology all the time. Save the Netflix sessions for after they’ve gone to bed.</div>
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Although navigating this world of technology can be quite tricky, it can also have many benefits for both kids and adults. We have to remember technology is relatively new and long term studies for the effects to the development of children in the digital age isn’t available as of yet. By putting limits on technology usage and being aware of the potential negative consequences of overuse, both kids and adults can have peace of mind and get more from the technology that they use.</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Music Imbizo International business conference and exhibition turns 10 this year, making its return to the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban. African</span></div>
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President Paul Kagame<br />
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The Economist, in a 2017 article, rated President Paul Kagame of
Rwanda as the world’s most successful general saying: “When Paul Kagame
was 28, he helped topple the government of Uganda. At 36 he overthrew
the government of Rwanda. At 39 he ousted the government of Congo (which
was then called Zaire).”<br />
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Although the article in question largely sought to demean rather than
praise President Kagame, not even The Economist could erase the good
that one of Africa’s leading visionaries has done.<br />
President Kagame who was adjudged “2018 African of the Year” at the
eighth All Africa Business Leaders Awards, yesterday proved why former
American president Bill Clinton described him as “one of the greatest
leaders of our time” when he denounced Western sanctions against
Zimbabwe.<br />
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When President Mnangagwa successfully led a new dispensation into
power in November 2017, he immediately set out to engage and re-engage
with the international community following years of isolation under
former president Robert Mugabe. Zimbabwe made her intentions of
rejoining the Commonwealth very clear and set out to rebuild bridges
razed by the previous administration.<br />
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Locally, President Mnangagwa led the process of economic and
political reform, alignment of laws to the Constitution and
nation-building.<br />
The nation building process has seen the President opening lines of
dialogue with fellow political leaders, the church, traditional leaders,
civil society, media fraternity and victims of Gukurahundi in the 80s.<br />
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The major political or governance action was the holding of not only
the most peaceful, but most free and fair elections since the birth of
Zimbabwe in 1980.<br />
Reforms and commitments implemented by the President have already
received a thumbs up from the United Nations, International Monetary
Fund, European Union, African Union and Sadc.<br />
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Last month, Zimbabwe and the EU launched a historic formal dialogue
which was based on Article 8 of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement which
governs relations between member states of the African-Carribean-Pacific
regions and the EU.<br />
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President Mnangagwa also took his engagement drive to the US-Africa
Summit in Mozambique last month, where he held a historic meeting with
United States assistant secretary of State for African Affairs Mr Tibor
Nagy.<br />
“You can’t be the same person who applied the sanctions and demand to
see change; it doesn’t make sense,” President Kagame said in an
interview yesterday in Kigali.<br />
This is not the first time President Kagame has fought for the liberation of Zimbabwe from the yoke of distasteful sanctions.<br />
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Addressing the United Nations General Assembly in September last
year, President Kagame urged the West to give President Mnangagwa “a
chance”.<br />
“In Zimbabwe as well, the next stage on the country’s path of
progress warrants steady encouragement from the international
community,” he said.<br />
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Tellingly, this is one war General Kagame is not fighting alone.<br />
In April, experts that met in Washington DC, to discuss the situation
in Zimbabwe were unanimous that the ruinous illegal sanctions imposed
on the country were hurting innocent people, and must be removed.<br />
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Sadc has time and again reiterated its call for economic sanctions
against Zimbabwe to be removed as they are inhibiting the nation’s
economic recovery. The AU has made similar calls.<br />
Sanctions are a tool of Western hegemony and Africans must unite in the fight against neo-colonialism.<br />
There is nothing humanly possible which President Mnangagwa has not
done to correct the ills of the past, and if the West were sincere, they
would have met him halfway a long time ago by removing sanctions.<br />
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Instead, they are playing to the whims of MDC-Alliance which thrives
on sectional anger, hunger and poverty. Never mind the carnage, the
effects of sanctions on the ordinary man.<br />
We salute General Kagame for being a true brother, statesman and Pan Africanist.<br />
The “world’s most successful general” is fighting in President Mnangagwa’s corner, Zimbabwe’s corner.<br />
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This time, General Kagame is not fighting to remove an authoritarian
regime, but a totalitarian system in the form of Western hegemony and
imperialism. A system that has been allowed to thrive for far too long, a
system whose demise is long overdue.<br />
We stand tall on the side of this great leader who will forever be
remembered for his dedication in fighting for the freedom of others.olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-24633768554547743852019-05-15T00:58:00.003+02:002019-05-15T00:58:59.754+02:00Lazarus Chigwandali: the Malawian busker overturning prejudice about albinism By Laura Barton<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #121212; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif; font-size: 16.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img alt="Image result for lazarus chigwandali" class="irc_mi" data-iml="1557874566094" height="224" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/175B3/production/_106576659_a3d17c73-77ef-421e-9761-0661578d1919.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="400" /> </span><br />
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He has recorded his first album, Stomp on the Devil, produced by Hugo, and </span><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://go.theguardian.com/?id=114047X1572903&url=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F331490702&sref=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/13/lazarus-chigwandali-malawi-busker-albinism-madonna" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.96px; color: #6b5840; cursor: pointer; font-family: &quot; font-size: 16.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0.15s; transition-property: border-color; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.58, 1); white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">a film about his life</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #121212; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif; font-size: 16.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> just premiered at Tribeca film festival, directed by the Oscar-nominated David Darg. He has performed at the </span><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://lakeofstars.org/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.96px; color: #6b5840; cursor: pointer; font-family: &quot; font-size: 16.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0.15s; transition-property: border-color; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.58, 1); white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Lake of Stars festival</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #121212; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif; font-size: 16.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> and Madonna is a fan – “A powerful voice of a new generation in Malawi,” she wrote beneath </span><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BlcqirOAD_s/?hl=en" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.96px; color: #6b5840; cursor: pointer; font-family: &quot; font-size: 16.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0.15s; transition-property: border-color; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.58, 1); white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the picture of the pair she posted on Instagram</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #121212; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif; font-size: 16.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">. 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“I used to busk, moving from one township to another every day, but now I don’t have to and I feel relieved,” Chigwandali tells me via video call. “Even now I can’t believe it happened. At Lake of Stars, it was the first time I performed to a big crowd and I wished it could go on longer. I wished I could do it all the time. I felt I had been waiting to do that my whole life.”</div>
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That any of this should have happened at all was pure chance. Hugo is known for his production work with artists such as Mumford & Sons and Self Esteem, and also as part of the Very Best, his collaboration with the Malawian singer <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/977951-Esau-Mwamwaya" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.96px; color: #6b5840; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0.15s; transition-property: border-color; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.58, 1);">Esau Mwamwaya</a>. He first came across Chigwandali a couple of years ago when a friend played him a short phone video of the singer that had been shot by a tourist. It showed an ad hoc interview with Chigwandali and a couple of songs he was busking on the street. Hugo was immediately struck by a sense of possibility.</div>
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“I really liked the music,” he says. “There was something punky about it and hard – it felt very different from a lot of traditional music I’d heard, particularly in Malawi. Lazarus has got a real pop sensibility and a songwriting approach that marries the old way of playing a homemade banjo and kick drum and makes it seem modern.”</div>
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He approached a few music industry sources about funding to make a Lazarus record. “But I couldn’t get anything,” he says, “which was understandable – I knew it was a hard sell to take a punt on a traditional record with a busker.” So he approached the LA-based film company RYOT with the idea of making a documentary and simultaneously funding an album. RYOT had seen great success for their <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiL1Yj-b6t4" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.96px; color: #6b5840; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0.15s; transition-property: border-color; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.58, 1);">2015 documentary Body Team 12</a>, which followed Red Cross workers in Liberia collecting bodies following the ebola outbreak, and Hugo suspected they might have the sensitivity to take on the story of both Lazarus and those with albinism.</div>
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In many eastern and southern African nations albinism is widely and dangerously misunderstood. Many believe it to be contagious, or to be the result of infidelity, or that the bones of those with the condition are made from gold. As a result, many face severe discrimination and abuse. It can also prove fatal – some will develop skin cancer, while others will fall victim to the illegal trade in body parts that has led to those with albinism being hunted, kidnapped, mutilated and killed. </div>
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In the village where he was raised, Chigwandali, 39, learned early that he was different. “Even my own friends were segregated from me,” he recalls. “I couldn’t play with them simply because of my skin condition.” It was his brother, who also had albinism and died from skin cancer, who taught him how to play and make guitars. “We used to perform together in different villages and at weddings and functions,” says Chigwandali. “My brother taught me that with our condition we cannot go about work like any other people, so music is a way that we can make a living and also express ourselves. That got stuck in my mind and stayed there even after he died.”</div>
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Making the record and the documentary was not always straightforward. Mwamwaya had made contact with Chigwandali, and though he was initially hesitant, Mwamwaya’s sheer persistence and the promise of making an album led him to agree to join Hugo, Darg and their team to record at a lodge outside Lilongwe.</div>
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But a couple of days before they were due to begin, Chigwandali seemed to disappear. He would not answer their calls, and Mwamwaya could find no trace of him in Lilongwe. Mwamwaya’s wife suggested he had got scared, and they eventually tracked Chigwandali down in his home village, where he had fled with his wife and young sons.</div>
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“We realised we’d been so stupid,” says Hugo. “We hadn’t understood the terror that people with albinism live with every day, the suspicion of people’s intentions.” Several people had tried to abduct Chigwandali before. “We learned how he was kidnapped once by some people who had said they wanted him to play a show in Tanzania,” Hugo says. “A maid in the house where they had taken him overheard them saying how they were going to kill him, so she helped him escape.”</div>
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When they finally met, Hugo was struck by Chigwandali’s shyness and timidity. “You get a feeling straight away that he’s someone who’s been knocked down his whole life,” he says. “Everything about his demeanour says he’s the underdog. It’s really heartbreaking. For him to come out of his shell took a little time. But that was one of the amazing things with recording and making the film, to see him progressing.”</div>
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Over two days at the lodge they recorded 30 songs, and then having whittled that number down, recorded alternative versions outside Chigwandali’s village home. “Crowds of children joined in, so it had a different mood,” Hugo recalls and notes how the singer’s timidity seemed to disappear. “He might have been self-conscious but not with his music, because playing for people is what he’s always done.”</div>
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But, as his profile has grown, Lazarus has become an even more visible target for those attacking people with albinism. He still lives in a small house with his wife and three young sons – two of whom have also albinism. When they visited, Hugo was struck by how little they owned: “It has cement floors, not a single piece of furniture, nothing to sleep on, no blankets no pillows, nothing, just a single candle, barely any cooking utensils,” he says. They have now launched <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johanhugo/lazarus-an-album-a-film-a-movement?ref=project_link" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.96px; color: #6b5840; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0.15s; transition-property: border-color; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.58, 1);">a Kickstarter campaign</a> to build him a house with a high perimeter wall and motion sensor lights, a place that will grant Chigwandali and his family greater security.</div>
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For Chigwandali, the last year has been “like a dream”. Hearing his album for the first time was a strange and remarkable experience. “I didn’t know my music sounded that way,” he says. “I didn’t even realise it was me!”</div>
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When he learned that the documentary would be shown at a festival in the United States he felt a great deal of hope at last that people outside his homeland might begin to understand the difficulties of life with albinism. “I’m deeply religious,” he says. “So every day I pray to God to bless Johan and David and everyone else who was involved in the making of this film, that my story is going to be shown and people are going to come to see it.”</div>
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olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-80295484228016709182019-05-10T14:03:00.000+02:002019-05-10T14:03:02.938+02:00The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi 11 Get United Nations Appointment.<img alt="Image result for emir of kano" class="irc_mi" data-iml="1557488837082" height="264" src="https://www.independent.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/The-Emir-of-Kano-Muhammadu-Sanusi-II-.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="400" /><br />
The Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi 11, currently facing series of intimidation from his state government was today the 10th of May 2019 appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres as one of the 17 man Advocates for 2019-2020 of the United Nations New Sustainable Development Goals. The SDG advocates is co-chaired by Ghanian President Nana Akufo-Addo and Erna Solberg the Prime Minister of Norway.<br />
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The duties/tasks of the advocates are building the ambition, driving the action and building the global political will of the SDGs. The advocates are also expected to use their various platforms and leadership skills to mobilise global support towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Once again the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi 11 has shown that he is a man wanted by the global community. Congratulations sir.olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-59447343420159560462019-05-06T13:53:00.001+02:002019-05-06T13:53:09.331+02:00Opinion: Malawi needs transformational leadership By Emily Mkamanga<img alt="Image result for malawi president images" class="irc_mi" data-iml="1557143443259" height="244" src="https://www.zambianobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/B-Div-Champ-Waheed-Abubaker-gets-honoured-by-the-sponsors-13-600x367.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="400" /><br />
Malawi President: Peter Mutharika<br />
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it were, all the attention in this month’s elections is on who is likely to be
Malawi’s next President.<br />
So far, the presidential candidates have said enough in
their campaigns for people to make up their minds on who to vote for.<br />
The competition among the candidates is very stiff. Even
being in government, as the case is with President Peter Mutharika, does not
seem to be an added advantage. The problem here is that his five-year rule has
been full of misery due to allowing corruption, stealing of public resources
and general abuse of power. Therefore, all the presidential candidates are
starting from the same level.<br />
Naturally, Mutharika would want to be a step ahead because
of what he has done for the people of Malawi. He has recently promoted teachers
and police officers. These promotions were long overdue and, maybe it is done
now for the sake of buying more votes.<br />
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Obviously, no one can vote for a
government which tortures its own workers by not promoting them on time. The
government should always remember that it has a responsibility to the people.
President Mahama of Ghana once said: “If you vote for someone because of schools,
hospitals, roads etc you have a weak mind because it is government’s
responsibility.”<br />
This is a reminder to voters. In Malawi, there is a tendency
of the Head of State and his/her government to make people believe that all the
development done is a favour and due to ignorance some people even think the
presidents use their personal money. Because of that wrong notion, they think
presidents deserve a special thank you by people, forcing them to reduce
themselves to sycophants and perpetual hand clappers for anything and
everything.<br />
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Presidents must be reminded that any development they do is
funded by taxpayers’ money and is not a catalyst to hang on to power. In any
case, it is surprising that leaders are not bothered to tell the people that
bringing development into the country is, actually, part of their
responsibility.<br />
What is stated above is what has been the case for the past
five years in Malawi. Hence very little development is worth talking about in
the country. Most people were even surprised that during his recent visit to
Malawi, Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli commended Mutharika for
transforming the country. One cannot be wrong to say that this was more of a
diplomatic statement than reality. Probably, transformation is mostly seen by
visitors. The change that most Malawians see is that the poor of 2014 have
become poorer, the hungry people of 2014 are more hungry now, the jobless of
2014 are now twenty-fold or more and the list of negative changes goes on.<br />
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President Magufuli knows best about transforming a country
and he is a star in the region. The stories of his transforming Tanzania have
really gone far and wide. Most people would wish the incoming President, after
the elections this month, could emulate Magufuli, who has proved that to be a
selfless President one has to have the welfare of his people at heart.<br />
It is expected that the elections this month will be about
which candidate do people feel can genuinely transform this country. Therefore,
it is up to Malawian voters to make sure that they vote into office a person
who will meet their aspirations. It is time the country is saved from being
completely run down by leaders who think corruption, stealing taxpayers’ money
and abuse of power is the way to go. Let the power of the ballot speak.</div>
olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-21380212390961787212019-05-06T13:29:00.000+02:002019-05-06T13:29:02.346+02:00South Africa Decide 2019<br />
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The African National Congress (ANC)<br />
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On the 8th May 2019, Africa's strongest democracy, South Africa will go to the polls to vote for their national and provincial officers. Over 26,756,898 million South Africans eligible voters will decide whether to continue the 25 years reign of the African National Congress (ANC) or a change of guard. More than 40 political parties are registered for the national and provincial elections but the race will surely be between the three major political parties namely, the African National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Economic Freedom Party (EFF). More pics after cut...<br />
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The Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF)<br />
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According to Pre-Elections analysis, the ANC will still win the coming elections with the Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) acquiring more votes and parliamentary/provincial seats with the consolation of a Premiership while the Democratic Alliance (DA) might lose some seats that were traditional grounds of the ANC.<br />
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The Democratic Alliance (DA)<br />
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One basic thing about the South African politics and the coming elections is that arguments and campaigns are policies and issues revolving around education, Land, economy, job creation, provision of housing and infrastructural development unlike what is seen in West and East Africa where political violence, rigging and buying of votes coupled with hate speech are the order of electioneering.<br />
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<b>The Top Presidential Contestants: </b><br />
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Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC)<br />
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<span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa was born on
17 November 1952 in Johannesburg. His family was moved from Western
Native Township to Soweto in 1962, where he attended Tshilidzi Primary
School. He completed high school at Mphaphuli High School in Sibasa,
Venda in 1971.</span><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2"> He
registered to study law at the University of the North in 1972, where
he became involved in student politics, joining the South African
Student Organisation (SASO) and the Black People’s Convention (BPC). He
was detained in solitary confinement for 11 months in 1974 under Section
6 of the Terrorism Act for organising pro-Frelimo rallies. He was
detained for the second time and held for six months in 1976 following
the Soweto student uprising.</span><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2"> While
a law clerk for a Johannesburg firm of attorneys, he continued his
studies through the University of South Africa (UNISA) obtaining his B.
Proc degree in 1981. He then joined the Council of Unions of South
Africa (CUSA) as a legal advisor.</span><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2"> In
1982, at the request of the Council of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) he
founded the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) with James Motlatsi and
Elijah Barayi, and became the union’s first General Secretary. He was
instrumental in building NUM into the most powerful union at the time,
with membership rising from 6 000 to 300 000 during his tenure. He led
mineworkers in one of the biggest strikes in South Africa’s history in
1987.</span><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">As
NUM General Secretary he was instrumental in the establishment of the
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and played a prominent
role in the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) when COSATU joined forces
with the United Democratic Front (UDF) against the apartheid government.
He went into hiding in July 1986 after the declaration of a state of
emergency.</span><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">He
was later appointed chairperson of the Reception Committee to receive
Rivonia trialists and in January 1990 accompanied released ANC political
prisoners to Lusaka, Zambia. He served as chairperson of the National
Reception Committee, which coordinated arrangements for the release of
Nelson Mandela and subsequent welcome rallies within South Africa.</span><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">Following
the unbanning of the ANC, in 1991 he was elected ANC Secretary General
at its first national conference in over 30 years. He became head of the
ANC’s negotiation team at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa
(CODESA) and the subsequent multi-party talks.</span><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">Following
South Africa’s first democratic elections on 27 April 1994, he became a
Member of Parliament and was elected as Chairperson of the
Constitutional Assembly. In that position, he was responsible for
overseeing the drafting of South Africa’s internationally acclaimed
first democratic Constitution. In 2009, this contribution was recognised
with the award of the National Order of the Baobab in Silver.</span><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">On
completion of the Constitution drafting process, he left Parliament and
his position as ANC Secretary General to move into business, joining
New Africa Investments Limited. In 2001, he established Shanduka Group
as a black-owned investment holding company, building up a diverse
portfolio of listed and unlisted assets.</span><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">In
2004, he established the Shanduka Foundation, focusing on education and
small business development. The Foundation, which has since changed its
name to Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, comprises Adopt-a-School
Foundation, Black Umbrellas and the Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust. He
is co-chairperson of the Advisory Board of the Kagiso Shanduka Trust,
which is in partnership with the Free State Department of Education on a
programme to develop schools in the province.</span><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">He
gained a wide range of business experience serving on the boards of
some of Shanduka’s investee companies and other companies. </span><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">He
was a member of the United Nations Global Leadership Group that advised
the Secretary General’s Special Representative on Business and Human
Rights.</span><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2"> He
has received several awards. He was awarded the Olof Palme prize in
October 1987 in Stockholm. In October 1991 he was a visiting Professor
of Law at Stanford University in the United States.</span><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">He
has received honorary doctorates from the University of Natal, the
University of Port Elizabeth, the University of Cape Town, the
University of the North, the University of Lesotho, the University of
Venda and the University of Massachusetts (USA). He is currently the
Chancellor of the University of Mpumalanga.</span><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2"> He
was the first Deputy Chairman of the Commonwealth Business Council. He
was Vice Chairman of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS.</span><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">Mr
Ramaphosa was appointed, along with former Finnish President Maarti
Ahtisaari, as a weapons inspector in Northern Ireland. He also sat on
the International Commission of Intervention and State Sovereignty and
the UN Secretary General’s Panel on International Support to NEPAD.</span><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2"> He
was appointed Deputy Chairperson of the National Planning Commission in
2010, a body created to draft a long-term national development plan for
South Africa.</span><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2"> In December 2012, he was elected ANC Deputy President at the ANC’s 53rd National Conference in Mangaung.</span><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2"> He was appointed Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa on 25 May 2014.</span><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2"> In December 2017, he was elected 13th ANC President at the 54th National Conference in Johannesburg.</span><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><br class="ms-rteFontSize-2" /><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">President
Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in as President of the Republic of South
Africa on Thursday 15 February 2018 following the resignation of
President Jacob Zuma.</span></h4>
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Mmusi Maimane (DA)</h4>
Mmusi Maimane may be one of the most hated figures in local politics.<br />
His
contemporaries think he is a sell out, his political foes regard him as
a ‘yes man’ to the DA&39;s white woman (Helen Zille) and many among
the rest of the black majority consider him sceptically.<br />
Born in Krugersdorp 33 years ago on June 6, Maimane is one of the youngest leaders in South African politics today.<br />
The
official opposition party in Parliament, the Democratic Alliance, has
Mmusi as its main man in the political struggle to control Gauteng.
Maimane is the party’s premier candidate for the country’s richest
province.<br />
While he’s not campaigning for the DA, he is an active family man at home.<br />
The
Wits graduate is a father of two in a family of a black dad and a white
mom in the surbub of Weltevreden Park, west of Johannesburg.<br />
He
sometimes takes his daughter, who is the eldest of the two offspring, to
work when he can, to administer what could easily be perceived as
political education.<br />
“My kids must be engaged with issues that
concern black South Africans. So I take my daughter, because she is able
to now, on campaign trails. We go to informal settlements…I want her
there. She must know, the world has multiple variants,” Maimane says.<br />
The
household orientated man who has been likened to the American
president, Barack Obama, in his public speaking oratory style,
emphasises the importance of being an insightful frame of reference to
children.<br />
“I want to model my kids to the new South Africa that we
want to see, that they must be able to walk in any context and treat
the human being as the human being. I teach my kids respect, not because
it’s a black thing, but because it is a respect issue.”<br />
When
Maimane decided to marry his wife, Natalie, bringing her home meant a
lot of work to defuse the inevitable cultural shock that comes with most
cross cultural marriages.<br />
He says however, his family was supportive in easing Natalie into the black family dynamics.<br />
“We
were at a funeral once. My wife and a cousin of mine stood in a line to
get food after the processions. In the black culture, in events like
funerals, all women have to be working either helping in the kitchen or
anywhere there maybe a shortage of hands. My grandmother arrived to give
both my cousin and my wife a tongue lashing, that they stood in the
queue while everybody was working,” Mmusi remembers.<br />
“That confirmed for me that they didn’t see her through the colour of her skin. But as a woman who is part of the family”<br />
Mmusi Maimane will become Gauteng premier if the DA wins the most votes in the province after the May 7 polls.<br />
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<h4>
Julius Malema (EFF)</h4>
Julius Malema, the firebrand leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters
(EFF), is arguably South Africa’s greatest political provocateur.<br />
Malema,
who, not too long ago, swapped his green and black African National
Congress (ANC) fatigues for a Red Beret embodying revolutionary
rhetoric, is a political journalist’s dream come true. In stark
contrast, the rabble-rouser, with his controversial statements regarding
race, land rights and revolution, has become somewhat of a nightmare
for conservative South Africans.<br />
Mention of Julius Malema immediately elicits fury and apprehension from political parties and concerned citizens.<br />
Feeding
off controversy, Malema and his confrontational band of Red Berets have
sent shockwaves through South Africa’s political landscape. While his
political party only managed to gather 6% of votes at the last national
elections, recent surveys have pointed to a momentous upswell of support
for Malema amongst the disenfranchised black youth of South Africa.<br />
<br />
On 3 March 1981, Julius Sello Malema was born in Seshego, Limpopo, to
a single mother who worked as a domestic worker to make ends meet.
Malema grew up poor, and cites the socioeconomic strife endured by his
mother as an overarching reason for his interest in politics.<br />
Malema
attended Mohlakaneng High School in Seshego and went on to complete a
two-year diploma in youth development through the University of South
Africa (UNISA) in 2010. The following year, he re-enrolled at UNISA,
this time undertaking a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and
African languages.<br />
Malema has praised his grandmother, Sarah,
for laying the foundations of resistance and self-worth during his
formative years. In a recent radio interview, Malema revealed that his
grandmother had been labelled a witch for standing up to injustices and
defending her grandson’s honour. This left a lasting impression on
Malema, who explained:<br />
<br />
<br />
Some would say that their children won’t be expelled because of a son of a witch‚ a poor low life‚ referring to Malema.<br />
I
was insulted from a tender age. I learned early in life that the
ultimate outcome might be death‚ imprisonment or being characterised as a
terrorist or something like that.”<br />
Malema admits that he
knows nothing about his biological father, explaining that even on her
deathbed, his mother refused to divulge any information. <br />
Malema
has also stated that, because of her supportive influence on him as a
child, his grandmother’s needs are always taken care of, saying:<br />
<br />
Malema’s political career began at the tender age of nine. He joined
the African National Congress’ Masupatsela (Trailblazers) movement at a
time when the country’s political landscape was experiencing a
tumultuous genesis. According to Malema, he was tasked with removing
National Party (NP) posters placed outside police stations, in the runup
to South Africa’s first democratic elections.<br />
Malema entered
teenagerhood with a political bang, being elected chairperson of the
African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) branch in Seshego. In
1995, he was also elected as the ANCYL regional chair.<br />
At the
age of 16, Malema extended his political repertoire by being appointed
as the chair of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) for the
Limpopo province. Malema’s involvement with the student movement paved
the way for his trademark style of politically rambunctious engagement.
In 2001, the feisty student leader was elected as the national president
of COSAS.<br />
In 2002, Malema organised a COSAS march through the
streets of Johannesburg, which was marred by incidents of violence and
looting.<br />
The following year, Malema entered the public eye
again while national president of COSAS. The student leader’s
statements, which threatened the burning of police stations relating to
jailing of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, would set the tone for his fervent
future in the political arena.<br />
Malema’s radical populist
political ideology catapulted him to a seat of power in April 2008, when
he was elected as president of the ANCYL. The election process was
criticised for reports of voter intimidation.<br />
At the helm of
the mighty ANCYL, Malema redoubled his efforts to support the ruling
party and its president, Jacob Zuma. This period of rule will forever be
remembered with contempt. In defence of Zuma, Malema garnered criticism
on a national scale but was well supported by high ranking members of
the ruling party.<br />
However, this political matrimony would soon
end in spectacular fashion. While Malema’s re-election as ANCYL
president, a post which he retained unopposed in 2011, could have been
seen as a victory, behind the scenes, his political power within the
party was unravelling.<br />
On 18 April 2010, internal disciplinary
procedures befell Malema. As a result of numerous misgivings, the ANC
resolved to punish the Youth League leader for bringing the party into
disrepute. His relationship with Zuma swiftly soured and in April 2012,
less than a year after his re-election, Malema was expelled from ANC, as
recommended by the National Disciplinary Committee.<br />
This expulsion laid the foundation for political retribution.<br />
In
2013, an embittered Malema announced the creation of a new political
party which was founded to directly oppose the ANC. The Economic Freedom
Fighters were born out of political vengeance, with Malema adopting the
militaristic title of the party’s Commander in Chief (CIC).<br />
Along
with his former ANCYL colleague, Floyd Shivambu, CIC Malema adopted a
strong revolutionary rhetoric which he imposed on the EFF. The Red
Beret’s retained many of the ANC’s viewpoints but sought to become more
extreme and pronounced.<br />
Malema announced that the EFF would
focus on communist ideals and support the expropriation of land without
compensation along with the nationalising of all major industries. The
party sought to attach Marxist theories to populist rhetoric thereby
catering to the disenchanted masses.<br />
In 2014, less than a year
after the party’s formation, the EFF managed to secure 1 169 259 votes,
6.35%, and gain 25 seats in the National Assembly, as a result of the
national elections. The EFF made a massive dent in the ANC’s support
base in Malema’s home-province of Limpopo.<br />
While the party has
been criticised for it’s low vote count in the 2014 elections,
statistics show that the General Elections in 2019 should see the EFF’s
numbers swell to tangible opposition levels.<br />
The relatively
low vote count in 2014 does not undermine the very real influence that
the EFF has on South Africa’s political landscape. In less than ten
years, Malema has gone from being a marginal political player to one the
most talked about politicians in the country.<br />
In fact, the EFF’s
political influence has challenged the dominance of the ANC, in terms of
legislative undertakings, along with destabilising the Democratic
Alliance (DA) with regards to local government coalitions.<br />
<br />
Julius Malema has the propensity to be remembered as a defender of
the poor – a political antagonist who used the political platform as a
means to enact real socioeconomic change. Unfortunately, Malema’s infamy
is a double-edged sword; one that has thrust the humble son of a
domestic worker into the South African spotlight, but has also
marginalised sections of society.<br />
Malema will be best
remembered for his controversies, which are numerous and varied – a
hotbed of resentment and racial diatribe. It’s these controversies which
saw Malema expelled from the ANC. The National Disciplinary Committee
cited four major incidents, namely:<br />
<ul>
<li>Malema’s endorsement
of Robert Mugabe during his visit to Zimbabwe, at a time when President
Zuma was trying to broker a negotiated settlement in the country.</li>
<li>A
controversial incident between Malema and a BBC journalist, Jonah
Fisher, whereby the ANCYL leader lambasted the reporter during a
question and answer session. This incident led Zuma to publicly condemn
Malema – a watershed moment.</li>
<li>Malema’s comments on the murder of
Eugène Terre’Blanche in 2010 which relate to the infamous “Shoot the
Boer” (Dubul’ ibhunu) song.</li>
<li>Malema’s unfavourable comparison of
Zuma to his predecessor Thabo Mbeki, after Zuma called a press
conference reprimanding Malema.</li>
</ul>
Malema angered many South
Africans during his time at the helm of the ANCYL by singing struggle
songs which alluded to the murder of whites and farmers. The song,
“Ayasab’ amagwala” (The cowards are scared), had been previously defined
as hate speech by the South African Human Rights Commission.<br />
In
2010, the South Gauteng High Court ruled the singing of the song
“unconstitutional and unlawful”. In its judgement, the court stated that
anybody caught singing the song in public would face charges relating
to the incitement to murder. In 2011, as a result of his disobedience,
Malema was found guilty of hate speech.<br />
Zuma himself
eventually had to reign a defiant Malema in, following the latter’s
refusal to obey the court order. This condemnation came in the wake of
another scandal in 2008, whereby Malema stated that he would die in
defence of the president. Malema told a Youth Day rally in Thaba Nchu in
the Free State:<br />
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“We are prepared to die for Zuma. We are prepared to take up arms and kill for Zuma.”</blockquote>
Malema
also defended Zuma during his rape scandal, stating that the alleged
victim had “requested breakfast and taxi money” and as such, had a “nice
time”.<br />
Following his dismissal from the ANC, Malema
backtracked on his statements supporting Zuma, resolving to remove the
president from power because of his ‘corruption’.<br />
In 2016, Malema caused further outrage by stating:<br />
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“[the EFF] are not calling for the slaughter of white people‚ at least for now.”</blockquote>
These
idle threats against white South Africans have put Malema firmly in the
crosshairs of civil rights groups, in particular, AfriForum, which is
constantly engaged in litigation efforts against the EFF’s CIC.<br />
Malema,
although, in rhetoric, vehemently opposed to corruption and the misuse
of state funds, has recently been implicated in fraudulent activities
which have raised more than a few eyebrows from the party’s support
base.<br />
In 2012, Malema was charged with money laundering,
relating to his awarding of lucrative government contracts in Limpopo in
return for an alleged R4 million in kickbacks. The following year,
Malema faced charges of tax evasion to the amount of R16 million. Malema
has also been investigated by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to
financial irregularities regarding the Ratanang Trust.<br />
The EFF
has also been implicated in the VBS Mutual Bank saga, through
Shivambu’s brother, Brian. Malema’s dubious association with alleged
underworld kingpin, Adriano Mazzotti, has also come under scrutiny.<br />
<h2>
Julius Malema, interesting facts</h2>
<ul>
<li>Julius
Malema married his long-time girlfriend and had a son Munzhedzi in
2016. Their second son Kopano was born in 2018. Malema also has a son
named Ratanang from a previous relationship with Maropeng Ramohlale.</li>
<li><br /></li>
<li>Malema’s
incredible weight-loss transformation has been well publicised. The EFF
leader has attributed his physical transformation to a life of
sobriety, healthy eating and exercise.</li>
<li><br /></li>
<li>In December 2013, Malema was arrested for speeding 215 km/h in a 120 km/h zone in his BMW in Gauteng.</li>
<li><br /></li>
<li>Malema obtained his BA Degree in Political Leadership and Citizenship from UNISA on 30 March 2016. </li>
</ul>
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Mangosuthu Buthelezi (IFP)<br />
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Mangosuthu Buthelezi is one of South
Africa’s oldest and most respected political patriarchs; founder and
leader of the once-mighty Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).<br />
Buthelezi’s meteoric rise the top of the political precipice is one which spans the test of time.<br />
Through
traditional tribal chiefdom under the oppressive apartheid regime,
wading into a bloody political war in the approach to a democratic South
Africa; Buthelezi, who has not been free of controversy and criticism,
now in his autumn years, provides a stoic parliamentary presence.<br />
<h2>
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, born into the Zulu Royal family</h2>
Mangosuthu
Buthelezi was born in Mahlabathini, KwaZulu-Natal, on 27 August 1928.
Birthed by Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu directly into the Zulu Royal
family, Buthelezi’s destiny as a great tribal leader was already set out
before him.<br />
Not much is known about Buthelezi’s formative
years, other than factual details of his schooling. The Zulu heir was
educated at Impumalanga Primary School, Mahashini, Nongoma from 1933 to
1943, then at Adams College, Amanzimtoti from 1944 to 1947.<br />
From
1948 to 1950, Buthelezi studied at the University of Fort Hare in the
Eastern Cape. It was here that the son of Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu
would first be introduced to South Africa’s tumultuous political
battlefield, by way of the feisty African National Congress Youth League
(ANCYL).<br />
Buthelezi’s involvement with the revolutionary
political party at the forefront of the liberation struggle got him
expelled from Fort Hare. Due to his expulsion emanating from political
association and student boycotts, Buthelezi completed his degree in
History and Bantu Administration at the University of Natal.<br />
As
the oppressive apartheid regime began to solidify itself into the
social and legislative fabric of South Africa, a fresh-faced Buthelezi
took a position with the Department of Native Affairs. In the 1950’s,
racial segregation intensified; a precursor to homeland policies which
would see black South African’s forced into areas based along ethnic
lines.<br />
While political upheaval was beginning to pick up
momentum in this time, Buthelezi, in accordance with his ancestral birth
right, inherited the chieftainship of the large Buthelezi tribe in
1953.<br />
Buthelezi was, at the time, still affiliated with the
ANC – but this was soon set to change. In 1960, the ANC was outlawed.
Political affiliations, meetings, even being caught with party
paraphernalia came with a hefty sentence.<br />
The chief of the
Buthelezi tribe found himself in a precarious position. His criticism of
the apartheid government was well known, yet, by profession and
ancestral ties, he was a government-approved homeland leader. Buthelezi
was, essentially, an apartheid endorsed leader of six million Zulu
citizens who had been fenced in by the Promotion of Bantu
Self-Government Act No. 46 of 1959, and future legislative schemes which
perpetuated segregation.<br />
<h2>
Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s political career</h2>
Buthelezi
was appointed leader of the KwaZulu territorial Authority in 1970. Six
years later he became chief minister of the semi-independent Bantustan
of KwaZulu. It was at this time that he became branded as an apartheid
regime collaborator by liberation movements, including the emerging
Black Consciousness Movement.<br />
In 1974, in an attempt to ease
strained race relations in the country, and, arguably, as a way to
disprove accusations of being an apartheid regime sympathiser, Buthelezi
signed the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith. This declaration, agreed
upon by Buthelezi and United Party leader Harry Schwarz, served as a
blueprint for racial peace in South Africa.<br />
The Mahlabatini
Declaration of Faith resolved to end racial segregation and oppression
by means of non-violent engagement. The signing of this document, which
was endorsed by many chief ministers of the black homelands and white
liberals alike, was regarded as a ground-breaking development in the
struggle for peace and equality.<br />
It was also during this time,
in 1975, that Buthelezi founded the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) – a
revival of Inkatha we Sizwe which served as a cultural organisation in
the 1920’s. This sleight of hand, to operate as a cultural committee
rather than as a political party, meant that the IFP avoided being
banned by the despotic apartheid government.<br />
As a result of
Buthelezi’s ancestral ties and administrative authority as KwaZulu’s
Bantustan leader, membership of the IFP was almost exclusively Zulu.<br />
Originally,
the IFP was formed with support from the ANC. This relationship soured
during the late 1970’s, when the ANC opted to engage the apartheid
government with armed struggle by way of training and deploying Umkhonto
we Sizwe – the military wing of the organisation, Spear of the Nation.<br />
This
fallout did little to dispute the claims regarding Buthelezi’s
willingness to support the apartheid government. Despite numerous
meetings between the two organisations, intended to iron out political
and tribal differences, the IFP and ANC remained staunch enemies – a
fact which would have devastating consequences in the run up to South
Africa’s first democratic elections.<br />
In the early 1980’s, as
apartheid’s oppressive measures and isolation from the international
community began to intensify, Buthelezi stood up to the government when
it resolved to cede the Ingwavuma region in northern Natal to the
Government of Swaziland. The subsequent court case, which was won by
Buthelezi, was seen as a watershed moment.<br />
<h2>
Apartheid crumbles, IFP and ANC go to war</h2>
The
seeds of tribal and political division sown during the 1970’s and 80’s
would haunt the prospect of a free and fair South Africa in the runup to
the 1994 elections. The IFP and ANC literally went to war from 1987 to
1991 in a contest for control of KwaZulu-Natal which led to the more
than 18,000 deaths.<br />
The bloodshed between the two parties
continued, with claims that the IFP were being armed and funded to wreak
havoc on the ANC in the runup to the first democratic elections. It was
alleged that Buthelezi worked with apartheid military leader General
Magnus Malan in the training of youth which would form part of a
paramilitary unit.<br />
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(TRC) pointed to Buthelezi being a perpetrator of human rights
violations as a result of the political war which unfolded in the runup
to the democratic elections. Affidavits cited by the TRC revealed that
the IFP, under Buthelezi’s command, used taxpayer money to train and arm
an 8 000-member paramilitary force.<br />
In conjunction with the
violent war, Buthelezi sought to boycott South Africa’s first democratic
elections. Afraid of being stripped of his administrative powers,
which, for so long had elevated him to the position of king of the
KwaZulu Bantustan, Buthelezi refused to stand at the 1994 general
election.<br />
In the scramble for power in a swiftly changing
political landscape, Buthelezi also began warring with the Zulu King
Goodwill Zwelithini. Despite being related, the two leaders entered into
a war of intimidation and threats. It was widely rumoured that King
Zwelithini was planning to unseat Buthelezi as Zulu prime-minister, with
his former prince.<br />
Federal troops were allocated to guard
Zwelithini against the possibility of a politically motivated attack at
the hands of Buthelezi.<br />
In the midst of all this violence and
political tension, Buthelezi, in the eleventh hour, eventually agreed to
end his boycott of the elections. Due to the bloodshed perpetuated by
the IFP’s collusion with state-forces, the party lost support and only
narrowly managed to win the elections in KwaZulu-Natal.<br />
While
relations between King Goodwill Zwelithini and Buthelezi have remained
amicable in recent years, squabbles regarding political and monarchic
rule persisted into the mid 1990’s.<br />
In May 1994, Buthelezi was
appointed Minister of Home Affairs; a position he held following the
1999 elections, too. During his tenure he was appointed as acting
president on numerous occasions.<br />
Buthelezi was also appointed
to the Government of National Unity (GNU), a multi-party coalition which
was tasked with correcting social and economic injustices left by the
legacy of apartheid.<br />
<h2>
Notable achievements</h2>
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who recently celebrated his 90<sup>th</sup>
birthday, has seen the worst of South Africa’s strife but has also been
afforded the time to witness the birth of a democratic state. <br />
The
tireless IFP leader has abandoned his robust political rhetoric, which
became his hallmark in the early 1990’s, and is now calculated and fair
in his approach to political engagement.<br />
Buthelezi is regarded as the grandfather of South Africa’s parliament – being the oldest member in the house.<br />
At
one time, Buthelezi was Chancellor of the University of Zululand and
served on the standing committee of the Zululand Anglican Diocese, the
council of St. Peter’s Seminary, of the council of the Inanda Seminary,
and of the KwaZulu Conservation Trust.<br />
Buthelezi has received
several awards and honorary doctorate degrees for his intricate
political and seriocomic involvement. The awards include the Knight
Commander of the Star of Africa for outstanding leadership, an Honorary
doctorate of law from the University of Zululand and the George Meaney
Human Rights Award from the United States American Federation of Labour
& Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL/CIO).<br />
<h3>
Mangosuthu Buthelezi: Interesting facts</h3>
<ul>
<li>Mangosuthu Buthelezi married 2 July 1952 to Irene Audrey Thandekile Mzila, and they had three sons and five daughters.</li>
<li><br /></li>
<li>Princess Latoya Buthelezi is Buthelezi’s granddaughter and is a singer better known by her stage name, Toya Delazy.</li>
<li><br /></li>
<li>While studying at Fort Hare, Buthelezi mingled with Robert Magube, the controversial former president of Zimbabwe.</li>
<li><br /></li>
<li>In 1963, Buthelezi served as adviser,
and acted, on the film Zulu about the Battle of Rorke’s Drift.
Buthelezi played the role of his real-life great-grandfather, King
Cetshwayo kaMpande, alongside Michael Caine and Stanley Baker.</li>
<li><br /></li>
<li>Buthelezi
was great friends with multimillionaire Harry Oppenheimer. The
relationship birthed the Mangosuthu Technikon in Umlazi, south of
Durban.</li>
<li><br /></li>
<li>A year before South Africa’s first democratic
election, Buthelezi broke the record for the world’s longest-ever speech
in an address he gave to the Natal legislature.</li>
<li>Buthelezi acted as the President of South Africa a total of 22 times.</li>
<li><br /></li>
<li>Buthelezi has held three traditional titles from birth: Umntwana waKwaphindangene shenge
(Prince of Kwaphindangene), Inkosi yeSizwe sakwaButhelezi (Chief of the
Buthelezi tribe), and UNdunankulu weSizwe samaZulu (Traditional Prime
Minister of the Zulu Nation).</li>
</ul>
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Zanele Kamagwaza-Msibi (NFP)<br />
<br />
Ms Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi is currently serving as the Deputy Minister of
Science and Technology. She was born 1 February 1962. She holds a BA
Degree from the University of Zululand and a Diploma in Local Government
from the University of Durban Westville. Source: [profileengine.com]
Ms kaMagwaza-Msibi was the former Mayor of Zululand District
Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and currently the President
of the National Freedom Party (NFP). She was formerly chairperson of
the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the IFP's candidate for Premier of
KwaZulu-Natal in the 2009 general election.On 7 May 2014 her new party
successfully contested the 2014 South African general elections by
receiving 288,742 (1.57%) of the national votes. This outcome placed the
NFP in fifth place, behind the Inkatha Freedom Party,winning 6 seats in
the National Assembly.<br />
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In South Africa, proportional representative method is used meaning all votes will be tallied up and the amount of seats in the National Assembly is determined by their share of the vote. Every 0.25% of national vote is equivalent to one seat in parliament and there are 400 seats in South Africa's parliament and if a party secure 201 seats or more that party holds a majority. </div>
olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-60833036437428888782019-04-30T12:44:00.001+02:002019-04-30T12:44:04.952+02:00Opinion: The crocodile and the duck By Cathy Buckle<img alt="Image result for zimbabwe president images" class="irc_mi" data-iml="1556620964374" height="266" src="https://img.bulawayo24.com/articles/Mnangagwa-wins.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="400" /> <br />
Zimbabwe President <a class="iKjWAf irc-nic isr-rtc a-no-hover-decoration" data-cthref="/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj619Dw0PfhAhWyURUIHbF3CuYQMwhfKBUwFQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fworld%2Femmerson-mnangagwa-takes-over-as-zimbabwes-president-who-are-the-key-players-in-the-leadership-change&psig=AOvVaw2EbidVNVyO88V8W-xkcDt2&ust=1556707338786705&ictx=3&uact=3" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj619Dw0PfhAhWyURUIHbF3CuYQMwhfKBUwFQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fworld%2Femmerson-mnangagwa-takes-over-as-zimbabwes-president-who-are-the-key-players-in-the-leadership-change&psig=AOvVaw2EbidVNVyO88V8W-xkcDt2&ust=1556707338786705&ictx=3&uact=3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Emmerson Mnangagwa</a> <br />
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Sitting at the water’s edge watching hippos and crocodiles,
white-faced whistling ducks and skittish spoonbills this Easter, the
reality of Zimbabwe’s political, economic and humanitarian crisis was
never far from my mind. Stopping on the way to my destination I was
horrified to discover that the price of bread had gone up from $1.20 to
$3.50 a loaf. On exclaiming at the huge price increase, the teller said:
“But it’s only RTGS dollars.” RTGS dollars are the only dollars that
most ordinary people have in Zimbabwe but these Bond Notes are now worth
300% less than they were worth just two months ago, as are our bank
balances, salaries, life savings and pensions.<br />
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Arriving at the National Park to take up an Easter booking confirmed
and paid for two months before, I was greeted with the news that “the
prices are up.” For some minutes there was a tense dialogue with the
official trying to get me to pay the new rate, an increase of 300%, and
me declining. There was no getting around the increase in the other Park
entry and conservation fees which had not been covered in the original
booking and these were all up by 300%, “unless you pay in US dollars,”
the official said. When I asked what animals there were in the Park the
official looked away and mumbled: “poaching is very bad here.”
Surrounded by huge chrome and platinum mines, poaching has decimated
this national treasure leaving only monkeys, baboons, three waterbuck
and one bushbuck seen in six days. Not even an impala? I kept asking
myself in disbelief at the beautiful but empty bush; what must the
tourists to the Midlands think? Shameful was the only word that came to
mind.<br />
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One afternoon watching a magnificent saddlebill stork striding in
shallow water looking for fish, frogs and crabs the huge bird suddenly
took to the air, startled by what had sounded like a car alarm, followed
by a loud explosion; it was in fact blasting at a nearby mine. When I
enquired from the Parks staff why the mines were so close to the
National Park, the answer was simple: “people pay.” Sitting on a little
grassy island in the water a crocodile lay in the sun with its mouth
open, staring unblinking at ducks, a heron and spoonbill just inches
away. It was an image which spoke so much about the state of Zimbabwe
today: the power and fear versus the little people.<br />
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For nearly two decades Zimbabwe has been in a state of almost
continual turmoil, facing one man-made crisis after another. Each crisis
and currency collapse have resulted in the rich and well connected
amassing and then flaunting vast fortunes while ordinary people have
been reduced to beggars. While this has been going on many of our
national treasures and special places have been left crumbling,
infrastructure collapsing and wildlife eradicated. Recent sightings of a
Lamborghini parked outside government offices in Harare speaks volumes
to this, our shameful national inequity.<br />
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With a great soreness in my heart at what I had seen, I returned home
after Easter to find a message from a friend in Mutare with news of
ongoing relief efforts a month after Cyclone Idai. Her words brought
tears and smiles, lifting flagging spirits: “We still have choppers
flying in and out daily, mostly with bodies now. They still find the
occasional victim alive, they arrive in Mutare with absolutely nothing.
A group of ladies take food to them in hospital every day, as the
hospital cannot feed them all. They also give them parcels with the
basics; such a sad situation. One of the first victims was a lady who
had a crushed pelvis, she was also pregnant. They decided she needed a
Cesarean [C section] before they could sort out her pelvis. She has a
little girl, has had her pelvic op and is improving and the baby is
doing well.”<br />
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Over a month after Cyclone Idai bodies are still being found under
the rubble and an unknown number of people are still missing. Cyclone
relief work is continuing: Miracle Missions and Harare Helps recently
called for volunteers to load their 50<sup>th </sup>thirty-tonne
truckload of aid donated by ordinary people to help those affected by
Cyclone Idai. They have now managed to send our donations to people in
Manicaland, Masvingo and even across the border to Mozambique. A massive
achievement and overwhelming response from ordinary Zimbabweans; one
of the Harare Helps social media posts says it best: “Not all heroes
wear capes.” As I write this letter we are thinking of our friends and
neighbours in the Comores, Mozambique and Tanzania as Cyclone Kenneth
makes landfall and we follow the alerts being issued for parts of
Zimbabwe too.<br />
Until next time, thanks for reading this letter, now in its 19<sup>th</sup> year, and my books about life in Zimbabwe, love cathyolumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-53449025987207690082019-04-30T12:28:00.001+02:002019-04-30T12:28:23.749+02:00Meet: Botswana 5 Top Female Artist<img alt="Image result for amantle brown" class="irc_mi" data-iml="1556619303727" height="224" src="https://truth.co.bw/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/amantle-mag-cover-may--e1527783057719-768x432.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="400" /><br />
<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Amantle Brown</span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Amantle
Brown is an R&B artist who started on a local talent show called My
Star and made it to the finale. Her first album titled Sa Pelo gave the
artist her place in the industry with hits like Black Mampatile and
Moratiwa which dominated local radio airwaves.</span></div>
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was nominated for several awards including the Botswana Music Union
Awards Best RnB and Best New Comer in 2015. Since then she has also
collaborated with other </span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://sheleadsafrica.org/mona-faces/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">artists </span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">with amazing music.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">She
released Follo, a romantic song featuring one of the local artists
which was inspired by Afro Beats which exposed her artistic range and
embrace of a more </span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODM8hFZXo8"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">African sound</span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">.</span></div>
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is a songwriter, singer, and performer who is known to deliver quality
all rounded performances. Her work now extends to being a judge on
Melody Gospel Television on Botswana Television. More pics after cut....</span></div>
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released a much-anticipated sophomore project in April with the stand
out track being Bereka Mosadi which means Work, Woman – an anthem for
Southern African women to pursue their dreams. You can listen to more of
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to a Motswana father and a Zambian mother, brings a fusion of
neo-soul/RnB to her music. This artist/songwriter performs on local and
international stages and well recognized for her work in Botswana. Samantha
is a multifaceted individual who places great value on education and
its re-inventive qualities. She acquired her degree Cum Laude in
Theology which she attained at Baptist Theological College in Randburg,
South Africa.</span></div>
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of her early career accomplishments include being 2nd runner-up for My
African Dream Junior singing category in 2003 and winner of the Gabz
Karaoke Idols in 2004.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">She made the top 24 of African Idols as the only representative from Botswana in 2008.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Samantha
has performed at the monthly Exodus Live Poets events as well as their
annual festivals alongside artists such as Neo Quashie, TJ Dema, Phil
Rotz, KK the beat boxer from 2004-2010 and won an award for “My African
Dream – Living The Dream” in 2010.</span></div>
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first album Transition released in 2013 was a huge success leading to
performances on various local and international stages of note.</span></div>
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is currently a radio host on Gabz-FM and also recently released new
music titled Secrets which is receiving recognition in Botswana.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/louisaaprilbw/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Louisa April</span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"> is
a contemporary soul and R&B singer, songwriter and musician. Her
acoustic music is mostly emotional and is also infused and highlighted
with alternative folk and soul.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Born
to a Namibian mother and Nigerian father, Louisa spent her first seven
years in Namibia before returning to be raised in Gaborone, Botswana.</span></div>
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grew up behind a book. This led to her trying out writing in its
various forms (poetry, songs) she also had a natural talent for singing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">She
pursued a degree in Computer Science in Russia, is a committee member
of Purple Crown Society and a Global Shaper in the Gaborone Hub.<br /> She
has performed at MILO Concert Hall in Russia and alongside Tafnaz the
Acoustic Badboi at the Jazz Exchange in Botswana. Louisa has also
performed for the Gaborone International Music Festival and Naked Soul
Sessions. Her music can be found on Sound cloud and on her </span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZWqykeirqsa7BvBHe6-IhQ"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Youtube channel</span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">. [She Leads Africa] </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Mpho Sebina</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mpho.sebina/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Mpho Sebina</span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"> is a self-taught and learning musician whose music can only be described as Afrofuturistic soul and R&B.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Growing
up in a family of music lovers her writing and singing style is
inspired by the likes of Sade, Bob Marley, Brenda Fassie, Boom Shaka,
Lebo Mathosa and others which you can hear as part of her influences in
her music. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">She
studied and graduated with an Honours Degree in International Business
from Multimedia University in Malaysia where she performed for local
spaces and poetry sessions and made her exploration into music more than
just a passion.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Malaysia
is where the song Loves Light was written, inspired by the song Tselane
by Black Jacks. She released a full length titled album Loves Light and
released an EP titled Neo which means Gift this year.</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"> Mpho is the founder of </span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://medium.com/@derekworkman/naked-soul-sessions-71c91aff4fa6"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Naked Soul Sessions</span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"> which
gives a platform to local artists including some on this list. She has
performed on various stages locally and internationally and is featured
on Global Citizen as artists to watch. You can listen to more of her
music on Soundcloud her </span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfhN9xwFs2nfmVVqzTpnSjg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Youtube Channel</span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="mso-field-code: ' HYPERLINK 'https\:\/\/twitter\.com\/thato_jessica?lang=en' \\t '_blank' ';"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">hato Jessica</span></u></span></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"> started
her career singing as the only female member of X-Calibre – a Gospel
Hip-Hop group which gained its popularity in the country through their
unique sound and positive message. She left the group in 2015 to pursue
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olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-21586996732345287282019-04-30T12:09:00.002+02:002019-04-30T12:09:36.757+02:00‘In Burundi, the crackdown continues in the shadows, with impunity’ – Human Rights Watch<em><strong> </strong></em><img alt="Image result for Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza" class="irc_mi" data-iml="1556618884794" height="224" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2018/6/7/11a3eae65f5d48e7b2446f9e071f5a8b_18.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="400" /><br />
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<em><strong>Four years Llater, crisis risks further escalation ahead of elections</strong></em><br />
In Mid-April an audio recording made the rounds on Burundian social
media. In it, a speaker described as a senior police officer delivered a
chilling message directed at the government’s political opponents: “If
you want to disrupt security, I’ll finish with you there, and if you’re
with your wife and children, you’ll go together.” If authentic, the
threats aimed at Burundi’s new opposition party members, the Congrès
National pour la Liberté (National Congress for Freedom, CNL), would
demonstrate disturbing disregard for the rule of law.<br />
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Four years after a widespread human rights crisis began in Burundi,
this is becoming the norm. Since February, when the CNL was registered,
we have received dozens of allegations of arrests, beatings,
intimidation and disappearances of members of the new party by members
of the national intelligence services, the police, and the Imbonerakure,
the youth league associated with the ruling party.<br />
The crisis began on April 25, 2015. That day, the <em>Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie-Forces de défense de la démocratie</em>
(National Council for the Defence of Democracy-Forces for the Defense
of Democracy, CNDD-FDD, the ruling party) announced that, despite the
fact that he was completing his second term in office, President Pierre
Nkurunziza would be its candidate in the July 2015 elections. The
controversial decision triggered widespread demonstrations in the
capital, Bujumbura. Authorities responded by cracking down on activists,
journalists, and demonstrators, and Nkurunziza was re-elected for a
third term amid widespread human rights violations in a climate of fear.<br />
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From then on, the repression by the national intelligence officials
and CNDD-FDD youths became more entrenched. Anyone suspected of opposing
the ruling party became a target. Fast-forward four years, and the
outlook is grim, as the 2020 presidential election is around the corner.
Although the repression is not as visible as in the early days, it is
just as brutal and it is taking place with impunity.<br />
The opposition leader Agathon Rwasa created the new party after a May
2018 constitutional referendum that allowed the president to extend his
time in office for a good many years. The vote took place in a context
of escalating violence and intimidation against political opponents.<br />
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One police officer in Bujumbura recently told us over the phone that
when local administrative officials identify supporters of the CNL, they
are rapidly arrested and accused of participating in “illegal”
meetings. According to him, members of the Imbonerakure are
orchestrating these arrests, and “they are the ones judicial authorities
listen to.” The daily reports published by local monitoring groups
suggest this is a widespread practice.<br />
The basic pillars of the rule of law – including a justice system
that can operate without political interference – are under severe
threat in Burundi.<br />
Lawyers and judges repeatedly speak about the CNDD-FDD officials’
influence over the judiciary at the local, provincial, and national
levels. A judge we interviewed said that in politically sensitive cases,
when people are accused of threatening state security, the instructions
are clear, “There will never be a favorable outcome for the suspect.”<br />
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Human rights defenders have either fled or face intense pressure
inside the country. A year ago, a leading activist, Germain Rukuki, was
sentenced to 32 years in prison for “rebellion,” among other charges. He
was prosecuted in relation to his work with the now-banned anti-torture
organisation ACAT-Burundi. His appeal, scheduled for April 25, after
months of delays, has been postponed indefinitely. He therefore remains
in detention, uncertain about his future.<br />
The statements we are receiving from people in Burundi reflect a
deep-seated fear of the ruling party and the Imbonerakure. Burundians
have expressed growing frustration at the increasing economic burden of
the crisis and the forced contributions being collected, some to fund
the 2020 election. A year ahead of the vote, impunity will likely fuel
more violence and repression against political opponents.<br />
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The abuse in Burundi is taking place largely in the dark. The
government is doing everything it can to hide the truth by silencing
dissent.<br />
The African Union (AU) needs to take responsibility for finding a
solution to the human rights situation in the country. Its human rights
observers have been in the country since 2016 with an unclear working
agreement, and none of their reports have been made public. With the UN
human rights office and independent civil society and media now forced
out, the AU observers are the only external observer mission – albeit
stunted – with access to Burundi. With an escalation of the crisis
looming, the AU should ensure the truth comes out about the rights
violations in Burundi and take further action to address the situation
before 2020.<br />
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As the love of month progresses, stories of love are told through music and Angelina is one of them.</div>
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Durban Solid have been working behind the scene with various production houses to craft what is now called Durban Kwaito.<a name='more'></a></div>
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With their debut single from their new signing with Thug Unit Recordings, they are out of the gate with a hit.</div>
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They tag along C-Yosco for the vocals and his mellow delivery never disappoints.</div>
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Their brand appeals to the youth and carries an afro-centric favor that is synonymous with some of the greatest african artist like.</div>
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Given a chance, they will be one of the greatest breakout group of 2019.</div>
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Artist: Durban Solid</div>
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Title: Angelina</div>
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Label: Thug Unit Recordings</div>
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South African Lawyer, activist and model Thando Hopa is making history on the latest cover of Vogue Portugal.</div>
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Hopa is the first woman with albinism to be on the cover of the prestigious high fashion magazine.</div>
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The April issue, dubbed 'African Motherland', is meant to honour the African continent and highlight the importance of representation.</div>
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“This edition celebrates boundless creative resources of Africans and Afro-descendants through fashion, beauty, art, lifestyle, entertainment and culture.” says Patricia Domingues, Features Editor at Vogue Portugal.</div>
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Hopa says she was shocked when first contacted for the cover.</div>
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“I was in total disbelief when I was first contacted to do the cover. My mother thought I was going to be trafficked by a bunch of strangers” Thando laughs as she relates her experience leading to this cover.</div>
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“The shock was probably because we’ve never come across a woman with albinism on a Vogue cover. I felt a bit overwhelmed, thinking about the many barriers the very existence of this representation could break” Thando added.</div>
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olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-34292665179180222382018-10-22T09:45:00.000+02:002018-10-22T09:45:05.832+02:00opinion: Africa must safeguard its sovereignty from superpower rivalries By PETER KAGWANJA<div>
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African Union Secretariat Built by the Chinese.<br />
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As Kenyans marked Mashujaa Day (Heroes' Day) yesterday, Africa’s freedom is at risk. </div>
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Experts are fretting a "new scramble for Africa" poised to roll back the gains of sovereignty. </div>
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The
new scramble brings to mind the dark days between 1881 and 1914 when
powerful European nations divided, occupied and colonised the continent.</div>
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In
different and nuanced ways, the new scramble and its impact on Africa’s
peace and security was the subject of two high-profile events this
week.</div>
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First, on October 14-17, 2018, the National
Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) organised a high-level conference under
the banner of “Achieving Victory in the War Against Al Qaeda Groups”,
which highlighted the impact of the recent seismic geopolitical shifts
in the Horn of Africa on security.<br />
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<strong>RIVALRIES</strong></div>
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A
salutary development discussed is the rise of Ethiopia’s new Prime
Minister Abiy Ahmed, ending the protracted hostilities with Eritrea as
well as proxy wars and support for terrorist groups. </div>
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However,
geopolitical rivalries among Middle East countries scrambling to have a
foothold in Africa is causing ripples across the region, undermining
regional security and stability of fragile States like Somalia, and
emboldening terrorist groups such as the Al-Shabaab in Somalia.</div>
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Far
from being a priority, the Horn of Africa is a pawn in a deepening
rivalry over the Red Sea, the Nile Waters (Egypt) and a disastrous war
in Yemen by the Gulf States.</div>
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Three Middle East blocs
are vying for influence in the Horn of Africa: the Arab Axis led by
Saudi Arabia and including the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain; the Iran Axis;
and the Qatar-Turkey Axis.</div>
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<strong>EMPIRE</strong></div>
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Significantly,
having a foothold in the territories occupied by the defunct “Zanj
Empire” established by the Omani sultanate on the Indian Ocean seaboard
seems to be the geopolitical aim of the Arab Axis. </div>
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And
terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) are
strategically clawing back on this slave-trading Arab empire
(Caliphate), which at its peak stretched as far south as Mozambique and
deep inside into Eastern Congo before it was eclipsed and absorbed into
Europe’s African empire. </div>
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Similarly, Turkey is also trying to recreate the Ottoman Empire, whose influence once reached as far south as Mombasa.</div>
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The
impact of geopolitics on regional security also featured prominently in
an experts’ seminar on “Securing Development: China-Africa Cooperation
in Governance, Peace and Security” organised by the Africa Policy
Institute in Nairobi on October 18, 2018. </div>
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Participants
observed that in the wake of the Africa-China Summit in Beijing on
September 3-4, growing influence in Africa has ignited a new raft of
Sinophobia. </div>
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Despite this, the forum noted, a “clean
history” is giving China a moral edge over its former slave-trading and
colonial competitors to extend its influence in the region.</div>
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<strong>SINOPHOBIA</strong></div>
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Notably,
China did not participate in slave trade. It has no colonial past in
Africa and supported Africa's liberation struggle. </div>
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Indeed,
like Africa, China has a history of humiliation, conquest and loss of
territories and sovereignty, now driving its foreign policy.</div>
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The establishment of FOCAC in 2000 was a game changer. China has evolved into Africa's most influential development partner. </div>
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Beijing’s
business portfolio is eclipsing rival Western powers. In 2015, it
pledged $60 billion to finance projects under a 10-point agenda,
including industrialisation and security.</div>
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In September,
China shocked the world when it pledged an additional $60 billion to
cover projects under an eight-points agenda, including industrial
promotion, peace and security.</div>
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This flow of massive
resources has attracted perhaps the most virulent wave of anti-Chinese
campaign in African history, characterised by accusations of pursuing a
"new form of colonialism", “debt trap diplomacy” and even racism.</div>
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<strong>SOVIET</strong></div>
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Even
more worrying is the forceful re-entry of resurgent Russia and China’s
ally, pushing for a slice of African market and reviving its Soviet-era
prestige, influence and capacity to extract natural resources. </div>
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Its new African diplomacy is weaved around the African Union (AU) and former allies of the defunct Soviet Empire. </div>
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This
logic informed the African tour of Moscow’s Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov in early October 2018 where he attended a joint ministerial
committee established to advance bilateral relations between Moscow and
Ethiopia, a Soviet ally, and met the AU Chairperson. </div>
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Moscow
sees Africa as a counter to the sanctions that US and Europe have
imposed on it, eyeing natural resources such as oil, uranium, copper,
gold and cobalt in Southern African countries of Zimbabwe, Angola,
Namibia and Mozambique, which he visited.</div>
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As the
world’s second-largest arms exporter after the US, Russia is already
selling billions of dollars in weapons in Africa annually. </div>
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Moscow signed a defence cooperation agreement with Mozambique, another of Soviet-era ally.</div>
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<strong>INFRASTRUCTURE</strong></div>
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The United States is playing a catch-up game having lost some ground to China. </div>
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In
October, the US Congress adopted the $60 billion Build Act (Better
Utilisation of Investments Leading to Development Act), strategically
designed to match Chinese funding and as an “alternative to Chinese
state investments" in the sub-Saharan region.</div>
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Despite
the West’s hyped criticism of China’s “debt trap diplomacy”, America is
pushing Kenya to take a Sh380 billion loan where American construction
and engineering giant Bechtel International Inc is seeking to build a
466-kilometre, six-lane Mombasa-Nairobi expressway to rival the Sh327
billion Standard Gauge Railway by China.</div>
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Despite the new plans, the Trump administration is more enigmatic and bizarre than ever before. </div>
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It
continues to focus on the Middle East and to pursue narrow national
interests mainly counter-terrorism efforts and extraction of resources. </div>
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Africa
needs a serious, unified strategy and institutional capacity to
effectively counter the new scramble and safeguard its sovereignty.</div>
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<em>Professor Peter Kagwanja is former Government Adviser and currently the Chief Executive of Africa Policy Institute (Kenya).</em></div>
olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-59868458572738370142018-10-02T08:59:00.000+02:002018-10-02T08:59:21.951+02:00Randburg Canival Life: Hosted by Mama Yoruba African Resturant<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mama Yoruba will be hosting Nigerians and friends of Nigeria to a carnival at the Randburg Square on 6th October 2018 from 2pm to 6pm. Several Nigerian musicians will be on display and your favorite African foods and drinks. It's a place to be.olumide faforehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04984951146453594220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830781874229563966.post-23923527249056931492018-09-17T10:48:00.003+02:002018-09-17T10:48:51.847+02:00Mama Yoruba Opens New Shop At Randburg Square, Johannesburg, South Africa For Your Delicious African Foods and Herbal Treatment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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rap smith, Laylizzy always brings something fresh to the streets, this time it
is “Too Much.” The music video was recently launched by Laylizzy and Kwesta
performing the track together, followed by a TV premiere of the video on several
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by Geobek Films and directed by George Beke, the production brought the track
to life with great visual aesthetics, cutting edge editing and dope shots
capturing the high energy performance of both artists and how they shine with
their homies, the beauties, the hot whips, the money stacks and street fashion.
The video depicts the transition of how Laylizzy and Kwesta celebrate the
success of their hard work in the streets and in the luxury life.</span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">For
interview/ media enquiries, contact:</span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Contact
person: Lindiwe Dhlamini</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">PR: Geobek
Entertainment</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Email:
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Cell: +27
84 350 7382</span></div>
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