Photos: South Africa 2016 Coldest Night.

 

 

 Gauteng Weather has labelled 26 July as "one of the coldest nights of 2016", after a tornado with gale force winds and hail hit the province on Tuesday afternoon.This was the second tornado to hit Gauteng, following a twister in Magaliesburg on Monday afternoon, 25 July.
On Wednesday morning, ER24 Emergency Services confirmed that more than 400 people in the Gauteng's Tembisa had been displaced, while 20 were injured in their homes when a second tornado ripped through Gauteng on Tuesday afternoon during rush hour.

More road accidents were also reported, caused by the severe weather, ER24 says.
After the tornado in Gauteng on Tuesday, overnight temperatures in some parts of the province dropped below zero, Gauteng Weather said. More pics after cut.....

Photo of the Day: Madiba Aviary South Africa Visit to Yenzani Children's Home In Midrand on Mandela Day

Madiba Aviary, South Africa one of the fastest growing aviaries of the Aviary Club with its National headquarters in Nigeria recently paid a visit to Yenzani Children's Home in Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Photo: #UnemploymentMovement- Botswana By RUTH KEDIKILWE

 

The hash-tag (#) era in which we live in has been taken a notch higher by going as far as threatening to get the youth across the country boycott the furore around the Botswana’s Golden Jubilee of 50 years of independence if their plea to government to take unemployment seriously is not responded to. The #UnemploymentMovement is a group of eager likeminded youth willing to take a stand in the forefront of the fight against youth unemployment.

Photo: Koffi Olomide charged with assaulting female dancer in Nairobi

Congolese music star Koffi Olomide will spend the next three months in jail as he awaits a ruling on prosecutors' request to imprison him for a longer period for assaulting one of his female dancers in Nairobi.
The singer's free fall started when he kicked a woman in his band at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport last Friday.
Olomide was deported on July 23 alongside three of his female dancers.

Photos: Africa's Last Indigenous People, The Suri and Hamar tribes in Omo Valley, Ethiopia By Trevor Cole

 Suri tribe girls take a break from panning for gold by playing in the river  in Omo Valley, Ethiopia

More than forty tribes reside in the area and the valley is home to about 200,000 people.

The traditions of the Omo Valley tribes are deeply embedded and each tribe's identity is vividly clear, even to outsiders.

Trevor said: 'The tribes have many similarities but they also have distinctive differences.

'Young men of the Hamar tribe, for example, have to jump a number of bulls to 'come of age', while the Suri and Mursi tribes compete through stick fighting. More pics after cut...

Photo: If Julius Malema sings your praises, your economy is doomed By Justice Malala

If Julius Malema, the energetic leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, ever starts singing your praises then run for the hills. It means your economy is about to collapse. Remember how Malema used to regale us with tales of the great and wonderful Hugo Chavez of Venezuela?
Remember how we were told that the future of SA would be bright and wonderful and fulfilling if we followed the Venezuelan economic model?

Human Rights " Rwanda of still 'Locking up The Poor"

International rights group, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it has found that Rwanda is still locking up poor people and holding them in “harsh and inhuman” detention centers across the country.
According to HRW’s research carried out this year, ‘‘scores of people, including the homeless, street vendors and street children are being rounded up off the streets and then held in filthy conditions where they are subjected to regular beatings.’‘

MSF calls for urgent action plan to address the lack of HIV treatment in CAR

Central African Republic’s healthcare system is reported to be in dire condition after being affected by conflict in the region since 2013.
According to reports, people living with HIV in the country have struggled to gain access to medical care.
Insecurity has been blamed for bringing HIV testing and treatment provision to a halt, where only 1 out of 4 people have access to treatment.

Book: The story of a rough but beautiful land: The Golden Republic by Thomas Victor Bulpin

 




















In the story of the The Golden Republic, Bulpin sets a stage on which we meet some of the strangest characters that fate had ever attached to the puppet strings of destiny. The grim Mzilikazi; the hot-headed Hendrik Potgieter and his trekkers; prospectors like Charlie the Reefer; gaudy rogues like Gunn of Gunn and his Highlanders; bandits, highwaymen, rand lords, gold rushers, to name just a few. He tells of leaders like Pretorius and Kruger, and many others who each played a part in establishing the Republic of the Transvaal – a seemingly impossible task considering all the small wars and skirmishes on the veld and the rumble of arguments rising out of each farmhouse.

Photo: Child hunger and death rising in Zimbabwe due to drought

Villagers collect water from a dry river bed in drought hit Masvingo, Zimbabwe. File photo
Image by: REUTERS

"This is an emergency," Save the Children UK's interim chief executive Tanya Steele said in a statement, after visiting Binga, on Zimbabwe's western border with Zambia.
"Some children are already dying of complications from malnutrition."
Mothers are foraging for wild berries and roots to feed their children, while going without food themselves for up to five days, the charity said.
The number of under-fives who have died of hunger-related causes in Binga town has reached 200 over the last 18 months -- triple the usual rate, it said.

Photos: The World Cannot Afford to Turn Its Back on South Sudan By Deepmala Mahla

 On a day when people should have been celebrating five years of South Sudan’s independence, many were running for their lives.

Some 300 have been killed in explosions and large-scale exchanges of gunfire that began Friday, July 8, in South Sudan’s capital of Juba. The violence, which coincided with this new nation’s independence day, is igniting grim new fears that the world’s youngest country may be sliding even deeper into civil war.

This latest violence is a major setback for the millions of South Sudanese people who have already suffered through three long years of war.

‘We are in danger here, I don’t know what to do.’

Photo: The African Union launched its visa-free passport

 

The African Union (AU) has finally launched its continental passport. With the goal of helping to “realize the dream of visa-free travel for African citizens within their own continent by 2020“, AU leaders hope this will be a key stroke in boosting integration and free movement in Africa.

Photos: Violence, fear and looting grip South Sudan's capital Juba

Burned tanks lined the side of the main road leading past the UN base in the Jebel area of Juba. Homes and market stalls had been ransacked. Military boots, caps and ripped pieces of uniforms were scattered on the ground. Dark spots in the dirt suggested where bodies had once lain, and although most had been removed, the smell of death lingered.
Much of the fighting during the most recent violence in South Sudan’s capital took place in Jebel. Clashes erupted between government and opposition forces on 8 July, killing hundreds and shattering hopes that a recently installed transitional government could bring peace after more than two years of conflict.

Photos: 2016 YOU Spectacular Awards in Emperors Palace, Johannesburg

 Bonang and AKA

The 2016 YOU Spectacular Awards held on Saturday night in Emperors Palace, Johannesburg.

 

Matheba was  awarded ‘Most Stylish Female Celeb’, fittingly presented the award by her go-to fashion designer Gert-Johan Coetzee while looking ethereal in a white lace Gert-Johan Coetzee number, with a witchy cape effect.
Queen B went on to clinch ‘Favourite Radio Personality’ and ‘Social Media Star’, with AKA adding ‘Most Stylish Male Celeb’ to their takeover. More pics after cut...

Frenchman Paul Le Guen as head coach of the Nigerian Super Eagles

 

 

Le Guen, who has the official title of technical advisor, will be assisted by Nigerian Salisu Yusuf as chief coach. The appointments are subject to the pair agreeing personal terms.
The much-travelled 52-year-old Le Guen, who played for Brest, Nantes and Paris Saint Germain and won 17 caps for France, led Cameroon to the 2010 World Cup finals.