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Africa Bleeding From Colonialism

January 6, 2020 12:31 pm

The single, ‘solemn’ sorrow in the hearts of men of conscience and candour is that mankind no longer has value for truth, honour and life. The power and appeal of self (nature), position, wealth, and fame are awesomely overwhelming to a blindfolding and deceptive degree that hell keeps expanding itself every day, and blood seems and counts inferior to the wastes and water in the gutter. And mankind considers it not.

I wish men were acquainted with the path of peace and progress, and had the courage to commune and tread thereon, and the honour to utter and defend the …

Du Plessis Praises Cricket South Africa Changes In England

December 29, 2019 5:18 pm

Proteas captain Faf du Plessis gave a ringing endorsement of the changes in management in South African cricket after his side won the first Test against England by 107 runs at SuperSport Park on Sunday.

The win broke a five-Test losing sequence for the Proteas and gave them their first points in the World Test championship.

“We’ve got the right people in the right jobs at the top of Cricket South Africa,” he said of the appointment of former captain Graeme Smith as director of cricket and Mark Boucher as head coach after a period of upheaval in the local …

Igbos Are The Most Gifted In Africa – Obasanjo

December 29, 2019 2:54 am

During the British colonisation and amalgamation, it took just 9 months to win the North and Southwest over, but it took 30 long years before the Igbo’s finally joined the cause.

 

General Olusegun Obasanjo once quoted: “You see the Igbos, there is no other tribe like them in Nigeria. They have a very unique lifestyle that you can’t compare with any other tribe. They are brave. The Igbo man loves business and entrepreneurship and would walk to the ends of this earth to get a good deal. They are also very technologically innovative and they hold a lot of …

Domestic

S.Africa Still Hobbled By Abusive Legacy Of Domestic Work

December 19, 2019 5:30 pm

For three years, Siyamthanda Dube lived in a shed outside the house where she cleaned, cooked and babysat for a South African family.

Her employers asked her to move to “be with the kids” after their mum started a new job in 2014.

Dube complied, bringing her two daughters and reluctant husband from their home in a Johannesburg township.

“We put the bed up on top of buckets so that we could put the kids’ mattresses underneath,” she said.

“The house was under trees and all the jojos (bugs) would come inside.”

Domestic workers in South Africa often live …

England Shuffle Their Aces For South Africa Series

December 13, 2019 5:05 pm

England opted to limit the workload of some of their World Cup winners when they announced the squads on Friday for one-day and T20 series in South Africa in February.

Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes and Mark Wood will all be rested when England play their first ODIs since beating New Zealand at Lord’s on July 14.

Test captain Joe Root is in the ODI squad, led by Eoin Morgan which plays a three-match series from February 4 to February 9 but not in the 16 for the three T20s.

Worcestershire seamer Pat Brown, Somerset batsman Tom Banton and …

South Africa Win Dubai Sevens

December 7, 2019 4:22 pm

Blitzbokke flyer Rosko Specman helped South Africa to a 15-0 victory over New Zealand on Saturday to win the opening leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series in Dubai.

The South Africans scraped past Argentina 12-5 in the quarter-finals before routing Samoa 38-7 in the semi-finals.

New Zealand had overcome the United States (26-5) and England (19-12) to set up the final, but the Boks proved too strong, keeping the All Blacks pointless as they notched up a seventh title in the United Arab Emirates, the first of 10 tournaments in a season that culminates in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic …

IIM Africa Urges FG to Reform Ministry Of Information

December 4, 2019 11:49 am

The Institute of Information Management Africa (IIM Africa) has urged the Federal Government (FG) to restructure the Ministry of Information and Culture for effective management of government data.

The President/Chairman, Governing Council of IIM Africa, Dr. Oyedokun Ayodeji, disclosed this at the National Information Management Stakeholders Forum held in Lagos over the weekend.

He also said that IIM Africa believes time is ripe for the establishment of the National Information Management Development Agency (NIMDA) to ensure a good data and information governance regime in the country.

“The National Information Management Stakeholders’ Forum would like to recommend the need for the …

How Africa Was Enslaved With Foreign Religion

December 3, 2019 3:59 pm

“Here is the letter written by King Leopold II of Belgium to the missionaries traveling to the Congo in 1883 to spread Christianity:

“Reverend Fathers and Dear Compatriots; The task asked of you to accomplish is very delicate and demands much tact and diplomacy. Fathers, you are going to preach the Gospel, but your preaching must be inspired by first, the interest of the Belgium government state.

“The main goal of your mission in the Congo is not to teach the Negro the knowledge of God, because they already know him. They talk and commit themselves to their God. They …

Zuma

South Africa Court Rejects Zuma Appeal To Prevent Trial

November 29, 2019 11:30 am

A South African court on Friday rejected an appeal by former President Jacob Zuma that sought to prevent his prosecution on corruption charges over a 2 billion dollars arms deal.

The ruling paves the way for Zuma’s long-awaited trial to start in Feb. 2020.

Zuma, in office from 2009 to 2018, had previously applied for a permanent stay of prosecution on 18 charges of fraud, racketeering and money laundering relating to an arms deal with French defense firm Thales in the 1990s.

In mid-October, the Pietermaritzburg High Court dismissed an application by Zuma and Thales for a permanent stay of

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Africa

Nigeria Will Strengthen Ties With S. Africa Through Tourism

November 28, 2019 2:18 pm

Nigeria’s minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Thursday said Nigeria will continue to explore culture and tourism as veritable platforms to strengthen its ties with South Africa.

“A few years back, we did actually put in motion the machinery for cultural exchanges between Nigeria and South Africa and we are still working on it,” Mohammed said in a meeting with the South African Minister of Tourism, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, in Lagos on Thursday.

“Because we believe that a lot of issues can be resolved when we bring to South Africa our very popular artistes because I am told that …

UK Lawmaker Blames HSBC Over Corruption In S. Africa

November 18, 2019 12:50 pm
British lawmaker Peter Hain said corruption under South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma was enabled by international banks, companies, and governments which should now seek to recover the loot they helped to launder.

Hain made this known on Monday in his submission to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture.

HSBC, Standard Chartered, and India’s Bank of Baroda, as well as their senior directors, were “directly culpable” in the looting of South Africa’s treasury under Zuma.

The British lawmaker was invited to give evidence because he had already named several corporates he was investigating under parliamentary privilege …

In South Africa, Ayade Woos Investors

November 13, 2019 11:14 am
Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade Wednesday launched a charm offensive in South Africa , wooing investors at the Africa Investment Forum (AIF), to invest in the state.
A statement issued by Ayade’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Christian Ita, said
Governor Ayade was at the Summit on the invitation of the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumni Adesina, along side the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi, his Kwara and Abia states counterparts, Dr  Abdulrasaq Abdulraman and Dr Okezie Ikpeazu respectfully.
While speaking at the cluster session on the opportunities Investors
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