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Mbali Ntuli resumes campaign to be DA leader, promises to take party into 'bold new era' | News24

Former DA Youth leader and member of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, Mbali Ntuli has announced she would be resuming her campaign to lead the embattled political party.

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Zimbabwe: Owners of Harvest House Say Chamisa Should Stay

OWNERS of Harvest House, a Harare CBD building which was being used by the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance, have given the beleaguered opposition authority to continue using the property as the ownership wrangle takes centre

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Source: allAfrica.com

Nigeria hub: over 15,500 virus cases in June, eased lockdown etc.

Figures as of June 30 vs. June 1 = difference

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Hardin: I'm Still Tired

I’m tired of people who don’t have to deal with the impact and after-effects of being hated for nothing more than something as incidental and irrelevant as skin color trying to tell me how to deal with

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Source: The Florida Star

44 years after the Soweto uprising: We speak to those who were there

The day, celebrated as Youth Day, came to mark a turning point in South Africa's march to democracy, and would spark countrywide protests against the apartheid

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Where are the nuns?

HEAD of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Jamaica, Archbishop Kenneth Richards, has expressed concern about the absence of religious leaders in Catholic schools across the island, a staple which he says is responsible for the academic excellence and discipline in these

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Zuma wades into race debate, attacks ‘blacks thinking like whites’

Former president Jacob Zuma, whose views on the country’s race question have become stronger in recent years, on Monday said he was pained to see educated blacks thinking like

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South Africa: COVID-19, Lockdown and New Charges of Corruption Lead to Delay in Zuma Corruption Trial

Less than a week after former president Jacob Zuma pegged the country's judiciary alongside that of the apartheid state, the former president is attempting to direct when his corruption trial should be

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: 2020 AWCON- Uncertainty Looms Over the Future

The videoconference Executive Committee Meeting of CAF on June 30, 2020 will discuss the future of the 2020 AWCON amongst other

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa Shall Have Its Day

Also in attendance at that meeting was Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, whose country, like Algeria, had fought a quite bloody anti-colonial war against attempts by Britain to turn it into a White Settlement like Northern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), South-West Africa (Namibia) and Apartheid South

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'A leader in her own right' - Ramaphosa pays tribute to 'fearless political activist' Zindzi Mandela | News24

President Cyril Ramaphosa has described Zindzi Mandela as a “fearless political activist who was a leader in her own right”.

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Uganda: Museveni Promises to Work With Burundi's New Leader

President Museveni has promised to "work closely" with Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Evariste Ndayishimye, who was sworn-in on Thursday as the new president of

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: South Africa's First Black Miss Universe Uses Platform to Fight Racism

Using her hairstyle and social media platforms, Zozibini Tunzi is calling out racism and challenging perceptions of beauty

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Source: allAfrica.com

Western Sahara: President Mnangagwa - Zimbabwe Confirms Position On the Right of Western Sahara to Self-Determination

Harare (Zimbabwe) — The President of Zimbabwe, H.E. Emmerson Mnangagwa, reaffirmed on Sunday his country's position in favour of the right of the people of Western Sahara to

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Shahine was like my sister and friend, says PM

The House of Representatives yesterday paid tribute to two former ministers, two ex-councillors, and a former permanent secretary, but it was Shahine Robinson who was the centre of tearful tributes by parliamentarians mourning her

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Turkish NBA player Kanter’s father acquitted of terrorism links

ANKARA, (Reuters) – NBA center Enes Kanter, an outspoken critic of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, said yesterday his father had been acquitted of charges that he was a member of a terrorist

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

16 Things That Made African King Shaka Zulu One Of The Greatest Military Minds In History

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Source: Black Then

America Must Be Held Accountable for the Original Sin of Slavery

The current and ever ongoing issue of police violence is now compounded by the COVID-19 virus which we know disproportionately impacts Black

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Coretta Scott King: Her Activism and Legacy

Martin Luther King Jr. is often the first name that comes to mind when one thinks of a civil rights movement

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Source: Black Then

South Africa: Eastern Cape Nurses Face COVID-19 Stigma

Lindiwe Dumasile, a nurse and deputy secretary general of the Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union (YNITU), explains what happens when residents come across the tracer teams, who dress in full white protective gear and are often accompanied by

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Source: allAfrica.com

British Scientists Begin COVID-19 Vaccination Trials In South Africa And Brazil – Free Press of Jacksonville

On Wednesday, residents in South Africa and Brazil volunteered to begin the testing of a COVID-19 vaccination trial developed by the University of Oxford in

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

OPINION | Anant Singh: All lives matter, especially black lives

At the time, I did several local and national radio interviews and what struck me most was the strong and powerful voice of black people across America who had seen the film and compared the atrocity of what we were experiencing in South Africa to their own even during those

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Patterson praises Clarke as patriot

Former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has remembered media giant Oliver Clarke as a patriot who wore no political

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

An Open Letter On Racial Justice

– Journeys of Conscience, Curtis L. Ivery

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Bishop Desmond Tutu, South Awarded Nobel Peace Prize, African activist, 1984

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Joe, Dems, and drinkin’ the progressive missionary Kool-Aide!

Actually, Biden–who is the preemptive Democratic Party nominee because of the ‘apparently Black enough vote’–told radio host ‘Charlamagne tha God,’ if he didn’t’ know the difference between himself and Donald Trump, he is not

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

S. Africa relocates some poor people in Gauteng

In three years, Isaac Mbatha got used to the lack of space, running water and electricity in a tent he shared with his wife and three children in Wilgespruit, a township on the outskirts of

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

AP Exclusive: Black Lives Matter groups plan national convention | The Atlanta Voice

Spurred by broad public support for the Black Lives Matter movement, thousands of Black activists from across the U.S. will hold a virtual convention in August to produce a new political agenda that seeks to build on the success of the protests that followed George

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Metropolitan AME Church, Washington D.C. (1821- )

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (AME) is the oldest continuously operating black church in the District of Columbia. Metropolitan AME is also designated by the AME Church (the black denomination founded in 1787 by Richard Allen) as the National Cathedral of African

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Source: Black Past

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Now you know and you can’t pretend you don’t

By Mungi Ngomane, Advocate for Human Rights, Business Operations Manager for

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