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It’s the news we have all been fearing - if not expecting. Zweli Mkhize has revealed a second wave of COVID-19 is now sweeping across South Africa.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
Named Career Ambassador, a title equivalent to a four-star general, U.S. ambassador to six different countries, Terence A. Todman was an outstanding diplomat in the service of the United States. He challenged the racial prejudice he encountered at the State Department, paving the way for hiring of more people of color there and he was a pioneer in integrating human rights issues into foreign policy.
Clarence Alphonso Todman was born on March 13, 1926, in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands to parents Alphonso and Rachael Todman, grocery clerk/stevedore, and laundress/maid. He attended the local university for one year and then was drafted into the US Army. He served four years in the Army and when stationed in post-World War II Japan, he helped organize that defeated nation’s first post-war elections.
Returning to finish college at Polytechnic Institute, Puerto Rico, he received a Master’s Degree from Syracuse University (New York) in 1951 and passed the Foreign Service Exam for a career in the U.S. State Department the following year. Although initially denied employment there because his accent was not 100 percent American,” Todman soon found only low level positions were open to blacks in the State Department. He fought this practice and the long standing assumption that black State Department employees would only be accepted for postings in Africa.
Todman served first at the United Nations Interim Program between 1952 and 1957 and in India between 1957 and 1960. He took intensive training in Arabic in Tunis, Tunisia between 1960 and 1962. He later became fluent in French, Spanish, and Russian and sought to learn the cultures of the nations where he was posted.
In 1969 Todman took his first ambassadorial assignment in the country of Chad, serving there until 1972. Over his forty year career he was also U.S. ambassador to Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark, and Argentina. During the Carter Administration he was named assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs. He served as envoy to Spain from 1978
A Quena woman was shown in Europe as a circus
freak during the last century. Saartjie Baartmans
early life is unknown except that she came from a
clan of Quena people, better known in South Africa
by the derogatory term Hottentot, in the Eastern
Cape. Born in the late 18th century, probably in the
1780s, Baartman migrated to the Cape Flats,
where the records show she was living in a small
shack in 1810. In that year she met a ships doctor,
William Dunlop, who persuaded her to travel to
England with promises that she would make a
fortune by exhibiting her body to Europeans. It
appears that two settlers called Hendrik and Johan
Cezar, probably themselves descendants of a
mixed-race marriage between a Quena woman and
a Dutchman, were instrumental in setting up the
deal. Baartman sailed with Dunlop to England,
where she was put on display in a building in
Piccadilly, exciting crowds of working-class
Londoners who viewed her with a mixture of morbid
curiosity and malice. Like all Quena woman, she
had a protruding backside and large genital organs
-- billed by the shows promoters as resembling
the skin that hangs from a turkeys throat.
Contemporary descriptions of her shows at 225
Piccadilly, Bartholomew Fair and Haymarket in
London say Baartman was made to parade naked
along a stage two feet high, along which she was
led by her keeper and exhibited like a wild beast,
being obliged to walk, stand or sit as he ordered.
The exhibitions took place at a time when the anti-
slavery debate was raging in England and
Baartmans plight attracted the attention of a young
Jamaican, Robert Wedderburn, who founded the
African Association to campaign against racism in
England. Under pressure from this group, the
attorney general asked the government to put an
end to the circus, saying Baartman was not a free
participant. A London court, however, found that
Baartman had entered into a contract with Dunlop,
although historian Percival Kirby, who has
discovered records of the womans
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) - The second One Day International between South Africa and England scheduled for today at Newlands will not take place as the teams await independent ratification of two unconfirmed positive COVID-19 tests in the tourists’ travelling party.
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