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Malawi's highest court on Wednesday outlawed the death penalty and ordered the re-sentencing of all convicts facing execution.
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— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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A Johannesburg man had to drive to another fire station after he was told the first was \"closed\".
CNN's Jessica Schneider explains the Supreme Court ruling against union access while Jeffrey Toobin notes that the decision shows that the body still has deep political divisions.
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[Daily Maverick] On Monday, KwaZulu-Natal Fees Must Fall activist and current law student Bonginkosi Khanyile appeared in court on charges relating to the civil unrest that shook the province last month. His appearance coincided with police and security officials being on high alert in the province and also Gauteng amid warnings of a possible second wave of unrest.
The provincial leader of the DA in the Western Cape, Bonginkosi Madikizela, has resigned from his post as well as from his position in the Cabinet.
Transport disruptions and a security guard getting killed during a robbery marred the reopening of schools in the Western Cape after the extended Covid-19 break.
The Hawks have shut down a suspected illegal gold-processing operation on a farm in Mpumalanga and 12 people have been arrested.
In a resurgence of the federal death penalty at the end of President Donald Trump’s tenure, his administration carried out two executions this week for men convicted in separate Texas murders on military property. Brandon Bernard, 40, was executed in the federal death chamber in Indiana on Thursday night, delayed hours by appeals […]
Africa urged to buy local products to support startups
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 0:01
By JAMES KARIUKI
Mr Tony Elumelu.
FILE PHOTO | Tony Elumelu has urged Kenyans and the general African community to adopt homegrown solutions and support enterprises that engage local populace in economic activities.
Speaking in a virtual New York Forum Institute-convened roundtable Mr Elumelu ( above with President Kenyatta) said the Covid-19 pandemic provides Africans with an opportunity to come up with own solutions for their socio-economic problems.
We need a martial plan that galvanises the entire continent into a major source of solutions that is less dependent on the ‘circularity of debt’ from developed nations,” said Mr Elumelu who is the chairman of the Nigeria-headquartered UBA bank, a pan-African lender with subsidiaries in Kenya and 19 other African countries.
The roundtable attended by Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta, Niger’s Mahamadou Issoufou, Alassane Ouattara(Cote d’Ivoire), Macky Sall (Senegal) and Sierra Leone’s Julius Bio vouched for entrenchment of homegrown solutions that locals relate with easily.
[Premium Times] The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Faruk Yahaya has visited wounded troops recuperating in University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was the charismatic leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott at its genesis in 1955, the year-long nonviolent struggle brought King under the scrutiny of a wary and divided nation. However, his direction, spokesmanship, and the resultant victory of a Supreme Court ruling against bus segregation, cast him in a brilliant light.
King then persevered in his quest to obtain civil rights for a nation of African Americans. He formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to coordinate nonviolent protests and delivered over 2,500 speeches addressing Americas racial injustices, with I Have a Dream being his most memorable.
When King was assassinated in 1968, the nation shook with the impact; violence broke out in over 100 cities. To many, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a hero.
Dates: January 15, 1929 -- April 4, 1968
Also known as: Michael Lewis King, Jr. (born as); Reverend Martin Luther King
Tuesdays Child
When Martin Luther King, Jr. opened his eyes for the first time Tuesday, January 15, 1929, he beheld a world that would view him scornfully only because he was black.
Born to Michael King Sr., a Baptist minister, and Alberta Williams, a Spelman College graduate and former schoolteacher, King lived in a nurturing environment with his parents and older sister, Willie Christine, in the Victorian home of his maternal grandparents.
(A younger brother, Alfred Daniel, would be born 19 months later.)
Albertas parents, Rev. A.D. Williams and wife Jennie, lived in a prosperous section of Atlanta, Georgia known as “black Wall Street.” Reverend Williams was pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, a well-established church within the community.
Martin -- named Michael Lewis until he was five -- thrived with his siblings in a secure middle-class family and had a normal, happy upbringing. Martin enjoyed playing football and baseball, being a paper boy, and doing odd jobs. He wanted to be a fireman when he grew up.
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Joe Biden was spending the final days of the presidential campaign appealing to Black supporters to vote in-person during a pandemic that has disproportionally affected their communities, betting that a strong turnout will boost his chances in states that could decide the election. Biden was in Philadelphia on Sunday, the largest city in what is […]
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An interdict application lodged by Brackenfell High's SGB against the EFF has been postponed in the Western Cape High Court as the case was not ready to be heard.
… L. Fudge of Ohio, an African-American Democrat from Ohio.
Mr. Clyburn … owes a special debt to African-American voters, and that he wants …
While the number of new Covid-19 cases is stabilising in the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal is expected to join Gauteng as the country’s epicentre, health minister Zweli Mkhize warned on Monday.
After looking at me in puzzlement, people that I asked took a moment and then talked about externalities—black isn’t a thing, it is a negative space.
Indigenous people of the Arctic Circle can eat amounts of vitamin A which would kill anyone else, and the Sherpa of the Himalayas have been Summiting Mount Everest long before some European “explorer” male claimed to do so.
This lies at the core of the Black Lives Matter movement.
People are trying to use the All Lives Matter credo to weaken the Black Lives Matter movement, and it is pathetically laughable.
The Black Lives Matter is a fight against the very worst of what capital has done to humanity.
Some of the leaders that are expected to attend the swearing-in ceremony include Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera and Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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Following the altercations that happened last Wednesday between fans prior to and during the last FDH Bank Cup quarterfinal encounter between hosts Silver Strikers and Nyasa Big Bullets in Lilongwe that led to some of the supporters badly assaulted, Football Association of Malawi (FAM) reminds all football stakeholders that under Malawi Government CoVID-19 measurers football […]
The post FAM orders clubs to ensure supporters to adhere to CoVID-19 measures first appeared on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.
New Orleans, January 1985. John Thompson was arrested after being fingered for the murder of hotel executive Ray Liuzza on December 6, 1984. As it would turn out, Thompson would spend almost two decades fighting for his freedom against a system aiming to have him executed or locked away forever. Arrest and Establishing A []
Multiple unlicensed firearms and imitation weapons used by criminals confiscated by Western Cape police in past two days.
DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has reshuffled leadership at the country's central bank, appointing its first female governor and naming seven members of the board, the authorities announced on Tuesday.
«Si les faits sont avérés, ils sont évidemment très graves.» Cette formule de communication est la seule réponse apportée par l’Elysée, douze jours après les révélations faites dans le cadre du «Projet Pegasus», coordonné par Forbidden Stories et seize autres rédactions dont Le Monde, en association avec Amnesty International. Ce consortium a notamment
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By Svante Myrick, Mayor of Ithaca, New York As the mayor of a city in New York, every day I wake up and do what I can to ensure every resident in my city has a good-paying job, affordable health coverage, a roof over their head, food on the table, and to be treated … Continued
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In a not-so-surprising move, ESPN has immediately pulled NBA: The Jump host and longtime sideline reporter Rachel Nichols from working the NBA Finals. Announced Tuesday, July 6, the move was made in the wake of an exposing New York Times report about Nichols’ demeaning comments about fellow host Maria Taylor, which originally took place a…
INS Viraat, the world’s oldest aircraft carrier to have served in the UK’s Royal Navy and the Indian Army, is staring at an uncertain future. The ship was commissioned in the British Navy in 1959 as HMS [...]
NBC Universal's new streaming service, Peacock, just unveiled the first official trailer for its provocative YA drama, Noughts & Crosses,... View Article
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