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editorial comment UTTERANCES by Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana accusing doctors of deliberately killing Zanu PF politicians and blaming their deaths on the coronavirus cannot go unchallenged. We are used to politicians having foot-in-mouth moments, and it appears that Mangwana certainly developed a serious case of Trumpian fingers, emptying his ill-thought vitriol onto a public forum against health workers that are at the forefront of fighting the contagious virus. Doctors in this country are on record decrying poor remuneration and the risks they are taking to fight COVID-19, mainly without adequate personal protective equipment (PPE). As of Sunday evening, there were 99,3 million cases of infections globally, with 2,13 million deaths while Zimbabwe recorded 31 320 cases and 1 005 deaths. Many of these include health workers, whom government has railroaded into working without enough PPE or compensation. They are putting their lives at risk to fight an enemy that threatens the very existence of humanity without fear or favour and takes no prisoners. At the very least, the health workers deserve our support in every form possible to lighten their burden. Not only did Mangwana choose to trash their efforts, but likened them to a man who gained global notoriety during the Second World War as the Angel of Death, Josef Mengele. According to some accounts, Mengele would casually select among the captured — mostly Jews — those who would live and those who were sent to die in the gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp where he had been posted in May 1943. Among those he granted life, he chose subjects for his infamous experiments. He would operate on children without anaesthetics, infect twins with tuberculosis and spotted fever and many of his victims died during the experiments. A German historian wrote that Mengele had “boundless cynicism” that allowed him to see his victims not as human beings, but as “material that is already dead”. To fight a disease outbreak at the concentration camp, he sent 600 Jewish women to their deaths in the gas chambers to create space for other disinfected prisoners. That is the sort of person Mangwana likens to the doctors in this country who are soldiering on despite the odds stacked against them. The fact that most of the Zanu PF politicians actually died in private institutions, being treated at facilities of their choice under the care of doctors to whom they had placed their confidence, escapes him. The “how” those people came to be infected at a time the government itself has been championing the social distancing, masking up and a stay at home campaign for 10 months also did not influence his thinking. But then, this is the same man who was happy to share pictures of himself cavorting with fellow political highflyers at the 60th birthday party for his boss, Monica Mutsvangwa, without a mask, no social distancing and then, with a straight face, claims to have observed all safety protocols at the event that, according to prevailing regulations, was essentially an i
In May, Burundi held a presidential election which was won by Evariste Ndayishimiye, candidate of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party.
Ndayishimiye was hurriedly sworn in after the untimely death of president Pierre Nkurunziza in June.
Rights violations continue
The Council encouraged donor countries which had suspended aid to Burundi to continue dialogue towards resumption of development assistance.
A report by a UN watchdog in September said human rights violations were still being committed in Burundi, including sexual violence and murder.
The country was plunged into a crisis in April 2015 when Ndayishimiye’s predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a controversial third term, which he ultimately won in July 2015.
His candidature, which was opposed by the opposition and civil society groups, resulted in a wave of protests, violence and even a failed coup in May 2015.
Hundreds of people were killed and over 300,000 fled to neighboring countries.
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 January 2021: As Sierra Leone struggles with its money supply, last month - December 21, 2020, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the first and second reviews of Liberia's economic performance, under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). "Priority should be given to addressing risks from weak financial…
Analysis - The WHO is worried that it will fail to reach the goals set in the fight against malaria. Death rates are expected to rise sharply again in 2020 because resources are being diverted to fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The body of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in repose at the Supreme Court this week,... View Article
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American society operates upon a White male property rights construct; even though within a Constitutional construct framework.
Thus, policing is an expression of property rights policy; protecting White men and their property.
Blacks are viewed as the property of White men; even White women are defined as property (case in point miscegenation laws).
Law enforcement constabularies (departments) are only instruments of enforcing the property rights legalized system of White Male Privileges.
Hence, in America, we have policing without equal justice; therefore, police departments function as arresting officers, prosecutors, Judges, and juries: just us (Blacks), not JUSTICE.
It is merrymaking every two years in the Bugisu or Gisu region in eastern Uganda as they celebrate Imbalu, a circumcision ritual that initiates boys into men. Usually held around August, thousands of people, foreign and local, flock to Mutoto cultural ground in eastern Uganda, outside the town of Mbale to watch young Ugandan men...
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They might not all have been the big stories, the ones that cracked all of the end-of-year lists of the calendar’s most momentous or memorable events. But 2020’s Ten Stories That Mattered remind us that sometimes paying attention to the little stuff points you toward the big stuff. In chronological order: QB OF THE FUTURE […]
The organization asked her to host the Grammys for free.
Until October 5 November General Elections Voter Registration Deadline: Monday, October 5, 2020, is the deadline to register to vote in the November 2020 Presidential and General Election. To register, …
By nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the US president is serving the interests of conservative voters — and cementing a shift to the right in the top court, writes DW's Ines Pohl.
Donations are still being sought for the much anticipated Mad Anthony's Big Boom Fireworks Extravaganza. Don Lively, who serves as Waynesboro’s Downtown Development Authority Director, said he has been overwhelmed with the outpour of support on an event he was afraid might not make it after the coronavirus pandemic. “The citizens of Burke County are looking forward to this, and […]
The new US administration has an interest and much expertise in Africa. But given the scale of the priorities the administration faces, Africa must not expect to feature too prominently
I idolized him and his larger-than-life role in law enforcement. It’s more complicated now.
Ms Nderitu’s nomination marks the first time that the provisions envisaged in the Act for appointing a Registrar is being fully applied.
Tess Trice, head of the day care program, carries out monthly drills to train the children to get on the floor when they hear gunfire.
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Justice Buress, 4, hides under a table while demonstrating a drill at Little Explorers Learning Center in St. Louis.
St. Louis mental health counselor Lekesha Davis says children and their parents can become desensitized to the violence around them — where even one's home doesn't feel safe.
At this day care center, 'Dora' means drop
The children at Little Explorers Learning Center are getting reacquainted with their daily routine now that the day care facility has reopened for families of essential workers as the COVID pandemic stay-at-home orders loosen.
Trice called parents that day to see if they wanted to pick up their children early.
A Black man in Portland went to a gas station to buy fuel for his lawnmower and left the store in outrage after he was denied service because of his race.
South Africa tightened coronavirus measures on Monday after the country reported more than 1 million infections since the outbreak began in March.
[RFI] In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina has emerged as one of biggest cheerleaders for a herbal tea called Covid-Organics, touted as an \"African cure\" for Covid-19. The race to cultivate the medicinal artemisia plant used in the tea has revealed a complex web of international commercial interests with much at stake.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Chaplain Debbie Walker, BSN, RN, OCN, Texas Metro News Contributor Consider for a moment who on your street, in your building, in your family, in your circles are disadvantaged by [...]
A kilogramme of (Irish) potato seeds has increased to Rwf700 from between Rwf400 and Rwf500 in the last farming season which ended in February 2020, according to the Federation of Irish Potato farmers' cooperatives in Rwanda.
If a kilogramme of potato seeds is Rwf700, a farmer has to invest about Rwf1.4 million per a hectare because an estimated 2,000 kilogrammes (two tonnes) of the seeds are needed per a hectare, according to data from the Rwanda Agriculture Board.
Speaking to The New Times, Vincent Havugimana, the President of the Federation of Irish Potato farmers' cooperatives in Rwanda said that the shortage of potato seeds is a concern for farmers and it needs to be addressed.
He called for scaled up efforts to increase seed production and availability to farmers through promoting seed multiplication, highlighting the need for research development to come up with new and highly productive potato varieties.
Meanwhile, there are about eight new potato seed varieties which were developed, but they are not accessible to farmers as they are still more at multiplication level,\" he said.
“Even one of their own prophets has said, ‘Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.’ This testimony is true. Therefore, rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of those who reject the truth” (Titus 1:12-15). In December […]
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The Dusi Canoe Marathon has been postponed for a month amid concerns over the spike in COVID-19 infections in KwaZulu-Natal.
Kimora 'Kimmie' Lynum, a nine-year-old African American girl, died on July 18 in Putnam County, Florida. Kimora is now the state's youngest coronavirus fatality. After acquiring a high fever, Kimora’s mother took her to the hospital. Doctors sent her home and she collapsed shortly after. Kimora had no pre-existing health issues and the family is […]
While schooling in Limpopo resumed in the majority of areas on Monday amid joy and trepidation from Grade 7s and 12s, classes were suspended at a private institution in Polokwane after a pupil tested positive for Covid-19.
In other parts of the province, schools in far-flung areas were still experiencing water shortage problems and lack of proper sanitation on Monday.
The water and sanitation challenge was echoed by Premier Stan Mathabatha during his visit to Patoga Primary School in Lebowakgomo on Monday.
Mathabatha agreed that schools at semi-urban areas were better resourced than those in rural areas.
Pupils themselves expressed mixed reactions about returning to school amidst the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the province.
Derek Chauvin Granted Bail while Protestors Stuck in Jail
Basic human rights, civil rights, and justice have been denied to George Floyd, Amadou Diallo, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, and the countless, sometimes faceless others who didn’t have their last moments exposed on mobile phones.
Minority businesses will be the channel that will deliver us in restoring the country after COVID-19 and it most definitely plays a pivotal role out of our racial pandemic.
Let them also know that we may have ceded too much power to the police in the name of “law and order” and that this has allowed unscrupulous individuals to prey on Black people in a manner that runs directly from old slave control laws.
The protection of police involved in the shooting of unarmed Black people must cease.
Ms. Pinder is the former Director of the Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development and the State’s 1st Appointed Special Secretary of the Governor’s Office of Minority Affairs.
[Nation] The inaugural 1,370-unit Parkroad estate in Nairobi built under the affordable housing programme (AHP) was quickly snapped up with buyers immediately paying Sh536 million, signalling a huge appetite for price-friendly housing.
