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It was predicted to go badly but turned out to be worse: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa led the ANC to its worst election result since the end of apartheid, one which threatens his survival.
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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.
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South Africa’s last apartheid President, F.W de Klerk, has withdrawn from a scheduled seminar in the U.S about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his host in the current racial climate, according to his foundation.
De Klerk, who was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela was scheduled to speak on July 1 at an American Bar Association (ABA) virtual event on issues such as minority rights, racism, and the rule of law, Reuters reported.
“The allegation that De Klerk was involved in gross violations of human rights is baseless,” the F.W De Klerk foundation said in a statement.
After the criticisms, ABA confirmed De Klerk would no longer speak at the event.
“At a time like this where the whole world is crying out for recognition and demanding that value be placed on our lives, on Black lives, we think that ABA erred in inviting someone like De Klerk,” said Lukhanyo Calata, the son of Fort Calata, who was killed along with three other anti-apartheid activists by South African police in 1985 in an incident known as “The Cradock Four”.
Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla khōl-ēhlä´hlä mändā´lä [key], 1918–2013, South African statesman. He earned a degree (B.A., 1943) after being expelled from the University College of Fort Hare (for taking part in a student protest) and finishing his studies with the Univ. of South Africa, studied (1943–48) law at the Univ. of the Witwatersrand (but did not earn his LL.B. until 1989, from the Univ. of South Africa), and was prominent in Johannesburgs youth wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1952 he became ANC deputy national president, advocating nonviolent resistance to apartheid . After a group of peaceful demonstrators were massacred (1960) in Sharpeville, however, Mandela organized a paramilitary branch of the ANC to carry out guerrilla warfare against the white government. After being acquitted (1961) on charges of treason after a six-year trial, he was arrested (1962) and convicted first (1962) of inciting strikes and illegal travel and later (1964) of sabotage and conspiring to overthrow the government. At the latter trial he was sentenced to life in prison, where he subsequently became the leading symbol of South Africas oppressed black majority but also began (late 1980s) secret negotiations with the government.
Released in 1990 as an expression of President de Klerk s commitment to change, Mandela was elected (July, 1991) ANC president after a triumphal global tour. He represented the ANC in the turbulent negotiations that led to establishment of majority rule. Mandela and de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. After South Africas first multiracial elections (1994), in which the ANC won a majority, Mandela was elected president.
Mandelas presidency was marked by his efforts to reconcile many of the various opposing sides in the long antiapartheid struggle (which were sometimes criticized by more militant blacks) and his work to establish a multiracial democracy based on the rule of law. A new constitution was adopted (1996), and moderate progress made in
THE EARLY CLOSURE WILL FACILITATE A STAFF MEETING.
Peaceful engagement and conversation with local law
enforcement, encouraging teens and young adults to vote, attending city council meetings, school board meetings and share their ideas for improvement for people of color that are many times ignored.
Blacks are tired of being marginalized, their voices ignored in the political direction of the city, their communities gentrified and the brutality of law enforcement on unarmed youth, teens, and young adults and boys and girls that live in Jacksonville.
Ms. Burton used Juneteenth as a catalyst to meet and develop strategies to share their voices in protest for change in how Blacks are engaged with law enforcement and even finances distributed across the city to be
more inclusive and equitable of Black and other communities of color.
Ms. Burton and other teens and young adults love their neighborhoods, their schools and their city, but feel marginalized (left out of the political process), victimized by law enforcement, fearful of being targeted, distrustful of the political leadership in place that will not listen to their concerns.
The future of Jacksonville rests with involvement of the youth, teens, and young adults who will take a stand for improvement and progress across the city of Jacksonville and other cities across the nation.
Carl Niehaus, who was recently suspended from the ANC for his behaviour outside Nkandla, now says he is heartbroken regarding Zuma’s arrest.
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.
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice-presidents, Tendai Biti and Lynnette Karenyi-Kore were arrested yesterday after trying to gain access to the party headquarters wrested by the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T in a Thursday night raid with the assistance of the military and police.
After addressing the media, accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa of working with MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora and Khupe to destroy the MDC Alliance, Biti and his team started to sing revolutionary songs before police pounced on them.
“At approximately 10pm on June 4, 2020, a truckload of armed soldiers and police officers assisted 20 youths to forcibly gain entry into the MDC Alliance headquarters, Harvest House,” Mahere said.
MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende, who attended the scene on Thursday night to make a police report over the takeover, was advised by the police to talk to the army.
Mwonzora last night denied that his party was being aided by soldiers and the police, saying they only came after Hwende had brought a group of youths.
ZINDZI MANDELA, the daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, has passed away at the age...
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[East African] Foreign affairs ministers from Rwanda and South Africa have been tasked with ending a decade-long political stalemate, fuelled by South Africa hosting exiled Rwandan dissents.
Desmond Tutu , in full Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born October 7, 1931, Klerksdorp, South Africa), South African Anglican cleric who in 1984 received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his role in the opposition to apartheid in South Africa.
Tutu was born of Xhosa and Tswana parents and was educated in South African mission schools at which his father taught. Though he wanted a medical career, Tutu was unable to afford training and instead became a schoolteacher in 1955. He resigned his post in 1957. He then attended St. Peter’s Theological College in Johannesburg and was ordained an Anglican priest in 1961. In 1962 he moved to London, where in 1966 he obtained an M.A. from King’s College London. From 1972 to 1975 he served as an associate director for the World Council of Churches. He was appointed dean of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Johannesburg in 1975, the first black South African to hold that position. From 1976 to 1978 Tutu served as bishop of Lesotho.
In 1978 Tutu accepted an appointment as the general secretary of the South African Council of Churches and became a leading spokesperson for the rights of black South Africans. During the 1980s he played an unrivaled role in drawing national and international attention to the iniquities of apartheid. He emphasized nonviolent means of protest and encouraged the application of economic pressure by countries dealing with South Africa. The award of the 1984 Nobel Prize for Peace to Tutu sent a significant message to South African Pres. P.W. Botha’s administration. In 1985, at the height of the township rebellions in South Africa, Tutu was installed as Johannesburg’s first black Anglican bishop, and in 1986 he was elected the first black archbishop of Cape Town, thus becoming the primate of South Africa’s 1.6 million-member Anglican church. In 1988 Tutu took a position as chancellor of the University of the Western Cape in Bellville, South Africa.
During South Africa’s moves toward democracy in the early 1990s, Tutu propagated the idea of South Africa as “the Rainbow
The ad hoc committee amending Section 25 of the Constitution met on Friday to continue its deliberations. The EFF did not participate.
Under pressure from leaders the African National Congress (ANC), Mbeki announced he would step down just days after Zuma was cleared. While party leaders cited Mbekis alleged interference in the corruption case against Zuma, Mbekis resignation culminated several years of bitter infighting between Zuma and Mbeki, which led to discord in the ANC. On Sep. 25, Parliament elected Kgalema Motlanthe, a labor leader who was imprisoned during apartheid, as president. Zuma must be a member of Parliament before he can be elected president. Parliamentary elections are expected in early 2009.
On his first day as president, Motlanthe acted to move beyond Mbekis resistance to using modern and effective methods, such as antirretroviral medicines, to tackle its AIDS crisis by replacing South Africas health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who has suggested that garlic, lemon juice, and beetroot could cure AIDS, with Barbara Hogan. The era of denialism is over, she said. More than 5.7 million South Africans are HIV-positive, the highest number of any country in the world.
In November, about 6,400 dissident members of the ANC held a convention in Johannesburg and decided to form a new party that will challenge the leadership of the ANC. The delegates, many of whom supported former president Mbeki, expressed dissatisfaction with the leadership of the party, calling it corrupt, authoritarian, and rotting. In December, the new party, the Congress of the People (COPE), selected former defense minister Mosiuoa Lekota as its president.
[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -- The natural diamond industry has seen a major evolution and continues to expand into an important driver to economic development in the producer countries and across the value chains, Minister of Minerals and Energy, Mr Lefoko Moagi has said.
[New Frame] A new book on the SA and ANC president is useful in some respects, but it covers too short a period of his reign and sheds almost no light on the internal workings of the man himself.
Renowned human rights lawyer George Bizos has been hailed for his humility and contribution towards the liberation of the country
Suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has since announced he intends appealing the decision by the High Court
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The Organisation of African Unity (OAU; French: Organisation de lunité africaine (OUA)) was established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, with 32 signatory governments.[1] It was disbanded on 9 July 2002 by its last chairperson, South African President Thabo Mbeki, and replaced by the African Union (AU).
The OAU had the following primary aims:
To co-ordinate and intensify the co-operation of African states in order to achieve a better life for the people of Africa.[1]
To defend the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of African states.
The OAU was also dedicated to the eradication of all forms of colonialism and white minority rule as, when it was established, there were several states that had not yet won their independence or were white minority-ruled. South Africa and Angola were two such countries. The OAU proposed two ways of ridding the continent of colonialism and white minority rule. Firstly, it would defend the interests of independent countries and help to pursue the independence those of still-colonised ones. Secondly, it would remain neutral in terms of world affairs, preventing its members from being controlled once more by outside powers.
A Liberation Committee was established to aid independence movements and look after the interests of already-independent states. The OAU also aimed to stay neutral in terms of global politics, which would prevent them from being controlled once more by outside forces – an especial danger with the Cold War.
The OAU had other aims, too:
Ensure that all Africans enjoyed human rights.
Raise the living standards of all Africans.
Settle arguments and disputes between members – not through fighting but rather peaceful and diplomatic negotiation.
Soon after achieving independence, a number of
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 police.
\"When the government contact tracer teams visit nurses who have tested positive for Covid-19 and are under self-quarantine, [the nurses] are placed under a microscope in their communities,\" she said.
The supervisor then called police into my house, [but] because [I am] a health worker, the community members saw the police vans and assumed that this meant that I had contracted the virus, and this caused panic in my street.
Another voice note on WhatsApp circulated by a nurse in quarantine remarked on how she and another nurse in self-isolation were afraid of the tracer team visits.
The nurse said her colleague had turned away one of the tracer teams, telling them to rather \"communicate telephonically\" as she feared the ostracisation of her community.
Regina Benjamin , (born Oct. 26, 1956, Mobile, Ala., U.S.), American physician who in 2009 became the 18th surgeon general of the United States. Prior to her government appointment, she had spent most of her medical career serving poor families in a shrimping village on the Gulf Coast of Alabama.
Benjamin received a B.S. (1979) from Xavier University of Louisiana. After first attending (1980–82) the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga., Benjamin obtained an M.D. (1984) from the University of Alabama and completed a residency in family practice at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in 1987. Benjamin attended medical school with the aid of funding from the National Health Service Corps, a U.S. federal program that paid medical school tuition in exchange for a commitment to work for a defined period in an area with few or no doctors. In 1990 Benjamin founded the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic, and the following year she obtained an M.B.A. from Tulane University, New Orleans.
Throughout her career Benjamin was active in medical organizations and advisory groups. From 1986 to 1987 she served on the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) Women in Medicine Panel, and in 1995 she became the first African American woman and the first person below the age of 40 to be elected to the AMA’s board of trustees. As president (2002–03) of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, she was the first African American woman to preside as president of a state medical society. From 1996 to 2002 she served on the board of Physicians for Human Rights, and in 1998 she received the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. Benjamin worked with the University of South Alabama’s College of Medicine, and from 2000 to 2001 she was in charge of the university’s telemedicine distance learning program, which offered medical education and health care to clinicians and patients in rural areas through a telecommunications network.
Benjamin achieved distinction for the dedication she showed in providing health care
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) says it will shut down the Port Elizabeth district office of the Department of Health after two nurses from the Zwide Clinic died and at least 11 others tested positive for the coronavirus.
After the outbreak at the Zwide Clinic, six trade unions from different sides of the political spectrum joined forces as the \"combined health unions\" and forced the Zwide and KwaZakhele clinics to shut their doors until the buildings were disinfected and all health workers tested negative.
The rest of the Zwide clinic health workers were only tested three days after the death of their colleague but were told to keep working until their results came in.
At the protest, the nurses repurposed the popular struggle song \"Sizo xola kanjani... (How can we be peaceful when... )\" to bemoan the lack of PPE and sanitisers: \"Sizo nursa kanjani i corona (How can we nurse coronavirus patients [when we need nursing procedures
The protest on 11 May resulted in an agreement with the district health office that Zwide Clinic would be closed until thermal infrared thermometers and PPE had been provided, and that union leaders would also be called in to verify that there is enough protective equipment to create a clinically safe space for health workers and patients.
The district health office also sent letters to Covid-19 positive nurses confirming \"permission to de-isolate after Covid-19 positive test\" - in other words, to return to work - but these letters were sent on 16 May to nurses who only began isolating after testing positive on 10 May.
We need significant new investments and mechanisms for upskilling and reskilling in the digital and ICT space.
Reflecting the shortage of such skills, the 2019 JCSE-IITPSA ICT Skills Survey found that across sectors, Seta authorities identified digital and ICT roles as hard-to-fill vacancies.
Initiatives on the ground
Conscious of this need to enhance South Africa’s ICT ecosystem on every front, Huawei is deeply invested in several initiatives.
Huawei’s Tech4All digital inclusion project in South Africa looks to teach digital and literacy skills at a young age
Building an IT consciousness has to start early, and Huawei’s Tech4All digital inclusion project in South Africa looks to teach digital and literacy skills at a young age through our DigiSchool project in partnership with operator Rain and educational non-profit organisation Click Foundation, aiming to connect 100 urban and rural primary schools over the next year.
As a sector and as a society, we must work to enable this, to allow this greatness to blossom, by providing ICT and digital skills for all who need them.
The ANC is expected to meet Harrismith community leaders to discuss a way forward after week-long service delivery protests in the area.
