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Cyril Ramaphosa has brought back the 'weekend alcohol sales ban'. But there's a way round this rule - if you can swap your favourite tipple for some wine.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
Press Release - Zambia and East African guest nation Tanzania have booked their place in Saturday's final of the 2020 COSAFA Women's Under-17 Championships, sealing qualification with one round of matches still to play.
LISTEN to Tracee Ellis Ross’ episode of ESSENCE Podcast Network’s Yes Girl!
She also gives voice to:
…HOLDING ONTO JOY IN PAINFUL TIMES
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“I have discovered that so much of my own esteem and sense of fulfillment comes from being of service and taking action.
SIPS HER TEQUILA
“I feel like you can sip it or you just do it plain and I call it Kissing Tequila… I just put a little bit in a little glass and I just literally just touch my lip.
You can hear Tracee’s full episode of ESSENCE Podcast Network’s Yes, Girl!
TOPICS: Celebrity music hollywood The High Note Tracee Ellis Ross
ESSENCE Festival’s Evening Concert Series kicked off Saturday night and provided a much-needed dose of nostalgia, served with music and your choice of wine.
Wyclef Jean, Raphael Saadiq and India.Arie took us on a melodic escape as they performed their classics during Saturday night’s epic concert that benefited and celebrated essential workers, Black-owned businesses and opened his set with a radical guitar solo while a kick snare played in the background.
“Everybody in the world is going through so much and I just want to say, choose a way to raise your voice and say something that you think needs to be said to the world today,” said Saadiq before thanking ESSENCE for allowing him to be apart of this year’s festival.
There’s plenty more performances during week two of the ESSENCE Festival of Culture.
TOPICS: Entertainment Essence Festival 2020 2020efvirtual ecfest2020 India.Aire raphael saadiq Wyclef Jean
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has been accused of 'failing to secure South Africa's borders', after Pastor Bushiri fled the country.
Controversial, yes. But impossible? Perhaps not: The FF Plus now believes that 'independence from South Africa' is a potential choice for the Western Cape.
Dr. Earl V. Miller was the first African American board certified urologist in the State of Washington and the first west of the Mississippi. He was born in Natchez, Mississippi, and received his B.A. degree from Dillard University in New Orleans in 1943. He joined the Army Specialized Training Program at Meharry Medical College and received his M.D. degree in 1947. While practicing general medicine in Columbus, Georgia he was active as a leader in voter registration, in seeking equality in schools, and in desegregation of the city’s golf courses. Because of his desire for more training in surgery, he served in residencies at Tuskegee Institute and Meharry Medical College and completed his training in urology at the University of Iowa.
In 1959 Earl Miller chose Seattle for his practice and opened his office in the Stimson Building, later moving to the Medical Dental Building. He was chief of urology at Harborview Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington. Because he and his family were refused housing outside the central area, he became actively involved in the 1960s civil rights movement. He was a force in the NAACP and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Along with philanthropist Sidney Gerber and civic activist Jim Kimbrough, he served on the board of Harmony Homes, an integrated housing venture. Prior to the voluntary transfer program in the Seattle Public Schools, he was appointed to serve on the Equal Education Opportunity Committee, the first citizen’s committee formed by the school administration to deal with the segregation issue. Dr. Miller was a connoisseur and collector of wine, an avid reader of history, a scientist, and a dedicated practitioner of medicine. He retired from private practice in 1993.
Independent Historian
Today, Jones is a first-generation winemaker and owner of Darjean Jones Wines.
As a student, she researched plants and plant diseases at Southern University and A&M College, University of California – Davis, and the US Department of Agriculture.
Through partnerships with six California vineyards, she has created and produced eight boutique Darjean Jones Wines that are “spirited, adventurous and possess a charisma that will seduce wine lovers of all kinds.”
Darjean Jones Wines are served at top restaurants in Texas, sold at wine cellars in California, and have a national wine club following.
“It is so important for our youth, SU students and alumni to see the homegrown talent and successes of Dawna and Chauncey who share their racial identity and are both graduates of the Southern University College of Agricultural, Family, and Consumer Science,” said Renita Marshall, DVM, associate dean of the College.
Name at birth: Johnny Allen Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix grabbed electric guitar by the neck and wrestled it into a new era. His feedback-heavy solos and hallucinogenic tunes helped define the psychedelic 1960s. With his band The Jimi Hendrix Experience he recorded the albums Are You Experienced? (1967), Axis: Bold as Love (also 1967), and Electric Ladyland (1968, including Hendrixs version of Bob Dylans tune All Along the Watchtower). The single Purple Haze from Are You Experienced remains one of rocks touchstone classics. The band broke up in 1969 but Hendrix remained a star, playing later that year at the Woodstock music festival. Hendrix was only 27 when he suffocated in 1970 after ingesting wine and sleeping pills in a London hotel.
Jimi, like Paul McCartney, was a left-handed guitar player… Hendrix’s fuzz-guitar version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock has become a famous sound clip… He died two short weeks before another rock icon, Janis Joplin… A museum and interactive shrine to Hendrix, called the Experience Music Project, was built in Seattle by computer magnate Paul Allen.
[Daily Maverick] On 10 November, Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor will sign South Africa's instrument of accession to ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC). This will make South Africa the third country on the African continent to be a signatory to the TAC after Morocco and Egypt, and opens many doors, including trade.
Working From Home With Distractions
Friday, May 22, 2020 0:01
By PURITY WANJOHI
Twidley Ithiga a director and principal at Jawabu School.
Brenda Nyawara, an architect at Arcscene Architects admits that it is not easy to be productive at home.
Communication with workmates is mostly done through Slack, e-mail, and virtual cloud workspaces such as BIMCloud, which allows real-time collaboration between colleagues working remotely.
While working from home is an option Brenda would consider post-Covid-19, it would be a hard sell for Twidley Ithiga, a director and principal of Jawabu School.
“This is essentially identifying times of the day when you’re most productive, removing distractions and focusing on work,” he says.
We bring you the latest news in South Africa, so be sure to check out what’s making headlines on Friday 13 November.
The Hawks have confirmed that self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary broke their bail conditions by failing to appear at their nearest police station.
On Monday, two groups clashed outside of a South African high school at a protest over an alleged whites-only party that took place two weeks ago.
A paranormal investigative group investigated parts of an asylum and found a labyrinth of long, dark hallways and wards, each telling its own story in the empty darkness.
We have decided to extend the national state of disaster to 15 December, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his address to the nation on Wednesday night. Read his full speech.
From this research I conclude that honey was the most likely catalyst that allowed controlled fermentation to commence at a very early date in Africa, with the weight of probability pointing to southern Africa.
The cognitive requirements necessary to support an understanding of chemical and technical processes (such as fermentation) are manifested in the last 100,000 years in the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa.
This tells us that honey and bee products were being used and consumed 40,000 years ago in southern Africa by people living at Border Cave, near the present Eswatini (Swaziland) border.
From this information it is reasonable to infer that controlled fermentation arose on the African continent alongside bow hunting and the use of poison tipped arrows, some time between 60,000 and 24,000 years ago.
Honey is the most likely catalyst that allowed controlled fermentation to commence at a very early date in Africa, with the weight of probability pointing to southern Africa, given current evidence.
In an 1869 speech in Boston, Frederick Douglass challenged most social observers and politicians (including most African Americans) by advocating the acceptance of Chinese immigration. His argument is presented below.
As nations are among the largest and the most complete divisions into which society is formed, the grandest aggregations of organized human power; as they raise to observation and distinction the world’s greatest men, and call into requisition the highest order of talent and ability for their guidance, preservation and success, they are ever among the most attractive, instructive and useful subjects of thought, to those just entering upon the duties and activities of life.
The simple organization of a people into a National body, composite or otherwise, is of itself and impressive fact. As an original proceeding, it marks the point of departure of a people, from the darkness and chaos of unbridled barbarism, to the wholesome restraints of public law and society. It implies a willing surrender and subjection of individual aims and ends, often narrow and selfish, to the broader and better ones that arise out of society as a whole. It is both a sign and a result of civilization.
A knowledge of the character, resources and proceedings of other nations, affords us the means of comparison and criticism, without which progress would be feeble, tardy, and perhaps, impossible. It is by comparing one nation with another, and one learning from another, each competing with all, and all competing with each, that hurtful errors are exposed, great social truths discovered, and the wheels of civilization whirled onward.
I am especially to speak to you of the character and mission of the United States, with special reference to the question whether we are the better or the worse for being composed of different races of men. I propose to consider first, what we are, second, what we are likely to be, and, thirdly, what we ought to be.
Without undue vanity or unjust depreciation of others, we may claim to be, in many
Travis Scott is moving on up to a lavish area in L.A.
On Friday (June 19), Variety reported that Travis Scott paid $23.5 million in cash for a modern luxury mansion in Brentwood, California.
The 16,700-square-foot mansion is a seven-bedroom, 11-bath, three-story home with a modern living space that sits on top of a hill.
The property also boasts a 20-car \"auto gallery,\" a gym, bar, sauna, 15-seat theater, wine closet, a massive pool, and a lot more.
Travis' new backyard includes a grassy area as well as a patio that spills into the living room of the second floor and has a long glass-bottomed infinity pool that offers breathtaking views of Los Angeles.
Brentwood is known as one of the wealthiest areas in Los Angeles.
Banks turn from villains to heroes in battle on pandemic
Monday, June 1, 2020 0:01
By CAROL MUSYOKA
The banking industry is often the bellwether for the economic health of a country.
I often opined on this column that the same people who regarded banks as nefarious in their reluctance to give loans were the same ones who wouldn’t loan their own shillings to a wayward neighbour that needed working capital to run his kiosk.
I further opined that the very money people were lusting for to be given at low interest rates for loans was their very own money that they had deposited in the banking industry.
In the last two months, the same banking industry has come to the rescue in the tune of hundreds of billions of loans that have had to be restructured due to the economic downturn that has affected millions of borrowers.
This step by the banks is a defensive strategy to batten down the hatches and conserve cash for the balance sheet onslaught that is sure to come from the loan restructurings.
Ace Magashule is officially a wanted man. The ANC veteran has been issued with an arrest warrant from the Hawks - and a court appearance is looming.
In 2012, the latest generation Range Rover became the world’s first SUV to feature an all-aluminum lightweight construction, making it lighter, stronger and more efficient.
The Range Rover Fifty will be restricted to just 1,970 vehicles globally, in recognition of the year the original Range Rover was launched.
“In the world of luxury vehicles, the Range Rover has always stood apart as peerless and enduring,” said Prof Gerry McGovern OBE, Land Rover Chief Creative Officer.
In extremely limited numbers, Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations is also offering the Range Rover Fifty in one of three Heritage exterior solid paints reproduced from the original Range Rover paint palette; Tuscan Blue, Bahama Gold and Davos White.
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Bushiri said he will only return to South Africa after five conditions are met.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stresses that the coronavirus pandemic \"demonstrates the need to accelerate the establishment of the BRICS vaccine research and development centre\" in his country, during the online summit of BRICS countries chaired by Russia.
\"The current experience demonstrates the need to accelerate the establishment of the BRICS vaccine research and development centre in South Africa as agreed in the 2018 Johannesburg declaration,\" Ramaphosa stressed.
According to the president, the clinical testing of the vaccines needs to include African citizens to ensure that the vaccines are appropriate for them.
South Africa is participating in several research initiatives with continental and international partners, including the global effort to develop, manufacture and distribute a #COVID19 vaccine. He futher stressed that Vaccine development must be encouraged, especially for pharmaceutical companies .
