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Brighton coach Graham Potter says he's aware of the incredible support SA's Percy Tau has from supporters back home on social media.
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US lifts travel ban - for a very specific group of South Africans
Thanks to a new exemption within the Biden-imposed travel ban, thousands of South Africans are now allowed to make their way over to the US.
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Newswire: Biden signs executive orders aimed at tackling racism in America
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders that his less than two-week-old administration hopes will be a catalyst to tackling America’s long-standing race problem. Biden’s action focused on equity and included police and
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Zanu PF activist loses US$189 000 in fuel scam
BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE TWO Harare men who allegedly duped Zanu PF activist William “Ace Lumumba” Mutumanje of US$189 900 in a botched fuel deal were yesterday denied bail by magistrate Barbara Mateko. Tatenda Maredza (31) and Malcom Dodo (26) were remanded in custody to March 23 pending trial. In
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Feb. 3: Autherine Lucy Became the University of Alabama's First Black Student Today in 1956
Photo credits: The Tuscaloosa News/The Montgomery Advertiser Autherine Juanita Lucy (pictured left) is an American activist who was the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama (UA) in 1956. Lucy's expulsion from the institution later that year led to university
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Nelson Chamisa | Countering reactionary, authoritarian politics in Africa | News24
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa writes that there have been four elections in Africa that were rubber-stamped by the international community, thereby perpetuating a culture of unfair competition and illiberal democracy.
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Stanford Study Shows Relationship Between Rise In Hate Crimes And Increase In HBCU Enrollment - Blavity
A new study at Stanford University has found a correlation between the increase in state-level hate crimes and enrollment of Black students at historically Black colleges and universities.
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February 2: President Truman Sent Anti-Lynching Message to Congress Today in 1948
ByVictor Trammell Photo credits: The Bettman Archive The U.S.President’s Committee on Civil Rightswas aPresidential Commissionestablished byPresidentHarry Trumanin 1946. The committee was created by Executive Order 9808 on December 5, 1946. It instructed an investigation of the status ofcivil
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PR Veteran’s Book Offers Strategic Advice to Black Women
The selection and subsequent election of Sen. Kamala Harris to vice president serves, for Jennifer R. Farmer, as a beacon of hope and a validation of what Black women can achieve with hard work, tenacity and support from their village and the alignment of the
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The 78th annual Golden Globe Awards have officially released their 2021 nominations with 25 international series and movies featured on DStv.
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South Africa in a spin over fitness of key duo - Stabroek News
(Reuters) - South Africa are sweating over the fitness of their two frontline spinners Keshav Maharaj and Tabraiz Shamsi ahead of the second test against Pakistan that starts in Rawalpindi today. The article South Africa in a spin over fitness of key duo appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Russia rejects Western criticism over Navalny's prison term - Black News Channel
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities on Wednesday shrugged off the massive rallies against the jailing of top Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny and rejected Western criticism as 'hysterics' as activists reported more than 1,400 new arrests in the crackdown on
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'The devil's pact': Suspicion mounts over Malema, Zuma tea party
Could a pot of tea in Nkandla change the entire complexion of SA's political landscape? Julius Malema's meeting with Jacob Zuma has drawn criticism.
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Covid-19: Law firm's demand for apology from Ramaphosa misplaced, says Ahmed Kathrada Foundation | News24
The demand for an apology from President Cyril Ramaphosa is not only misplaced, but is regrettably impertinent, the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation wrote in response to an open letter by the Kirshen Naidoo & Company law firm.
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At age 96, Birmingham Business Legend Dr. Jesse J. Lewis Sr. Still Making History
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DOJ to drop racial discrimination suit against Yale - TheGrio
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WITH flies hovering all over the vicinity of the crowded slums of Epworth, an urban settlement approximately 25km east of the Zimbabwean capital Harare, laden plastic paper bags lie scattered on streets and sidewalks, with children rummaging through garbage and vendors going about their normal
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French knighthood for Thuli Madonsela, in honour of her fight against corruption | News24
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BLM Ally Dolly Parton Curved Trump’s Presidential Medal of Freedom, Twice
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President Irfaan Ali yesterday helped to turn the sod for what is expected to be one of the largest malls in Guyana and which will be situated at Leonora, West Coast Demerara. The article Sod turned for US$5m mall at Leonora appeared first on Stabroek News.
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