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RSS Feed‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero, in Jailhouse Interview, Says He Was Duped Into Arrest https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/world/africa/paul-rusesabagina-rwanda-interview.html?smid=tw-share
20 September 1975: antiwar demonstration in Lisbon #Portugal; two days before Portuguese High Commissioner announced Portuguese troops had begun to withdraw from #Angola #AngolanCivilWar https://youtu.be/bNTEBC2-plM via @YouTube
20 September 1978: Prime Minister of #SouthAfrica John Vorster announced his resignation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0yuvIQHoLw&feature=youtu.be
19 September 1976: Ian Smith and Henry Kissinger at their meeting at the American Embassy in Pretoria #SouthAfrica #rhodesianBushWar https://youtu.be/3aLrS6s-FfQ via @YouTube 19
18 September 1969- "You're going to move because you must follow the Government's instructions": 1,500 Tangwena tribesman were forcibly evicted from their ancestral home under the segregationist 1930 Land Apportionment Act, which reserved the area for White's only #Rhodesia
218 September 2000: An attempted putsch in Côte d'Ivoire #IvoryCoast failed; In October, military ruler Robert Guei, who seized power in a coup the previous December, would reluctantly lose an election to Laurent Gbagbo https://youtu.be/4gk-chIPrDM via @YouTube
Former #Liberia President Charles Taylor describes his 'release' from prison in the US on 15 September 1985 at his trial in The Hague on 15 July 2009 at 34.30; "Upon my release. Well I'm calling it my release because I didn’t break out" at 50.48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYijSfoKW5o
14 September 2003- "We did this action without any shooting. That is very important to us": In the capital of Bissau, Army Chief General Verissimo Seabre toppled #Guinea-Bissau President Kumba Yala in a bloodless coup #guineabissau https://youtu.be/ulKOXwUqzs0 via @YouTube
14 September 1977: Chief Kaiser Matanzima of Transkei in Pretoria #SouthAfrica to meet with Prime Minister John Vorster; Transkei was first black homeland to gain independence in October 1976 https://youtu.be/cbHQZ18BAuU via @YouTube
Peter Gabriel - Biko https://youtu.be/luVpsM3YAgw via @YouTube
7-12 September 1976: Protests and rioting in the nonwhite 'colored' townships around Cape town #SouthAfrica left 34 dead; in Bloemfontein, Prime Minister Vorster promised "colored people" would never sit in Volksraad https://youtu.be/qKzKr2mwIMM via @YouTube
14 September 1989: SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma returned to WIndhoek SW Africa #Namibia after a nearly 30 year exile in #Angola
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Bake your own water sponge cake. Rhodie recipe for sponge, happiness and resilience. Hard times have always been with us. The world has changed a lot over time, but some truths prevail. I’m thinking about people. No matter how much we indulge ourselves in fun, shopping, complaining and other entertaining distractions – We become brave
Uys has made me cry many times over the years, often with laughter – not always. A razor-sharp satirist, with or without eyelashes.
ESKOM, the power that should be providing South Africa with electric, has a reputation for its erratic supply. Don Clarke – songwriter, writer, music man, producer and fellow erratic now has another etc after his name – Cartoonist. Load shedding has affected everyone in South Africa at some point. There is no end in sight.
Parents or other adults determine your name, sometimes before you’re even born. You can change it if you like. Your African name is different. It’s inspired by you, yet you have no power over it. Family or Surname Your family or surname links you to your relatives (biological or adopted). It’s predetermined. It links you
Culture is Good. Nationalism is Bad. Now you have caught up on your culture cues ….It’s all change. Culture risks becoming CULT – YOUR. (or Your Cult – for people who speak languages that run in straight lines). Diverse cultures were often misunderstood. This caused problems until cultures blended. Many forgot their root cultures for
Grass is Legal in South Africa The news burnt through the headlines. It’s legal to grow & smoke dagga. Like most facts of our times, this is true, but not quite. Judge Davis with two other judges concurring found that laws prohibiting the use of cannabis and the possession, purchase & cultivation of it in private
African Dreams and Initiatives I have been away from Africa for too long, I blinked & missed the exciting growth & initiatives that seem to be sprouting, budding & colonising land where only despair once lived. While I writing an earlier article about hail in Limpopo, the research quickly drew my attention to community
Water shortages in Zambia & Zimbabwe might just be helped by ritual The countries of the Zambezi have experienced wars, corruption, bad governance, tough economic times, & all of the evils that come with prolonged poverty. Now water shortages in Zambia & Zimbabwe are bringing power cuts, reducing access to clean drinking water, & affecting everyone,
