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Christiaan Bezuidenhout opened with a five-under-par 67 to place him in a six-way tie for the first-round lead of the South African Open.
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.
Yesterday, people across the country gathered to mark Juneteenth with celebrations and protests.
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Across the country yesterday, people gathered to mark Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in Texas heard that they'd been set free two years earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation.
SIMON: Darrell Tobias joined a rally calling for reparations in New Orleans on Friday.
SIMON: At a gathering in Detroit, Charity Dean, director of the city's Civil Rights, Inclusion and Opportunity department, said Juneteenth is a time to expose how deeply ingrained racism has been in American society.
SIMON: Celebrations and protests continue across the country today.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will answer questions in the National Assembly on the steps government has taken in the fight against state capture.
Beyond the Rhetoric By Harry Alford III This fall, NBCC and humble ventures launched a program to award grants to Black-owned bars and restaurants. After careful review, we funded over 50 Black business owners. I’ve written below about the program and what we’ll do next with the knowledge gained. Why In June, the National Black […]
There is a very real human cost to the disruptions we are seeing in Brackenfell - the educational future of these learners has been put at risk.
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When it comes to totally transforming for a movie role, Jamie Foxx is without a doubt the king.
On Thursday (Jun 18) Jamie Foxx took to Instagram to announce that he will be producing and starring in a new biopic about heavyweight boxing legend Mike Tyson by dropping a selfie showing off his new form.
During an Instagram Live show with Mark Birnbaum this week, Foxx revealed he was doing 60 pullups, 60 dips, and 100 pushups every other day to prepare for the role, before adding that he may rely on prosthetics to resemble Tyson’s leg physique.
“What I’m doing right now is changing the body,” Foxx said.
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A suspected financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Felicien Kabuga, made his first appearance at a UN court in The Hague on Wednesday after decades on the run.
Felicien Kabuga's a suspected financier of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, which saw 800,000 people murdered, according to the UN.
Kabuga, now in his 80s, is accused of crimes against humanity including genocide.
UN prosecutors also accuse Kabuga of helping create a Hutu militia group and urging the killing of Tutsis through his media company.
He is also accused of helping to buy machetes in 1993 that were distributed to genocidal groups.
He denies the charges.
He is \"very tired,\" said his lawyer, Emmanuel Altit.
Kabuga, one of Rwanda's richest men was first indicted by the now-closed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) two decades ago.
On the run
But he was not arrested until this year in May, near Paris.
He was transferred from France to The Hague in October.
The initial hearing before a pre-trial judge took place at the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, which has taken on cases left over from the ICTR.
Kabuga spent years on the run using a succession of false passports, with investigators saying that he had been helped by a network of former Rwandan allies to evade justice.
His lawyers argue he should be tried in France but France's top court ruled he should be moved to UN custody.
Kabuga was initially to be transferred to the UN court's facility in Arusha, Tanzania, which took over the ICTR's duties when it formally closed in 2015.
But a judge ruled he should first be taken to The Hague for a medical examination, and it was not immediately known when or if Kabuga might be transferred to Arusha.
READ MORE: Abolishing the police: It’s time to throw the whole system away and start over
The problem is no matter how you change the name or the menu, the restaurant is built on a toxic waste dump, and you can’t fix it without tearing the whole thing down and starting up somewhere new.
Tishaura Jones, city treasurer of St. Louis, says she’s always preferred “being smart on crime,” which is a mixture of funding changes and new approaches to policing because defunding as a method of police reform is only as powerful as the next administration.
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The two biggest concerns about abolishing the police are that the streets will run wild like The Purge without cops and, as my colleague Tiffany Cross said on a recent Instagram Live for theGrio, “[Abolishing the police is nice] but I’m a single woman living alone, who am I going to call if somebody is breaking into my house?”
RELATED: Minneapolis City Council announces plans to dismantle police department
If the police aren’t stopping crime from happening, nor solving crimes that have happened, and are routinely brutalizing Black people what do we replace them with?
NYPD officers block the entrance of the Manhattan Bridge as hundreds protesting police brutality and systemic racism attempt to cross into the borough of Manhattan from Brooklyn after a citywide curfew went into effect in New York City.
One of the first things I heard from Senator Tim Scott, the only Black Republican Senator, was a plan for a study of 18 months.
Their bill leaves a big loophole for having no action against renegade police.
Senator Lindsey Graham angrily lectured us about what the Obama Administration didn’t do on the issue of police reform during his eight years in office without a word that mentioned all the times the Republicans, as they promised—tried to make him fail.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell actually said that Senator Scott, to their surprise, told them he had been stopped by the police!
At least somebody on Capitol Hill recognizes the horrible message sent to Black America having people in a place of honor whose very presence in a statue, a portrait or a name carved somewhere on government property, continues to be a racist act.
WESTCHESTER — The Rotary Club of Westchester will present a variety of scholarship awards to some of the area’s best and brightest high school students during a special “drive-through” ceremony and parade beginning at 12:30 p.m. June 24 at the Westchester Family YMCA Annex at 8020 Alverstone Ave.
The public is invited to join in the celebration by making signs, decorating cars and joining a parade through the parking lot.
McGregor, who attends St. Bernard High School, earned the $2,000 Jim Hill Memorial Scholarship, which is given to a graduating high school senior who demonstrates outstanding leadership in community service, resides in Westchester or Playa del Rey and/or attends Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnet or St. Bernard.
Morris, attended Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnet and earned the $2,000 Jerry Madera Scholarship, given to a graduating senior with a minimum grade point average of 3.75 who demonstrates leadership and participates in community service.
Salazar earned the $500 St. Bernard High School Interact Scholarship, which is given annually to a graduating St. Bernard senior who is a member of Interact Club, demonstrates leadership in community service and lives by Rotary’s Four-Way Test.
Marquez earned the $500 Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnet Interact Scholarship, which is given annually to a graduating senior who is a member of Interact Club, demonstrates leadership in community service and lives by Rotary’s Four-Way Test.
Did you know that most of Kappa Alpha Psi's founders served in the US military during WWI? It's true. Of the ten men who founded the fraternity, seven of them served in WWI as their young fraternity was growing. We at Watch The Yard reached out to Kevin Scott, the fraternity's official Historian and created […]
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On Thursday, Birmingham Mayor Randall L. Woodfin joined the national Co-Chairs of “HBCU Students for Biden” to discuss Vice President Biden’s policies and to answer questions.
“A couple of weeks ago, Vice President Biden released what he called ‘Lift Every Voice’, a plan for black America,” said Woodfin, a Morehouse College alum.
Woodfin, who has already endorsed Biden for U.S. President in the November general election, said the vice president wants to make public colleges and universities tuition free for families with income below $125,000.
In response to a question about what is at stake in this election for African Americans Woodfin said, “just the belief that we can succeed … And I think in America it’s hard to believe that you can, a black man can be running down the street running down the street and something happens to him and he will never be able to return home to his family.
Other issues at stake, Woodfin said, is “health care . . . [and] the ability to have opportunity to participate in the American Dream, to have a level playing field as it relates to obtaining an education, not just in college but K through 12.
Breathtaking natural scenery, rolling valleys, and fertile landscapes filled with orchards and vineyards - these are the some wine regions across the globe.
Good nightCalifornia information junkies.That is Megan Diskin, a courts reporter forthe Ventura County Star, with what you could know one week after Election Day. (Has it actually solely been per…
As a senior UCLA running back Demetric Felton Jr. is trying to pull out all the stops to help his team win. He got off to a good start by rushing for 134 yards in the first half helping his team jump out to a 20-7 lead after trailing 7-0 to Arizona.
Who Was Joe Louis?
Joe Louis, a professional American boxer, was regarded as the most famous black person in his day after he became the World Heavyweight Champion in 1937. Louis kept the title for an astounding 12 years, only giving it up when he retired in 1949. Joe Louis was also considered the first black to achieve national hero status; a status he earned when he defeated German boxer Max Schemling in the famous 1938 rematch.
Dates: May 13, 1914 -- April 12, 1981
Also Known As: Joe Louis Barrow (born as), Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber
Humble Beginnings
Joe Louis Barrow, the seventh of eight children, was born on May 13, 1914, to rural Lafayette, Alabama sharecroppers Munroe and Lillie Barrow. Joe, who was one-quarter Cherokee from his mothers side, weighed a whopping 11 pounds at birth.
Life was very hard for Joes family. When Joe was only two years old, his father was committed to the Searcy State Hospital for the Colored Insane. Soon thereafter, Joes mother received word that her husband had died. In truth, he had not. Munroe lived another 24 years, confined to an insane asylum and oblivious of his famous son’s successes.
Lillie, who believed herself a widow, embarked on a lonely life of working hard in the fields to support her large family. Four years later, in 1920, Lillie remarried. The Barrow family’s life improved a bit when Lillie married Pat Brooks, a local construction worker, who was a widower with five children.
As a young boy, Joe suffered from a slight stammer, which made him quiet and shy. He spent a lot of time outside, climbing trees and playing. On Sundays, he would attend a small Baptist church with his family. During weekdays, Joe would try to skip school as often as he could.
In 1926, 12-year-old Joe and his family joined the Great Migration and moved to Detroit, Michigan, where factory work was abundant.
Reluctant Schoolboy
Due to his rural upbringing and very little formal education, Joe was painfully unprepared for Detroits public school system. After being placed in classes
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The happenings around the Xulu family from KwaMashu has kept South Africans entertained for years. Watch the latest episode of Uzalo online.
Outgoing Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu has been remembered for his commitment to clean governance
The 2020 presidential election took a toll on us emotionally and mentally, but life coach Anita Kanti provided some healthy coping mechanisms.
Joe Biden has enough electoral votes to be president even without Georgia. Election officials nationwide see no evidence of widespread fraud, despite President Trump’s claims. Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump made brief appearances at Veterans Day ceremonies. Mr. Biden’s popular-vote lead has swelled to 5 million.
[allAfrica] On November 4th, 2020, the United-Kingdom based Public Health Organization Knowledge Action Change, which aimed at promoting health through the concept of harm reduction issued a report entitled: Burning Issues: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction and also organized two discussions about the state of Tobacco Harm Reduction in the world.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Behind the well-manicured facades of many Albuquerque tree-lined neighborhoods lurks a dirty little secret unbelievably offensive. One State Senator calls it “shameful.” The evidence is stashed away in a non-descript government warehouse in Southeast Albuquerque. Inside the secure facility, a cache of dusty documents hidden away for decades will forever shatter […] | Local News from KRQE News 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
For much of its seven-year existence, the Black Lives Matter movement has been seen by many Americans as a divisive, even radical force.
“When we started Black Lives Matter, it was really to have a larger conversation around this country about its relationship to black people,” said Patrisse Cullors, one of three black women who founded the Black Lives Matter Global Network, with chapters throughout the U.S. and in Britain and Canada.
Many Black Lives Matter activists feared it was a repeat of the Cointelpro era, when the FBI illegally conducted surveillance and sabotage against civil rights groups and other organizations suspected of having links to the Communist Party in the 1950s and ’60s.
Malik Shabazz, president of Black Lawyers for Justice, praised “Black lives matter” as “one of the most brilliant and creative phrases of our generation,” one that has won acceptance well beyond the movement.
“All Lives Matter,” from the start, angered some black activists who said it minimized the entrenched racism faced by black people.
The alleged financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Felicien Kabuga, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday as he made his first appearance at a UN court after a quarter of a century on the run.
Once one of Rwanda's richest men, Kabuga allegedly helped set up hate media that urged ethnic Hutus to \"kill the Tutsi cockroaches\" and funded militia groups.
Now in his 80s, he was arrested in France in May and transferred to the court in The Hague in October to face charges of a key role in the killing of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
The frail Kabuga sat in a wheelchair behind a glass screen in the courtroom, wearing a coronavirus mask. A court official helped him adjust his headphones.
His defense lawyer Emmanuel Altit said Kabuga was \"very tired\" and \"preferred not to speak\" when asked by judge Iain Bonomy if the former businessman wanted to enter a plea.
\"Given the situation, I would be grateful if you could consider this lack of response as a plea of not guilty on all the counts, under the rules and procedures,\" Altit told the court.
Kabuga, who until his arrest near Paris was one of the world's most wanted men, had already denied the charges in his court appearances in France.
The Rwandan faces seven counts including genocide, incitement to genocide, extermination, and persecution.
The UN court will later decide if he will be transferred to its branch in Tanzania for trial.
'Contributed to deaths'
The UN says 800,000 people were murdered in a 100-day rampage that began in April 1994 in Rwanda, in scenes of horror that shocked the world.
An ally of Rwanda's then-ruling party, Kabuga allegedly helped create the Interahamwe Hutu militia group and the Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), whose broadcasts incited people to murder.
The lengthy indictment, read out by a court official, said that \"RTLM broadcasts contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of persons identified as Tutsi civilians.\"
The radio station also identified the hiding places of Tutsis where they were later killed, it said.
Kabuga controlled and encouraged the station's content, failed to stop the broadcasts, and defended it when the minister of information criticized the broadcasts, the indictment said.
He is also accused of helping to buy machetes that were distributed to militias and ordering them to kill Tutsis.
Following his arrest in a small apartment near Paris, his lawyers argued that Kabuga -- who says he is aged 87 but according to the arrest warrant is 84 - should face trial in France for health reasons.
But France's top court ruled he should be moved to UN custody on a warrant issued in 1997 by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
But a UN
Joan Mir heads into the penultimate round of the MotoGP World Championship in control of his own destiny and sporting a 37-point lead.
'Riding with Sugar' is a uniquely African Netflix story; a coming-of-age, feel-good ride about a young refugee’s quest for BMX glory.
