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[RFI] King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu died on Friday of complications from a diabetic condition at the age of 72. He had been in intensive care at a private hospital since last month.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
During the 2008 Presidential campaign, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, whose most famous congregant was Illinois Senator Barack Obama, burst unto the national political scene when media outlets reported and aired segments of previous sermons. The segment which appeared most frequently and generated the greatest controversy was his phrase, “God damn America” for its treatment of people of color. The entire sermon, delivered at Trinity on April 13, 2003, appears below.
If you were to ask the average Christian, did Jesus cry?” almost every Christian would quote for you that John 11:35 verse, which most Bible students call the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. It is the verse, you will remember, that is found in the middle of the story about the death of Lazarus, the Lord Jesus friend. Jesus loved Lazarus, his friend; Lazarus had died. Jesus was outside the village of Bethany - he had not yet reached the city limits - Martha had met him, and he and Martha had talked. Martha was mad, and she let the Lord know that she was mad. Jesus had reassured her with words she did not understand, I am the resurrection and the life: whosoever believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live again: and whosoever liveth and believeth shall never die.
He had reassured her - she didnt understand those words, but at least he had calmed her down for just a little bit. She left Jesus there, went back to the house and called her sister Mary and told her privately, Jesus is here and he is calling for you. And when Mary heard those words she got up quickly and went to where Jesus was just outside of Bethany. When those who were grieving with her saw her get up quickly and go out, they ran along with her - you find that story in John 11. They thought she was going to her brothers grave site to grieve. When Jesus saw her crying, and Jesus saw those who were trying to console her crying, he started weeping.
The text says he was greatly disturbed in spirit and he was deeply
IT’S amazing one High Court judge rules that the MDC Alliance is a party and can sue or be sued, while another says it is not a party and, therefore, cannot sue or be sued.
Putting too much trust in these Zanu PF-controlled courts is a waste of time.
It is high time people rose and fought this rotten system.
We need a better Zimbabwe with jobs, real money not bond notes, better education system, better health system, leaders who respect human rights and leaders chosen by the people, not by the courts or junta.
We are the people, so let us fight for our country or else we are buried.
The illness, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), was first reported in Britain in late April.
\"Healthcare providers who have cared or are caring for patients younger than 21 years of age meeting MIS-C criteria should report suspected cases to their local, state, or territorial health department,\" said the CDC.
The condition had previously been referred to as Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (PMIS) by the state of New York, where there have been more than a hundred reported cases, including at least three deaths.
Doctors who have treated the illness say patients sometimes have symptoms similar to a rare condition called Kawasaki disease, which causes blood vessels throughout the body to swell, leading to extreme pain.
Sunil Sood, a paediatrician at Cohen Children's Medical Center in New York, told AFP that some children had very mild forms of illness, but about half of the patients that he and colleagues had seen had to be treated in intensive care for heart inflammation.
A COVID-19 vaccine trial program began in South Africa last week — the first for the African continent — as the nation’s coronavirus case count topped 138,000.
Shabir Madhi, a Wits vaccinology professor, told a virtual news conference, “We began screening participants for the South African Oxford 1 COVID-19 vaccine trial,” a week before vaccinations were set to begin.
South Africa has more coronavirus cases than any other country on the African continent.
“As we enter winter in South Africa and pressure increases on public hospitals, now more than ever we need a vaccine to prevent infection by COVID-19,” Madhi said, describing the vaccine trial as a “landmark moment.”
Madhi hopes the introduction of the vaccine will shorten the amount of time it takes for South Africa’s population to reach herd immunity, which will reduce overall vulnerability to the virus and curb the epidemic.
Gomillion v. Lightfoot, Mayor Of Tuskegee
Supreme Court of The United States
No. 32
October 18-19, 1960, Argued
November 14, 1960, Decided
Case Summary:
Procedural Posture: Plaintiff black residents petitioned for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which dismissed their challenge to a statute redefining the boundaries of defendant city. The residents sought a declaratory judgment that the measure was unconstitutional and an injunction to restrain enforcement of the act because it denied them their right to vote in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment.
Overview: The complaint alleged that the statute was a device to disenfranchise black citizens. In response, the city invoked generalities in expressing the state’s unrestricted power to establish, destroy, or reorganize by contraction or expansion its political subdivisions, to writ, cities, counties, and other local units. At the pleading stage, the court was not concerned with the truth of the allegations. In reversing the decision, it found that the allegations, if proven, would establish that the statute was not an ordinary geographic redistricting measure even within familiar abuses of gerrymandering. It the allegations upon a trial remained uncontradicted or unqualified, the conclusion would establish for all practical purposes that the legislation was solely concerned with segregation white and colored voters by fencing black citizens out of town so as to deprive them of their pre-existing municipal vote. The state’s power was limited by the United States Constitution.
Outcome: The court reversed the decision and remanded the matter for further proceedings.
Summary: Plaintiffs, Negro citizens of Alabama, who were, at the time of the enactment of a statute redefining the boundaries of the City of Tuskegee, residents of the city, brought the present action in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama for a declaratory judgment that the statute was unconstitutional, and for an
If money were votes, the election would be long over. The Biden campaign continued its financial domination over Trump’s during the first two weeks of October. Biden pulled in another $130 million dollars—triple Trump’s $43.6 [...]
CNN Health reported on May 9, “Black Americans represent 13.4% of the U.S. population…but counties with higher Black populations account for more than half of all COVID-19 cases and almost 60% of the deaths.
In Minnesota, where health disparities were already criminal, Kris Ehresmann, MDH infectious disease director, told MinnPost in late April that “African American residents made up 13% of the known cases of COVID-19 at the time.
In early April, he told French National Institute of Health and Medical Research director Camille Locht on French television channel LCI, “Shouldn’t we be doing this study in Africa where there are no masks, no treatment, no intensive care, a little bit like we did in certain AIDS studies or with prostitutes?”
The experiment for which African Americans were used by the United States Public Health Service as lab rats to research venereal disease is still a part of the collective subconscious of Black people in this country.
If there was any time for Black health professionals to step in and lend a hand, that time is now.
Gweru magistrate Edwin Marecha yesterday remanded in custody the 41-year-old Chinese who shot and seriously injured two employees at a gold mine close to the Midlands capital.
There was a heavy police presence at the Gweru Magistrates Court due to fears that miners and residents would protest against the Chinese national.
Zhang Xuelin, the general manager of Reden Gold Mine in Gweru, was charged with two counts of attempted murder.
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In a statement released by the Chinese community in Gweru on Monday, they said the incident was regrettable and did not reflect their behaviour.
“As the Chinese community in Gweru we deeply regret what transpired at Reden Mine in Gweru on Sunday 21 June when two company employees were unfortunately shot by one of the directors following a pay dispute,” the statement read.
Disease, corruption, and now, marital bust-ups. Cyril Ramaphosa is at-risk of being dragged into the Norma Gigaba case, as campaigners demand answers.
July 2: Hachalu buried in Ambo, blast rocks Addis
\tThe funeral of Oromo protest singer Hachalu Hundessa has been held in his hometown of Ambo in the Oromia regional state, the BBC reports.
Photos courtesy: BBC Africa LIVE page
\tMeanwhile there are reports of a deadly blast in the capital Addis Ababa with most people on Twitter citing local police.
The arrest comes in the wake of mass protests against the shooting and killing on Monday night of a famed Oromo musician and activist in Addis Ababa.
Meanwhile, his media outfit the Oromia Media Network, OMN, reported on Tuesday that its offices in the capital Addis Ababa had been raided and staff taken away by security agents to an undisclosed location.
Death of Oromo artist: Protests, internet outage, social media reactions
\tThousands of Ethiopian youth on Tuesday accompanied the body of a famed Oromo singer and songwriter to the city of Ambo in the Oromia regional state for funeral rites and burial.
(CNN)Alabama State University (ASU) is the latest entity to remove the name of a controversial figure from its building. The university removed the name of former Alabama governor Bibb Graves from a residence hall on Wednesday. Graves was propelled into political power in the 1920s […]
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In the article below Clarence Lang, an associate professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas describes his book, Grassroots at the Gateway which explores the changes in 20th Century St. Louiss political, economic, and social landscape and how those changes both affected and were influence by local black activism.
Between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the end of the Great Society in the late 1960s, working-class African Americans led St. Louis, Missouri’s black community in a political “historic bloc” that pursued fair and full employment, economic justice, open and affordable housing, equitable health care and education, a racially democratic trade unionism, meaningful participation and representation in electoral politics, progressive urban development, and equitable planning and investment policies. I argue in my book, Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75 that these battles generated both unity and conflict between black working-class and middle-class activists.
Grassroots at the Gateway employs the Gramscian concept of the “historic bloc,” which captures the dynamic alliances forged by working-class and middle-class African Americans to combat racial subordination, while also identifying the primacy of black working-class leadership in framing the issues these coalitions tackled. Working-class freedom activists included individuals such as Cora Lewis, one of the thousands of black women nutpickers during the Depression who fought for better working conditions, pay, and union recognition, in the local food-processing industry; T.D. McNeal, local leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and a founder of the militant St. Louis unit of the March on Washington Movement; Ernest Calloway, a leader of Local 688 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and once president of the St. Louis branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); and Jean King, an organizer of the
Trump's refusal to concede the 2020 election to Biden is motivated by money, not his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, Washington insiders say.
Black Voters Have Won a Seat at the Table From voter registration, to grassroots organizing, to shaping the issue environment across the country, Black voters are flexing political muscle up and down the ballot Black voters have spoken. Across the country, from the industrial midwest to the Northeast to the deep south, Black votes were … Continued
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The spike, which had pierced his chest and broken off, had been removed and the man required advanced life support interventions.
ORAN, Algeria — A mysterious virus rips through the city of Oran, Algeria, in Albert Camus’ novel “The Plague.”
The streets of Oran, Algeria are mostly deserted and devoid of any pedestrians on May 12, 2020 as city dwellers stay home to protect themselves from COVID-19.
Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad and Minister of Health Abderrahmane Benbouzid came to Oran recently to assess the evolution of case transmission and hospital conditions.
Thousands die in Camus’ story—far more than the coronavirus likely will kill in Oran and its surrounding province of the same name, where the death toll is 21 so far.
The post A tale of two plagues in Oran, Algeria: COVID-19 brings a dystopian novel to life appeared first on Zenger News.
But a violent military coup ousted President Kabbahs civilian government in May 1997. The leader of the coup, Lieut. Col. Johnny Paul Koroma, assumed the title Head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). Koroma began a reign of terror, destroying the economy and murdering enemies. The Commonwealth of Nations demanded the reinstatement of Kabbah, and ECOMOG, the Nigerian-led peacekeeping force, intervened. On March 10, 1998, after ten months in exile, Kabbah resumed his rule over Sierra Leone. The ousted junta and other rebel forces continued to wage attacks, many of which included the torture, rape, and brutal maimings of thousands of civilians, including countless children; amputation by machete was the horrific signature of the rebels. In addition to political power, the rebels, who were supported by Liberias president Charles Taylor, sought control of Sierra Leones rich diamond fields.
In Jan. 1999, rebels and Liberian mercenaries stormed the capital, demanding the release of the imprisoned Revolutionary United Front (RUF) leader, Foday Sankoh. ECOMOG regained control of Freetown, but President Kabbah later released Sankoh so he could participate in peace negotiations. Pressured by Nigeria and the U.S., among other countries, Kabbah agreed to an untenable power-sharing agreement in July 1999, which made Sankoh vice president of the country—and in charge of the diamond mines. The accord dissolved in May 2000 after the RUF abducted about 500 UN peacekeepers and attacked Freetown. Sankoh was captured and died in government custody in 2003, while awaiting trial for war crimes.
The conflict was officially declared over in Jan. 2002. An estimated 50,000 people were killed in the decade-long civil war. The UN installed its largest peacekeeping force in the country (17,000 troops). President Kabbah was reelected with 70% of the vote in May 2002. In 2004, the disarmament of 70,000 soldiers was completed, and a UN-sponsored war crimes tribunal opened. For the past several years, the UN has listed Sierra
The Allegheny County Health Department and partner organizations are working to ensure access to influenza (flu) vaccines. The flu vaccine can protect you from getting the flu and help stop it from being spread to your friends, family and neighbors. And, if you do get the flu, the vaccine reduces the risk of serious illness … Continued
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By Elain Hegwood Bowen, M.S.J. BLK Docs: A new partnership between Speller Street Films, the Luminal Theater, and SeedSpark is offering documentaries for the public to stream and enjoy. The first documentary that screened online earlier this week was “Wilmington on Fire” by Christopher Everett. Although this film was about events that happened in the []
At this point, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that 78 percent people admitted into intensive care for COVID-19 had at least one underlying chronic condition.
It’s certainly no secret to anyone that the entire African American population in this country is at highest risk of infection and death from the COVID-19 virus.
Viral infections also can increase inflammation in people with diabetes and raise the risk for a life-threatening condition where the blood becomes too acidic, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
The American Heart Associations’ Chief Medical Officer for Prevention issued the following statement: “If a large group of people – the herd – is immune to a virus, then an individual in the middle of this group is unlikely to become infected.
Herd immunity, then, happens when people in a community are protected from a virus and its associated disease to a degree that people who are not immune are still protected because of the high population immunity.”
Sierra Leone, on the Atlantic Ocean in West Africa, is half the size of Illinois. Guinea, in the north and east, and Liberia, in the south, are its neighbors. Mangrove swamps lie along the coast, with wooded hills and a plateau in the interior. The eastern region is mountainous.
Constitutional democracy.
The Bulom people were thought to have been the earliest inhabitants of Sierra Leone, followed by the Mende and Temne peoples in the 15th century and thereafter the Fulani. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to explore the land and gave Sierra Leone its name, which means “lion mountains.” Freetown, on the coast, was ceded to English settlers in 1787 as a home for blacks discharged from the British armed forces and also for runaway slaves who had found asylum in London. In 1808 the coastal area became a British colony, and in 1896 a British protectorate was proclaimed over the hinterland.
Sierra Leone became an independent nation on April 27, 1961. A military coup overthrew the civilian government in 1967, which was in turn replaced by civilian rule a year later. The country declared itself a republic on April 19, 1971.
A coup attempt early in 1971 led to then prime minister Siaka Stevens calling in troops from neighboring Guineas army, which remained for two years. Stevens turned the government into a one-party state under the aegis of the All Peoples Congress Party in April 1978. In 1992 rebel soldiers overthrew Stevenss successor, Joseph Momoh, calling for a return to a multiparty system. In 1996, another military coup ousted the countrys military leader and president. Nevertheless, a multiparty presidential election proceeded in 1996, and Peoples Party candidate Ahmad Tejan Kabbah won with 59.4% of the vote, becoming Sierra Leones first democratically elected president.
But a violent military coup ousted President Kabbahs civilian government in May 1997. The leader of the coup, Lieut. Col. Johnny Paul Koroma, assumed the title Head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). Koroma began a
\tThe North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) has released a statement seeking to assure that it has the balance of a donation it received from the state-owned oil refinery Petrojam to buy an incubator.\tAn Integrity Commission report...
As Africa battles COVID-19 experts believe the pandemic will have an impact on elections and democracy in various African countries.
He is joining us from Washington D.C. United States of America where he has been able to co-ordinate, organize and advise international election observation missions in almost all African countries working alongside heads of state and government, ministers, elected officials and civic leaders.
But in countries that are committed to democratic governance I am sure that the leaders, elected officials, political party leaders and civic leaders would find ways to work with their respective election commissions so that there could be inclusive processes that will have everyone giving their input in how elections and other political processes could be managed through this period of COVID-19.
I will say that in the past two decades, we have seen a number of African leaders who have come forward to be proponents of democratic governance and who have made efforts to make sure that political power can change hands through the ballot box and that elections can be organised in a meaningful way that give voice to citizens.
But the test is going to be to see how African governments can take measures to soften the economic blow of the pandemic and how they can also work with other stakeholders to make sure that there is economic relief for the companies that will create jobs, for the private sector that will create jobs that young people still find opportunities in the post
COVID period and that countries can be stabilised in a way that will allow them to bounce back both economically and politically as well.
KwaZulu-Natal will not accept Grade R pupils back at schools on Monday, the provincial education department has said.
A three-year-old girl has been killed and her father seriously injured after a bakkie knocked them down on the N8 outside Bloemfontein.
How Sexist Abuse Of Women In Congress Amounts To Political Violence – And Undermines American Democracy
Tackling systemic racism is fundamental to achieving environmental and climate justice, according to leading activists, as Covid-19 disparities and the global uprising against police brutality lay bare the ramifications of racial inequalities in every sphere of life.
Increasingly, experts and protesters have identified racial injustice as the common denominator in police violence, as well as environmental and health inequalities linked to poor Covid-19 outcomes.
And on the streets, what started as Black Lives Matter protests have morphed into a movement for racial justice amid growing recognition that systemic racism denies people of colour equal access to economic, social, environmental and climate justice, as well as health equity, political power, civil rights and human rights.
“The disproportionate rates of [Covid-19] infection, hospitalisation and deaths are linked to lingering and persistent health, social, economic and environmental inequities facing black Americans, conditions which are rooted in oppression, discrimination, medical apartheid and structural racism … and which today have created a perfect storm,” said Peggy Shepard, co-founder of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, at a press conference this week.
“Racism is built into America’s DNA, and since 1619, black Americans have had to endure this violent and oppressive system … Covid 19 exposed our nation’s racial divide,” said Robert Bullard, distinguished professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University and co-chair of the National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN).
The United Black Front (also known as the Black United Front) was created in the late 1960s as a coalition of 50 black power organizations seeking to address four major objectives: the elimination of white oppression, increased economic and political power for blacks, better education and social status for blacks, and the elimination of racial discrimination. David Mills, the director of the Seattle Central Area Registration program, was elected president in September 1968. The UBF set up 13 committees to address issues such as political action, youth, labor, housing, education, and others.
In February 1969, Dave Mills, at an assembly at Garfield High School in Seattle, attacked the administration for racist actions, citing the curriculum which was in place, and the refusal to get rid of racist and “Uncle Tom” teachers. Mills said that the predominantly black high school should be led by a black administration. In March of the same year, Mills and other UBF members drove to Olympia to meet with state lawmakers in response to legislation being drafted. Mills said that they received little response to their meeting, but that it was impressive because they had gotten an audience. They discussed four issues with the senators: employment, education, relations between police and the black community, and public assistance. On September 11, 1969, a letter was drafted to the mayor by the Black United Front calling on the mayor to rid the Seattle Public School system of problems with prostitution and drug problems near black schools in the city, especially Edmond Meany Junior High.
The BUF articulated a message that the system was stacked against African Americans in Seattle, and that they needed to join together in order to advocate for their rights, and that if their demands were not met there would be a price to pay. By the early 1970s the United Black Front lost its organization and the separate organizations went their own way.
Sources:
“United Black Front coalition formed,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sep.
Julia Means, community a nurse with Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital is known throughout her neighborhood as ‘The Nurse.’
The Ascension Columbia St Mary’s Diabetic Friendly Food Pantry, is available on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.
“Ebenezer food pantry started in 1996 and it’s an extension of Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s hospital,” said Means.
To get connected with Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Diabetic Friendly Food Pantry, the public can call 2-1-1 or be referred by a doctor at Ascension.
The following items were provided:
• Bleach
• Hand Soap
• Pine Sol
• Toilet Paper
• Hand Sanitizer
• Dental Hygiene Kits (toothbrush and toothpaste)
• Gloves (multiple sizes)
Below is a list of community organizations prepared to receive the donation and distribute:
• Sherman Park Community Association
• Walnut Way
• Ayuda Mutua MKE (Mutual Help) w/ St. Patrick’s Church
• Westcare Wisconsin, Inc
• Dominican Center
• United Community Center
• Trinity CMEC Urban Church Wellness Church Partner
• Lamb of God MBC Urban Church Wellness Church Partner
• St. Matthew CMEC Urban Church Wellness Church Partner
• Bradford Memorial AMEC Urban Church Wellness Church Partner
• Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church Urban Church Wellness Church Partner
• St. John Paul II Church Food Pantry
• Alpha & Omega
• Casa de Oracion
