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The parents of a rape complainant have appeared in court for allegedly accepting a R500 000 bribe to drop the rape charges against a police officer's husband, the head of security for self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri.
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
[HRW] Dominic Ongwen, Kidnapped by the LRA at Age 10, to Face ICC Judgment
The Supreme Court of Appeal has overturned the convictions of two men who were found guilty of the murder of 16-year-old Matlhomola Moshoeu, who died on April 20, 2017 in Coligny in the North West.
The Mpumalanga High Court has sentenced serial rapist Thabiso Oscar Mathumba to eight life terms and 46 years in jail.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) - South Africa completed a sweep of their two match series against Sri Lanka as they strolled to a 10-wicket win on the third day of the second test yesterday.
The article S/Africa wins second test for 2-0 series sweep appeared first on Stabroek News.
By Diana Danis Service: Women Who Serve Military Women’s Coalition, Sexual Violence Policy Chair The hashtags that steer women and men assaulted in the military are abundantly clear: #MeToo, #MeTooMilitary. Why aren’t we saying #ArrestThePerps? Heck of an introduction to a theme common in the military, on our campuses, and in many American workplaces. Because […]
Toyota Donates Winter Boots and Socks to Chicago Area Homeless Families “Walk In My Boots’ Community Outreach Project Enriching Lives…One Step At A Time at The Salvation Army Evangeline Booth Lodge Chicago, IL – Even though the Chicago Auto Show has shifted from winter to spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, Toyota continued its commitment … Continued
The post Toyota Donates Winter Boots and Socks to Chicago Area Homeless Families appeared first on Chicago Defender.
The Representative Council of Learners at Camps Bay High School has embarked on a project to raise funds for sanitary products to end period poverty at the school for at least a year.
Lifestyle audits for Cabinet ministers will be completed in the 2021/22 financial year following promises last year that it would be completed by the end of this month.
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- The popular radio personalities DJ Fresh (Thato Sikwane) and Euphonik (Themba Nkosi) have parted ways with music radio station 94.7 following rape allegations that were levelled against them.
[The Conversation Africa] When the new coronavirus rapidly spread across the globe, evidence of its effect on children was still scanty and closing schools seemed the responsible thing to do.
Amy Cooper—the 41-year-old white woman who infamously called the cops on a Black man who was peacefully birdwatching in New York City’s Central Park—is off the hook now that her […]
The post Amy Cooper Proves Once Again That White Privilege Prevails appeared first on Essence.
By PAUL J. WEBER and JILL BLEED Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Power was restored to more homes and businesses Thursday in states hit by a deadly blast of winter that overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold this week. But the crisis was far from over in parts of the South, where many people still lacked safe drinking water. In Texas on Thursday, about 325,000 homes and businesses remained without power, down from about 3 million a day earlier, though utility officials said limited rolling blackouts were still possible. The storms also left more […]
The post Some electricity restored in Texas, but water woes grow appeared first on Black News Channel.
About 30 Nigerians living in Cape Town have marched to Parliament and have pleaded for President Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in the unrest in the country.
By Dee Ford Byas, The Arizona Informant Newspaper A $10,000 reward is offered for any information on the whereabouts of Daniel Robinson, 24, who went missing more than two months ago from a remote Buckeye, Arizona, worksite. The Arizona Informant received exclusive details regarding the status of search efforts to locate the young geologist who […]
The post Help Find Daniel: Search Continues for Missing Geologist, 24 appeared first on Voice and Viewpoint.
[Nation] The State security machinery last evening engaged a higher gear as it activated all options at its disposal to send former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko to jail.
Burglars have broken into three Johannesburg clinics and made off with computers containing patient information.
[Nation] City Hall is set to clear more than Sh3 billion owed to suppliers after the High Court unlocked funds for the county's Sh37.5billion budget.
The Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa (Isasa) warned that schools might not be able to accommodate teachers not vaccinated against Covid-19.
Eating dirt in Madagascar to escape famine
A detective from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) testified on Friday that the late rapper Pop Smoke was shot... View Article
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The South African Weather Service is forecasting severe thunderstorms for KwaZulu-Natal, while isolated thundershowers are expected in some parts of the country on Tuesday.
[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has recorded 13 172 new COVID-19 cases bringing a cumulative total to 324 221 on Thursday, Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, said.
[Ghanaian Times] A 65 year old woman has expressed fear of being raped after constantly suffering molestation from a yet to be identified young man who resides in her neighbourhood in Teshie, Accra.
A Limpopo police sergeant has been sentenced to four years in prison for corruption for demanding a bribe from a suspect.
A pedestrian has been crushed to death after she was hit by a chain of vehicles in a three-car pile-up at a bustling marketplace in Mount Frere.
Jan Christian Smuts was born on a farm near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony. His ancestors were mainly Dutch, with a small admixture of French and German but no English, though he was born a British subject. Until he went to school at the age of 12, Smuts lived the life of a South African farm boy, taking his share in the work of the farm, learning from nature, and developing a life-long love of the land. Many years later, when asked by an American botanist why he, a general, should be an authority on grasses, Smuts replied, “But my dear lady, I am only a general in my spare time.”
At 16 he went to Victoria College (subsequently the University of Stellenbosch), where he studied science and arts and obtained first-class honours in both. At Stellenbosch he fell in love with a fellow student, Isie Krige, whom he later married and who remained a source of strength through the stresses and strains of an eventful life.
In 1891 he obtained a scholarship and entered Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he read law and was generally recognized as one of the most brilliant law students Cambridge had had. He was the first ever to take both parts of the law tripos examinations in the same year, and in both he came first. From Cambridge he went to London, where he came first in the Inns of Court honours examination and was awarded two prizes. It seemed clear that a distinguished academic career lay ahead of him; nevertheless, Smuts wanted to return to South Africa.
Apart from law he read widely in philosophy, poetry, and science, and it was at this time that he first read the poems of Walt Whitman. Many years later he compared the effect that Whitman had on him to St. Paul’s experience on the road to Damascus. Whitman’s conception of natural man liberated him, he believed, from the sense of sin induced by a strict Calvinist upbringing. Before he left England he wrote a book about Whitman but failed to find a publisher.
Returning to Cape Town in 1895, Smuts was at once drawn into politics. At first he supported Cecil Rhodes,
The country’s second wave of COVID-19 cases is in full swing, with the national tally at 940 212 while the number of recoveries has also increased to 808 241
The SCA has thrashed Liberty Fighters Network president for the \"unjustifiable defamatory and scurrilous utterances\" he made during the appeal of a judgment declaring some lockdown regulations unconstitutional.
