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Juliet Mukakabanda was hiding with her husband and three children in a small church in southern Rwanda when the family was lured to a nearby school by local leaders, who promised them "protection" from gangs of genocidal killers.
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
A church, a collaborative and a foundation have partnered to spread awareness of Sickle Cell Disease. This month, the Sickle Cell Foundation of Tennessee (TSCF), Mount Zion Baptist Church, and HEAL Collaborative will host Sickle Cell Disease: A Community Conversation. Within the United States, Sickle Cell Disease disproportionately affects African Americans and takes many lives […]
Animals can reflect the temperament of a person or community. They are respected and revered. Often, people tattoo their images as symbols of strength, ferocity, freedom, prowess, bravery, and cleverness. Canada’s official animal is the [...]
A director of investigation at Shadow World Investigations - a global organisation probing cases of grand corruption - has told the Zondo commission Estina was allegedly used to launder money prior to the Free State dairy project.
At least seven of the eight ANC regions in the Eastern Cape have hit out at statements by former ANC Youth League deputy president Andile Lungisa.
Ryan Foley | Associated Press A prominent law enforcement training group is promoting a lengthy research document riddled with falsehoods and conspiracies that urges local police to treat Black Lives Matter activists as terrorists plotting a violent revolution. The document distributed by the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association contains misinformation and inflammatory rhetoric […]
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A man who read from a religion book to a group of children in his shack near a church has been found guilty of raping one of them.
Audacity: Boldness, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought or other restrictions; Effrontery or insolence; Shameless boldness. In the region of my birth, people reared there are familiar with the presidential pardon. We associate “the act of pardon” with French pirates Jean and Pierre Lafitte who were best known for their […]
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Two people have died and two others have been left critically injured following a head-on collision on the N2 near Nyoni in KwaZulu-Natal.
[New Times] Rwanda has fronted Monique Nsanzabaganwa for the position of Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission.
A cool to warm first Thursday of December is expected across the country with isolated thundershowers also predicted across most of the country by the South African Weather Service.
The South African Human Rights Commission will be taking a man to the Equality Court following alleged repeated hate speech comments towards the Vatsonga nation on social media.
Congolese Bookworms Stand Up!
When Alpha Ramazani takes holiday trips to Brussels in Belgium, it’s usually not all pay and no work. The 33-year old Congolese sets out to obtain dozens of kilos of extra luggage crammed with the latest big-name novels, self-help books, biographies and other literary works to bring back to his bookstore in the capital city Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ramazani shares the challenging transportation process, \"For one thing, it's an eight-hour flight. Preparing all that, it's really a personal investment. Especially over there when I arrive, it's a bit complicated at customs.\"
Book Express, the tiny 30-square-metre shop, located on a street with bustling bars and pavement terraces that Ramazani opened in Kinshasa, his home town, in 2019 after working at a bookshop in Brussels.
Despite the extra cost and hassle that this so-called labour of love takes to haul the books back to his shop in the DRC, the books are sold at roughly the same price as in Europe.
Figures that can often be many times higher than the average daily income — as a book that typically sells in Kinshasa for the rough equivalent of 17 euros amounts to nearly half of the DRC's average per capita wage, which is around 35 euros per month.
The Local Book Industry Has Room to Grow
Ramazani goes over the list of people who come to his bookstore, \"First there are the intellectuals, politicians, university professors who come to buy political theory books. Then there are mothers who come to buy children's books, books for kids. But as far as general politics is concerned, there is a vacuum, there is no demand.\"
The way Ramazani operates Book Express may seem like an ad-hoc system to provide newly-published books today in our times of globalised trade and fast international deliveries but the country’s current economic challenges make it a less interesting location for publishing giants which typically set up in other more stable parts of the French-Speaking world.
An unidentified local bookseller believes in the potential and importance of the local market of book publishers and book store owners, \"May people have the courage and love to set up bookstores in our country, to strengthen us, the booksellers.\"
New books are sold in several other outlets in Kinshasa, including France's cultural shop window, the Institut Francais, as well as by publishing outlets such as Mediaspaul and Cepas that are Catholic-owned.
Grands Lacs bookshop — the biggest bookstore in the DRC in terms of shelf space, is where books are published and sold. There is also a thriving second and third-hand book market enlivened by street hawkers pitching ancient works on law, the economy, management and history.
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated former White House economic adviser, Cecilia Rouse, to lead the Council of Economic Advisers under his administration. If she is confirmed, she will make history […]
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Here's a quick glance at what the weather forecast holds in store across all the South African provinces. Stay warm or keep cool.
We always suspected that a year like 2020 would have to end with something biblical - so yes, a domestic outbreak of locusts just about fits the bill.
During these last four years, I wondered why former President Barack Obama was relatively quiet as our nation morphed into a raging dumpster fire. I don’t expect politicians to be saviors, but I…
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[UNAIDS] Kinshasa -- On World AIDS Day, the UNAIDS Executive Director visited an HIV community village and a children's hospital
Sekwetje Mahlamba - accused number one in the Brendin Horner Senekal farm murder case - is still going ahead with his bail appeal.
A woman pretending to be a customer and four accomplices have fled with an undisclosed amount of jewellery after robbing a store in Kirstenhof.
The \"boring\" comment was made after a meeting in which the Auditor-General of South Africa explained why the department got a qualified audit.
[New Times] A plenary sitting of the Chamber of Deputies has approved the relevance of the draft law governing partnerships, which seeks to fill the gap caused by lack of a regulatory framework.
The 1,300-space parking lot is now a site of competing visions for Dorchester as residents struggle over its future. The conflict has exposed neighborhood divisions along racial and class lines and stoked tensions between homeowners and renters.
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The NHLS says the suspensions will not impact on its services.
Western Bureau: The Hanover branch of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) last week participated in a three-day training seminar on extrication techniques for persons in crashed vehicles. According to statistics on road accidents in the western parish,...
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Three people who were arrested and charged by the police in connection with last Thursday's stabbing death of 63-year-old Manchester businesswoman Marcia Chin-you were yesterday remanded when they appeared in the Manchester Parish Court.
Hundreds of students have tested positive for Covid-19 following the reopening of schools last month.
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - Attorney General William Barr said yesterday that the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. His comments come despite President Donald Trump's repeated claims that the election was stolen, and his refusal to concede his loss to President-Elect Joe Biden.
