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[New Zimbabwe] ZAPU has condemned the murder of a Zimbabwean man in Diepsloot, North of Johannesburg by a xenophobic South African mob hunting foreigners residing in the area.
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.
The best option for the Western Cape is to improve the current dispensation, but also to work towards an independent Western Cape, FF Plus Western Cape leader Corné Mulder said.
Ramaphosa announced several amendments to the disaster management act and level 1 lockdown during his address to the nation n Wednesday.
NTT Pro Cycling, Africa's only elite World Tour team, has announced that Bjarne Riis is stepping down from his role as general manager.
THE chaotic scenes that characterised yesterday’s reopening of schools for the remaining classes — Early Childhood Development to Grade 5, as well as Forms 1 and 2 — is cause for concern given the surge in COVID-19 cases and the ongoing teachers’ industrial action. EDITORIAL COMMENT Most schools countrywide ordered pupils to go back home because teachers, who declared incapacitation in September, failed to turn up for duty. Only student teachers and school heads pitched up, but could not cope with the increasing number of students. Schools were already struggling to cope with examination classes that reopened on September 28 under Phase One. Forms 3 and 5 and Grade 6 returned to school on October 26 under Phase Two. Teachers have been on strike since September 28 and salary negotiations with their employer — government — have been moving at a snail’s pace despite the growing chaos in the education sector, notwithstanding that some pupils are days away from sitting for the end of year decisive examinations. Government last week only offered a meagre 20% increment to the teachers who are demanding US$520 while also employing military tactics to deal with the crisis in the sector that will see provincial education heads noting down names of absentee teachers and forward them to the Public Service Commission so that it can dock their incomes. More worrying has been the arrogant and careless response by Cain Mathema, the Primary and Secondary Education minister. Mathema has insisted that everything is well in schools when parents are paying school fees for students who are not learning. For the few teachers that are conducting lessons, parents are required to dig deeper into their pockets to incentivise them. This has created inequalities in the education delivery system, with some students learning while the poor, who are the majority, are deprived as they have not been learning since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in the country in March. Government should stop playing games with the lives of our children, they deserve a better future. Furthermore, the consequences of this negligence will haunt the country in the near future — the economic success of a country depends on education and training. President Emmerson Mnangagwa should reward the teachers the same way he did with State security forces ahead of the July 31 protests. It’s a right of the children to go to school and get an education. Mathema should be called to order. In serious democracies, he should have long been looking for a job. The situation that was obtaining in schools yesterday cannot be tolerated. #ChildrenLivesMatter.
Justin Thomas isn't buying into all the Bryson DeChambeau hype ahead of the 84th edition of the US Masters at August National.
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa, BY JASMINE OPPERMAN I write this article addressing you as the immediate past chairperson of the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security. Your Excellency, I also am addressing you as a neighbour to a country which has been troubled by terrorism, wherein your country Zimbabwe has interests. This year, as the insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province has intensified, calls for regional intervention have grown louder. This is more than just talk: the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) is actively exploring ways to intervene, including some kind of military response. A virtual meeting of relevant Sadc committees on June 25-26 resulted in some progress. This included, according to sources, commitment from some countries for boots on the ground, but an overall strategy has not been locked down. Your Excellency, the process of doing so is frustrated by the reluctance of some countries to get involved; practical realities, such as who will fund an intervention; and Mozambique’s determination to remain “in charge” of the situation. There is no doubt that some kind of intervention is necessary, to prevent the situation from spiralling out of control. But caution is required. Walking in blindly — without understanding the complexities at play, and without addressing some of the socio-economic factors that underpin and exacerbate the violence — could make the situation even worse. A complex insurgency Your Excellency, the insurgency in Cabo Delgado, a coastal province in northern Mozambique, began in 2017 with an attack on a police station in the town of Mocimboa da Praia. Since then, the insurgency has gone from strength to strength, even though little is known about its motivations or intent. The insurgents go by the name Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama, and have reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. This year, both the frequency and intensity of attacks have increased, and the insurgents have gained access to more sophisticated weaponry. They are yet to attempt to set up any kind of parallel governance structure, but are showing sufficient sophistication to take on Mozambique’s security forces directly. They have also demonstrated the ability to briefly occupy towns such as Mocimboa da Praia and Macomia. Your Excellency, the response from Mozambique’s security forces has been characterised by coercive tactics and human rights abuses, which risks entrenching local grievances against the State. This is a challenge for any potential regional intervention: a close alignment with the Mozambican State could make it difficult to earn trust among affected communities, which is essential for any kind of peacekeeping effort. A recent MediaFax report noted that the Mozambican government’s hardline response had left young men in Cabo Delgado feeling sympathetic to the insurgents; they are more likely to support the insurgency in response to human rights violations by the State than out of any ideological conviction. Your Excellency, Sadc and member countries risk implicating th
Haiti has had leaders, but many observers say that Jean-Claude Duvalier's style of leadership torments the island till today. The “Baby Doc”, as Duvalier was called, governed Haiti for 15 years – from April 22 to February 7, 1986 – longer than his father, who had ruled since 1957. Assuming the post as “president for...
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The V&A Waterfront’s Workshop17 is inviting entrepreneurs, innovators, professionals and start-ups to become part of their dynamic community.
The City of Seattle will host the final in a series of workshops providing undocumented immigrants and DACA-recipients an opportunity to meet with an immigration attorney.
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