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Xenophobia… South Africa’s call to support democracy in the region?0
- South Africa
- 16.10.2019.
The recent wave of violent attacks targeting foreign nationals living in South Africa has shattered the country’s reputation for tolerance and goodwill. The South African government has condemned these acts of violence but insisted that it was not xenophobia but acts of criminality. Many have blamed senior government officials for triggering the violence due to
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Nature Provides Answers to Achieving SDG 2 In Uganda0
- Africa, Food Security
- 14.10.2019.
One of the hot issues at the just ended United Nations General Assembly in New York, the issue of climate change was, once again, among the hot topics. World leaders spoke about the many ways the climate crisis will affect us all, threatening the safety of our homes, the prosperity of our livelihoods, and the
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Uganda: 57 years on, political freedoms remain elusive0
- Governance, Politics, Uganda
- 11.10.2019.
On October 9, 1962, the Union Jack flag was lowered and the Uganda national flag was hoisted – bringing to an end of the 68 years of British colonial rule. The agitation for Uganda’s independence began in the 1940s through demonstrations. In 1952, farmers who had had enough of the manipulative pricing of their cotton
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Zambian Investigative Reporter Dies under Mysterious Circumstances0
- Journalism, Zambia
- 09.10.2019.
A 42 year old Zambian investigative journalist, Humphrey Nkonde who has been writing hard-hitting investigative reports has been found dead, 10 days after he went missing. Nkonde, was an assistant editor at a Catholic-run Mission Press in the northern town of Ndola. He went missing on 22nd September, a day before he was scheduled to
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Crackdown on Betting Firms in Kenya, Hurting Sports and Economy0
- African Football., Economy, Kenya, Society, Sports
- 04.10.2019.
Kenya’s biggest sports betting firm, SportPesa on Wednesday fired all of its 400 employees. This came after the government failed to renew the firm’s license in July, on tax evasion allegations. The money in question involves tax withheld from winners following the introduction of a new law that requires betting firms to withhold 20 percent of
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Mbeki Remembering Mugabe: Nostalgia and Talking Back at Blair0
- SADC, South Africa, Zimbabwe
- 25.09.2019.
South Africa’s former president Thabo Mbeki recently gave a relatively brief speech on the legacy of the late Robert Mugabe. He was speaking at a memorial service organized by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in Durban, South Africa. Mbeki’s speech and probable future interviews on Mugabe was always going to be highly anticipated. Not
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Xenophobia in SA, Social Media’s Immediacy in Modifying African Behaviour0
- Africa, South Africa
- 16.09.2019.
This recent week, if I owned Facebook, Google or WhatsApp and sitting far, far away from South Africa, Southern Africa and Africa itself I would be crunching the data of those that use my applications in those parts of the world. Not literary mathematically crunching at it but waiting for the algorithms to give me
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Robert Mugabe’s Legacy: A Conflicted One with Different Narratives0
“The good men do is oft interred with their bones.” These were the words of Mark Antony from his emotional speech at Julius Caesar’s funeral. In translation, Mark Antony is saying that good deeds often go unheralded, or even when noticed, they fade away in people’s memories so that they die with them. It’s a means
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Diary of a Student Leader: Mugabe is Dead but Mugabeism is Alive0
An unfateful October night It was a hot October night in 2009 and my fellow student leaders and I were taking public transport home after celebrating the birthday of a colleague’s son. In our minds, the trip was to cap what had been a joyful day. None of us knew that events would take an unexpected
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South African Businesses Close As Zambian Students Protest Xenophobia0
- Africa, South Africa, Zambia
- 09.09.2019.
Dozens of South African businesses include banks, supermarkets and a television provider have been temporarily shut down in the Zambian capital Lusaka, as thousands of university students protest xenophobia taking place in South Africa. First National Bank (FNB), Shoprite, Multichoice (DStv), Hungry Lion, Barclays Bank, Pick N Pay and several other South African owned companies
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