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HEALTH
1. Drink plenty of water
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper
3. Live with the 3 E’s – Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
4. Make time to pray
5. Play more games
6. Read more books than you did last year
7. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
8. Sleep for 7 hours. More than that is wasting a large part of your life
9. Take a 10-30 minutes’ walk daily. And while you walk smile

PERSONALITY
10. Don’t over-do. Keep your limits
11. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does
12. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip
13. Dream more while awake
14. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need
15. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
16. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone
17. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
18. No one is in charge of your happiness except you
19. Smile and laugh more
20. You don’t have to win every argument, agree to disagree

SOCIETY
21. Call your family often
22. Each day give something good to others
23. Forgive everyone for everything
24. Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6
25. Try to make at least three people smile each day
26. What other people think of you is none of your business

LIFE
27. Do the right thing at the right time. Don’t procrastinate!
28. GOD heals everything
29. However good or bad a situation is, it will change
30. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
31. The best is yet to come. Be positive!
32. When awake in the morning, thank GOD for it
33. Your inner-most is always happy. So, be happy!!

Five members of the same family were charged with the murder of a prophet who had been called to their their home in the village of Mazonde, Zimbabwe to help them cleanse their house of evil spirits.



According to local newspaper, Zed 24 News, the accused family identified as Leanmore Mutero, Tonderai Muswere, Michael Muchengeti, Manasa Mutero and Nicholas Mutero, appeared at the High Court in Harare facing a murder charge for participating in the death of self-professed Prophet Shamiso Kanyama, who accidentally died during a healing ceremony.

Pastor Kanyama had reportedly asked his followers to bury him alive so that he could summon more cleansing powers to heal the family that had been plagued by mysterious deaths.

Zed 24 News reports that High Court Justice Owen Tagu heard how on that day, the late pastor had been invited to attend the home in the Muzarabani district, which is situated along the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border, by their priest, Zvidzai Muchengeti.

The five men had requested the priest to help them clean their home of evil spirits, because it was causing mysterious deaths in their family.



Responding to their request to perform a healing ceremony, Kanyama had ordered his followers to dig a grave and bury him alive because that was the way he summoned more healing powers to ward off evil spirits. However, the plan backfired on the prophet when instead of being resurrected as he supposed, the men dug up the grave again to find him dead.

Kanyama helped to dig his own grave before praying and jumping inside, Father Zvidzai, who has turned State witness, told the High Court. He continued that after laying face down in the grave, he ordered his followers to start covering him with soil.

“He pegged a grave-shaped pit in front of my hut and asked for help to dig the pit,” Zvidzai continued. “Deceased requested to be buried alive so that he would gain power to drive away the evil forces.”

Fearing for the life of the prophet as the men were in the process of filling the grave, he requested the men to stop what they were doing, Joseph Taderera told Justice Tagu.

However, they ignored his pleas when Kanyama urged them to continue the process of burying him alive, stating that he would rise from the grave unharmed.

“I warned the men about the danger of their actions, but my advice fell on deaf ears because Kanyama shouted, telling me that I am disturbing his angels, and urged them to continue filling the grave, saying that he would later come out alive,” Taderera said.

IHarare says Justice Tagu heard how the cleansing ceremony had to be performed on that day because there would be a memorial service for a departed family member on the following day.

IdiAmin1:
Remove Idi Amin's name from that list you m0r0n.

If you wanna buy West's propaganda on him and Gadhaffi, someone like me don't.

Bcus u share d same moniker or cus u r so daft nt 2 av known he ws 1 of d shameful tins 2 happen 2 Africa apart from apartheid n d genocide in Rwanda?

IdisuleOurOwn:
Where is Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand?

worthy mentions i guess

concluded.

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The selection of this list is based not upon death tolls, but upon the general actions, and impact, or brutality of the people. From bad to worst. Here are the top 10 evil men in history:


10. Attila The Hun
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Attila was Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity.

An unsuccessful campaign in Persia was followed in 441 by an invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire, the success of which emboldened Attila to invade the West. He passed unhindered through Austria and Germany, across the Rhine into Gaul, plundering and devastating all in his path with a ferocity unparalleled in the records of barbarian invasions and compelling those he overcame to augment his mighty army. Attila drowned in his own blood on his wedding night


9. Maximilien Robespierre

Maximilien Robespierre was a leader of the French revolution and it was his arguments that caused the revolutionary government to murder the king without a trial. In addition, Robespierre was one of the main driving forces behind the reign of terror, a 10 month post-revolutionary period in which mass executions were carried out. The Terror took the lives of between 18,500 to 40,000 people, with 1,900 being killed in the last month. Among people who were condemned by the revolutionary tribunals, about 8 percent were aristocrats, 6 percent clergy, 14 percent middle class, and 70 percent were workers or peasants accused of hoarding, evading the draft, desertion, rebellion, and other purported crimes.

In an act of coincidental justice, Robespierre was guillotined without a trial in 1794.


8. Ruhollah Khomeini

Ayatollah Khomeini was the religious leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989. In that time he implemented Sharia Law (Islamic religious law) with the Islamic dress code enforced for both men and women by Islamic Revolutionary Guards and other Islamic groups. Opposition to the religious rule of the clergy or Islam in general was often met with harsh punishments. In a talk at the Fayzieah School in Qom, August 30, 1979, Khomeini said:
“Those who are trying to bring corruption and destruction to our country in the name of democracy will be oppressed. They are worse than Bani-Ghorizeh Jews, and they must be hanged. We will oppress them by God’s order and God’s call to prayer.”
In the 1988 massacre of Iranian prisoners, following the People’s Mujahedin of Iran operation Forough-e Javidan against the Islamic Republic, Khomeini issued an order to judicial officials to judge every Iranian political prisoner and kill those who would not repent anti-regime activities. Many say that thousands were swiftly put to death inside the prisons. The suppressed memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri reportedly detail the execution of 30,000 political activists. After eleven days in a hospital for an operation to stop internal bleeding, Khomeini died of cancer on Saturday, June 04, 1989, at the age of 86.


7. Idi Amin Dada

Idi Amin was an army officer and president of Uganda. He took power in a military coup in January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. His rule was characterized by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extra judicial killings and the expulsion of Indians from Uganda. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is unknown; estimates range from 80,000 to 500,000. On August 4, 1972, Amin issued a decree ordering the expulsion of the 60,000 Asians who were not Ugandan citizens (most of them held British passports). This was later amended to include all 80,000 Asians, with the exception of professionals, such as doctors, lawyers and teachers. Amin was eventually overthrown, but until his death, he held that Uganda needed him and he never expressed remorse for the abuses of his regime.


6. Leopold II of Belgium

Leopold II was King of Belgium from 1865-1909. With financial support from the government, Leopold created the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa, which relied on forced labour and resulted in the deaths of approximately 3 million Congolese. The regime of the Congo Free State became one of the more infamous international scandals of the turn of the century. The area of land privately owned by the King was an area 76 times larger than Belgium, which he was free to rule as a personal domain through his private army, the Force Publique. Leopold’s rubber gatherers tortured, maimed and slaughtered until at the turn of the century, the conscience of the Western world forced Brussels to call a halt.


5. Pol Pot

Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979, having been de facto leader since mid-1975. During his time in power Pol Pot imposed an extreme version of agrarian communism where all city dwellers were relocated to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects. The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions is estimated to have killed around 2 million Cambodians (approximately one third of the population). His regime achieved special notoriety for singling out all intellectuals and other “bourgeois enemies” for murder. The Khmer Rouge committed mass executions in sites known as the Killing Fields. The executed were buried in mass graves. In order to save ammunition, executions were often carried out using hammers, axe handles, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks.

4. Vlad

Vlad III of Romania (also known as Vlad the Impaler) was Prince of Wallachia three times between 1448 and 1476. Vlad is best known for the legends of the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker’s popular Dracula novel. In Romania he is viewed by many as a prince with a deep sense of justice. His method of torture was a horse attached to each of the victim’s legs as a sharpened stake was gradually forced into the body. The end of the stake was usually oiled, and care was taken that the stake not be too sharp; else the victim might die too rapidly from shock.Wikipedia has an article that describes, in great details, the methods of Vlad’s cruelty. The list of tortures he is alleged to have employed is extensive: nails in heads, cutting off of limbs, blinding, strangulation, burning, cutting off of noses and ears, mutilation of sexual organs (especially in the case of women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or to animals, and boiling alive. There are claims that on some occasions ten thousand people were impaled in 1460 alone.


3. Ivan IV of Russia

Ivan IV of Russia, also know as Ivan the Terrible, was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 to 1547 and was the first ruler of Russia to assume the title of Tsar. In 1570, Ivan was under the belief that the elite of the city of Novgorod planned to defect to Poland, and led an army to stop them on January 2. Ivan’s soldiers built walls around the perimeter of the city in order to prevent the people of the city escaping. Between 500 and 1000 people were gathered every day by the troops, then tortured and killed in front of Ivan and his son. In 1581, Ivan beat his pregnant daughter-in-law for wearing immodest clothing, causing a miscarriage. His son, also named Ivan, upon learning of this, engaged in a heated argument with his father, which resulted in Ivan striking his son in the head with his pointed staff, causing his son’s (accidental) death.


2. Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, becoming “Führer” in 1934 until his suicide in 1945. By the end of the second world war, Hitler’s policies of territorial conquest and racial subjugation had brought death and destruction to tens of millions of people, including the genocide of some six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust. On 30 April 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were spotted within a block or two of the Reich Chancellory, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule.

1. Josef Stalin

Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Under Stalin’s leadership, the Ukraine suffered from a famine (Holodomor) so great it is considered by many to be an act of genocide on the part of Stalin’s government. Estimates of the number of deaths range from 2.5 million to 10 million. The famine was caused by direct political and administrative decisions. In addition to the famine, Stalin ordered purges within the Soviet Union of any person deemed to be an enemy of the state. In total, estimates of the total number murdered under Stalins reign, range from 10 million to 60 million.

Bonus: Emperor Hirohito of Japan

Hirohito was the Emporer of Japan from 1926 to 1989. In 1937, Japanese troops committed the war crime that is now known as the Rape of Nanking (the then Capital of China, now known as Nanjing). The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938. During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, such as rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians. A large number of women and children were also killed, as rape and murder became more widespread. The death toll is generally considered to be between 150,000 and 300,000. The Wikipedia article contains images and descriptions of the atrocities committed.

Notable Omissions: Oliver Cromwell, Mao Tse-tung, Kim Il-sung, Caligula

The possible reasons pple do this are:
1. He has an important interview the day of the wedding. He got the msg few days 2 d day
2. He is abroad
3. He is in d hospital
4. He ran away
5. He is dead

Wat then happens 2 d genuine service he offered d ministry in the course of these years if he eventually pays back all the money? Can the ministry pay him back for such services rendered even dou he broke the law by impersonating? He shld b punished for impersonating and leave the money issue alone pls

Even though he is over staying in power, he always has a response to the issues raised by the western world.
Pics of his response below

Real African leader not hiding his feelings.
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe refused the handshake of South African Zulu King over his utterances that sparked xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

Are You Going to be Rich? Answer These 7 Questions to Find Out

The life of an entrepreneur can look pretty sweet.

People are fascinated with the material rewards and the freedom that can come with starting a business. It looks like an easier route to a better lifestyle than the career path they might currently be on.

And it’s true that these days, anyone can start a business. The Internet has broken down so many barriers to entrepreneurship, making it relatively simple and inexpensive to hang out your digital shingle so to speak and get started.

But it’s a long way from registering a web site to a location independent lifestyle or a six figure paycheck. Anyone can start a business, but it takes a certain type to turn it into success.

If you’ve been thinking about trying your hand at starting your own business, ask yourself these questions first:

Are you confident that you are (or can become) the best at what you do?

Being great at what you do is important in any niche, but being confident is almost more important. Successful entrepreneurs are, almost by default, confident in their abilities both to deliver their product or service, but also in their ability to make their business idea work.

How do you feel about networking?

I don’t necessarily mean passing out business cards at your local chamber of commerce meeting, but that might be required as well. Entrepreneurs tend to understand how to make connections — both for their own use and to help others. Becoming a connector is a huge plus when it comes to starting a business.

How essential is a steady paycheck?

When starting a business, any paycheck — let alone a steady one — is not a given. People who start successful businesses tend to be willing to work for free — or for trade or for perks — at first, because they are so passionate about their idea or product. If you’re not in a position to do that, even for a short time, chucking it all in to start a business is probably not for you. It’s true that you could see exceptional rewards from starting a small business, but it’s likely not to happen right away; you need to be ready and willing to make some sacrifices up front. That might mean you start your business on the side of your full-time job, or that you live off your savings for a while. This Dave Ramsey quote applies: “If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.”

How do you feel about risk and uncertainty?

If you can’t handle feeling uncomfortable, entrepreneurship is probably not for you. The most successful business owners practice feeling uncomfortable on an almost daily basis. Growth happens well outside our comfort zones, and when starting a business, you will be pushed to do something new nearly every day. Most people prefer some level of certainty over a roller coaster ride, but if you can’t push through that discomfort, you won’t be able to reach true success.

Do you get stage fright?

You may or may not be required to stand onstage in front of a huge audience, but as the CEO of a business, you will almost certainly be required to present to investors or clients, speak to potential partners, and even address employees. If being in the spotlight is anathema to you, you might need to reconsider your desire to be an entrepreneur. You don’t have to love it, but you do have to be able to overcome any stage fright you might have when the moment calls for it.

Are you willing to work days, nights and weekends?

There’s the wonderful image of the “work from wherever” lifestyle with Instagram selfies of entrepreneurs working on the beaches of the Bahamas or from the balcony of a Paris flat. But the part people tend to forget is the “work” portion of that equation. Location independent lifestyles don’t mean less work — in fact, being able to work from anywhere means you often do. So, if you’re a big fan of bank holidays or long vacations you might need to rethink your entrepreneurial plans. Micro-businesses that are one-man or one-woman organizations make it especially difficult to take time off or have a proper vacation. It’s not impossible, but it’s not likely in the first few years.

Do you like being the boss?

This may seem like a silly question in a post about entrepreneurship, but there are some who thrive on being in charge and others who would rather… not. There’s nothing wrong with either, but an entrepreneur needs to be ready to be the boss. If having the buck start with you isn’t your idea of a dream job, you might reconsider your career goals.

It’s not to say that an introvert who prefers the sure thing over taking a risk can’t be a successful entrepreneur, but it will be much harder. But if you do naturally have some or all of these personality traits — combined with a product or service that truly solves a problem for people — you can probably go far.

What do you think are the biggest markers of an entrepreneur who will be successful? Add to my list with your ideas in the comments below.

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