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nellyelitz:
but cabbage is nutritious

It gives u gas too lol!

But u guys Are right ,our guys aren't often Bouncer Material. Even the bouncers at news cafe in Soweto are not from here lol!

I personally have not heard of him until today. I must say though that he was a great achiever. May his soul RIP.

*inspired*

Ali Al'amin Mazrui (February 24, 1933 – October 12, 2014) was an academic, professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations. He was born in Mombasa, Kenya. He was an Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.

EducationEdit

Mazrui studied at schools in Mombasa, in Kenya. Mazrui obtained his B.A. with Distinction from Manchester University in Great Britain in 1960, his M.A. from Columbia University in New York in 1961, and his doctorate (DPhil) from Oxford University (Nuffield College) in 1966.

Early careerEdit

Upon completing his education at Oxford University, Mazrui joined Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda), where he served as head of the Department of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He served at Makerere University until 1973, when he was forced into exile by Idi Amin. In 1974, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan as professor and later was appointed the Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (1978–1981). In 1989, he was appointed to the faculty of Binghamton University, State University of New York as the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies (IGCS).

International acclaimEdit

In addition to his appointments as the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, Professor in Political Science, African Studies, Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies (IGCS), Mazrui also holds three concurrent faculty appointments as Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large in the Humanities and Development Studies at the University of Jos in Nigeria, Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large Emeritus and Senior Scholar in Africana Studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and Chancellor of the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya. In 1999, Mazrui retired as the inaugural Walter Rodney Professor at the University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana. Mazrui has also been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, The University of Chicago, Colgate University, McGill University, National University of Singapore, Oxford University, Harvard University, Bridgewater State College, Ohio State University, and at other institutions in Cairo, Australia, Leeds, Nairobi, Teheran, Denver, London, Baghdad, and Sussex, amongst others.

In 2005, Ali Mazrui was selected as the 73rd topmost intellectual person in the world on the list of Top 100 Public Intellectuals by Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (United States)

Source: Wiki

He's too wicked and I don't know if I could forgive him if I were affected by this.

Deliberately infecting another human is being should be a punishable offence.

Guys to honest though..any nation that comes in huge numbers to a foreign land bears a huge burden on the country. And eventually it does get to the countries citizens.

Israelites are doing some shocking things lately. The article below says they are welcoming Jews from all over the world..and that's it. They're anti Sudanese and east Africans.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israel-says-it-wont-forcibly-deport-illegal-african-migrants-but-it-wants-them-to-leave/2013/12/20/1c81d8be-5cf2-11e3-8d24-31c016b976b2_story.html

Nuzo1:
So far they weren't molested, they could tie a bucket to their azs for all I care.

Agreed...however the governments need to create jobs in the small towns too for people tobe able to make better choices.

I have to say that I've been in cape town and I personally have not experienced all of the above.

Maybe its because I mind my business and pay very little attention to other people in general.

Sometimes Southies just feel uncomfortable around a whole lot of white people.

Imagine avoiding a certain area cause its full of whites as one girl mentioned on the article!


I personally love how clean cape Town city is compared to JHB and I am all for The DA's management style. Society needs discipline to function well.

Pap and cabbage diet for centuries....really now.
lol! That's really harsh hey

Such a terrible thing to loose a loved one this way. May god give his family the strength they will need in this hard time.

I'll never understand why we do this to each other (human beings).

How do we stop acting as 54 separate autonomous countries and embrace regional integration and build economic growth on the basis of social inclusion and public accountability? How do we build an African market that positions us competitively in the global economy but also meets the basic needs of our one-billion citizens?...

I hope our leaders read such things because that's what the AU should be about.

Yungwhy:
Reading......

Hi Yungwhy...any idea why my pic. Is appearing as a link instead of a picture?

For me the most important question is what Jay states at the beginning of the article...if Africa is rising then why are we still so poor.

"If Africa is rising, why are we so poor? We walk on gold, platinum, diamonds. Our mineral wealth powers up the global economy. We hold two-thirds of the remaining arable land in the world, with over 15% of its forests and 20% of the land surface. Our oceans are a global hub of rich marine resources that mainly benefit large industrialised nations' trawling fleets. But we, the African people, remain poor."


This is the narrative I am hearing in the villages and slums that I visit across Africa.

Undoubtedly, governance has improved across Africa in the last 14 years. The recently released 2014 Mo Ibrahim Foundation Governance Index combines 130 variables from 34 independent African and global sources. It is the first African foundation to build a composite index to measure the delivery of public goods that our governments have a legal obligation to provide and that citizens have a right to demand.

As Mo Ibrahim said at the launch, "Africa is progressing but the story is complex and does not fit into stereotypes. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent."

The past global economic boom created more investment in infrastructure and the African economies grew faster than trends in the rest of the world. It did mean more countries invested in infrastructure and this drove sustainable economic opportunity. Given the global economic climate in the last five years, this improvement stalled.

Today Africa stands at a crucial crossroads. The choice is simple. How do we stop acting as 54 separate autonomous countries and embrace regional integration and build economic growth on the basis of social inclusion and public accountability? How do we build an African market that positions us competitively in the global economy but also meets the basic needs of our one-billion citizens?

Clearly, more has to be done to build the leadership and political will to connect our energy, transport and other infrastructure grids. More has to be done to enable the free flow of people, goods and services. Instead, we see more countries introducing restrictions and erecting more trade barriers. In South Africa, we occasionally hear the rumblings of xenophobia that explode into open violence.

But we could also take a positive road and embrace our youth dividend: we can harness the telecommunications economic success that has seen Africa becoming the fastest growing market in the world with over 800-million mobile phones and harness this technological revolution to change how we deliver health, education and skills that grow livelihoods and entrepreneurs. This would reverse the stagnant growth we have seen in sustainable economic opportunity. We are exporting millions of jobs because we export our commodities without adding any value to many of our raw materials.

What we need is a strategy of industrialisation that is regionally co-ordinated.

There are some seriously worrying signs. National security may have improved dramatically as cross border violence between states has dropped, but the failure within countries to manage diversity, the rising inequality and joblessness has heightened domestic conflict and violence. Our young generations, half of which are under the age of 19, feel marginalized and locked out from pathways of hope and opportunity. They feel they are growing up in an environment of exclusion and political frustration, where the status quo rules, and which is viewed as only enriching the economic and political elites. This is fertile ground for the emergence of extremism in the form of Boko Haram and Al Shabaab, and the rise in criminal gangs that are terrorising their poor neighbourhoods.

Even the continent’s best-governed countries, Mauritius, Cape Verde, Botswana, South Africa and the Seychelles, show worrying signs. In the 2013 report, 12 countries showed their weakest performance since 2000 in the category of safety and the rule of law.

We must also reflect on North Africa and the 'Arab spring'. Data shows that the management of transition has a dramatic impact on governance. Egypt dropped 14 places in the overall rankings (from 12th to 26th) and Libya dropped 15 places (from 27th to 43rd). But Tunisia, which has managed its transition more smoothly, has remained in the top 10.

The lesson for South Africa is that, while we have progressed up to fourth position in the overall ranking, we have also seen a decline in the categories of participation and human rights and safety and the rule of law. The issue of personal safety, the handling of public protests and the weakness of civil society organisations that are able to represent legitimate grievances that residents have over the delivery of public services, all fuel political dissatisfaction. The examples of the Marikana massacre and the public debacle over Nkandla are alarming indicators that public accountability is backsliding.

"Even if overall governance trends are positive, contrasting performance in the 2014 Governance Index is of concern. The strength and sustainability of Africa’s future prosperity will be defined by the continent’s commitment to all governance dimensions, including safety, security, and the rule of law," according to Salim Ahmed Salim, chairperson of the Mo Ibrahim prize committee.

The data also throws up some surprises. Countries in the bottom half of the rankings register the largest improvements over the past five years. Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea and Niger have changed course since 2009, from having negative trajectories to becoming the biggest improvers on the continent. This progress has been driven in large part by gains in participation and human rights.

"With a growing electorate that has demonstrated a desire to be heard, the results of the 2014 Governance Index confirm that participation and human rights is a crucial aspect of governance that governments cannot ignore", said Mary Robinson, board member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.

Human development has remained a consistently shown positive movement, albeit from a low base. All sub-categories and 41 out of 52 countries have seen an improvement over the past five years, with a quarter of these having improved by more than five points. Health in the last five years, in all its underlying indicators, which measure issues such as maternal mortality, immunization and undernourishment, have registered progress. But what the Ebola crisis has shown is that not enough has been invested in building public health systems.

"The 2014 Governance Index underscores the need to focus on building equitable and efficient institutions, such as health systems, accountability mechanisms and statistical offices. Without these, we will not be able to meet the challenges we face – from strengthening the rule of law to managing shocks such as the Ebola virus," concluded Hadeel Ibrahim, founding executive director of foundation.

The message from the 2014 Mo Ibrahim Governance Index is clear. Good leadership and good governance is what drives accountability, transparency and social cohesion and the economic and political success of Africa. The narrative and reality of Africa rising still lies in our hands.

Written by Jay Naidoo for www.mg.co.za


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Long distance relationships are often very draining because half the time the relationship has an element of fantasy and I think ur much more likely to remain Infatuated instead of knowing whom or what you're really dealing with.Seeing an individual more frequently helps cause you have the opportunity to know whether you can live with that individuals habits and behaviours etc.

Thank you for ur feedback everyone. Its much appreciated.

thrizzle: I wouldn't borrow money from a girl I'm really in love with.. Ive borrowed a lot from other girls and you won't believe what it amounts to but I thank god for their lives sha god bless girls dumb enough to borrow.

My thoughts exactly. You've made my day. Now I know I'm not being impossible.

Hi everyone,
Please tell me if u think its appropriate for a guy to borrow money from his g.fwhen he hardly gives her money . I think at times a guy assumes u don't need his cash simply cause ur not asking for it. Its still very embarrassing for a lot of women to disclose that they help out financially while dating someone because of what the friends or family might think.

Why do guys even resort to this.. what happened to the man's pride. This is becoming too common for my liking in my society.
I would just like to know if u think its socially acceptable .

Crocz: The op fail to mention "nobody takes a jester serious even when he says he's dieing!"

thank you! Some people over do it and end up being like freak in idiots. Time and place counts.

[quote author=himkers]another alternative of growing the apples here in Nigeria? How about you telling me the other alternatives. I'd be indeed grateful and happy[/quopte]

Its due to the climate OP. In SA we can grow apples on certain parts of the country. But u have a longer list of fruit that grows in ur country like Mangoes and Avocados. Maybe u should consider those Op.

Oduduwaboy: What we are saying is that your mentor, TB JOSHUA is a frauuuuuuud and murderer who should be prosecuted for turning a 4-story building into 6-stories which then collapsed &squashed many people into a bloody mess! Are you just dull or dumb? Please, go back to the remaining guest house in your synagogue while you await the day of your own building collapse.

Harsh but true!

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Johannesburg - Ruben Kruger, a veteran of 36 tests in the green and gold, returned after a week in Nigeria and declared that a Pentecostal preacher he called the Prophet had healed his brain cancer, City Press reports.

Temitope Balogun “TB” Joshua prayed for him in the Synagogue Church of All Nations compound while thousands of people sang, danced and wailed, Kruger said.

As Joshua bent over him and implored the demon to be gone from his body, Kruger felt the tumour leaving him. He was cured, Joshua declared, handing him oil to rub on his head.

“I no longer have to drink my chemo pills,” Kruger said on his return. “You cannot describe the feeling to anyone who has not experienced it. It was an unbelievable – or should I say believable – experience.”

The floodgates opened and the Prophet’s newest converts were white, mostly Afrikaans and relatively conservative. They swopped the NG and Hervormde churches for a Nigerian “turn-or-burn” approach to redemption.

It took me some time to understand why the Afrikaner psyche found Joshua so irresistible.

Why were they prepared to seek salvation in a country they perceived to be drowning in greed, political rot and economic decay?

Christianity Nigerian-style was worlds apart from the chains and shackles of Calvinism. Joshua unchained them. He allowed them to worship with a gusto and fervour previously thought unseemly.

That the new messiah was black and his church in Africa’s biggest and maddest metropolis only added to the allure.

Documentary

A year or two after Kruger returned from Lagos, I made the same journey. On the plane was another Springbok rugby player, 25-year-old lock Wium Basson, who was dying of liver cancer. He was accompanied by his mother, Cloeté Geldenhuys, and had to get special permission from SAA to make the journey.

I was making a TV documentary and my challenge to Joshua was straightforward: allow me to film how you heal Basson. If you succeed, I promise I will show it to the world.

When we arrived at Joshua’s compound, the TV team and I were in effect incarcerated. For two weeks, we were forbidden to leave the grounds.

We were told we could not drink or smoke, and had to attend services and events with the pilgrims.

While I stayed in a dormitory with other pilgrims, Wium and Cloeté set up camp in a private room.

The church took away the young man’s morphine and pain pills.

During our first interview, a softly spoken, affable Joshua said it would be easy to heal Wium because he had nothing but a “little sore” on his liver.

At Sunday sermons, the afflicted lined up with placards stating what condition they needed healed.

There were lines of people seeking a cure for HIV/Aids, cancer and heart conditions, business failures, wandering spouses and dull brains.

A festive, almost joyous atmosphere filled the compound as churchgoers sang, clapped and danced. Evil spirits were cast out and those set free by the Prophet writhed in the dirt while vomiting out the demons.

'Placebo effect'

Joshua prayed for every person in the line and declared them all healed. He ordered them to stop using any medication and trust in God.

Among the pilgrims was Capetonian John Rindel, who was suffering from full-blown Aids and already had dementia.

He had arrived at the church several weeks before we did, was prayed for by Joshua and declared completely healed.

He had stopped taking his medicine and showed remarkable improvement.

Scientists refer to this as the “placebo effect” of faith healing. A patient can experience genuine pain relief and other symptomatic alleviation after being prayed for.

The relief is short-lived and the patient soon returns to his original condition.

The internet is filled with reports from organisations like the American Cancer Society and the British Medical Journal that found no evidence faith healing can cure physical ailments.

On my request, Rindel agreed to go for two independent HIV/Aids tests when he returned to South Africa. Both showed he was still positive. He died a short while later.

The BBC recently investigated the London branch of the church and reported that three women had died after being “healed” and told to stop taking their HIV/Aids medication.

I challenged the pilgrims to provide me with medical proof that they had been healed. None did.

Ruben Kruger died in 2010 just before his 40th birthday.

And Wium Basson?

Joshua never prayed for him. He said God had not sent him a message to do so.

The young man left the church broken, disillusioned and at death’s door. He died a few days after returning to South Africa.

Before I left the church, Joshua handed me, and the camera and sound people, thick envelopes full of hundred dollar notes. He wanted to be sure we’d produce a positive programme.

We gave the envelopes back.

A year or so after the programme aired – and generated a massive response from people who called us accusing Joshua of all sorts of misdeeds – the preacher produced a video of a 76-year-old South African man named Moses he said he’d brought back from the dead.

Moses was among a group of South African pilgrims in Lagos when he had a heart attack in the dining room.

Videos distributed around the world showed three pilgrims, one a doctor from Bloemfontein, trying to resuscitate Moses.

They failed, the videos reported, and Moses was carried into another room. Joshua walked in, bent over him and commanded: “In the name of Jesus, rise!”

Moses opened his eyes. It later emerged that Moses had been both alive and breathing when he was carried from the dining hall. He’d been resuscitated, not resurrected, and clever editing created a fake miracle.

I understand the despair of terminally ill people and why they grasp at final straws. My father died of lung cancer and might well have made the journey to Lagos.

I am just glad he is not here any more to become a victim of a ravenous tick that feasts on the blood of the ignorant, gullible and desperate.

- City Press

nickz: I TAKE NUMBER1 MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY LIFE

you shall not look at my sister twice except you can lick your elbow

Masterpiece we need to talk. I lost your contacts a while back. Please contact me via email.

Ahmeduana: WE ARE GOOD AT WHAT WE DO IF WE WANT TO 419 WE 419IZED THEM VERY WELL IF WE WANT TO BLIP THERE WOMEN NO COUNTRY DOES IT BETTER LIKE NIGERIA MEN, HE SHOULD ASK THE SOUTHTIES AND GHANIANS LADIES WHY IS IT THAT THEIR BLACK MEN ARE USELESS THEY WILL TELL HIM HOW HONEYIOUS OUR £ORKING LONG JOHN THOMAS IS!

Amen to that!!

teeo: Gay alert.

F*****n gay alert!....guys who are models are a nightmare to date... they're often so obsessed with they're bodies and skin tone . Its like being with a chick all the time.

They're often good for admiring And NOTHING MORE Ladies!

marvie234: Who has watched the movie 'THE OTHER WOMAN'?

Some ladies need 2 watch dat movie.
Am nt supporting d guys sha.... bt they're guys, they will always cheat.

Bt if ure a smart lady, dnt attack d guy alone n make an enemy of d 'other woman'....... try to join forces with her (although that could be quite difficult) n bring him down!!! N remember to 'chop his money' except if he's broke . If he's broke, jst break up with dat a**hole .

I wonder what broke guys think of while cheating . U can't be broke n cheat... cos no gal will fight over u...there's no reason to .

Its true...u can't be broke n cheat. But I've noticed that some women will stick around just because the guy can shag very well and everyone would be wondering why the hell are these women fighting for Lol!

I have always heard my zimbabwean friends say there's nothing wrong with Mugabe. And this article confirmed how much he is stil admired, even amongst the educated in the country.

Jason Moyo
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Clarence Siziba is your typical used car salesman: he talks fast, has pointy shoes and wears large shades. Except that on the wall inside his makeshift office is his three-year-old science degree.

As he flips through a catalogue for a truck a client is looking for, he jokes about how little he is applying what he learned in four years of ­university in his line of work.

“I wish I could say there’s a ­science to selling cars, but this is just a way to make a living,” he says.

His car lot stocks imported used cars from Japan and the United Kingdom. Like many of the hundreds of similar car lots that litter Harare, his business barely breaks even. But he is grateful that he at least can make a living.

Each year, Zimbabwe churns out close to 10 000 graduates from its 13 universities. But as businesses downsize and lay off workers, few of those graduates have any real chance of a job. And so they end up in the informal sector, hustling with everyone else.

According to Zimstat, the national statistics agency, about 60 143 students enrolled in universities last year.  

Tough job market
But after the joy of being capped at graduation, the reality of the task of cracking an increasingly tough job market soon sets in.

Labour unions say at least 100 000 jobs have been lost since 2004. And while the economy has experienced some recovery over the past four years, companies have had to lay off workers to cut costs.

A recent report by the national pension fund said that more than 700 companies had shut down in Harare alone since 2011, swelling the jobless ranks.  

There is no agreement on exactly what Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate is. Various sources put it at anything between 70% and 80%. However, the government says these figures ignore the contribution of the informal sector, and it counts the self-employed among the employed.

Zimstat says unemployment actually stands at 10.7%, a figure dismissed by economists and unionists.

Zimstat director Mutasa Dzinotizei says these statistics are drawn from a survey held between 2011 and 2012, which shows that the other widely used figures were inaccurate.

Opponents unsure
Even the government’s opponents are unsure. While he was finance minister, Tendai Biti said those touting jobless numbers as high as 85% were “textbook economists” who ignored the informal market.

Yet, his own party puts the unemployment rate at 80%, saying that it may have peaked at 92%. Zanu-PF, in its election manifesto, put the rate at about 60%, higher than the official number.

What is not in dispute is that much of Zimbabwe’s formal economy has been decimated, replaced by a booming informal market. A Zimstat survey, which sampled more than 6-million people between the ages of 16 and 18, revealed that 22% of the population was in formal employment last year, while 57% were farmers or ran small businesses. About 3.7-million Zimbabweans had some sort of involvement in informal trade.

But labour expert and economist Charles Tembedza says the official data actually counts for little.

“What we agree on, and what you will not hear any of the bureaucrats argue with, is the fact that we are not creating the jobs that our young people need,” he says. “We should worry when our graduates take odd jobs to survive.”

According to the central bank, the informal sector now contributes between 60% and 70% to Zimbabwe’s gross domestic product, six times the level a decade ago.

Where graduates end up
As a sign of the growing informal sector, a new report by researchers Knowledge Transfer Africa found that about $14-million exchanged hands between January and June this year at Mbare Musika, the country’s largest vegetable market.

So this is where many of the country’s graduates end up; barely making a living, and not using any of the skills they have gained.

A survey by human resources experts Industrial Psychology Consultants shows that graduates are spending more than five years after graduating without formal jobs in their field of study.

When asked how they were earning a living, most graduates responded “by indicating some form of buying and selling. Many ideas were pointed out, like chickens, cellphones or some form of services they are offering to people”, the report said.

Says Memory Nguwi, who heads the company that did the research, “The huge disconnect between job creation and the skills supply is illustrated by a paradox of the current economy: persistent, high unemployment exists alongside severe skills shortages and unfilled positions in many companies.”

It is a situation car dealer Siziba knows too well. “The country needs our knowledge, but then, on the other hand, we are not needed.” Persistent high unemployment exists alongside severe skills shortages and unfilled positions in many companies

Capped by the president
It is a ritual most graduates look forward to: bending a knee in front of President Robert Mugabe and receiving a gentle tap on the head.

Despite the hostility among students, as campuses have long been a breeding ground for opposition politics, everyone still wants to graduate top of their class to qualify to be capped by the president.

“It’s kind of funny that we campaign a lot against him, against how he has ruined education, but still scramble for his blessing,” says blogger Tavaka Nyoni, who graduated with a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Zimbabwe last year. “It’s like much of Zimbabwe really; we say we despise him [Mugabe], but there is a secret admiration for him somewhere in there.”

Over the past few months, Mugabe has capped thousands of graduates from at least five universities across the country. Despite his age, it is not unusual for him to spend hours at each stop capping hundreds at a time.

He once capped thousands at two separate universities in a single day.

Last week, after capping more than 1 200 at the Chinhoyi University of Technology, the jubilant graduates broke into chants of “Gushungo” as he conferred degrees, state media reported. Gushungo is Mugabe’s totem, popular among his supporters.

In September, while capping more than 2 000 at the University of Zimbabwe, there was a similarly jubilant reaction among graduands. But the popular ritual is merely a passage for graduates from student to the ranks of the unemployed.

“Every time there is a graduation at any of Zimbabwe’s universities and colleges, the national unemployment rate goes up,” quipped Pride Mkono, the leader of the national students union, Zinasu, at its conference.

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