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scipher: Studies from South Africa have found that 11–20% of pregnancies in teenagers are a direct result of rape, while about 60% of teenage mothers had unwanted sexual experiences preceding their pregnancy. Before age 15, a majority of first-intercourse experiences among females are reported to be non-voluntary; the Guttmacher Institute found that 60% of girls who had sex before age 15 were coerced by males who on average were six years their senior.[citation needed] One in five teenage fathers admitted to forcing girls to have sex with them.[65]
Multiple studies have indicated a strong link between early
childhood sexual abuse and subsequent teenage pregnancy in
industrialized countries. Up to 70% of women who gave
birth in their teens were molested as young girls; by contrast,
25% for women who did not give birth as teens were
molested

Hey do not talk rubbish about my country
Where is your source and once again we have stats where Nigerian stats of abortion?

pappilo: Are you under 18? And to think 8 other people thanked you for this dumb comment. To say 'most' Nigerians emigrate just for the sake of it or just to 'travel out' as you put it is not only simplistic but it shows you dont have an understanding of real life issues hence my conclusion that you miust be a teenager.

My Uni pal lost his wife and daughter to the mob in SA in the last major xenophobic attack on Nigerians in that crime infested hell hole.

If only our leaders managed our human and natural resources properly, why would any of us leave that country with its
beaches, beautiful weather and food?

The more reasons he says they must leave the place, so why exactly are angry with for

niger2020: I can see most of the Nigerians throwing punches here have never lived in SA. And many posts here erred on blind patriotism. Some even comical. Nigerians are known to be smart pple because we redifine excellence and hardwork everywhere we found ourselves. However truth must be told that here in SA, because of d high rate of unemployment even among the locals,many Nigerians are not gainfully employed (some not employable). The situation here is that these youthful,exuberant, smartass Nigerian Niggas must survive. Not only survive but show pple at home they are 'making it'.
My dear brothers and sister Nigerians, the truth here is, WE SELL DRUGS,WE love-vendor,WE BRIBE,WE PAWN STOLEN GOODS,WE CON......name the vices, we do it all. And mind you All Nigerian major tribes are represented here except the Hausas. The Nigerian Ibos carry on their drug trafficking with reckless abandon: they sell to whoever wherever: they force young girls into prostitution. The Nigerian Yorubas are less daring, they are also guilty of same vices

I am just happy to seee that most Nigerians on NL are on the truth side now, we need to find ways to stop this getting out of hand. Some of us will be affected as our man are the ones who have to bear the stigma.

patriot4: SO what you are saying is; all other Africans hate Nigerians so anything done to them is justified.
South African blacks, you people are animals. Your white fellows were right to seperate you people from them.
You people deserve to live with dogs and to be treated like dogs.
And to think that we helped you guys makes me sick, a bunch of rapists, animals.

You're welcome!

patriot4: Look, if you bring us a proof someone commited an offence then we are ready to condemn, but if you just go out maltreating our peaople and expect us to condemn those people wwhile you brought no proof against them then nobody will join you to condemn.
And don't worry, I know my people, your companies will soon be history. And Watch for how your people living in Nigeria will soon be treated.

You know what your problem is? You people talk, talk, talk no action. You see now you say i know how my people are, are you expecting "your people to start" or are you going to start? Thats the difference between you and those SA people. Shame man, sad really!!!

gothrones: My sister, what if they are right? I have friends in SA who have never faced these problems all their lives. We can't just assume that our countrymen in SA are innocent of they charges levied against them; of course, we shouldn't assume that they are guilty either. In any case, we shouldn't make judgments until we have all the facts.

If SA was that bad, Nigerians would have abandoned the country, so there must be something there that they want.

Thats the only one is asking for open mind. Dont you think if Nigerians would make a strong statement against Nigerians who are misrepresenting Nigeria's good name even the communities would try find ways to work with Nigerian societies in SA to stop this.

speedyboi: Continue dreaming. Multichoice or crappy MTN doesn't contribute 1/100 to the employment in Nigeria. We won't notice their absence infact

Well kick them out joor, no one is stopping you.

speedyboi: Our Police don't tie innocent citizens to a van and drag them around town

Thats true they do worse than that they kill more than sixty people and dump their bodies in a river

[quote author=igbo_barbie]I wish every Nigerian would leave that horrible place. I don"t understand why they can never act civilised towards other human beings. If ever South Africa gets into trouble one day, because of the way they have treated many countries that have helped them, they will surely be on their own. Wicked people.[/quote]Not more wicked than those who feed kids with drugs and when they are hooked turn them into prostitutes. And for your information all of other African countries are on our sde when it comes to Nigerian crimes, trust me.

[quote author=c.fours]na today. Even within Nigeria, that's what they do.
By 'they', I am referring to Ndubisi, Emuchay, Nkechukwu Anyene and his fellow people.

dealing in shady schemes and then accusing people of 'envy and jealousy' when they refuse to tolerate your rubbish. At least, why not go back to your place of birth in the east and sell drugs there.

funny how he (Ndubisi) calls himself a spokesman for 'Nigeria"[/quote]It's really very unfortunate that they would choose to burry their heads in the sand and ask to look away, instead of condemning the act by some of their people as much as we condemn tha act of violance against others.

patriot4: SO I guess what you mean is that no matter what the community does, it must be justified. Surely those people must be criminals.
Even their kids must be criminals. You know what, I don't want to argue, let Nigerians just do the same in Nigeria.
Let us nationalize South African companies, let us do it as a community. Surely our actions will also be justified.
And let our communities chase South Africans out of their houses in Nigeria. Because according to you it is justified.
And your attempt to use sentiments on us by bringing boko haram to this matter has failed. All we are asking for people in the north is to report boko haram to the authorities. Actually the people in Nigeria acting like those your mob people is boko haram themselves, because they are busy killing christians and
southerners while blaming them for any ill of the north.

Your thinking seems to evade/dodge logic, I have said beforenot only Nigerians were target but local gangsters who were attacked and killed,
I have also said do as you please to the SAcans in Nigeria and nationalise their companies. All the SA companies in Nigeria are listed so the implications you have also thought about and can handle I am sure. Again becareful of not cutting your nose to spite your face.

And besides if in Africa alone a poll among all the AU countries would be taken it will all indicate that more not all more Nigerians deal with drugs in all these countries than the natives. I rest my case.

all4naija: Later somebody would come around and expect me to have respect for South African blacks. Jeez! Not in this life time. Not in the present generation of things where they have consistently prove that they don't deserve to be respected.

This shows what is happening in that society they claimed is safer than Nigeria, yet foreigners are driven out of their homes and attacked. Foreigners are attacked on the streets for xenophobic inclinations,etc. This just proved to us these people have grouches in their hearts toward others. They are not people to live with with a free mind. They think they have it all the reason African immigrants are coming into their country so such people should be threatened and enslaved by all means possible.

Go with your evil intentions, Saffer(as they are called in this forum sometimes), blacks. We are watching you and recording your actions. They will be played back to you in due courses. Nemesis will catch up with you guys when you need Africans the most.

Really? Do not give yourself a heart attack broer, we do not give a dammn about your respect Nigerians who are involved in these thing do not respect themselves and other Nigerians who are proud and not criminal.

all4naija: These are the same people claiming their companies are milking Nigeria. Can you believe their very ways of reasoning is faulted? Jeez! These guys are way primitive than I thought somehow.

Please you are welcome to the same to South Africans who are doing criminal acts in Nigeria. You are even welcome to kick MTN, MULTICHOICE ETC out if you think they are being criminals. Unfortunately all4naija lost logic longtime ago so your calling anyone primitive is a projection here. Becouse your people will suffer more, how many jobs are created by just MTN in Nigeria? How many of those jobs are held by SAcans? Be carefull not to cut your nose to spite your face. WORD!

patriot4: So basically, what you are saying is that your police is corrupt so you must attack Nigerians.
And that every crime in your country is related to Nigerians.
SO basically you are here calling us names. And you think we should thank you !
I think we should do the same to South Africans living in Nigeria.
You must know your country owns many companies in Nigeria, what if we took those companies.

First of all, the Nigerians were not attacked but asked to leave these communities.
Secondly, most police are corrupt including Nigerian Police if not the most corrupt.
Thirdly,in any community in South Africa especially township people know who is doing what, as they buy and sell for these people otherwise they would not be staying there unless they saw a market.
I advise them to leave if not for a while to allow the anger of the community to die down.
Then they should approach the Civic organization in those comunities if they dispute that they are not dealing with drugs and then come back. Communities have right to expell criminals in their places where their families reside especially if they are being a nuessance and danger to their kids.
This is what I am saying. Unfortunately the government cannot do everything as they do not stay with these criminals communities do.
If your communities were not hiding and covering for boko horams which they without a doubt know who they are, you problems with BH would be halfway sorted than asking the goverment to do the work risk the slaughter of innocent lives, unless BH have sighs on their forehead.

Bad Attitude: [b]“All the members of the community had a meeting on Friday on the need to curb the selling and usage of drugs in the community. On Saturday a teenager committed suicide in a police custody and by Sunday some members of the community led by the ANC Youth League leader came to our houses asking us to leave the community.


“They said we are the ones selling drugs to their children. They destroyed and looted our property and one Nigerian was seriously beaten and is on admission in a hospital in Johannesburg now,” Ndubisi said.
He said that the attack, which targeted Nigerians only, can be attributed to envy and jealousy about the success of Nigerian businesses in the community amidst poverty and unemployment among South Africans living in the community.

Reacting to the attack, the Nigerian Consulate in Johanneburg, South Africa today criticised what it described as the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living in the country.

Mr. Okey Emuchay, the Consulate-General of Nigeria in Johannesburg, said in Springbok, in the Northern Province of South Africa, that labelling all Nigerians in the country as drug dealers was “unacceptable.”
Emuchay said that it was the duty of the South African police to provide safety for South Africans and foreigners living in the country.

“We are not asking for too much from the South African government, it is the duty of the South African police to provide safety and security for every one living in South Africa.

“The Nigerian government will not send the Nigerian police to come and protect our nationals just like the South African government will not send her police to protect South Africans living and working in Nigeria.[/b]

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/05/30/south-africans-chase-nigerians-out-of-their-homes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PmNewsNigeria+%28PM+News+Nigeria%29

I am afraid that our country is going to be on the news again but unfortunately as a result of false reporting and manipulation of media by criminals who always use the democratic status of any country that is their host. The piece written above could not be much further than the truth, as it is now. Before we all come and call South African names and insults, my advice is to get all the facts as there are always three sides to any story and once you get all the facts put yourself, your family and your community in the same position if then you honestly think you would not react to this the same way some people have reacted then you are among the few better people in this world.

Before attacking my response understand that I do not condone people being attacked and respect even the fact they were told they must leave rather tan attacking them. I so wish Africa had a better solution to its problems either than destroying other people to survive.

The bolded above is a lie. As the raids started with communities raiding local gangsters who have been terrorizing and killing people in their communities, a dozen of some of the culprits who are South Africans were attacked and currently in hospital and two others died. And because of the realization that their communities were turning into crime havens and the root of all that was drug addiction which leaves the addicts ready t kill everyone and anyone including family members to score more drugs.

Coming to the Nigerians being targeted especially the ones in these communities are very much known to be selling drugs and are pimped by their customers in the same communities. So to say that police must arrest them it will not help as they will always hide the drugs before raids as the same police are corrupt and will take a bribe and tip the drug dealers about upcoming raids.

South African democracy has very bitter sweet to especially black South Africans, drugs were never know to be used or even accessible to these communities especially kids as young as 12 years old. the drug of choice even then used by older criminals who have been jailed was weed and mandrax. Unfortunately lately it is unbearable to see the increasing levels of crime, rape and murder in the country perpetuated against the young and old in these communities.

For once I would like to see Nigerians all over the world condemning the sale of drugs and the child trafficking done by Nigerians in other countries. I am not saying only Nigerians do this but most local drug dealers and traffickers are affiliated with Nigerians somewhere some how. I know many of you will say why are kids taking drug they are not forced but why are teenagers having sex or do anything that they are not suppose to do? That is an Adamic question really.

So instead of shouting they 'hate us and are jealous of us' why don't you condemn this horrible act? There are great Nigerians in South Africa that occupy very high positions in public and private business,business owners etc, who are working hard to make their mark and improve the image of the Nigerian people in the country unfortunately the criminal ones are making it hard for the others to do so because they bare the same Nigerian tittle. And these people would be protected by the same communities if anyone would try and touch them. like a guy who has tire centre in some township in Cape Town and many others like him, they are known by their trade and are respected and loved,as result I do not see anyone who can accuse them and not be attacked by the communities. their communities would defend them with their lives.

so before you assume that South Africans are brainless when you have all the brains, why don't use them for once... JUST ONCE!!! As much as this saddens me it also saddens me that we are also in our own private war with our brothers, sisters who are completely massed up by drugs and seemingly no one cares as long as the can shout XENOPHOBIA to continue their inhuman way of making money.

Unfortunately South Africans do not let things be, they believe in sorting things out!

May God help us all!

Just weeks after winning the Miss USA title as the first native of Africa, Meriwether will encounter yet another "first" ––being an honorary spokesperson at the Ambassadors Inaugural Ball. "It is still such an honor to be around such powerful people. I am humbled to be invited," says Meriwether, who attended school with the nation's political elite. One thing she doesn't have to worry about is what she'll wear. "The Miss Universe Organization has a fabulous team of stylists, hair and makeup," says Meriwether. Here, the reigning beauty tells us all about it. ESSENCE.COM:

What does your South African heritage mean to you and what is the significance of being the first native of Africa to reign as Miss USA?

MERIWETHER: It was such a gift growing up with a South African mother. It gave me an international perspective that allowed me to be open in considering other countries and travel. With the title of Miss USA, you get a lot of exposure. I look forward to educating and exposing people to what Africa truly is. Before I was Miss USA I: Was an elite athlete, student and business owner. I did my undergraduate in political science at UCLA, where I was a member of the women’s volleyball team. I played professionally in Puerto Rico and trained in Colorado Springs for the 2008 Olympic Games, after breaking three NCAA records, leading UCLA to a Final Four and becoming a two-time NCAA All-American in college. After UCLA, I completed post-graduate, premedical science classes and the MCAT at The University of Southern California. I am now eligible to apply to medical school. I also founded a social media marketing and management firm called The Epicure Group.

One thing I'm looking forward to as Miss USA now is:
Traveling.
My mother is South African. I hope to make a trip to southern Africa during my reign.

My stage style is:
Fierce but fun. Worst fashion mistake I ever made during my pageant career is: Listening to other people and not being comfortable in what I am wearing. I have learned when it comes to fashion, it is important to maintain a sense of yourself.

My personal style is:
Colorful resort style.

I cannot live without:
My Melania Trump jewelry line gold watch that Donald Trump gifted me at Trump Tower after I was crowned Miss USA.

One fashion trick I learned behind the scenes at pageants:
It is not something that I have learned, rather that I have developed on my own. This tip goes for styling in everyday life as well! When it comes to fashion, I always look to have three major pieces to an outfit, whether it be a fabulous gown, earring and bracelet or thigh-high boot, statement necklace and tailored blazer. I always pick three major things to make sure my outfit is complete.

My favorite designers:
I love Rachel Roy and my stylist Alisha Crutchfield for helping me discover her amazing designs. I also think Max Azria of BCBG and Hervé Leger is a genius.

One item every girl should own:
A comfortable, yet colorful maxi dress.

My last purchase was:
Cotton spa gloves. After long days of work, events, workouts, charity work and appearances, I lather on my favorite lotion and slip on my cotton gloves to moisturize and treat myself.

The next item on my wish list:
I love to buy one statement bikini every year for summer. I usually buy it around this time (January-February) of year as motivation to get myself into the gym.

My fashion icons are:
A mix of Kate Middleton and Kim Kardashian.

Past beauty queens I admire:
Susie Castillo, Crystle Stewart and Shandi Finnessey.

Beauty secret I swear by:
I try to have a fresh juice or two everyday. My favorite combination would be an organic kale, cucumber, carrot, beet and ginger juice. I try to workout at least 4 to 5 times a week for at least half an hour. My workouts include vinyasa yoga and running in Central Park, even in the winter!

I feel most sexy when I’m wearing:
Bold colors, especially in New York. It is so easy to settle into an all-black wardrobe. I make it a point to incorporate color as much as I can.

One thing you don't know about me is: My pant inseam is 38 inches. At about 6 feet tall (72 inches), my legs are more than half the total length of my body.

http://m.essence.com/2013/01/17/fashion-qa-miss-usa-nana-meriwether/

I am really strugling to post the potrait picture! Will post once i find a way to. Or check.the links.

Johannesburg -A South African artist has managed to produce one of the largest reflection’s of the country’s biggest icon. But despite the global interest, he wants to keep it right at home. It took Paul Blomkamp hundreds of hours of inspiration, creativity and plain old hard work to get this masterpiece finished. In fact, he doesn’t even have the space to display it, in its full glory --and it has never even left his studio. His work is a representation of Nelson Mandela on a massive scale --measuring 4.2 metres by 4.2 metres --using acrylic paint. However, it is not just any piece. It comes together as one artwork when the nine canvases are attached. The artist isn’t putting a price on the work, even though he’s already been offered millions by foreign art lovers. Blomkamp has his heart set on on only selling it to a local buyer. “I got very ill and I realised I needed a lot of energy and I read up a lot of books," said Blomkamp. "We are made up of bits of scintillating energy and that’s what I wanted to paint --not just a cosmetic face. "And Mandela, more than anyone else we know, has used this current of energy in such a way that he has allowed kindness and peace and tolerance. "I wanted this strength and it forced me to look inwards.”

http://www.enca.com/life/epic-madiba-artwork-looking-home-sa

Cape Town –To mark Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday in July, the largest ever portrait of the former president by South African artist Paul Blomkamp is up for sale, reports The Huffington Post.

The portrait of Mandela, who raised concerns about his health after being hospitalised with a lung infection in March, is 4.2m x 4.2m and is priced at R2.75m.

The portrait took 14 months to complete and consists of acrylic paints on nine individual canvasses. Blomkamp told Huffington Post that he "wanted to capture Mandela's legendary smile in perpetuity. He has one of the most captivating faces I have seen."

'Viewed from space'

Blomkamp created this painting, together with paintings of Oprah Winfrey and Richard Branson to launch his "Mandela Head in the Karoo" Project, he said on his Facebook page.

The project is set to measure 50x50km and will consist of millions and millions Karoo schrubs planted and arranged "as to exactly replicate the face of Mandela". "It will endure as a living memorial to the qualities this great man has shared so uniquely with the World.

The 'HEAD' will also be viewed from space and images will be constantly relayed back to Earth to provide an ongoing animated image of Mandela's face that will last for as long as our Planet spins in our Universe."

At the age of 19, Blomkamp was commissioned to produce the (then) largest stained glass window in the world and has gained fame for his stained glass work on sky scrapers and churches in the Gauteng area. The portrait of Nelson Mandela is being sold via VeryFirstTo in London. In the photo below, Blomkamp stands next to the finished work of his Nelson Mandela
portrait:

http://www.channel24.co.za/News/Local/Huge-Mandela-portrait-to-mark-95th-bday-20130516

bestview: You know some people, their brain and sense of reasoning has been eroded by this 'amala and oil soup'. you don't expect them to reason well. Even the nemesis of bringing campus cultism and shading of human blood is haunting that silly old fool.


Here are the two greatest African.

One is Father of Modern African Literature, the other is
father of African Liberation.

This should be in the jokes section. How many people take photos with Mandela? This does not under play their connection but proves shiitt!

And by the way he is no father of African liberation but a father to a Nation, period!

purpleclouds: If he doesn't know who he is why make a statement on his passing? Lots of people die, lots of famous Africans die why no statement from Mandela if its just "PR".

Even with the fall of apartheid you people still receive substandard education lmao.

Do you know how many people get statements issued from Mandela's desk? Its not him personally that responded according to mentioned article. Their PR does all the statements on his behalf. Are you really this dummmb or you are pretending to be? And if Mandela knows him does that mean I have to know him? Logic please!

DerideGull: I suggest you stop flaunting your crass ignorance in the public arena.

Do not do exactly what Soyinka spoke of about Nigerians. Do not push your luck. I do not have to know shiiittt about an igbo nigerian writter if his effects never touch my shores. My appology aludes not in any way to my ignorance but to my superiority of being able to say I am sorry when I have made in error in spelling of a man's name wrong which is a light years aways from you on your kind. Back offf!

DerideGull: I suggest you stop flaunting your crass ignorance in the public arena.

Do not do exactly what Soyinka spoke of about Nigerians. Do not push your luck. I do not have to know shiiittt about an igbo nigerian writter if his effects never touch my shores. My appolgy does not alude to my ignorance but my superiority of being able to say I am sorry when I am wrong which a light years aways from you on your kind. Back offf!

bestview: Maybe the below can help:



"American publishing and media company Forbes has named Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe better known as Chinua Achebe as the most influential celebrity in Africa.

Achebe ranks number one out of a list of 40 most influential celebrities which also includes actors, cerebral authors, musicians, movie producers, supermodels, TV personalities and athletes selected from all across the continent of Africa. The second position is occupied by Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour, while the third position by Ivorian footballer and Chelsea FC centre forward Didier Drogba"

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/achebe-is-africa%E2%80%99s-most-powerful-celebrity-forbes/

This has shown that Achebe remains the greatest African that affected lives all over the world. People all over the world tagged him the father of modern African Literature because of how is depth he works affected them unlike every other write of his time. The simple fact is that soyika is very bitter and jealous of Achebe towering profile even in death.

Its admireable to see Nigerians embracing any research or maybe when its favourable to them? I am happy to hear this sometimes South Africa misses up on all of these news. My bad again.

shymexx: I'm not lying, woman!

Steve Biko's still alive in our consciousness. Black consciousness and the way he defined it, is definitely what will take Africa to the "promised land." Black consciousness is now an ideology, a doctrine, a struggle, and a way of life. And the man was like 26/27 years old when he coined that term and defined what it should be about. The soul of Steven Bantu Biko lives on!!! He was the greatest!!

You are not getting away with this that easy! Post your Mandela is a Father of Africa article!

DerideGull: Even drooling dingbats know about Chinua Achebe. Only an imbecilic ninny would write Achebe Chunebe as Chinua Achebe. Intellectuals have midgets among them too.

Am sorry for the misspelling. My bad!