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THE EDITOR: As we say goodbye to 2021 and usher in the new year, the Patriotic Organisation of Trinbago sums up the activities of our citizens in 2021 as patriotic. Following calls for unusual but necessary measures in the battle against covid19, we rallied to the cause and rose to the occasion, even where we … Continue reading Honouring our patriots
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The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
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The new Malawi Electoral Commission, MEC, chief Chifundo Kachale also urged the public to observe necessary legal processes in dealing with electoral grievances.
June 23: Malawians vote in crucial presidential poll rerun despite virus
\tVoters in Malawi have already started casting their ballots today in crucial presidential election rerun pitting incumbent Peter Mutharika and opposition coalition leader Lazarus Chakwera.
Malawi joins a number of African countries that went ahead with elections despite the virus .
Confirmed cases = 749
\t\tActive cases = 480
\t\tRecoveries = 258
\t\tNumber of deaths = 11
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John Hopkins Uni stats valid as of June 22, 2020
\tU.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on “all political actors and stakeholders to renew their commitment to credible and peaceful elections, while observing all preventive measures against the spread of COVID-19,” the U.N. spokesman said.
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\tA number of local and international organizations will observe the new elections, in an effort to make sure that they are free and fair, the newly-elected chairman of the Malawi Electoral Commission Chifundo Kachale said.
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Ukhozi FM has assured listeners nothing will stop the announcement of the winners of its popular Ingoma Ehlukanisa Unyaka campaign.
As we kick off the new year, now is a great time to get your finances in order. Keep in mind you might not be able to check off every strategy this year, but as the viral car salesman Durell Smylie put it, you are well on your way to \"where the money reside\" with these financial strategies for 2021 and beyond.
CHAOS rocked the start of the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) June “O” and “A” Level examinations which started yesterday, with teachers’ unions claiming government hired “villagers and ancillary staff” to invigilate the public examinations after most of their members boycotted over poor working conditions.
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou yesterday told NewsDay that
schools in rural areas had resorted to hiring villagers to supervise the examinations, raising questions about the integrity of the examinations.
At Vhembe Secondary School in Matabeleland South province, district officials invigilated the examinations, while in other areas including Zvishavane, Mberengwa, Karoi, Mutare, Uzumba, Maramba and Pfungwe, parents were hired to invigilate the examinations after teachers failed to turn up.
He added: “There are reports from the rural areas of schools that enticed some villagers to come and invigilate under the supervision of at least a teacher in every class and some heads have sent an SOS through Parent Teacher Associations (PTA) for villagers with 5 ‘O’ Levels to report to schools for consideration as invigilators.
Another sad development was recorded in schools in border areas, where some candidates just sneaked in from other countries and went straight into examination rooms with others.
The Tanzania government revoked the publication and circulation licence for Tanzania Daima, a daily newspaper that is associated with opposition leader Freeman Mbowe.
The United States embassy in Tanzania on June 25 condemned the “revocation of the media licence of an opposition party newspaper.”
The Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) and Tanzania Editors Forum (TEF) issued a joint statement terming the government’s decision as “sad” and one that curtails media freedom and freedom of expression.
“We have said consistently, as we hereby reiterate that the Governance and Rule of Law Media Services Act (MSA) is a bad law because it allows the government to be complainant, prosecutor and judge of its own case”, said the statement that added that the decision leaves no room for fairness in dispensing justice.
Tanzania Daima, which is known for its criticism of the government, is published by Free Media Ltd, a company that is 75 per cent owned by Lilian Mtei, the wife of the main opposition party, Chadema, chairman Freeman Mbowe.
For those who use the Gregorian calendar, they are nearly a week into the new year and Christmas was on December 25, 2020, but for Coptic Christians in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Egypt who abide by the Julian calendar, they celebrated Christmas on Thursday, January 7, as observed by the Coptic Orthodox Church. Christmas marks the...
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The statement came barely 24-hours after Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said it summoned Ethiopia’s diplomat to the country over a cross-border attack allegedly conducted by a militia backed by Ethiopia’s military.
Ethiopian farmers have for years planted crops in Sudan’s al-Fashqa border area but the government of former President Omar al-Bashir had tolerated the incursions.
Sudanese transitional authorities, who took over after the military’s ouster of al-Bashir last year amid months long protests, have recently engaged in talks with Ethiopia to withdraw Ethiopian farmers behind Sudanese borders.
Brig. Amer Mohammed al-Hassan, a spokesman for the Sudanese military, said in the statement that a militia backed by Ethiopia’s military attempted to take water from the Atbara River, setting off a heavy exchange of fire with Sudanese forces guarding the area.
Border tensions between the two countries have heated up recently with repeated attacks targeting Sudanese troops.
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[Monitor] The government is proposing to test all teachers for Covid-19 ahead of school reopening.
The poor treatment of healthcare workers compromises the quality of health care and, in turn, results in the system being ill-prepared for Covid-19, Oxfam South Africa says.
\"The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has put into sharp focus, and exacerbated, a number of inequalities and fragilities that haunt the healthcare system and constrain it from delivering on its mandate in terms of the South African Constitution and regional and international human rights law in terms of the right to health,\" an Oxfam SA report on health inequality reads.
According to the report, the South African healthcare system hangs on the edge of a cliff because a \"a profit-seeking private healthcare sector, combined with underinvestment in an unaccountable public healthcare sector and gaps in labour policy, has driven unfair practices in the South African healthcare sector\".
It further found that, in the public sector, one nurse served 200 patients and one community health worker served 101 households, while 70% of the country’s doctors were in the private sector, creating an unequal and elitist healthcare system.
After highlighting gaps in policy and implementation which led to the right to decent and dignified work for nurses and community health workers being compromised, the report made several recommendations:
\"If implemented, these recommendations stand to address the key barriers to decent work that female healthcare workers face.
Residents of Pear Tree Grove and surrounding areas in the Troja Division in St Catherine are expressing shock and dismay that they were ordered to discontinue their Labour Day project by the Riversdale Police.
According to residents, the project, which sought to clean two tanks and construct steps to the catchments, was conceived about three months ago and the decision was taken that it would be carried out on Labour Day.
Against this background, we decided as members of the community that we would pool our resources and remedy the problem as a Labour Day project,\" Thomas said.
\"When I was informed that the residents were carrying out this project of interfering with municipal corporation water source, unknown to me as the sitting councillor, I immediately contacted the mayor and he informed me that nobody sought authorisation from him and he did not issue any approval for the project,\" Councillor for the Troja Division William Cytall told The Gleaner.
\"In my view, this can be seen a normal Labour Day project where citizens pooled their resources to help themselves to effect changes and solve community problems.
BY TAFADZWA KACHIKO ACTOR Blessing Chimhowa, famed for his role as Mbudziyadhura in the hilarious drama series Gringo, has revealed that he was suffering from depression caused by economic woes and a family row over a child from his first marriage. Mbudziyadhura, who played a key role in the iconic drama and his wife Agnes Nangara told NewsDay Life & Style that he was suffering from abdominal complications that saw him being rushed to a Gweru clinic last week. He is now recovering from home, but in need of medication. “My husband’s stomach problem (suffering from gastritis) was activated by depression. The depression was caused by a lot of things,” Nangara said. “The doctor said it was gastritis, depression triggered the acid reflux.” “Right now, he is improving, someone bought him medication, Fortune World Stem Cell for one course. He still needs more medication which costs US$125 to fully recover and he was prescribed a special diet,” she said. The actor, who is now based in Hozheri, Gweru, concurred with his wife, saying he was, however, not ready to reveal much. “It’s a personal issue. In short, it is about the disappointment over my first-born child from my first marriage. This happened at the end of 2019 and we relocated last year. Another factor is economic hardships affecting almost everyone,” he said. “I am recovering. At least I got some of the prescribed medicine. I was also involved in an accident in 2019 and this caused complications in my stomach. I was even operated on. I remember I spent six hours in the theatre and for three days I was on coma. This stomach problem didn’t totally end.” His manager and long-time friend Paradzai “Sekuru Para” Makosa was initially not keen to comment on the matter describing it as “something out of his job description”, but later said: “What happened two years ago is really a family issue. I am not a doctor, but I believe many factors also led to his current situation. He is being treated for gastritis and some of the causes are actually stress related. Losing employment surely could have contributed, among other factors.” “Ideally lack of a steady income, having no medical insurance, change of environment could have caused this. Finally, family disputes that occurred in 2019 also dampened things and he takes all the blame. On the positive side, the free unpolluted air in the countryside is helping with the healing.” Follow us on Twitter @NewsDayZimbabwe
Renaming CA State Park Negro Bar, Formerly “Ni**er Bar”
In northern California, a movement to study and correct local symbols deemed racist is brewing around one of the Bar is an area located within the Folsom Lake State Recreation Area near Sacramento.
At Negro Bar, the Black miners struck gold in 1850, one to two ounces for each man on the average per day, according to an article published in the now-defunct Sacramento Placer Times.
Clarence Caesar, a Black historian at California State Library’s California Historical and Cultural Endowment said Negro Bar is the state’s “first Black gold mining site.”
Negro Hill, listed No. 570 in California Historical Landmarks Program, was an established community for African American, White, Asian, Spanish, and Portuguese miners founded by a Black man named “Kelsey.”
More Monument Removals Around California
The Statewide Coalition Against Racist Statues (SCARS) and numerous social justice partners celebrated the removal of the Capt. John Sutter statue from Sutter Park in Sacramento.
WHAT a low-spirited start to the New Year it has been. All the dark episodes of 2020, with all the grief and death seem to have spilled to 2021 with COVID-19 arguably the worst nightmare. This time, it appears it is more deadly and has a strong appetite to devour judging by the soaring numbers of infections and deaths. After the reckless partying that ushered merrymakers into the New Year, authorities had to act and indeed, the lockdown was the only viable action. The swift reaction by the government to impose a lockdown that includes closure of bars, bottlestores, gyms and other facilities could not have come at a better time. It was timely and life-saving but of course with its own negativity. In the last week alone, Zimbabwe recorded 1 342 COVID-19 cases and 29 deaths, representing the highest number of cases recorded to date. On January 2, 2021, 407 new cases were recorded and eight deaths and such numbers are nothing to ignore. The reality we all feared is with us now. COVID-19 is a killer and is ravaging communities hence the need to stop the recklessness that had taken centre stage. The lockdown will, however, mean nothing if there is no proper enforcement and this time, vigilance is needed by enforcers. Of course we are not saying the military and police should use maximum force that borders on human rights violations like we witnessed last year. Soaring cases, particularly in the last two months have risen to terrifying levels and we have been waiting for the government to act. Government was relaxed in that period with some of its officials posting on their social media platforms pictures of themselves partying, completely oblivious of COVID-19 regulations. That was inexcusable recklessness by Cabinet ministers at a time the people needed to be shepherded into responsible behaviour. As if such carelessness by ministers was not enough, President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed hundreds of Zanu PF supporters in Chivi, Masvingo province, exposing them to the deadly disease. Well, that is now in the past but the point remains that it is incumbent upon the leadership to lead by example so that the followers will follow responsibly. We also witnessed towards the end of the year a “super-spreader” event in the form of a chaotic MDC-T extraordinary congress and that Thokozani Khupe was immediately taken ill after the indaba. This is no longer a joke and the deaths, some of them of prominent people in the last two days, should be enough lessons for authorities to act responsibly. Thankfully, the lockdown is a step in the right direction. It will, however, come to naught if it ends just as a lockdown without putting in place other measures including availing ventilators in hospitals and improving testing for the virus. In these trying times, we must not forget those in the frontline, the health workers who are daily exposed to COVID-19 as they try to save lives. The government needs to act and provide all the necessary support. It is a fight we must win together, and we will.
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GALVESTON, Texas – If there was ever a fear of the novel coronavirus and spread of COVID-19, that was not made clear last weekend in Galveston, as the island was flooded with bumper-to-bumper traffic on the first day the beaches were reopened.
Images shared on social media appeared to show the beaches and seawall were reminiscent of the old “beach party” or holiday weekends as thousands flocked to Galveston on May 1.
Health officials recommend that the guidelines for social distancing – not gathering in groups of more than 10 and remaining six feet between individuals – be adhered to, but that was clearly not practiced.
The fear is that the lack of caution will place the general population in harm’s way.
“The risk, of course, is that we could see a resurgence of COVID-19 in a big way.
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Hospital operator, the Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA), has reported the incident to the police, while the M Secure company suspended the guard.
The MBDA provided News24 with an incident report drafted by M Secure director Kaashief Niekerk who said two companies were responsible for security at the facility.
He added his company was responsible for internal security at the isolation facility, while another company, HRG, guarded the stadium's outer perimeter.
\"It is deducted that Mr Doch passed the internal security checkpoint unnoticed as a result of the M Secure officer not being at his post.
Niekerk said Doch left the stadium at 14:30 on Friday, but the incident was only reported to M Secure's management at 17:00 during the changing of shifts.
