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BY MOSES MATENGA POLICE yesterday said only those classified as essential service providers would be allowed to travel into city centres for the next 30 days as government intensifies measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 which has already stretched the country’s health delivery system. Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said those who defied the directive would be arrested while warning against failure to put on face masks. “In view of the revised COVID-19 regulations announced by the government, the police reiterates that only employees in the essential service sectors such as health, security, food distribution, banking institutions, mining services, communication and telecommunications, agricultural production will be allowed to pass through checkpoints and roadblocks,” Nyathi said. Zimbabwe goes into lockdown starting today as announced by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga at the weekend. The lockdown was necessitated by a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases in the last two months. On Sunday, Zimbabwe recorded 774 new cases and three deaths. The country has recorded over 380 deaths to date. “Police will effect arrests on anyone who will be found in public places such as supermarkets, banks, pick-up points and others without wearing or improperly putting on masks and not practising social distancing,” Nyathi said. Those in the essential service include health workers who police said should be in uniform and in possession of identity documents while those in civilian attire should produce a letter from their employers stating the place, dates and times of reporting for duty. “Members of the public, entities in the essential services sectors such as food distribution and retailers, mining, communication and telecommunications, agricultural production, security companies as pronounced by government and the media are advised that after consultation with the COVI-19 ministerial taskforce, movement and exemption letters will be issued by the Ministry of Industry,” the police said. Commercial A2 and A1 farmers should carry with them offer letters or lease agreements while communal farmers need letters from the headmen or village heads. On buying food, Nyathi said: “There is no need for movement exemption letters for those going to buy or restock foodstuffs or medication within a five-kilometre radius from place of residence, unless there is no such establishment within that radius or needed service is not available there, in which case, one may obtain it from the nearest location to his or her home.” l Follow Moses on Twitter @mmatenga
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
Police yesterday nabbed five men suspected of being part of a vehicle theft and smuggling syndicate. BY PRAISEMORE SITHOLE The thieves were caught after they allegedly smuggled a stolen white Toyota Hilux single cab vehicle from South Africa and drove it to Zimbabwe, but they ran out of fuel along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi yesterday confirmed the arrest. “A white Toyota Hilux single cab was stolen in South Africa on December 3 and it was driven to Zimbabwe. Police managed to arrest five suspects in Mazunga area,” Nyathi said without naming them. “The area where they were arrested is 255km along Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road, after the vehicle had run out of fuel. Investigations are still in progress.” Nyathi said they had received a report from the South African side that a hired car had gone missing. “We received a report that a white Hilux which belonged to a car rental company had been hired on December 3 and was supposed to be returned on December 4. The car was not returned and on December 5 a report was made to the Beitbridge Police that a vehicle was missing. “The five were caught when they tried to refuel the car after they had run out of fuel. Investigations are still ongoing.” In 2018, a 63-year-old South African national Willem Schalk Janzen-Root was jailed for seven years in Zimbabwe over vehicle smuggling charges. Janzen-Root was believed to be part of a vehicle trafficking syndicate which uses Zimbabwe as a transit route for luxury cars from South Africa for resale in other countries. Follow Praisemore on Twitter @TPraisemore
A Black Alabama man, who claims he was adopted by a white family, joined his fellow group members on Wednesday to counter-protest an activist group calling for the removal of a Confederate monument in front of the Marshall County courthouse. Speaking to WHNT, Daniel Sims, a member of the Captain John Rayburn Camp 452 Sons...
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In a statement, the Judiciary said it set up two temporary courts at the Kasarani Stadium to handle cases related to violation of Covid-19 rules.
The said courts were set up on May 7 following deliberation between the Chief Justice, the Director of Public Prosecution and the Ministry of sports in a move aimed at curbing the spread of the virus within the corridors of justice.
“As the Covid-19 cases are being prosecuted, the judiciary is maintaining the Health ministry regulations by maintaining social distancing and at the same time ensuring that court users and accused persons have water, soap sanitisers and masks for prevention measures,” said Milimani Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi.
Since Kenya confirmed its first case of coronavirus, the Judiciary shut down court rooms and only gave room for few very cases for plea taking to be taken in open spaces.
On May 6, Chief Justice David Maraga announced that a total of 7,000 judgments had been so far delivered ever since the judiciary shut down physical court rooms and embarked on delivering justice through use of technology.
Refugees can't renew permits because offices are closed
A Zimbabwean asylum seeker says First National Bank (FNB) froze his account when his asylum papers expired during lockdown in spite of explanations from the Department of Home Affairs that refugee offices are closed.
The Department of Home Affairs issued a statement on 14 April saying: \"Any asylum seeker whose visa expired from 16 March 2020 to the end of the lockdown period will not be penalised or arrested provided that they legalise their visa within 30 calendar days of the lockdown being lifted\".
He said he had visited FNB in March and been told the accounts had been frozen for \"authenticity verification\" with Home Affairs.
In an email to GroundUp on 20 May, FNB spokesperson Yashen Singh said, \"FNB can confirm that its foreign national customers' bank accounts are managed in accordance with the relevant laws, including the temporary concession issued by the Department of Home Affairs.\"
Asked why the bank is freezing asylum seekers' accounts in spite of the Home Affairs announcement, another spokesperson, Tsietsi Mahlasela told GroundUp on the phone on 20 May that she could not comment without the personal information of each complainant.
She announced Wednesday that her Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation will donate money to organizations dedicated to helping underserved communities in Chicago; Baltimore; Nashville, Tennessee; Milwaukee; and Kosciusko, Mississippi, where she was born.
“The reason I’m talking about it is because there is going to be a need for people of means to step up,” Winfrey said in an interview with The Associated Press.
In Nashville, where Winfrey lived with her father and started her media career, she is giving $2 million to NashvilleNurtures, a collaboration with Mount Zion Baptist Church and Tennessee State University, Winfrey’s alma mater.
In Baltimore, where Winfrey also built her media career, she’s donating money to Living Classrooms Foundation and Center for Urban Families.
Before giving out millions to others, Winfrey said she first helped the people closest to her.
Curfew to go into effect across Minneapolis-Saint Paul tonight at 8 pm
“It’s time to rebuild our community and that starts with safety in our streets,” said Governor Walz.
This is an important step to ensure safety, so we can begin to rebuild and seek justice for George Floyd.”
During the curfew, no one may travel on Minneapolis and Saint Paul streets or public places, except for first responders, members of the media, people going back and forth to work, individuals seeking emergency care or fleeing danger, and people experiencing homelessness.
Curfews are not limited to Minneapolis and St. Paul, mayors across the state can issue their own curfews.
The MACC will serve as a unified command of several different law enforcement and public safety agencies to support the state’s response.
So when a homeless man told Lester how difficult it was for people living on the streets to wash their hands to avoid catching or spreading the coronavirus, it was only natural for Lester to spring into action.
With those places closed down due to the pandemic, and with hand hygiene more important than ever, Lester decided the solution was to buy portable sinks and distribute them in public places where homeless people tend to gather.
The result was Love Sinks In, a campaign of Lester’s Atlanta-based nonprofit, Love Beyond Walls, which advocates for homeless and underserved populations.
The concept has been so well received that Lester has been recruited by homeless advocates in other cities to bring Love Sinks In to locations including Chicago, Dallas, and Austin; San Bernardino, California; Birmingham, Alabama; Columbus, Ohio; and various locations in New York, Nevada and Utah.
Lester, a father of two, has also written a book on the realities of homeless called “I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People.”
Capitol Hill — Commerce Minister Wilson Tarpeh has presented to the Liberian senate a working plan for the distribution of the government's food distribution.
Said the minister: \"The two amounts have been disbursed and the process is on the way to get it into the account of the World Food Program (WFP) head office in Liberia.
According to the Minister who chairs the COVID-19 national taskforce on food distribution, the previously-proposed USD$35 million budget for the project has been reduced to US$ 30 million, and of that amount, the World Bank is contributing US$5 million.
Minister Tarpeh, in response to a question about what economic impact the USD$30 million will have on the economy, said: \"Only five million will be spent locally for the purchase of local produce food that is expected to form part of the package which include; locally produced red oil, rice, and others.
Senator Varney Sherman (UP-Grand Cape Mount County) and Senator Daniel Naathen (ANC-Gbapolu County) called for the cancellation and rethinking of the plans and procedure leading to the distribution of the food and that of the money approved only five million will be used to impact the Country's economy.
The police yesterday said that on Saturday, Abel Vernon, 70, of Plantain Walk, West Bank Demerara was attacked by two males of Crane, West Coast Demerara and robbed.
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These nationwide spiking daily numbers has prompted many cities and counties to mandate wearing a face covering when in public spaces.
The Alabama Department of Public Health reported 964 new coronavirus cases in our state on Friday, June 26.
Because Jefferson County continues to see an increase of coronavirus cases, Dr. Mark Wilson, Jefferson County Health Officer has issued an order requiring face covering/mask to be worn when in public places in Jefferson County, Alabama.
The order went into effect Monday, June 29 at 5 p.m. Wilson said, “This order shall remain in effect until I’ve determined that public health conditions in the county warrant discontinuation or change in the order.”
Face covering are required by the Order at the following public spaces:
a. Indoor spaces of businesses or venues open to the general public, including but not limited to stores, bars and restaurants (see exception 3b) entertainment venues, public meeting spaces, government buildings, civic centers, etc.
Armed soldiers and police officers in the early hours of Wednesday placed Kwekwe central business district under virtual lockdown as commuters were not allowed to enter the city centre.
Thousands of residents who work in the CBD and others seeking various services in the city centre were left stranded after being turned away at security checkpoints leading into the central business district.
There were numerous security checkpoints into Kwekwe CBD manned by police and the army with residents in possession of exemption letters, ordered to go back home.
In Harare Monday, thousands of workers were also turned away at police and army checkpoints where they were told to stay home and join Mnangagwa in his National Day of Prayer and Fasting held on that day.
However, senior police and army officials have said they were unaware that people in possession of valid travel papers are being turned away and harassed at security checkpoints.
Today, he still considers himself on the front lines as the founder and executive director of the Social Justice Learning Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the education, health, and well being of youth and communities of color by empowering them to enact social change through research training and community mobilization.
One of the things the Social Justice Learning Institute recently did was partner with the Inglewood Unified School District to distribute bags of fresh fruit and vegetables to community members.
The Social Justice Learning Institute, which Scorza calls “small but mighty” with its $2.7 million annual budget, envisions communities where education empowers individuals to use the agency for the purpose of improving each other’s lives and to advocate for policies that address their needs.
In its quest to improve the community and its residents, the organization’s impact has built 103 gardens in the Los Angeles area, distributed 1,867 pounds of produce per year, has diverted 52,000 pounds of produce from landfills per year, led a $90 million bond campaign to improve Inglewood schools, it increased restorative justice funding in the Los Angeles Unified School District, advocated for statewide sugar-sweetened beverage fee and led community town halls, to bring more than 12,000 residents to talk about diabetes prevention.
In its efforts to empower through education, the Social Justice Learning Institute has taught more than 250 healthy lifestyle classes per year, enrolled 32 students at college campuses, and served 1,619 through its Urban Scholars program.
Government has unearthed corruption in the issuance of exemptions letters for travellers during the Covid-19 lockdown by officials in the Gweru District Development Coordinator's office.
While Government has generally relaxed the lockdown regulations, including the need for people to produce exemption letters at check points, security personnel at the check points can still demand to see them.
The office has since been ordered to stop issuing anymore travelling exemption letters to ordinary people and businesses during this Covid-19 induced lockdown.
In an interview yesterday, Midlands Provincial Development Coordinator Mr Abiot Maronge said they were looking into the alleged corruption in the issuance of travelling exemptions by officers in Gweru District Development Coordinator's office.
The Minister of State Security Owen Ncube recently warned Members of Parliament and councillors against issuing the travelling exemptions, saying only police and District Development Coordinators had the prerogative to issue the letters.
William W. Ferguson vs. Edward G. Gies
Supreme Court of Michigan
June 4, 1890, Argued
October 10, 1890, Decided
Prior History: Error to Wayne. (Gartner, J.) Argued June 4, 1890. Decided October 10, 1890.
Disposition: The judgment is reversed, and a new trial granted, with costs of both courts.
Case Summary:
Procedural Posture: Plaintiff customer appealed a judgment based on a jury verdict of the Wayne County Circuit Court (Michigan) in favor of defendant restaurant manager, in the customer’s action for damages for refusal of service because of his race.
Overview: The customer said he was denied service by the restaurant except in the saloon. The manager admitted that he refused to serve refreshments of any kind to the customer at the table where he sat, for no reason other than he was black. The Manager said seating was offered in a part of the restaurant, not the saloon, but situated in a more private place, as the bar could hide the cus-tomer from the view of those in the front part of the place. The trial court instructed the jury that the restaurant could reserve certain tables for white men, and others where black men would be served, providing was no unjust discrimination: and “full and equal” did not mean identical accommoda-tions, but substantially the same. On appeal, the court held that the fault of the instruction was that they permitted discrimination on account of race. The jury, under the manager’s own version, should have been instructed to find a verdict for the customer. 1885 Mich. Pub. Acts 130 gave the customer a civil action for damages. The only question that should have been submitted to the jury was the amount of the customer’s damages.
Outcome: The judgment was revered. A new trial was granted.
Syllabus: Case. Plaintiff brings error. Reversed. The facts are stated in the opinion.
Counsel: D. A. Straker, for appellant.
William Look and H. F. Chipman, for defendant.
Judges: Morse, J. The other Justices concurred.
Opinion By: Morse
Opinion: The defendant, at and before the
“I wear a leaf mask because I don’t have the money to buy a good one.
I wear a leaf mask because I don't have the money to buy a good one.
‘‘These are alternative masks, but ideally the government through the Ministry of Health should distribute the masks directly to the population in sufficient quantities.
Demand for masks shot up in Goma.
These masks will be distributed to public transport operators.
The three-hour show will be jam-packed with heavy hitters currently dominating the pop charts and streaming services, including DaBaby, Megan Thee Stallion, Roddy Ricch, Summer Walker, Kane Brown and Chloe x Halle.
The show is an annual celebration of Black entertainment and culture, and this year’s ceremony will be the first major awards show since the May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, which sparked global protests aimed at reforming police actions and removing statues and symbols considered racist from public places.
Megan Thee Stallion, who recently topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart with her Beyoncé-assisted “Savage” remix, is nominated for video of the year, best female hip-hop artist, best collaboration, the viewer’s choice award and album of the year for “Fever.”
An extraordinary cabinet meeting held on Tuesday, June 16, chaired by President Paul Kagame resolved that hotels be allowed to host gatherings, meetings and conferences effective immediately.
Tourism activities, meetings and all sorts of public gatherings at hotels have been banned since March 21st when the government imposed a total countrywide lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19.
\"Hotels shall continue operations and are encouraged to participate in domestic tourism promotion and offer conference services,\" the statement reads in part.
The statement stressed that all services offered at hotels must be offered in adherence with health guidelines.
The resolutions are expected be reviewed in fifteen days upon a health assessment, according to the cabinet statement.
Dear Editor,
The Essential Services Act provides for an Arbitration Tribunal for the settlement of disputes in Essential Services.
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Maputo — The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday registered a further 36 positive cases of the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease, raising the total number of people infected in the country since the start of the pandemic to 352.
Speaking in Maputo at the daily Health Ministry press conference on the Covid-19 crisis, the National Director of Public Health, Rosa Marleyn, said that so far 12,096 suspect cases have been tested in Mozambique, 529 of them in the previous 24 hours.
Three of the new cases, a boy under the age of 15 and two adult women, are from Maputo City, and two others, a boy under 15 and an adult woman, are from Marracuene district in Maputo province.
The distribution of positive Covid-19 cases by province, as of Thursday, was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 150; Nampula, 87; Maputo City, 60; Maputo Province, 24; Sofala, 12; Niassa, five; Tete, five; Inhambane, three; Gaza, three; Zambezia, two; Manica, one.
Samo Gudo regarded the increase in the number of children infected by the coronavirus, as a sign that the pandemic in Mozambique might be moving from its current classification as \"an epidemic with foci of transmission\" towards the far more dangerous phase of \"community transmission\", in which the disease will spread more widely, with a danger that a large number of cases, all needing medical assistance at the same time, could overwhelm the health service.
Rwamagana Leaders' School, a secondary school in the Eastern Province has undertaken a commendable initiative of supporting the community during the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak.
The privately-owned rural school has so far distributed 3,360 kilogrammes of maize flour, 1,780 kilogrammes of rice, 1,948 kilogrammes of beans and 636 litres of cooking oil to 690 families in Kigabiro Sector, Rwamagana District and it is looking forward to distributing more food supplies in the very near future.
We are currently sponsoring 94 secondary students to attend Rwamagana Leaders' School through the Rwanda School Project and we are looking forward to doing more of such deeds,\" said Moses Ssenyonjo, the Programme Director at the School.
According to the school administration, the supportive gesture can serve to give an example to their students of the kind of leaders they should be; and also remind other institutions that even amidst the many financial uncertainties; they can still do something to support the communities in which they operate.
Rwamagana Leaders' School is located in Kigabiro sector, Rwamagana district, about 60 kilometres away from Kigali City.
On February 2, 1955, New York Representative Adam Clayton Powell, then one of only three African Americans in the U.S. Congress, rose to argue that his colleagues should support two pending civil rights bills then before the House of Representatives. His speech appears below:
Mr. Speaker, the United States Congress is a 19th century body in a 20th century world. In the field of civil rights we are still conducting ourselves along the pattern of yesterdays world. Tremendous changes are taking place in our country eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship. Yet the United States Congress has done absolutely nothing in this sphere. We are behind the times. We are a legislative anachronism. In an age of atomic energy, our dynamic is no more powerful than a watermill.
The executive and the judicial branches of our Government have passed us by so completely and are so far ahead that the peoples of our Nation do not even look to the United States Congress any longer for any dynamic leadership in the field of making democracy real. So many changes, tremendous changes, have taken place under our Supreme Court and under the leadership of President Eisenhower that many of the civil rights bills which I used to introduce are no longer of any value. This year, for instance, I did not introduced the bill to abolish segregation in the Armed Forces--it was not needed. Nor did I introduce the bill to guarantee civil rights in the District of Columbia-it was not needed.
I think it highly significant to point out that the appointment of my distinguished colleagues, Representatives Diggs, of Detroit, Mich., and Dawson, of Chicago, Ill., to the Veterans Affairs Committee and the District of Columbia Committee, respectively, was due entirely to the changing climate.
Two years ago the leadership of this House, Republican or Democrat, would not have dared to place a Negro on either of these two committees because both were committees which dealt with segregation.
Our Veterans Administration rigidly maintained the bars
Maputo — The Mozambican government has warned that, if widespread defiance of the measures ordered under the state of emergency continues, then it may impose tougher restrictions to halt the spread of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.
At the end of a meeting in Maputo on Wednesday of the Council of Ministers (Cabinet), the government spokesperson, Deputy Justice Minister Filimao Suaze, said the government is \"deeply worried\" by the failure to comply with the preventive measures included under the state of emergency.
These measures include social distancing, the closure of bars, and other places that may attract crowds, a ban on most religious, political, cultural and sporting activities, limitations on the number of people that can be carried on public transport, avoiding crowds, and the obligatory wearing of masks in public places.
Suaze warned that \"disrespect for these recommendations will dictate that, over the coming week, and depending on the developments that may take place, another form of analysis will have to be undertaken, seeking to take other measures to reverse the scenario\".
He mentioned no specific measures - but the government could ban certain forms of travel, or it could take measures to ensure that people obey the injunction to stay at home.
Testing Without Doctor’s Order Now Available at All Baltimore County Testing Sites
Residents should call COVID-19 hotline for testing reservation
TOWSON, MD — Baltimore County will now offer COVID-19 tests at all of its testing sites without a doctor’s order.
Baltimore County Health Officer Dr. Gregory Branch has now issued a standing order for all County residents, enabling any resident wishing to receive a test to do so.
The Hotline is operating seven days a week from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“Increased access to testing is a key factor in our efforts to continue the gradual reopening of our economy, so allowing any County resident to receive a test, regardless of whether they exhibit COVID-19 symptoms, is another important step forward,” County Executive Johnny Olszewski said.
“The standing order makes community-based testing extremely convenient for residents,” said Dr. Gregory Wm. Branch, Baltimore County Health Officer.
Baltimore County will continue to offer testing at the following locations:
Residents are reminded that they should continue to take precautions to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Like Fannie Lou Hamer, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Tired of fighting battles supposedly won over one hundred and fifty-five years ago. Tired of hearing about a “cause” that was lost. Who builds monuments to losers anyway?
But we ain’t done yet. “We will march on ‘til victory is won.”
