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Cyril Ramaphosa has brought back the 'weekend alcohol sales ban'. But there's a way round this rule - if you can swap your favourite tipple for some wine.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
On March 24, Brooks, 33 began ‘Virtual Bartending Classes’ through Facebook.
Being faced with due dates for her own bills, Brooks said she knew others were grappling with financial challenges as well and opted to offer free virtual bartending courses.
Since her launch in late March, Brooks has hosted several virtual bartending sessions and taught her viewers how to create drinks such as Mimosas, Tropical Fruit Cocktail Cosmos, Peach Margaritas and Frozès.
In addition to her bartending tutorials, Brooks has spent her time in quarantine educating aspiring entrepreneurs on how to start and run a business.
Although the coronavirus pandemic has presented an unfortunate time for many businesses, and the hospitality industry in particular, Brooks said she feels “inspired and positive about Bardiva.”
The value of the food lost or wasted is put at R60-billion or 2% of SA’s GDP, according to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Minister of Justice Ronald Lamola named Malawi specifically in pointing out that the nation is a signatory of the SADC extradition protocol, among others.
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In 1867 Frederick Douglass, noted abolitionist and civil rights leader, weighed in on one of the most contentious issues of the day, suffrage for black men following the Civil War. His address, given in January 1867, during the Congressional debate on black male voting in the territories, appears below.
A very limited statement of the argument for impartial suffrage, and for including the negro in the body politic, would require more space than can be reasonably asked here. It is supported by reasons as broad as the nature of man, and as numerous as the wants of society. Man is the only government-making animal in the world. His right to a participation in the production and operation of government is an inference from his nature, as direct and self-evident as is his right to acquire property or education. It is no less a crime against the manhood of a man, to declare that he shall not share in the making and directing of the government under which he lives, than to say that he shall not acquire property and education. The fundamental and unanswerable argument in favor of the enfranchisement of the negro is found in the undisputed fact of his manhood. He is a man, and by every fact and argument by which any man can sustain his right to vote, the negro can sustain his right equally. It is plain that, if the right belongs to any, it belongs to all. The doctrine that some men have no rights that others are bound to respect, is a doctrine which we must banish as we have banished slavery, from which it emanated. If black men have no rights in the eyes of white men, of course the whites can have none in the eyes of the blacks. The result is a war of races, and the annihilation of all proper human relations.
But suffrage for the negro, while easily sustained upon abstract principles, demands consideration upon what are recognized as the urgent necessities of the case. It is a measure of relief,--a shield to break the force of a blow already descending with violence, and render it harmless. The work of
Founders of McBride Sisters Wines, Robin and Andréa McBride, are the first African-American sister duo to found and establish a wine company. Living across the world from each other - Robin in Monterey, California and Andrea in Marlborough, New Zealand - the McBride sisters, with different mothers but the same father, grew up without knowing...
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The Owl House and surrounding Camel Yard contain over 300 concrete and glass sculptures created by Helen Elizabeth Martins and her assistants. Almost all of the sculptures face towards the east, many depicting a pilgrimage to a suitably positioned nativity scene. Amongst the various sculptures Martins totem animal, the owl (which she associated with intuition, insight, and wisdom) forms an underlying theme.
Helen Martins was almost 50 before she started decorating the Owl House and creating her marvelous sculptures. She is now considered South Africas foremost Outsider Artist, although during her life she was faced with derision and suspicion.
Throughout the Camel Yard, bottle-skirted meises (girls) act as hostesses, wearing traditional Dutch caps. Also in the foreground is one of several glass-encrusted sun worshipers, ecstatically bending over backwards to greet the morning sun.
In a shed made from wine bottles, Helen Martins recreated the nativity scene. One Wise Man kneels offering gifts whilst the others are still approaching in procession. The fact that Martins created the Nativity scene in the eastern end of the yard offended many local residents, who considered it to be against the teachings of the bible.
The glass Martins used was prepared using an old coffee grinder. The glass was collected by local children, for which she paid either pennies or homemade tameletjie - a sweet made from local quinces boiled with sugar. After crushing, the glass was washed, sorted according to color, and stored in preserve jars in the pantry.
The Long Bedroom, formally an enclosed porch, has three beds and a table with an unusual serpentine leg made from concrete. On the wall is a heart shaped mirror, a common feature of the house which is seemingly at odds with the disastrous marriage she had to Willem Johannes Pienaar. All mirrors in the house are positioned well above the diminutive Martins eye level - she not only avoided being seen by others, but worked hard to avoid seeing images of herself as well.
Through blood, sweat and tears Long was able to push their dream forward, and fulfill what they started in a garage years ago — with the creation of Longevity Wines — what he likes to call, “a love infused brand.”
Obviously, the name became Longevity, which is both a play on our last name and a reference to our enduring love for each other and for sharing great wine.
It’s the heart on the bottle that draws people into our love affair with wine and with each other.
The fact is African American winemakers make up only one tenth of one percent of the wine industry.
Longevity is in the fortunate position to have partnered with Bronco Wine Company to launch our brand nationally.
On October 11, 1963, Malcolm X gave a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, in which he outlined the philosophy of black nationalism as promoted by the Nation of Islam and declared racial separatism as the best approach to the problems facing black America. Most of that speech appears below.
Our people in the Negro community are trapped in a vicious cycle of ignorance, poverty, disease, sickness, and death. There seems to be no way out. No way of escape. The wealthy, educated Black bourgeoisie, those uppity Negroes who do escape, never reach back and pull the rest of our people out with them. The Black masses remain trapped in the slums.
And because there seems to be no hope or no other escape, we turn to wine, we turn to whiskey, and we turn to reefers, marijuana, and even to the dreadful needle – heroin, morphine, cocaine, opium – seeking an escape.
Many of us turn to crime, stealing, gambling, prostitution. And some of us are used by the white overlords downtown to push dope in the Negro community among our own people. Unemployment and poverty have forced many of our people into a life of crime. But the real criminal is in the City Hall downtown, in the State House, and in the White House in Washington, D.C. The real criminal is the white liberal, the political hypocrite. And it is these legal crooks who pose as our friends, force us into a life of crime, and then use us to spread the white mans evil vices in our community among our own people.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that our people are scientifically maneuvered by the white man into a life of poverty. Because we are forced to live in the poorest sections of the city, we attend inferior schools. We have inferior teachers and we get an inferior education. The white power structure downtown makes certain that by the time our people do graduate, we wont be equipped or qualified for anything but the dirtiest, heaviest, poorest-paying jobs. Jobs that no one else wants.
We are trapped in a vicious cycle of economic, intellectual,
In 1984 Rev. Jesse Jackson campaigned for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. Although he entered the Democratic convention at San Francisco with little hope of winning, his appeals on behalf of the dispossessed of America whom he characterized as the Rainbow Coalition, ensured that his influence in Democratic Party politics would continue. His speech to the 1984 Convention, delivered on July 18 in San Francisco, appears below.
Tonight we come together bound by our faith in a mighty God, with genuine respect and love for our country, and inheriting the legacy of a great Party, the Democratic Party, which is the best hope for redirecting our nation on a more humane, just, and peaceful course.
This is not a perfect party. We are not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission: to feed the hungry; to clothe the naked; to house the homeless; to teach the illiterate; to provide jobs for the jobless; and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.
We are gathered here this week to nominate a candidate and adopt a platform which will expand, unify, direct, and inspire our Party and the nation to fulfill this mission. My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected, and the despised. They are restless and seek relief. They have voted in record numbers. They have invested the faith, hope, and trust that they have in us. The Democratic Party must send them a signal that we care. I pledge my best not to let them down.
There is the call of conscience, redemption, expansion, healing, and unity. Leadership must heed the call of conscience, redemption, expansion, healing, and unity, for they are the key to achieving our mission. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
No generation can choose the age or circumstance in which it is born, but through leadership it can choose to make the age in which it is born an age of enlightenment, an age of jobs, and peace, and justice. Only leadership -- that
Working From Home With Distractions
Friday, May 22, 2020 0:01
By PURITY WANJOHI
Twidley Ithiga a director and principal at Jawabu School.
Brenda Nyawara, an architect at Arcscene Architects admits that it is not easy to be productive at home.
Communication with workmates is mostly done through Slack, e-mail, and virtual cloud workspaces such as BIMCloud, which allows real-time collaboration between colleagues working remotely.
While working from home is an option Brenda would consider post-Covid-19, it would be a hard sell for Twidley Ithiga, a director and principal of Jawabu School.
“This is essentially identifying times of the day when you’re most productive, removing distractions and focusing on work,” he says.
Save the date. The 2020 edition of the Franschhoek Uncorked Festival will be held in the beautiful Francophile village from 6 to 8 November.
Some hotels and restaurants in Nairobi have upped their safety measures to keep staff and guests safe.
Ibis Styles hotel in Westlands, Nairobi, reopened to the public on Wednesday after weeks of putting in new safety measures.
To keep citizens as safe as possible from Covid-19, hotels and restaurants in Kenya were closed in mid-March.
So far the hotel has not had to lay off any staff, and hope that more people can return to work with the reopening.
You scan the menu off a QR code using your phone and the wait staff then comes over and takes your order and processes it,” said Maryanne Njeri, the hotel’s marketing and e-commerce manager.
Name at birth: Johnny Allen Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix grabbed electric guitar by the neck and wrestled it into a new era. His feedback-heavy solos and hallucinogenic tunes helped define the psychedelic 1960s. With his band The Jimi Hendrix Experience he recorded the albums Are You Experienced? (1967), Axis: Bold as Love (also 1967), and Electric Ladyland (1968, including Hendrixs version of Bob Dylans tune All Along the Watchtower). The single Purple Haze from Are You Experienced remains one of rocks touchstone classics. The band broke up in 1969 but Hendrix remained a star, playing later that year at the Woodstock music festival. Hendrix was only 27 when he suffocated in 1970 after ingesting wine and sleeping pills in a London hotel.
Jimi, like Paul McCartney, was a left-handed guitar player… Hendrix’s fuzz-guitar version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock has become a famous sound clip… He died two short weeks before another rock icon, Janis Joplin… A museum and interactive shrine to Hendrix, called the Experience Music Project, was built in Seattle by computer magnate Paul Allen.
With rumours abound that lockdown restrictions could be tightened in South Africa, Professor Salim Abdool Karim has given his take on any potential changes.
Talk about a 'boost': Moderna has followed in the footsteps of Pfizer, confirming that they have created a highly successful COVID-19 vaccine.
It’s Safe to Dine Out, Try Shamba Cafe
Friday, June 26, 2020 0:01
By JACKSON BIKO
We were seated outside a garden, admiring the architecture of Shamba Cafe, when one of us said: “Why is it that only white folks can build something like this?
He was referring to the architecture of Shamba Cafe and Shop in Nairobi’s Loresho Ridge.
It has a farm shop and a garden center.
I secretly thought it was at least, designed by a white person, I mean, come on, a barn?
“If it was a black chap,” one guy said, “they would have built a real traditional building here, not this...this.
'Beauty and the Baby Beast': SA fashion designer Rich Mnisi joins Volvo's #HiddenGem campaign with customised XC40.
A mask is seen on the sidewalk as the coronavirus continues to spread across the United States on March 27, 2020 in New York City.
People move through the streets of the Borough Park section of Brooklyn which has seen an upsurge of coronavirus patients on April 03, 2020 in New York City.
Hospitals in New York City, which has been especially hard hit by the coronavirus, are facing shortages of beds, ventilators and protective equipment for medical staff.
Currently, over 75,000 New Yorkers have tested positive for coronavirus (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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[Nyasa Times] Prophet Shepherd Bushiri is adamant that he's not running away from his trial in South Africa but that he and his wife Mary bolted out of the rainbow nation to travel back home in Malawi to seek intervention from his home country.
Newly elected DA leader John Steenhuisen has come out guns blazing following President Cyril Ramaphosa's extension of the national state of disaster by another month.
Police have located Mayra Gavilanez-Alectus, a 48 year-old woman who was charged with the murder of her wife, Rebecca Gavilanez-Alectus, 32.
The incident, which occurred on Sunday, comes after intimate partner violence continues to rise in the midst of the coronavirus-pandemic.
Authorities discovered Rebecca’s unresponsive body in the home the couple shared located in Brick Township, New Jersey.
Brick Township officers report that Rebecca’s body was discovered in an upstairs bedroom.
Mayra wrote an endearing Mother’s Day post on her wife’s Facebook page, which read, “Mi amor gracias for all the uncountable ways you make this little crazy family … 😥 and my entire life better with every moment.”
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