APARTHEID

Apartheid flag of South African minority rule

The first recorded use of the term apartheid was in 1917 where Jan Christian Smuts was giving a speech,he went to become a prime minister two years later, Apartheid became the system of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948,National Party's triupmh in 1948 election under Daniel Francois Malan culminated to implementation of apartheid policy,legislation was passed prohibiting miscegenetion(mixed-race marriege).

The rule of apartheid dictated that people could be separated racially the main ones were Blacks,White,Coloured and Indians were separated from each other on the basis of legal classification and unequal rights.Blacks legally became citizens of Bantustans that were nominally sovereign nations.

Blacks use to live in Bantustans like this

Also minority regime imposed pass law,this stemmed from the regulation of black movements from their regions to those of white and coloured minority,black were not allowed to walk on the white streets after dark and they were compelled to carry the passes all the time imposed by white regime.

Blacks forced to carry pass wherever they go

The Group Areas Act of 1950 and Separate Amenities Act of 1953 designed to separate racial group geographically in all areas such as universities,buses,beaches,schools and hospitals.

This is how separation was

Apartheid was dismantled in series of negotiations from 1990 to 1993,culminating in democratic election which saw Nelson Mandela winning landslide victory with ANC party,Apartheid is dismantled but the scars will remain in the hearts of South Africans forever too many people lost their lives.

Aftermath of Apartheid

Qoute of the day

"always struggle is titanic but success is great"

H.E Thabo V Mbeki South African President

Lucky Dube the African Reggae Legend is no more

Lucky Dube 1964-2007

Today the world of reggae woke up in shock after they learn the death of Lucky Dube, Dube was caught in attempted hijacking whilst dropping off his children in family member's house around 20.00 hrs, although he tried to escape he had been fatally wounded from hijacker's attempt to steal his motor vehicle and he died instantly. Lucky leaves a great void in reggae music industry.

South African born but globally revered, Lucky was one of the continent's toured and beloved artist ever,his music touched the hearts of millions in Africa and around the World. He made 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans-many of which become record breaker with phenomenal sales around the globe. His 25 years in music suddenly ends in tragedy.

May his soul rest in PEACE, amen

Always remebered

Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere (April 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999)

In honour of the Greatest, our hero and the first president of Tanzania my home, the man who accomplished a lot than many would; Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere...I have decided to state some of his greates quotes!!

“Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.”

“Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.”

"That is what our educational system has to encourage. It has to foster the social goals of living together, and working together, for the common good."

When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?

"Just as water from the driest regions of the earth flows into the ocean where already there is plenty, so wealth flows from the poorest… into the hands of those… who are already wealthy"

“Must we starve our children to pay our debts?”

Black History Month

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
-- Maya Angelou "Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978)

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
-- Booker T. Washington

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
-- Carter Woodson on founding Negro History Week, 1926

Sports Mundial

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Quote of the day

"..its crazy they got money for wars but they cant beat poverty"

Tupac Shakur 1971-1996

ERNESTO GUEVARA DE LASERNA aka EL CHE 1928-1967

Ernesto Guevara 14 June 1928-9 October 1967

Ernesto Guevara was Argentine -born, Marxist revolutionary, political figure, leader of cuban and international guerrillas, hero and turned to be a fashion icon.

As a young man he studied medicine, and travelled all over South America bringing him into direct contact with impoverished conditions in which many people lived. His experiences and obs ervation through these trips led him to the conclusion that region's socio-economic innequalities cuold only be remedied by socialism through revolution, prompting him to intensify his study of marxism and travelled to Guatemala to learn the implemented reform there by the President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman.

In 1956 he joined Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July movement which saw the end of dictator Fulgencio Batista's regime of Cuba in 1959, after a succesful revolution ha was appointed as"supreme prosecuter"overseeing the trials and executions of hundreds of suspects of war criminals in previous regime. After serving in various important posts in the new government,Guevara left Cuba in 1965 with intention of fomenting revolution in various sub saharan African nations first in Congo-Kinshasa,Algeria,Mozambique and Tanzania, he met the likes of Patrice Lumumba,Ahmed Ben Bella,Samaora Machel and Julius Nyerere, In 1967 Guevara left Dar es salaam for Bolivia he went to serve revolution there,where he was captured in a military operation supported by the CIA and U.S army special forces, Guevara was executed by Bolivian army in the town of La Higuera near Vallegrande on October 9 1967

The body of Che Guevara assessed by Bolivian Army personnel

After his death Guevara became an icon of socialist revolution movements and a cultural icon worldwide. The Alberto Korda's photo has received wide distribution and modification, appearing on t-shirt protest banners and in many other formats, The Maryland Institute College of Art called Alberto Korda's picture the most famous photo in the world and a symbol of 20th century

On the 9th of October 2007 people worldwide marked 40 years since his death, In London it was in Old Street and Walthamstow.

Hasta la victoria siempre

It is a day to remember the great Arnesto Che Guevara, and I for one will not pass this opportunity to give a tribute to a man who likes not oppression of his people and the world!!

(Che by sigmund freuid)

"We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.- Ernesto Che Guevara"
"Words that do not match deeds are unimportant. - Ernesto Che Guevara"
"Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel! - Ernesto Che Guevara"

"Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America. Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear, that another hand may be extended to wield our weapons, and that other men be ready to intone our funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machine guns and new battle cries of war and victory. - Ernesto Che Guevara"
"I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life. - Ernesto Che Guevara "

(Andy Warhol the greatest pop up artist representing Che the Guerilla)
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. - Ernesto Che Guevara"
"There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man. - Ernesto Che Guevara"
"Each time a country is freed, we say, it is a defeat for the world imperialist system, but we must agree that real liberation or breaking away from the imperialist system is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. Freedom is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end. - Ernesto Che Guevara "

(Until victory always -- Struggle until victory forever!)
The great will always be great (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967

Change is coming our way

There's so many things to say right now
I got so much on my mind
Look at what is going down
How much higher can we climb
The system that we're living in
Depends on poverty and greed
But people don't need charity
It's justice that we need

There's disrepair
It's surrounding you
And it's worse than it's ever been
We'll overcome
Overcome the things they do
We're halfway there
Cause we know the truth
But living is another thing
We'll overcome
Overcome the things they do
Lift your voice and sing

A change is coming our way
Step by step and day by day
We'll live by all that we say
Step by step now come what may

There's war all around the world
In the name of democracy
Can't tell the rouge from the just
When they bring hypocrisy
I see my sisters on the move
Making sure we all contend
Must've lost something on the way
We reduced ourselves again

Before we go forth
We gotta take 'em back, back
So we can know what we did
Cause if we never know what happened in de past
Then we can never know, that's what it is
If we don't do it for us
We gotta do it for our kids, kids
So they don't gotta relive
See, there's so much happening, it ain't gonna get fix
With singing and rapping and we gotta take action
And turn that preach into practising
Cause what happen back then, will be right back again
But each one teach one, cause we only as fast
As the last one straggling, so help 'em out

Step by step day by day
Said it won't be long, it won't be long
Step by step come what may
I feel it coming on strong
Step by step day by day
We gonna overcome
Step by step come what may
As long as we are one

Can't tell the rogue from the just

Make Change, Bring Change

(The Ambassador)

Keep a Child Alive stays in the forefront of the AIDS movement by creating important and moving ad campaigns. Each year a new campaign is launched at our annual event, the Black Ball. Last year’s “Spirit of a Child” campaign photographed by Marc Baptiste featured such celebrities as Lorraine Bracco, Cynthia Nixon, Nas, Josh Groban and others.
Coming in the fall, will be the I AM AFRICAN campaign photographed by Michael Thompson, featuring such legends as Iman, David Bowie, Sting, and including celebrities as Liv Tyler, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
(Iman, Global Ambassador)
Each and every one of us contains DNA that can be traced back to our African ancestors.

Keep A Child Alive is dedicated to providing life-saving anti-retroviral treatment to children and their families with HIV/AIDS in Africa and the developing world by directly engaging the global public in the fight against AIDS.

"They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself" - Andy Warhol

Unseen Aid: Africa

African nations that bore the brunt of the continent’s worst floods in three decades face a new epidemic threat and on Friday stepped up appeals for international help.
At least 300 people in 20 countries have died in floods over the past two months, according to figures from governments, hospitals and humanitarian sources compiled by AFP. As the extent of the damage begins to emerge epidemic warnings are growing. In Rwanda, where at least 15 people died this month in flash floods, two cholera cases have been reported in flood districts, said Innocent Nyaruhirira, minister in charge of epidemics. Cholera outbreaks have already caused 68 deaths in Sudan, one of the countries worst hit by the flooding. The United Nations said up to 625,000 people could be in need of emergency aid in Sudan.
Neighbouring Uganda has also been heavily affected by the floods, with at least 400,000 people in need of assistance in eastern regions. The European Union has decided to donate some two million euros (2.8 million dollars) to Togo, Ghana and Burkina Faso, EU officials said. Besides paying for supplies, the money is also to be used to help prevent the spread of malaria. The Togo government on Friday made its own urgent appeal for food and medical aid. Twenty three people have been reported dead in the West African nation and Cooperation Minister Gilbert Bawara told AFP: “We are launching an appeal for solidarity and international aid to relieve the people hit by the floods.”
“We need food, medicines and the means to rebuild infrastructure,” Bawara said. The flooding of key roads has paralysed the delivery of aid. Ugandan Minister of State for Refugees and Disaster Preparedness Musa Ecweru said the floods had affected cross-border traffic into southern Sudan and hundreds of trucks have been forced to take a longer route to the stricken region.
The non-government organisation ActionAid has criticised the relief effort in Uganda, where close to 20 people have died since the floods began and a massive food shortage looms. “There is still very slow response on the ground especially from government, though a lot has been promised since the floods in northern and eastern Uganda have now been declared a national disaster,” it said in a statement.

The organisation warned that the crisis had caused the prices of fuel and basic food supplies to soar.
Nigeria's Red Cross announced Thursday that 64 people had died in the country in the floods and that 22,000 people have been displaced in 10 northern states in Africa's most populous nation, as well as in the Lagos area in the southwest.
Burkina Faso, one of Africa's poorest nations, has reported 33 deaths and nearly 7,500 homes destroyed.
Countries as far north as Algeria were also affected. Algerian officials said Thursday there had been 21 million euros (30 million dollars) of damage in floods last weekend alone.
And there have been warnings about the future.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said the number of floods in Africa where the movement has provided relief aid had jumped from five in 2004 to 32 in 2006, which was a "worrying" eightfold increase.
By mid-September, the number of floods on the continent that mobilised Red Cross aid so far this year stood at 42.

HIV (Virus) AIDs (Disease), when it gets you there is no difference

we've come from far
every day is diferent from yesterday...
we live every day like the last
and you would do the things that only u knew
many times the end of the world has passed
so we live everyday like our last because we've come from far
when the times get hard we say "worst than our history, doesnt exist"
and when winter comes we simply say that the heat will return 2 us..

HIV AND AIDS HAS INCREASED TO 30% THIS YEAR ALONE AND GUESS WHAT, THE YEAR IS NOT OVER YET. YOU CAN IGNORE THIS, IT'S YOUR CHOICE OR YOU CAN READ AND PROTECT YOURSELF. PLEASE UNDERSTAND PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO TELL YOU THEY HAVE HIV OR AIDS.