Dear Friend, After nearly ten years of an ongoing legal wrangle, involving the apartheid heresy, Jewish secular identity, race identity and press freedom, I've resolved to seek an order from the ConCourt, dismissing the De Lange case (Ecclesia De Lange v The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Chur...
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Reaching out from the Global South
Africa - Page 3
Africa’s Great Green Wall
The Great Green Wall initiative is a pan-African proposal to “green” the continent from west to east in order to battle desertification. It aims at tackling poverty and the degradation of soils in the Sahel-Saharan region, focusing on a strip of land of 15 km (9 mi) wide and 7,100 km (4,400 mi)...
Bitcoins for Africa
What barrier is preventing Bitcoin adoption in one of the largest and most beautiful continents in the world? Someone has decided to find out. Localbitcoin has partnered with Borja and his friend Elvis, who are both avid adventurers, as they ride their motorcycle through every country in Africa a...
The emerging war by Antiquity against the Future.
THE conspiracy theories doing the rounds on social media and the Internet after the Westgate Mall siege, are revealing. Not because such theories speak to contemporary society and a belief in the irrational – but rather because they signal to readers and commentators, how Internet users are incre...
Stamps commemorating Jewish contribution to anti-apartheid struggle
In the anti Apartheid South African Liberation struggle, it was estimated that Jews were over represented by 2,500 percent in their proportion to the governing population. This stamp issue acknowledges the extraordinary sacrifices made by Jews to the liberation of their African brethren, and thes...
The seven sins and the seven virtues of Universal Health Coverage
Universal Health Coverage is likely to become the backbone on which the health development agenda beyond 2015 will be constructed. To avoid unintended effects, Universal Health Coverage should keep away from committing seven sins and should try to practice seven virtues. Backed by most actors in...
