Health care and Discrimination
While thinking about the Covid pandemic and health care, I began scrolling the internet and came across an article by Alexa R. Shipman: The German experiment: health care without a female or Jewish doctors.
Index of Suffering
As the hands of the environmental clock move dangerously towards its end, Germanwatch has issued a new Global Climate Risk Index 2021.
This has sounded the alarm for Africa. Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, South Sudan, Zimbabwe are included in the ten worst-affected countries by climate change. Their agriculture, infrastructure and vulnerable economies have already been damaged by cyclones and flooding, forcing governments and donor countries to provide instant funding for affected people and damage repair.
No Peace In The Congo
The greatly troubled people of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are still not at peace. According to NAD News, different deadly attacks took place recently.
Names in Zimbabwe’s State Capture
I keep going back to the March 2021 publication of the South African Daily Maverick of its explosive revelations of Zimbabwe’s State Capture through the corrupt network of politicians, military, secret service personnel, high civil servants and business people.
1700 years of jewish presence in german lands
Great news: Netzwerk Afrika Deutschland (NAD) has been informed that Archbishop Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki of the Cologne Archbishopric has been able to borrow the most important source of 1700 years of Jewish presence in German lands.
Racism
The Sussex have broken a major taboo: they have accused the most famous family in the world of racism. The rebellious couple, the British Prince Harry and his African-American spouse Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have catapulted the issue of race into the centre of British society, by means of their dramatic interview in March with Oprah Winfrey.
Women Power
Wow! Female – Black – African: Stereotypes which feed prejudice. Though burdened with all three, the admirable Nigeria-born Nogzi Okonjo-Iweala is becoming the head of WTO – the World Trade Organisation. Congratulations are due! The 66 year old economist will be the first woman and the first African to be confirmed in this post, which […]
Predators on the state of Zimbabwe
The PhD thesis of Jabusile Madyazvimbishi Shumba recently published at the University of the Witwatersrand is sensational. Dr. Shumba researched predatory government practices in Zimbabwe, naming names. He showed that the state has been captured by the ruling party, the military and business people close to politicians, while at the same time deeply embedded in […]
Robert Mugabe’s Dirty Post-mortem Deals
Some personalities make news even after death. Usually not good news. Take Robert Mugabe (1924-2019), who ruled Zimbabwe like a dictator soon after his election as Prime Minister in 1980, turning himself into President in 1987, to be removed only after an army coup in 2017. Recently the ‘Zimbabwean Independent’ reported that apart from other […]
Zimbabwe’s Mountain of Debt & Transparency
On December 1st, 2020 a landmark High Court ruling was made in favour of the transparency of Mnangagwa’s government. The Court demanded a truthful disclosure of the country’s debts entered into between January 2019 and the 1st December, 2020. The terms of a substantial US$500m loan facility from Afreximbank to back the Zimbabwe currency and […]