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The parents of a rape complainant have appeared in court for allegedly accepting a R500 000 bribe to drop the rape charges against a police officer's husband, the head of security for self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri.
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
[New Era] Prosecutor Marthino Olivier basically conceded that the State failed to prove its case against one of the accused in a murder-for-hire trial.
Two KwaZulu-Natal robbers - Malungelo Ngwabe, 58, and Mondli Skhosana, 50 - have been each sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for kidnapping people outside ATMs in Amanzimtoti before robbing them of their cash.
Akhaya Melithafa's trip to Antarctica, hosted by explorer Riaan Manser, has shaped her activism for the future.
Lifestyle audits for Cabinet ministers will be completed in the 2021/22 financial year following promises last year that it would be completed by the end of this month.
Photo courtesy of Pexels In January 1949, a group of Black men, later dubbed the “Martinsville Seven,” were accused of raping a 32-year-old white woman in the small Virginia town. The men, ranging in age from 19 to 37, were never afforded the right to due process; they were instead promptly found guilty by all-white, … Continued
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BOUNA, Ivory Coast, July 1 - A court in Ivory Coast on Wednesday sentenced 10 people found guilty of child trafficking to 10 years in jail, part of an effort to clamp down on organised networks that smuggle children to work in cocoa plantations.
[Nation] City Hall is set to clear more than Sh3 billion owed to suppliers after the High Court unlocked funds for the county's Sh37.5billion budget.
The National Health Laboratory Service says it needs 300 volunteers for a Covid-19 rapid test study, because several rapid diagnostic tests that are already available in the country are not consistently reliable.
From Nkurumah Road, Ndia Kuu Street, and Hinaway Road roundabout, the three monuments habour interesting tales.
Opposition parties have slammed Western Cape Community Safety MEC Albert Fritz over the province's slashed crime budget amid mass shootings and gang violence.
The Representative Council of Learners at Camps Bay High School has embarked on a project to raise funds for sanitary products to end period poverty at the school for at least a year.
A rebel group has claimed a series of mortar attacks launched overnight on the airport of Bujumbura, Burundi's economic capital, a day before President Evariste Ndayishimiye was due to fly out for the UN General Assembly in New York.
[Zimbabwe Independent] Suspended Harare City Council Town Clerk Hosiah Chisango, who is facing criminal charges for alleged illegal sale of residential stands, has been embroiled in a fresh ZW$51 million (US$636 000) Covid-19 materials tender scandal.
South Africa's statutory health regulatory bodies have urged the public to refrain from using looted medicines.
The Middleburg Commercial Crimes Court in Mpumalanga sentenced Arthur Moyo to 15 years in prison for purchasing vehicles worth R1.5 million using stolen identity documents.
The four councillors absolved Moyo of any wrongdoing and reversed his suspension, a move which angered the government.
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About 30 Nigerians living in Cape Town have marched to Parliament and have pleaded for President Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in the unrest in the country.
SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge on Friday ordered Seattle police to temporarily stop using tear gas, pepper spray and flash-bang devices to break up largely peaceful protests, a victory for groups who say authorities have overreacted to recent demonstrations over police brutality and racial injustice in the liberal city.
U.S. District Judge Richard Jones issued the two-week order after a Black Lives Matter group sued the Seattle Police Department this week to halt the violent tactics it has used to break up protests.
The judge said those objecting to police using violent tactics to break up protests make a strong case that the indiscriminate use of force is unconstitutional.
This week, protesters have turned part of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood into a protest center with speakers, drum circles and Black
Lives Matter painted on a street near a police station.
“As tens of thousands of people were gathering today to march silently and in solidarity against police brutality and misconduct, the U.S. District Court affirmed their right to protest, free from state violence.
Jan Christian Smuts was born on a farm near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony. His ancestors were mainly Dutch, with a small admixture of French and German but no English, though he was born a British subject. Until he went to school at the age of 12, Smuts lived the life of a South African farm boy, taking his share in the work of the farm, learning from nature, and developing a life-long love of the land. Many years later, when asked by an American botanist why he, a general, should be an authority on grasses, Smuts replied, “But my dear lady, I am only a general in my spare time.”
At 16 he went to Victoria College (subsequently the University of Stellenbosch), where he studied science and arts and obtained first-class honours in both. At Stellenbosch he fell in love with a fellow student, Isie Krige, whom he later married and who remained a source of strength through the stresses and strains of an eventful life.
In 1891 he obtained a scholarship and entered Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he read law and was generally recognized as one of the most brilliant law students Cambridge had had. He was the first ever to take both parts of the law tripos examinations in the same year, and in both he came first. From Cambridge he went to London, where he came first in the Inns of Court honours examination and was awarded two prizes. It seemed clear that a distinguished academic career lay ahead of him; nevertheless, Smuts wanted to return to South Africa.
Apart from law he read widely in philosophy, poetry, and science, and it was at this time that he first read the poems of Walt Whitman. Many years later he compared the effect that Whitman had on him to St. Paul’s experience on the road to Damascus. Whitman’s conception of natural man liberated him, he believed, from the sense of sin induced by a strict Calvinist upbringing. Before he left England he wrote a book about Whitman but failed to find a publisher.
Returning to Cape Town in 1895, Smuts was at once drawn into politics. At first he supported Cecil Rhodes,
[Monitor] How was 2020?
Police are searcing for an armed gang linked to an attempted cash-in-transit heist in Mpumalanga.
Here are the biggest headlines for Tuesday 17 November in South Africa, as well as a recap of events from over the weekend.
Ben Crump said Breonna Taylor's family is \"offended\" at the weak charge for one ex-cop and that they're \"trying to figure out what did the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron present to the grand jury.\"
The Ashton Arch bridge moved into place at the weekend, bringing a close to a seven-year project and making history in South Africa.
ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte says the violence in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng has nothing to do with ethnicity.
THE security forces have established a new special team to target the gangsters believed to be behind the majority of the almost 700 murders recorded across the island since the start of this year.Writing in the latest edition of the Jamaica Constabulary Force Orders, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson said the police and the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) have established what he dubbed a Special Purpose Task Force to target gangsters.
[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has recorded 13 172 new COVID-19 cases bringing a cumulative total to 324 221 on Thursday, Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, said.
