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INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE

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Stormy seas make skillful sailors - happy sailing 2018!

Stormy seas make skillful sailors – happy sailing 2018!

Only hours away from a new year as 2017 draws to a close and the ushering of hope for some, hoping to be better people. Others are in pain as loved ones where the casualties of 2017. For most the same old stuff just with larger numbers and greater anxieties to overcome.

2017 had been a good school master for myself, showing me that life is moving at a pace I’m unable to control or resist, should…

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Is the grass greener in the UK? ...Child poverty at 4 Million!

Is the grass greener in the UK? …Child poverty at 4 Million!

The report by charity Buttle UK finds that lone parents account for 63 per cent of crisis cases.

A record 3.9m kids are living below the breadline and 400,000 of them do not have a bed – according to a new report into child poverty.

A growing number of families are classified as the ‘new poor’ because they are struggling even…

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Who is Desmond Mpilo Tutu?

Who is Desmond Mpilo Tutu?

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Early Life Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in the gold-mining town of Klerskdorp, Witwatersrand, Transvaal, South Africa, on October 7, 1931. His father, Zachariah Tutu, was a schoolteacher, and his mother, Aletta, was a domestic servant. Although Tutu was baptized a Methodist,…

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Help with working out your budget

Help with working out your budget

Planning is the most fundamental and the best device for dealing with your cash. However, a great many people abstain from doing it since it is extra work, much like cutting your garden or settling the rooftop. Planning likewise suggests that you need to surrender and prevent yourself from getting a charge out of stuff.

What planning really does is obviously demonstrate to you how you apportion…

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Don't envy those growing in wealth from tenders - just as you wouldn't a burglar!

Don’t envy those growing in wealth from tenders – just as you wouldn’t a burglar!

A kickback is a form of negotiated bribery in which a commission is paid to the bribe-taker in exchange for services rendered. Generally speaking, the remuneration (money, goods, or services handed over) is negotiated ahead of time.

The kickback varies from other kinds of bribesin that there is implied collusion between agents of the two parties, rather than one party extorting the bribe from the…

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Dear KZN Provincial Government, Please help Ugu District Municipality?

Dear KZN Provincial Government, Please help Ugu District Municipality?

Dear Mr. Thembinkosi Willies Mchunu,

The Ugu Region is yet again suffering from another self-inflicted water crisis which is going into its second year. It appears that the Ugu District Municipality is unable to adequately resolve the water issues, leaving residents across the district to suffer with the indignity of not having drinking water, bathe, flush a toilet. 

This region is a touristic…

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Was Hitler a Socialist?

Was Hitler a Socialist?

In April 1945, when Adolf Hitler died by his own hand in the rubble of Berlin, nobody was much interested in what he had once believed. War is no time for reflection, and what Hitler had done was so shattering, and so widely known through images of naked bodies piled high in mass graves, that little or no attention could readily be paid to National Socialism as an idea. Early revelations like…

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CHINA AND AFRICA: WHAT’S THE DEAL? PART 2...THE PROS AND CONS

CHINA AND AFRICA: WHAT’S THE DEAL? PART 2…THE PROS AND CONS

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"China has turned into Africa's most vital monetary accomplice"

“China has turned into Africa’s most vital monetary accomplice”

In two decades, China has turned into Africa’s most vital monetary accomplice. Crosswise over exchange, speculation, framework financing, and help, no other nation has such profundity and expansiveness of engagement in Africa.

Chinese “mythical serpents”— firms of all sizes and divisions—are bringing capital venture, administration know-how, and entrepreneurial vitality to each side of the…

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President Zuma is “better the devil you know”

President Zuma is “better the devil you know”

Much can be said about President Zuma of his credibility caused by the various corruption charges. However much can also be admired about this survivor – born in poverty, went to exile to fight apartheid, his charisma and tenacity in adversity despite calls for his resignation and attempts to oust him as ANC leader. Yet he survives…

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Money has no value?

Money has no value?

Cash is quite however useless paper made and gave out to us to make us trust we are working for something of significant worth. In any case, cash has no esteem. Indeed, even the Treasury concedes this, “advanced cash is known as ‘fiat cash’, it is misleadingly made,…

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Who Really Benefits from UK Welfare?

Who Really Benefits from UK Welfare?

The tax-benefit system is unfair to people who are living in poverty. It appears to be generous, but it is not. Most people do not understand how unfair the current system really is.

The system make little difference to the incomes of the poorest

People in poverty pay the highest rates of tax

It is hardest for the poorest to earn, save and be a family

Most money actually goes to the better-off

To…

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Violence is caused by the people who Practice Religion...

Violence is caused by the people who Practice Religion…

Religion can cause violence by misinterpretation of the messages that the sacred texts are supposed to send, and a lot of the sacred texts are, in fact, misinterpreted and because of that, extremists find inspiration and justification that it is in their religion that they have to exercise violence upon others .

This means that…

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Why Can't Young People Find Jobs?

Why Can’t Young People Find Jobs?

Youth unemployment rates comprise the proportion of persons aged between 15 and 24 who are not working and who are actively seeking work. It is a specific indication of the inability of an economy to generate sufficient employment for its population.

The youth bulge…

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[FOOD WASTE]“We are trashing our land to grow food that no one eats.” -Tristram Stuart

[FOOD WASTE]“We are trashing our land to grow food that no one eats.” -Tristram Stuart

With millions of people all over the world struggling to find enough food to eat, the fact that millions of tons of food is tossed out every year can be surprising.

Food waste is a huge problem in developed countries and it is a serious economic and environmental issue.

The food waste from retailers and consumers in developed…

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ACTS OF KINDNESS IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH.

ACTS OF KINDNESS IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH.

  KINDNESS INCREASES: THE LOVE HORMONE

Witnessing acts of kindness produces oxytocin, occasionally referred to as the ‘love hormone’ which…

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The duty to take care not to harm your ‘neighbours’

The duty to take care not to harm your ‘neighbours’

Mrs Donoghue was in a café with her friend, who bought her a ginger beer. She was ill after having drunk some of it because the bottle had a dead snail in it! However, she had not bought the bottle so she could not sue for breach of contract — she had no contract with the shop owner or the bottle manufacturer. Instead, she brought a…

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