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#DM16: Four of the finest (NUJ - National Union of Journalists)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Apr 2016
(Source. NUJ - National Union of Journalists) ... Bill quoted Rhonda Riachi, who said ... She also enjoyed a good party, in the best traditions of the NUJ!' ... 'John Horgan brought to both assignments an innate curiosity, combined with unique interpersonal skills and political instincts which served him well on travels to Rhodesia, Angola, Cuba and America and in his subsequent careers as a politician, academic, biographer and ombudsman ... He said....

Epic Ireland digital museum to tell story of Irish diaspora

Edit The Irish Times 29 Apr 2016
One in every six Irish-born people alive in the world today lives outside Ireland. It’s a staggering statistic, but in 1890 it was even higher. two in every five ... Epic Ireland has been funded by a former Coca-Cola chief executive, Neville Isdell, who, after emigrating from Co Down with his parents to Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in the mid-1950s, has spent most of his life abroad ... There is a specialness about Irishness ...     ... ....

Zimbabwe's Brave Fighters Forgotten

Edit All Africa 28 Apr 2016
[Financial Gazette] ONE of the vilest and far-reaching violations of human rights was colonialism, which in Rhodesia meant oppression of the black majority at the hands of the minority settler regime ... ....

Address by President Jacob Zuma at the 2016 National Orders Awards Ceremony, Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House, Pretoria (The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Apr 2016
(Source. The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa). 28 April 2016. The Deputy President of the Republic, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa and Dr Motsepe, ... Deputy Ministers, ... The Luthuli Detachment, named after ANC President-General Chief Albert Luthuli, was a joint operation by the ANC guerrillas and the Zimbabwean African People's Union (Zapu) dispatched on 31 July 1967 to infiltrate South Africa from Zambia through Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe)....

President Jacob Zuma: 2016 National Orders Awards Ceremony (South Africa Government)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Apr 2016
(Source. South Africa Government). Address by President Jacob Zuma at the 2016 National Orders Awards Ceremony, Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House, Pretoria ... The Luthuli Detachment, named after ANC President-General Chief Albert Luthuli, was a joint operation by the ANC guerrillas and the Zimbabwean African People's Union (Zapu) dispatched on 31 July 1967 to infiltrate South Africa from Zambia through Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe)....

Investigate reporter David Beresford saw the big picture

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 27 Apr 2016
his dedication to his craft, a complicated personal life, and his capacity to balance the two with apparent equanimity.  After growing up in Rhodesia, he briefly attended the University of Cape Town, but failed to get beyond second year ... He returned to Salisbury in Rhodesia to join the cadet school at the Herald newspaper, but while he waited ......

David Beresford obituary

Edit The Guardian 27 Apr 2016
Guardian and Observer correspondent whose reporting illuminated the Northern Ireland Troubles and the end of apartheid in South Africa ... Equally distinguished was his account of the impact of his Parkinson’s disease, diagnosed in 1991 ... Related. Award-winning Guardian reporter David Beresford dies aged 68 ... David was in his element ... Twitter ... Related ... When he was seven, the family moved to Salisbury, in Rhodesia (now Harare, in Zimbabwe) ... ....

Alumni Association to Honor Seven Graduates (SUNY Cortland)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
... went on to work for the White House during President Ford's tenure, and Ed Bradley, who later would achieve fame on CBS's '60 Minutes.' Despite being wounded twice, Franjola stayed in Vietnam through the war's conclusion and eventually traveled to the South Africa to cover apartheid governments in South Africa and Rhodesia during the late 1970s....

On April 22 remembering J. Edwin Orr

Edit The Examiner 22 Apr 2016
Thirty-eight years ago on April 22, J. Edwin Orr (1912-1978), evangelist, scholar and author, died unexpectedly in Ashville, NC where he was scheduled to speak at a Southern Baptist Convention ... Dr. Billy Graham spoke highly of Orr, saying "Dr. J ... ... His travels in the mid-1930s included sailing to Canada and a whirlwind tour of the United States, before going on the South Africa and Rhodesia, prior to going to Australia and New Zealand ... ....

Queen's 90th birthday: How the world has changed since she was born

Edit Belfast Telegraph 22 Apr 2016
From the invention of television through the Second World War, men landing on the moon, political assassination and the fall of the Iron Curtain Her Majesty has been a witness to unforgettable moments of history. 1926 General Strike. Duchess of York gives birth to Princess Elizabeth. Television invented. Share Go To. 1927 BBC begins broadcasts ... Walt Disney creates Mickey Mouse ... 1965 Rhodesia declares independence ... 1978 Rhodesia settlement ... ....

The DEA made a mysterious deal with the 'most dangerous man in the world'

Edit Business Insider 20 Apr 2016
Joseph Manuel Hunter, center, is escorted by Thai police commandos to Police Aviation Division after being arrested, in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. See Also ... "This is real shit. You know, you see everything ... I don't know ... Ben-Menashe said the Zimbabwean government also looked into Le Roux's background, and found that he was born out of wedlock and adopted by a wealthy family in Zimbabwe, which was then known as Rhodesia ... ....

The 'wind of change' blowing through Hong Kong from China

Edit South China Morning Post 16 Apr 2016
"Mainlandisation" has become a commonly used term to characterise - usually in a negative way - the inevitable and now swiftly accelerating process by which Hong Kong is being assimilated into China's political, social and economic mainstream ... Southern Rhodesia's (now Zimbabwe) white minority government, alarmed by the ominous portent of things to come, unilaterally declared independence from Britain in 1965....

In Gratitude by Jenny Diski review – cancer, contrariness and Doris Lessing

Edit The Guardian 15 Apr 2016
Why the rush of kindness towards “a sulky, angry girl who kicked against everything, especially herself”? Was it a socio-psychological experiment? A search for interesting material (Diski appears, scantily disguised, in a couple of Lessing’s books)? Or was Diski installed as a surrogate for the two children left behind in Rhodesia, or even for ......
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