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Wednesday 9 November 2016 09:47 Dismantling Verwoerd's South Africa – Part 2 (SABC - South African Broadcasting Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Nov 2016
(Source. SABC - South African Broadcasting Corporation). Broadcast Date. 09 November 2016 on SABC 3 at 21.30 ... In this week's episode we shift the focus to the education system ... One of the laws he drafted, enacted by the late 1950's, was the so-called Bantu Education Law ... We also track the resistance against Bantu Education through archive material including the 16 June 1976 Soweto student uprising ... Did Verwoerd succeed in this goal? ... (noodl....

Standing Rock and Imperialism Itself

Edit CounterPunch 08 Nov 2016
The Dakota Access Pipeline was originally scheduled to cross the state of North Dakota north of Bismarck, the state capital (pop. 70,000) ... 8200) ... They may have advanced into the Dakotas only after that ... Native American tribes—like Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Turkish or Bantu tribes elsewhere—migrated and settled over time, and sometimes reached a new territory simultaneous with the first Europeans’ arrival. For example ... The U.S ... ....

Will the public outcry against state capture touch Zuma at all?

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 03 Nov 2016
Remember, remember the second of November. After a day of high drama in court, outside on the streets, thousands of people gathered to demand an end to the blatant abuse of the state for the enrichment of the politically connected ... The main squeezes at the event could be found in the reserved seats at the front of the church, where Colin Coleman, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, and General Bantu Holomisa knew they were being seen ... ....

Sport24.co.za | Mzwakali urges Urban Warriors to step up

Edit News24 31 Oct 2016
Ajax Cape Town playmaker Bantu Mzwakali says the team needs to take responsibility for the club's recent results ... ....

Yeddyurappa rebuilding his political image after acquittal in mining graft case

Edit The Times of India 29 Oct 2016
Approaching sunset, one evening in May 2008, just before the voting for the Karnataka legislative assembly elections, the green belt of Raibhag in Belagaavi district saw some unseasonal rain showers ... With tears in his eyes, he shouted. "Sahebra helicopter bantu. Maley bantu!" (Saheb's helicopter has landed and the rain showers have come.) ... There was no Modi wave or Vajpayee wave in 2008 ... That is a great achievement." ... RELATED....

What must fall: fees or the South African state? (University of the Witwatersrand)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Oct 2016
(Source. University of the Witwatersrand). 20 October 2016 - David Everatt. The polarising effects of #FeesMustFall are now pervasive in the academy, and probably beyond ... Remarkably, there is a lot of it about ... state capture ... There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour … What is the use of teaching the Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice? That is quite absurd....

Recognizing environmentalists under threat

Edit Mongabay 27 Oct 2016
It is well documented that our planet, along with its biodiversity and life-sustaining resources, is severely threatened ... the four were murdered in 2014) [2014]; Congolese rights activists Alphonse Muhindo Valivambene and Bantu Lukumbo [2015]; and Papua New Guinea forest and land rights campaigner Palosualrea Pavol [2016] ... Mongabay.com ... Patrick Alley, Simon Taylor ....

Ubuntu Forum on Healing and Restoring Communities after Violence to be Held at SJU (SJU - Saint Joseph's University)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Oct 2016
(Source. SJU - Saint Joseph's University) ... Foley '57 Campus Center, Wednesday, Nov ... Ubuntu, a word from the African language, Bantu, means 'human-ness' or 'I am because you are,' will create a welcoming space for those granted parole from life sentences received as juveniles, their friends and families, the friends and families of victims, and community members, to openly discuss the pain and anguish associated with homicide ... J ... · 9 a.m....

The story of how livestock made its way to southern Africa (University of the Witwatersrand)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Oct 2016
The putative other populations were thought to have been Bantu-speakers who spread out of their homeland in west-central Africa, beginning some 5 000 or 6 000 years ago ... The oldest southern African livestock bones are several centuries older than the first villages of the Bantu-speaking farmers and metallurgists in the Zambezi basin....

Besteman to Present Paper at American Anthropological Association Meeting (Colby College)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Oct 2016
(Source. Colby College). October 22, 2016 . by Jennifer Curtis ... Besteman has worked with and written about the Somali Bantu community in Lewiston, Maine ... (noodl. 35960948) ....

Right wing outfits step up protests against cleric’s remark

Edit The Times of India 20 Oct 2016
Bareilly ... Members of Shiv Sena and Parshuram Sena staged demonstrations, raised slogans against the cleric and burnt Raza's effigy in separate demonstrations at the collectorate premises here on Thursday. Shiv Sena district president Bantu Singh said, “Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan’s remark was aimed at fomenting communal tension here. An FIR should be filed against him, failing which we will step up our protests.” ... RELATED....

Black Natural Hair on Display at SIUE (Southern Illinois University System - Edwardsville)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Oct 2016
(Source. Southern Illinois University System - Edwardsville). Black hair can be seen in different ways - as an art form, as self-expression or a political statement - but people were invited to take it all in during a Natural Hair exhibit on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Elijah P ... 'I remain natural, because I love it, and I love the styles,' Williams said, sporting Bantu knots and an afro puff ... Photos.....

20 dead in DR Congo as Pygmies, Bantus clash over caterpillars

Edit Arabnews 19 Oct 2016
Pygmy-Bantu clashes over a caterpillar collection tax have left 20 people dead in DR Congo and sparked fears of a new flare-up in trouble that over the past two years displaced tens of thousands of people ... “The attacks since Sunday left four (Bantu) Lubas and 16 Pygmies dead in a row over the tax traditionally paid to the Bantus by the Pygmies,” Kalunga said ... Another two Lubas, who are Bantu people, were killed in revenge attacks....
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