.. South Africans have marched on the parliament building to intensify pressure on the government to take tangible action against Israel. The pro-Palestinian action started three weeks ago, but so far, the government has been slow to react.
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Showing posts with label South African. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South African. Show all posts
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
South African Girls Spark Outrage with Photo of them in Blackface
Two students from the University of Pretoria (UP) sparked a massive debate on social media sites after this picture of them dressed in stereotypical domestic worker costumes with their faces painted black appeared on Facebook. Even though the photo was later deleted from Facebook, it swiftly disseminated on Twitter, reigniting a fierce social media conversation on racism in South Africa. Do you see anything wrong with the photo? The university has however said disciplinary action will be taken against the students involved in the incident for harming the school’s reputation
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Disturbing Video: Watch how South African policemen brutalize Nigerian citizen, Undress him in Public
The folks who posted the video on Youtube say the victim in this video, who was stripped naked and beaten up by South African police, is just a Nigerian citizen but I don't have any means of confirming this. But whether Nigerian or not, how do you treat anyone in this manner? These were actually hitting his balls. watch!
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Abnormal: South African pastor Pastor Lesego Daniel, makes Members of his Church eat green grass (Photos)
Pastor Daniel, who's the founder and Head Pastor at Rabboni Centre Ministries, situated at Zone 2 Ga-Rankuwa, north of Pretoria, said he was basically trying to prove that humans could be controlled by the spirit and they can eat anything to feed their bodies. I don't see how he managed to convince his members to go away from church and start eating grass, but he ! Unbelievable! See more photos after the break...
Saturday, December 7, 2013
5 Youngest Millionaires In Africa: 1. Mark Shuttleworth, South African
Founder, Knife Capital
When Shuttleworth was 22, he founded Thawte, a digital certificate and internet security company which he sold to VeriSign for $575 million in 1999, when he was 26. Shuttleworth used a fraction of his proceeds to start HBD Capital (now called Knife Capital), a Cape Town-based emerging markets investment fund.
HBD has made a series of successful exits including Fundamo, a mobile financial services company which was acquired by Visa for $110 million in 2011; and csense, which was acquired by GE Intelligent Platforms the same year. Shuttleworth also founded and funds Ubuntu, a computer operating system which he distributes as free open source software. Shuttleworth has a net worth north of $500 million.
5 Youngest Millionaires In Africa: No 4. Justin Stanford, South African
Founder & CEO, 4Di Group
Stanford is a software entrepreneur and venture capitalist. After dropping out off high school, Stanford set out to launch an internet security company which flopped. Today, Stanford’s ESET (a Slovakian anti-virus software package) Southern Africa operates the ESET brand in the region and sells ESET’s range of internet security products in about 20 sub-Saharan countries. Stanford’s ESET brand records over $10 million in annual turnover and controls 5% of the anti-virus market in Southern Africa. Stanford is also the founding partner of 4Di Capital, a Cape Town-based venture capital fund. He is also a co-founder of the Silicon Cape Initiative, a non-profit movement that aims to turn the Cape into Africa’s own Silicon Valley.
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