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UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY THURSDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2018 Page: 1 THURSDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2018 ____ PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ____ The House met at 14:02. The House Chairperson Ms M G Boroto took the Chair and requested members to observe a moment of silence for prayer or meditation. DEBATE ON 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM OF NO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN: #HEARMETOO – A WOMAN OF FORTITUDE The MINISTER OF SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Hon Chairperson, hon Members of Parliament, representatives of Civil Society and Women’s Movements, ladies and gentlemen, I stand here before you to talk about one of the most and highly emotive issues in South Africa and the world. This scourge knows no colour, knows no religion, knows no race, knows no class and knows no political UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY THURSDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2018 Page: 2 affiliations. It ravages communities and families across class and the colour line. It is a societal challenge which requires a societal responses. IsiZulu: Ngicela nje ukuthi namhlanje ngingahlushwa uma ngikhuluma ngento ebuhlungu kakhulu kubantu baseNingizimu Afrika. Ngikhuluma ngento engakhethi ukuthi ungubani, unjani, unemali engakanani nokuthi ungubani emphakathini. English: Let us just for a moment put ourselves in the shoes of those who suffer in the hands of abusers. Let us even if it is for a minute feel their pain and trauma. As we do that, let us call upon for those who believe on our almighty and those who believe on ancestors to get into the hearts and minds of these heartless abusers so that they can understand and feel the suffering and the pain that they caused to their victims. -
Wisden Cricketers Almanack
01.21 118 3rd proof FIVE CRICKETERS OF THE YEAR The Five Cricketers of the Year represent a tradition that dates back in Wisden to 1889, making this the oldest individual award in cricket. The Five are picked by the editor, and the selection is based, primarily but not exclusively, on the players’ influence on the previous English season. No one can be chosen more than once. A list of past Cricketers of the Year appears on page 1508. sNB. Cross-ref Hashim Amla NEIL MANTHORP Hashim Amla enjoyed one of the most productive tours of England ever seen. In all three formats he was prolific, top-scoring in eight of his 11 international innings. His triple-century in the First Test at The Oval was as career-defining as it was nation-defining: he was the first South African to reach the landmark. It was an epic, and the fact that it laid the platform for a famous series win marked it out for eternal fame. By the time he added another century, in the Third Test at Lord’s, he had edged past even Jacques Kallis as the wicket England craved most. Amla produced yet another hundred in the one-day series, at Southampton, prompting coach Gary Kirsten to purr: “The pitch was extremely awkward, the bowling very good. To make 150 out of 287 rates it very highly, probably in the top three one-day innings for South Africa.” Accolades kept coming his way as the year progressed; by the end, he had scored 1,950 runs in all internationals, at an average of nearly 63. -
Country of Origin Information Report Somalia July 2008
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN INFORMATION REPORT SOMALIA 30 JULY 2008 UK BORDER AGENCY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN INFORMATION SERVICE 30 JULY 2008 SOMALIA Contents Preface LATEST NEWS EVENTS IN SOMALIA, FROM 4 JULY 2008 TO 30 JULY 2008 REPORTS ON SOMALIA PUBLISHED OR ACCESSED SINCE 4 JULY 2008 Paragraphs Background Information GEOGRAPHY ............................................................................................. 1.01 Maps .............................................................................................. 1.04 ECONOMY ................................................................................................. 2.01 Currency change, 2008 ................................................................ 2.06 Drought and famine, 2008 ........................................................... 2.10 Telecommunications.................................................................... 2.14 HISTORY ................................................................................................... 3.01 Collapse of central government and civil war ........................... 3.01 Peace initiatives 2000-2006 ......................................................... 3.14 ‘South West State of Somalia’ (Bay and Bakool) ...................... 3.19 ‘Puntland’ Regional Administration............................................ 3.20 The ‘Republic of Somaliland’ ...................................................... 3.21 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ........................................................................... 4.01 CONSTITUTION ......................................................................................... -
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559216-18 bk Bolcom US 12/08/2004 12:36pm Page 40 AMERICAN CLASSICS WILLIAM BOLCOM Below: Longtime friends, composer William Bolcom and conductor Leonard Slatkin, acknowledge the Songs of Innocence audience at the close of the performance. and of Experience (William Blake) Soloists • Choirs University of Michigan Above: Close to 450 performers on stage at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, under the School of Music baton of Leonard Slatkin in William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Symphony Orchestra University Musical Society All photographs on pages 37-40 courtesy of Peter Smith/University Musical Society Leonard Slatkin 8.559216-18 40 559216-18 bk Bolcom US 12/08/2004 12:36pm Page 2 Christine Brewer • Measha Brueggergosman • Ilana Davidson • Linda Hohenfeld • Carmen Pelton, Sopranos Joan Morris, Mezzo-soprano • Marietta Simpson, Contralto Thomas Young, Tenor • Nmon Ford, Baritone • Nathan Lee Graham, Speaker/Vocals Tommy Morgan, Harmonica • Peter “Madcat” Ruth, Harmonica and Vocals • Jeremy Kittel, Fiddle The University Musical Society The University of Michigan School of Music Ann Arbor, Michigan University Symphony Orchestra/Kenneth Kiesler, Music Director Contemporary Directions Ensemble/Jonathan Shames, Music Director University Musical Society Choral Union and University of Michigan Chamber Choir/Jerry Blackstone, Conductor University of Michigan University Choir/Christopher Kiver, Conductor University of Michigan Orpheus Singers/Carole Ott, William Hammer, Jason Harris, Conductors Michigan State University Children’s Choir/Mary Alice Stollak, Music Director Leonard Slatkin Special thanks to Randall and Mary Pittman for their continued and generous support of the University Musical Society, both personally and through Forest Health Services. Grateful thanks to Professor Michael Daugherty for the initiation of this project and his inestimable help in its realization. -
Mirror, Mediator, and Prophet: the Music Indaba of Late-Apartheid South Africa
VOL. 42, NO. 1 ETHNOMUSICOLOGY WINTER 1998 Mirror, Mediator, and Prophet: The Music Indaba of Late-Apartheid South Africa INGRID BIANCA BYERLY DUKE UNIVERSITY his article explores a movement of creative initiative, from 1960 to T 1990, that greatly influenced the course of history in South Africa.1 It is a movement which holds a deep affiliation for me, not merely through an extended submersion and profound interest in it, but also because of the co-incidence of its timing with my life in South Africa. On the fateful day of the bloody Sharpeville march on 21 March 1960, I was celebrating my first birthday in a peaceful coastal town in the Cape Province. Three decades later, on the weekend of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, I was preparing to leave for the United States to further my studies in the social theories that lay at the base of the remarkable musical movement that had long engaged me. This musical phenomenon therefore spans exactly the three decades of my early life in South Africa. I feel privi- leged to have experienced its development—not only through growing up in the center of this musical moment, but particularly through a deepen- ing interest, and consequently, an active participation in its peak during the mid-1980s. I call this movement the Music Indaba, for it involved all sec- tors of the complex South African society, and provided a leading site within which the dilemmas of the late-apartheid era could be explored and re- solved, particularly issues concerning identity, communication and social change. -
Commission of Inquiry Into State Capture Held at Parktown, Johannesburg 10 22 July 2019 Day 137 20
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO STATE CAPTURE HELD AT PARKTOWN, JOHANNESBURG 10 22 JULY 2019 DAY 137 20 22 JULY 2019 – DAY 137 PROCEEDINGS COMMENCE ON 22 JULY 2019 CHAIRPERSON: Good morning Ms Gcabashe, good morning everybody. ADV LEAH GCABSHE SC: Good morning Chairman. Chairman just as a… CHAIRPERSON: Been – it has been quite some time we last saw you. ADV LEAH GCABSHE SC: Mr Chair – Chairman you know that you keep us very busy doing back office work and the Vrede Dairy matter which is the one that is before you today. 10 CHAIRPERSON: Yes. ADV LEAH GCABSHE SC: Is like an octopus with a million tentacles so we have been keeping busy. CHAIRPERSON: Yes, no that is fine. Thank you. ADV LEAH GCABSHE SC: Chairman just as a preliminary point I do know that a couple of implicated parties’ legal representatives are here. I do not know if you simply want me to place them on record by telling you who they are or if you would prefer them to come up and place themselves on record. CHAIRPERSON: I think they should come up and place themselves on 20 record if the intention is for them to be on record but sometimes they just want to be present informally and not formally. Maybe I should say those who wish to place themselves on record should come up and do so. So that gives a chance to those who do not want to be placed on record formally to just sit there informally. Okay thank you. ADV LEAH GCABSHE SC: Thank you Chairman. -
Somalia Terror Threat
THECHRISTOPHER TERROR February 12, THREAT FROM THE TERROR THREAT FROM SOMALIA THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF AL SHABAAB CHRISTOPHER HARNISCH APPENDICES AND MAPS BY KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN FEBRUARY 12, 2010 A REPORT BY THE CRITICAL THREATS PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE THE TERROR THREAT FROM SOMALIA CHRISTOPHER HARNISCH February 12, 2010 Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 IMPORTANT GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN SOMALIA 3 NOTABLE INDIVIDUALS 4 INTRODUCTION 8 ORIGINS OF AL SHABAAB 10 GAINING CONTROL, GOVERNING, AND MAINTAINING CONTROL 14 AL SHABAAB’S RELATIONSHIP WITH AL QAEDA, THE GLOBAL JIHAD MOVEMENT, AND ITS GLOBAL IDEOLOGY 19 INTERNATIONAL RECRUITING AND ITS IMPACT 29 AL SHABAAB’S INTERNATIONAL THREATS 33 THREAT ASSESSMENT AND CONCLUSION 35 APPENDIX A: TIMELINE OF MAJOR SECURITY EVENTS IN SOMALIA 37 APPENDIX B: MAJOR SUICIDE ATTACKS AND ASSASSINATIONS CLAIMED BY OR ATTRIBUTED TO AL SHABAAB 47 NOTES 51 Maps MAP OF THE HORN OF AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST 5 POLITICAL MAP OF SOMALIA 6 MAP OF ISLAMIST-CONTROLLED AND INFLUENCED AREAS IN SOMALIA 7 www.criticalthreats.org THE TERROR THREAT FROM SOMALIA CHRISTOPHER HARNISCH February 12, 2010 Executive Summary hree hundred people nearly died in the skies of and assassinations. Al Shabaab’s primary objectives at TMichigan on Christmas Day, 2009 when a Niger- the time of the Ethiopian invasion appeared to be ian terrorist attempted to blow up a plane destined geographically limited to Somalia, and perhaps the for Detroit. The terrorist was an operative of an al Horn of Africa. The group’s rhetoric and behavior, Qaeda franchise based in Yemen called al Qaeda in however, have shifted over the past two years reflect- the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). -
Kiwis Trail by Three Runs at Stumps on Day
Saturday 17th March, 2012 15 SCOREBOARD New Zealand, 1st Innings 185 South Africa, 1st Innings Kiwis trail by three (Overnight: 27-2) G. Smith c van Wyk b Martin 13 A. Petersen lbw b Gillespie 29 D.Steyn c van Wyk b Martin 4 H. Amla c Williamson b Gillespie 16 runs at stumps on J. Kallis c van Wyk b Gillespie 6 A.B. de Villiers b Vettori 83 J. Rudolph c van Wyk b Gillespie 1 M. Boucher b Gillespie 24 V. Peterson b Bracewell 14 day two M. Morkel not out 35 I. Tahir c Gillespie b Williamson 16 HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) (6), Jacques Rudolph (1) and Mark Dale Steyn and Vernon Extras (1b, 9lb, 1w, 1nb) 12 — South Africa took control of a Boucher (24) to hold the Proteas at Philander. TOTAL (all out) 253 match of batting struggles by send- 151-7. Philander bowled New Overs: 77.3 ing New Zealand to stumps on A.B. de Villiers rallied South Zealand opener Rob Nicol in Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-18, 3-63, 4-69, 5-84, 6-88, Friday at 65-4 in the second innings, Africa, however, making 83 as the unusual circumstances. The 7-151, 8-185, 9-219, 10-253 trailing by three runs after two leader of its rearguard. He scored ball struck Nicol high on the Bowling: Chris Martin 16-6-38-2, Doug Bracewell days of the second cricket test. 63 with Boucher, then added 34 with pad, rolled down his leg and 18-7-50-1 (1w), Mark Gillespie 15-2-59-5, Daniel After dismissing New Zealand Vernon Philander (14) for the dribbled back onto the stumps, Vettori 19-3-49-1, Brent Arnel 9-2-46-0, Kane for 185 in its first innings, claiming eighth wicket and 34 for the ninth just dislodging the bails. -
The Foreign Military Presence in the Horn of Africa Region
SIPRI Background Paper April 2019 THE FOREIGN MILITARY SUMMARY w The Horn of Africa is PRESENCE IN THE HORN OF undergoing far-reaching changes in its external security AFRICA REGION environment. A wide variety of international security actors— from Europe, the United States, neil melvin the Middle East, the Gulf, and Asia—are currently operating I. Introduction in the region. As a result, the Horn of Africa has experienced The Horn of Africa region has experienced a substantial increase in the a proliferation of foreign number and size of foreign military deployments since 2001, especially in the military bases and a build-up of 1 past decade (see annexes 1 and 2 for an overview). A wide range of regional naval forces. The external and international security actors are currently operating in the Horn and the militarization of the Horn poses foreign military installations include land-based facilities (e.g. bases, ports, major questions for the future airstrips, training camps, semi-permanent facilities and logistics hubs) and security and stability of the naval forces on permanent or regular deployment.2 The most visible aspect region. of this presence is the proliferation of military facilities in littoral areas along This SIPRI Background the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.3 However, there has also been a build-up Paper is the first of three papers of naval forces, notably around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, at the entrance to devoted to the new external the Red Sea and in the Gulf of Aden. security politics of the Horn of This SIPRI Background Paper maps the foreign military presence in the Africa. -
UNICEF Lesotho
Data Requirement Analysis and Data Mapping UNICEF Lesotho September 2018 PREPARED BY Ms. Paige Kirby Development Gateway, Inc. 1110 Vermont Ave NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20008 USA Cover image: © UNICEF/UN04420/Marrion Table of Contents LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 I. INTRODUCTION 5 II. LESOTHO CONTEXT 6 III. DATA DEMAND 6 IV. DATA SUPPLY 7 V. DATA USE AND ECOSYSTEM OPPORTUNITIES 7 VI. CONCLUSION 7 INTRODUCTION 8 I. PROJECT BACKGROUND 8 A. DIAGNOSTIC REPORT OVERVIEW 8 II. PURPOSE AND INTENDED USE 9 LESOTHO CONTEXT 10 I. SITUATIONAL OVERVIEW 10 A. POLITICAL ECONOMY 11 II. STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AND PROCESSES 12 A. GOVERNMENT OF LESOTHO 12 B. UNICEF LESOTHO PROCESSES AND PRIORITIES 14 III. OTHER ECOSYSTEM ACTORS 16 IV. SECTION CONCLUSION 17 DATA DEMAND 18 I. INTRODUCTION 18 II. GOVERNMENT PRIORITIES 18 A. DATA DEMANDERS 18 B. DATA PRODUCERS 19 C. DATA DEMANDERS AND PRODUCERS 19 III. UNICEF PRIORITIES 21 A. OUTCOME AREA 1 22 B. OUTCOME AREA 2 23 C. OUTCOME AREA 3 24 D. OUTCOME AREA 4 25 IV. PROMINENT NEEDS 26 A. POLICY COMPLIANCE 26 B. LEADERSHIP 27 V. SECTION CONCLUSION 28 DATA SUPPLY 29 I. INTRODUCTION 29 II. EXISTING DATA SOURCES 29 | 2 A. GOVERNMENT DATA SOURCES 30 B. OTHER UNICEF DATA SOURCES 35 III. PROMINENT NEEDS 36 A. ACCESS 36 B. AVAILABILITY 37 C. TIMELINESS 39 D. QUALITY 40 E. CAPACITY 42 IV. SECTION CONCLUSION 44 DATA USE 45 I. INTRODUCTION 45 II. EXISTING PROCESSES 46 A. GOVERNMENT 46 B. UNICEF 46 C. MAPPING DEMAND AGAINST SUPPLY 46 III. PROMINENT NEEDS 48 A. CAPACITY 48 B. -
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Mets Win, Royals Down Tigers
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015 SPORTS Bolt leads Jamaica squad Pyrgos to captain Scots No quick fix for Boks LONDON: Glasgow scrum-half Henry Pyrgos was yester- CAPE TOWN: South Africans must be patient with the pace of transformation in the KINGSTON: Six-times Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt headlines Jamaica’s day named captain of a 25-man Scotland squad for country’s national rugby side and will not be asking for more black players at the World squad for the world athletics championships in Beijing later this month. Saturday’s World Cup warm-up match against Ireland in Cup, sports minister Fikile Mbalula said. The debate over racial quotas and transformation The world record holder over 100 and 200 metres is joined in the 53-member Dublin. in the Springbok team flared up again in the wake of Saturday’s shock 37-25 home defeat squad by Asafa Powell and Warren Weir, both world championships sprint relay He is joined in the squad by four uncapped players: to Argentina, with the country’s biggest trade union wading into the argument. gold medallists. New Zealand-born flanker Hugh Blake, Glasgow prop Two black players, Zimbabwe-born prop Tendai Mtwarira and experienced wing Bryan Bolt answered questions over his fitness with a 100m sea- Mike Cusack, South Africa-born Edinburgh prop Allan Habana, were included in coach Heyneke Meyer’s starting XV against The son’s best of 9.87 seconds at the London Anniversary Games Dell and Edinburgh hooker Stuart McInally. Head coach Pumas. Flank Siya Kolisi, wing Lwazi Mvovo and prop Trevor Nyakane came last month while Powell ran his fastest 100 in four years to win Vern Cotter will name his starting XV for the clash at the off the bench.