Category: People

Zimbabwean Priminster Morgan Tsvangirai September 15 wedded his wife Elizabeth Macheka during a traditional wedding ceremony in Harare.

The wedding occurred despite a court ruling that canceled his marriage license on allegations that he would be committing bigamy.

Tsvangirai, 60, and his bride exchanged vows and rings at a luxury convention facility in Harare but did not sign the legal marriage register.

A court on Friday declared Tsvangirai already married under tribal law after seeing video footage of traditional bride price being paid last November to the family of another Zimbabwean woman.

Polygamy is recognized in tribal law but not in Zimbabwe’s national laws.

Zimbabwe law has no jurisdiction over customary marriages, which are agreed between families.

Tadahiro Matsushita, the Japanese Minister of Financial Services commited suicide over an article that was about to be published in a magazine.

According to Jiji News and other sources, the weekly magazine Shukan Shincho, was getting ready to print a story involving Matsushita and an affair involving a woman. Shukan Shincho editors were not available to comment.

The Minister was found dead september 10, on World Suicide Prevention Day in what police are investigating as a suicide. He allegedly hung himself in his own home.

He would not be the first Japanese government minister to kill himself and he won’t be the last. It was reported that he was struggling with the pressures of his job.

The last time a cabinet minister committed suicide was in 2007, when agriculture minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka hung himself after allegations of fiscal misconduct.

The timing of Matsushita’s death underlines the scale of Japan’s suicide problem. Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, according to the World Health Organization.

Despite laws and outlines adopted by the government to tackle Japan’s high suicide rate, the number of suicides has remained over 30,000 per year for 14 years.

While there have been rises and ebbs, the numbers stay high even as Japan’s population continues to shrink.

The Japanese word for the act is remarkably straight-forward: 自殺 (ji-satsu). It literally means “kill” (殺) “oneself“(自)”.

Suicide in Japan has a long tradition of being a means of apology, protest, means of taking revenge, and dealing with illness.

Zimbabwe political opposition accuses President Robert Mugabe of sleeping at crucial meetings saying the 88 year old revolutionary leader has become a liability for the South African country.

Prof Welshman Ncube one of Mugabe’s ministers who also leads of one of the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations said Mugabe slept at the recent Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Mozambique.

The President had to be roused by Zambian President Michael Sata after he fell asleep a few minutes after the meeting that was meant to discuss the Zimbabwe crisis had began, the opposition politicians told party supporters.

“If you are strong and young, you sleep in a dignified way but his whole body collapses when he sleeps”.

He added, “You sleep as early as 9 am to a point that you are woken up by an equally old Sata. Who would tell other leaders to wake Mugabe while he was sleeping?

“Do you think that person can rule Zimbabwe? We need fresh leaders with strength who you do not have to look at and check if they are still awake.”

Doctors operating on a man who was taken to hospital with stomach pains discovered a 9in long plastic fork that he swallowed a decade ago.

Lee Gardner was taken to Barnsley Hospital when he started vomiting blood and having cramps.

He said he was told the fork, which he swallowed 10 years ago, would pass through his system naturally so he did not think to mention it to doctors.

Surgeon Hanis Shiwani said Gardner was lucky there was not more damage.

Gardner, from Cudworth, Barnsley, said: “I can’t believe it. I have never had any problems with my stomach except once a couple of years ago I remember thinking I felt like something had lodged when I bent over awkwardly.

“But the advice at the time was that it would just pass through my system, and as that was so many years before I really didn’t think it could be the fork.”

‘Handful of cases’

Gardner said he was playing around with the disposable fork in his mouth and gagged, accidentally swallowing it, but it had never caused him problems.

He added: “While they were looking inside me with the camera the doctor said ‘are you sure you’ve not swallowed anything?’ I said no but when he asked again ‘are you sure, I can see prongs of what appears to be a fork’, I remembered accidentally swallowing one years and years ago.”

Doctors found that the prongs had pressed on the stomach lining causing an ulcer that led to the bleeding.

Shiwani said: “If something does get lodged, then normally a patient would become ill almost immediately.

“This is why Lee’s case is so uncharacteristic, not just because the object is a fork but because we believe there are only a handful of cases reported like this where a foreign object has been inside someone for such a long time.

“Lee is extremely lucky that the fork hasn’t caused more damage but we are confident he will make a full recovery.”

BBC

The government of Rwanda through vision 2020 has mandated the mainstreaming of gender, empowering women and girls, family promotion and protection of children.

All these have been major priorities for the Government of Rwanda throughout the process of rebuilding the nation since the genocide.

Changing mindsets and practices which do not favour gender equality and family promotion is seen as a solution where both women and men have equal chance to work together toward sustainable development of the country.

The Ministry in charge of gender and family promotion recognizes the evident that women have been empowered to take up leadership roles and to be free to use their skills and talents and participate in building the nation.

According to the statement posted on MIGEPROF website Hon. Aloisea Inyumba, the Minister of gender and Family Promotion, says presently, economic empowerment of women is a major focus for the country.

She adds that government seeks to create opportunities for more women to use their skills and talents and improve their own livelihoods and those of their families.

In a discussion about gender and employment held earlier this week, youth in Gasabo district conflicted with the way gender is practiced when it comes to job market.

They accused employers to be gender biased when hiring new staff.

Gasabo youth acknowledged many employers do not yet understand the meaning of gender equality and this results in employment denial especially among the males.

By proclaiming his anonymity in media, one of participants in a discussion said, “Beautiful young girls are found everywhere in offices especially receptionists, when you investigate about the way they have been hired you will be aware that they have been employed not because they competed for those posts but because they are beautiful girls not handsome boys”.

He inquired whether this was the real sense of gender adding that he has been denied such position because he is male.

David Ndushabandi 30, said that he has been looking for a job for three years. He says he realised that employers favor women more than men while recruiting new employees.

It has been argued that there are some institutions who have established principles of recruiting 50% of women whether ranked among top scores or not they will be hired simply because they are women.

On the side of girls, those who have been interviewed have not gone far from boys’ views; however, they said women have capacity to compete for the posts where employees are needed without waiting to be favoured.

Nyirazuba Jeanne d’ Arc, is a teacher in a Kinyinya primary school. She said she has competed for the post of teacher with other men and she passed the exam while some men failed.

She adds however, “if there is favoritism among women in the face of employee recruitments it will end up with making female sex incompetent” .

Generally, the youth concluded by calling upon the Ministry of public service and Labor to work with respective institutions to change mindset of employers over gender balance and clearly explain to which extent gender issues are to be taken into consideration while recruiting for the positions where both sex can have equal chance.

Communist leader Fidel Castro, who led Cuba for a half century and became known worldwide for decades of Cold War-era clashing with the United States, has celebrated his 86th birthday.

Officially, there have been no plans to publicly honour Cuba’s one-time “commander-in-chief,” who tightly orchestrated public life there from January 1959 until he suffered a health crisis in 2006 and delegated his duties to his brother Raul Castro.

Youth organizations marked not the anniversary of Castro’s birth but rather that of Rene Gonzalez, one of five Cuban secret service agents imprisoned in the United States considered “heroes of the war on terror” in their homeland.

Fidel Castro has kept a low profile for months. The father of the Cuban revolution last appeared in public in March, when he met Pope Benedict XVI on the pontiff’s visit to the Caribbean country.

The longtime leader has also fallen behind in his once prolific publications.

His long “reflections” — totaling 398 to date — were once regularly published in state media. Now, he pens just several lines every few months on topics that leave even his most loyal supporters perplexed.

‘Burn out’ is an oldies hit by south african musician Mabuse Sipho “Hotstix”.
This might not sound new to your ears but the musician has just completed college at the age of 60.

Mabuse who dropped out of school in the 1960’s has proved that he didn’t ‘burn out’ but fired up to obtain his college diploma.

He enrolled in adult classes near his home in Soweto

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma praised Mabuse for reaching an “amazing milestone”.

“You are indeed an inspiration to all of us by showing us that one is never too old for education,” he said.

According to the United Nations statistics, 12% of South Africa’s adults are illiterate.

This is mostly due to the past apethide regime which segregated against the black majority who were denied access to education and many more social services.

Mabuse Tweeted,”I needed my #matric to feel complete even with all my musical success. Forty-five years out of class is no childs play.”

Some of Mabuse’s popular hits; Shikisha, The creator has a masterplan, Thiba Kamoo.

Mabuse and Om Alec Khaoli, Selby Ntuli Founded Harari–a legendary Afro-Rock group founded in the late 60’s. It is one of the most successful band in Southern Africa.

For the past two months, Angelica a mother of two has always had battles with her two adolescent kids due to their actions and she claims she finds no courage to talk to her own kids who are threatening to get even worse.

And the kids say they are waiting for their mother to talk to them about how to handle it.

You don’t want to talk about sex.your kids don’t want to talk about sex; here is how to talk about sex.

Talking about sex is without doubt one of the most important conversation you will ever have with your kids.

It’s also one of the most difficult. You need to talk with them early and often about why it’s important for them to wait to have sex.but if you are like most of the parents you are not sure how,here are some tips.

Use teachable moments; many everyday occurrences offer a natural way to ease into the conversation. Maybe it’s a scene from a movie or TV show, perhaps a song lyric or new story.

use these or anything else that seems appropriate as conversation starters, and do it subtly. Dole out bite-size bits don’t try to cover the whole subject in one sitting.

It’s overwhelming and uncomfortable for your child and you; so toss out small bits of information and opinion at a time little by little your kids will get the big picture.

And will so appreciate not getting the big parental lecture.

Keep things light; talking about sex can be pretty heavy so lighten up, may be use a little humour. Not to underplay the seriousness of the subject. But to disarm your child’s anxieties (and yours) don’t feel you have to make direct eye contact either. That can increase the discomfort.

Don’t preach. Share; let your child know how you felt when you were their age. So they know you understand what they are going through. And don’t just talk, ask questions. This absolutely needs to be a two-way discussion.

Because kids really understand better when they are talked with, not at. Believe it or not kids actually do want to know how you feel about sex and how you want them to behave.

Ugandan singer Joseph mayanja a.k.a Chammeleon has today attracted attention in the Uganda capital Kampala when he camped outside the Tanzanian embassy demading for his Passport.

The social media is abuzz with the story. This has however, taken another diplomatic dimension. Tanzania has allegedly sent someone to deliver the singers passport.

Chameleone arrived outside the Tanzanian embassy with a mattress, jerrycan and guitar in hand, lay down his tools and took a nap attracting the attention of passers-by as well as embassy security.

The Story

According to Uganda’s Monitor, Chameleone alleges that on July 8, a Tanzanian promoter identified as Eric Shigongo took away his passport and two others belonging to his minders Sulaiman Kalisa and Kibalama Denis at Atriums Hotel in Kinondoni, Dar-es-salam, Tanzania.

Chameleone said the promoter who had hired him to perform at the Saba Saba show on July 7, requested Chameleone and his collegues to hand him their passports alleging he wanted to photocopy them for purposes of taxation with the revenue authorities in Tanzania.

“Eric didn’t return the passports. When I met him outside the hotel, he told me he was demanding me $3500. He told me he had given the said amount to my manager a one George Mugabo in Kampala as deposit for the show a few weeks back,” Chameleone said.

With placards that read “Tanzania help me,” “I need my passport,” the crowd at the Tanzanian embassy swelled and police was called in to calm the situation. It took the intervention of the Uganda Police Boss Gen. Kale Kaihura who convinced Chameleone to go with him and solve the matter amicably.

Chameleone explained that he reported the matter to Oyster Bay Police station in Kinondoni Tanzania before he secured temporary travel documents from the Ugandan Embassy in Tanzania to travel back to Uganda.

The singer also explained that he got in touch with the Uganda Police that effected arrest of Mugabo George on Monday. Chameleone says he had met the Tanzanian ambassador in Uganda twice but the meetings bore no fruits.

Rwandan Involved

Chameleon says, “To my dismay, I traveled to Rwanda for shows at Serena Hotel and I was shocked when I saw Geroge standing outside Serena Hotel In Kigali. He even threatened to hurt me.”

Gen. Kayihura has thus ordered investigations into the matter. “I’m going to call Kataratambi and ask him to investigate this thoroughly, I also want the person who was handling the case investigated and suspended with immediate effect.”

However, an official in the Uganda Police told Gen. Kaihura that he had called authorities in Tanzania and that a Tanzanian Col. Kasaijja was on a plane enroute to Uganda to deliver the three passports.

Chameleone, however insisted that he would go back to the Tanzanian embassy if he had not received his passports by the end of the day.

In Zimbabwe, capital Harare, a man yesterday (Tuesday) shocked the Civil Courts in Harare admitting that he chases after other women because his wife was lazy.

Kays Musarurwa was accused by his wife Tapiwa Dzangare of being promiscuous.

Dzangare was seeking a protection order against Musarurwa.
Musarurwa produced a kitchen knife before magistrate Mr Milton Serima that he said Dzangare threatened to use against him.

“I moved out of the matrimonial home after my wife attempted to stab me using this knife.

“It is true that I have several girlfriends and I told my wife the reason why I do so.

“Our matrimonial bed is spread by our domestic worker.

“She washes my clothes and cooks for me.

“My wife has never done what a wife should do for her husband because she says that’s not what she came for.

“The women I have extra-marital affairs with cook for me and wash my clothes and I like that,” he said.

The couple has three children.

Dzangare told the court that she is the manager in their house and her duty was to manage the domestic worker.

“It is true I did not marry him to be his domestic worker, and that is why we employed one.

“He does not look after his children yet his girlfriends call me bragging that they won’t leave him because he looks after their children well.

“The day I used this knife I had had enough of his girlfriend.
“I just wanted to threaten him,” she said.

Magistrate Mr Milton Serima granted the couple a reciprocal protection order.