The current education system globally is outmoded. We are producing drones (our school going children) to achieve the ends of fast capitalism.
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Where are the Farmers?
Zimbabwe was once the breadbasket of Africa. Today it is the begging bowl of Africa. Is South Africa going down the same road of self inflicted food deprivation? An ignored discussion!
Superman! Where are you?
We look beyond the boundaries of our own villages, towns and cities for heroes only to find that they were around us all the time. They shaped our lives yet, we gave it to others who we have never and will never meet.
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Gratitude to all for an abundance of comments on article dated: 27 APRIL 2020. DAY 27 COVID LOCKDOWN SOUTH AFRICA.
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MYAMAR -Coup d’état
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won the elections in November.
YANGON – Myanmar’s military has detained the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an apparent coup.
The military claims it carried out the coup in response to election fraud.
(ENCA.COM)
THE MEDIA SPIN CONTINUES. THE HUMAN SUFFERING – UNREPORTED.
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Be relevant.
“When you come to the end of the light of all that you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen; there will be something firm to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.” Barbara Winters
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House Demolitions!
In the first year of the Al Aqsa Intifada alone (Sept 2001 – 2002) over 9,000 homes were demolished, making 40,000 Palestinians homeless. Ismail A Patel. Palestine. Beginner’s Guide. Page 192
David Attenborough
“When Allah granted Prophet Yoosuf (`alayhis-Salaam) physical beauty it caused him to be locked up in the prison; but when Allah granted him knowledge (when he interpreted the dream of the king) it not only took him out of prison, but elevated his rank in society, clearly showing us the virtue of knowledge and that physical beauty does not mean anything.”
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
TEAM INSOMNIACS!
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” Seneca
These young men at the time dared to be different and that made all the difference.