Shout-Africa Editorial On June 21st, Canadians from all walks of life are participating in the many National Aboriginal Day events that will be taking place from coast to coast to coast. Africans and Aboriginal people share common histories, culture and traditions, and as such the Editorial team at shout-africa.com encourages all our valued readers to post all your National Aboriginal Day events to us. June 21st kick starts the 11 days of Celebrate Canada! which includes National Aboriginal Day (June 21), Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (June 24), Multiculturalism Day (June 27) and concluding with Canada Day (July 1)! Aluta multiculturalism!
By Ronald Murevererwa – Five years after the untold suffering authored by the government of Zimbabwe on its innocent vulnerable citizens from a barbaric inhuman operation dubbed Murambatsvina, Achieve Your Goal trust (AYGT) held a commemoration of the sad event to reflecton the impact it had on the youths and debate the way forward. The commemoration was held yesterday at Machembere community Hall in highfield, attended by over 80 youths, men, women and children, victims of gross human rights abuses still recuperating from the scars of the horrors suffered. Presentations were made from civil society organizations which include among others... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa News – MPUMALANGA – Three British students have been killed in a bus crash in South Africa. Brooksby Melton College said they were Eleanor Payne, 19, from Hinckley, Leicestershire; Samantha Lake, 19, and Daniel Greenwood, 22, both of whom were from Syston, in Leicestershire. The British High Commission said four others remained seriously ill. Their bus overturned near Nelspruit in the north-eastern Mpumalanga province, leaving more than a dozen injured. Two teachers and 18 students from the college in Leicestershire were on the bus, along with a South African guide. A police investigation has begun to establish why... Continue Reading
By BILL CORCORAN in Cape Town – FEARFUL FOREIGN visitors attending the month-long World Cup in South Africa are flocking to local security companies to hire bodyguards to protect them from crime during their stay, according to local security consultants. Company executives and rich families, predominantly from the United States and Europe, are paying up to €400 a day for a private armed bodyguard who helps plan their itinerary and accompanies them during their daily excursions. Kyle Condon, who runs the Johannesburg DK Management Consultants, one of the country’s more prominent security companies, told The Irish Times his company had... Continue Reading
NAIROBI -President Kibaki has left the country to attend the opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and will miss the Budget Speech. It will be the first time in Kenya history that a sitting president has missed the presentation of the Budget in Parliament. The President left minutes after chairing a special Cabinet meeting at State House, Nairobi Thursday where Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta briefed the Cabinet on some of the key highlights of his speech. Mr Kenyatta will read a Sh997 billion Budget, the largest in Kenya’s history, in Parliament later Thursday. Bring world to... Continue Reading
