Zimbabwe: Will Mnangagwa go East as more sanctions come in from the West?
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Police officers patrol the street ahead of planned anti-government protests during the Covid-19 outbreak in Harare, Zimbabwe, 31 July 2020. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s attempts to win over the West to his cause are failing, the latest sign being the UK’s sanctions on his security chiefs.
On Monday 1 February 2021, the United Kingdom (UK) announced that it had designated four security bosses for sanctions for human rights violations.
This was the first of the UK’s major foreign policy measures outside the European Union after Brexit on 31 January.
North West University
The accomplished legal academic died of natural causes on Saturday, surrounded by family at his home in Johannesburg.
Among many of his accomplishments, Du Plessis was part of a team that worked with the now President Cyril Ramaphosa and produced the country s draft Constitution in 1996 and the Bill of Rights.
Du Plessis is survived by his wife, three daughters and six grandchildren and his sister.
Professor Lourens Marthinus du Plessis, well-known legal academic and cowriter of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, has died.
A research professor at the North West University, Du Plessis was a gentle giant and a peacemaker during the turbulent period of political transition in South Africa, said Leon Wessels a former minister in the National Party.
There Was No Trust : Apartheid Ghosts Stalk S.Africa s Vaccine Fears By Sofia CHRISTENSEN
02/05/21 AT 12:35 AM
At the very mention of the word vaccine , 82-year-old Josefine Hlomuka vehemently shook her head, her face clouding with worry as she gazed at the storm bearing down on her home in the Johannesburg township of Soweto. We don t trust, whispered the former peanut seller, haunted by the four decades she spent under apartheid.
White-minority rule was swept away a generation ago but faith in South Africa s government today, its reputation undermined by corruption and incompetence, is poor.
Such deep-rooted distrust, say experts, lies behind vaccine scepticism that has flared since coronavirus hit the country last March.
Members of the Saaberie Chishty Burial Society prepare the grave for the burial of a person who died from Covid-19 at the Avalon Cemetery in Lenasia, Johannesburg, on Dec. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Shiraaz Mohamed)
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) At the very mention of the word “vaccine,” 82-year-old Josefine Hlomuka vehemently shook her head, her face clouding with worry as she gazed at the storm bearing down on her home in the Johannesburg township of Soweto.
“We don’t trust,” whispered the former peanut seller, haunted by the four decades she spent under apartheid.
White-minority rule was swept away a generation ago but faith in South Africa’s government today, its reputation undermined by corruption and incompetence, is poor.
There was no trust : Apartheid ghosts stalk SA s vaccine fears Scepticism and suspicion have fed into a flurry of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy is growing, even as leaders prepare a mammoth inoculation campaign set to begin this month. Picture: AFP
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JOHANNESBURG – At the very mention of the word vaccine , 82-year-old Josefine Hlomuka vehemently shook her head, her face clouding with worry as she gazed at the storm bearing down on her home in the Johannesburg township of Soweto. We don t trust, whispered the former peanut seller, haunted by the four decades she spent under apartheid.