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Love Your City I Love My City The Jacaranda City - our heart, our home When looking at other cities across South Africa, Pretoria is not the oldest by far, yet it holds a very significant place in history and in every Pretorian’s heart. Since the city’s inception in 1855, a lot has changed. The streets have over the years played witness to political issues, festivals, marches, love stories and personal stories... Sigh. If only the Jacaranda trees could talk. Established by the then Zuid-Afr...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Africa Day was first marked over six decades ago. SAs freedom from colonialism and apartheid was one of the key drivers of African unity. This years theme looks at the importance of culture, heritage and language. Each year, the African Union (AU) commemorates International Africa Day on 25 May. It is usually marked by festivals, concerts and speeches. But, beyond the colourful festivities, whats the point? In South Africa, the day is a reminder of the countrys re...

May 24, 2021 Did you even know that Africa had a day commemorated under its name? well, let`s find out more! After World War II, the process of decolonization of the African continent gathered momentum as Africans increasingly agitated for more political rights and independence. Thus, between 1945 and 1965 a significant number of African countries gained independence from European colonial powers. Ghana became the first African country south of the Sahara to gain independence on 6 March 1957. J...

Upstate and Western New York Fishing Report – May 13 , 2021 Frank Campbell The Lake Ontario Counties spring trout and salmon derby is approaching its final weekend and a new $15,000 Grand Prize leader has emerged this week as Ken Champagne of Ohio caught a 25-pound, 8-ounce Niagara Bar king salmon on a flasher-fly, besting Jeff Smith of New Brighton, Pa. who had taken the early lead on the first day of the contest May 7. Smith’s was a 24-pound, 15-ounce Olcott king salmon he caught on a Ca...

Similar to Bar K in Kansas City, the proposed business could include a dog park, day kennel, bar and possible restaurant in north Fort Collins.

>> lection day has past. now harsh realities are coming to light. jennifer gilbert has our thanksgiving edition of for the record. >> oh, theethings we find out after election day. joining us now for the record. happy thanksgiving blair.ow. >> thank you jennifer. >> all right. ss the old story was that the bush tax cuts oony benefited the rich. now we find out that they also benefited a lot of ordinary americans. it is funny how the storr >> yeah. in 2000, we were doing presidential ra...

wendall goler is is at the white house with more on this. whats going on today? >> reporter: with no public events on the presidents schedule, aides say he was getting several updates a day on the situation in the korean peninsula. earlier this week he convened his entire national security team and gave them their instructions shortly after the artillery exchange with north and south korea. on this day the commander of u.s. forces in the region, general walter sharp, toured yeonpyeong ...

little winter-like weather out there. thanks for joining us tonight at 10:00. im shawn yancy. >> im brian bolter. were live downstairs in the newsroom with sue palka and the national weather service issued a winter weather advisory. whats the deal. >> for parts of the area in the north and west. i want to assure you its mostly rain well see. it will develop later tonight, but it is going to move into some colder air up to our north and westment check out cumberland at 30 -- west. check...

so for your shopping tomorrow morning, likely to be some rain showers around. temperatures are cool to cold. 44 in downtown washington. but a lot of 30s, not too far off to the north and west. there is your winter weather advisory until 11:00 a.m. this morning. and again thats likely to be led to expire -- let to expire as the temperatures are too warm. and the temperatures, you can see were here in the 40sin washington. 44 in washington. 37 in frederick. 36 in hagerstown. our high tem...

investigates. >> reporter: this devastating and deadly accident on the bay bridge more than 2 years ago raised major concerns about the structure of the barrier walls and started an investigation that was just released. this was the after math of the tractor trailer crash. a chevy camero crossed the center line. the tractor trailer swerved to avoid it killing the driver. inspections revealed bolts connecting the bridge were coroded. maryland used technology and infra red scans and rada...