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I am an African” speech.
With eloquence and perception, he captured the essential idea of a new South African identity, the development of which remains essential to the implementation of our constitutional vision.
A quarter of a century later, the optimism of that day appears to be no more than a distant recollection. The implementation of the promise of a country based upon freedom, dignity and equality for all, is even less likely now than it was at the dawn of our democracy.
Unemployment is at record levels, coming in for the last quarter of 2020 at 32.5% – and that is the official count. In 2020, the IMF reported that the Gini coefficient, an index that measures inequality, remained close to 0.7, and the top 20% of the population held over 68% of income while the bottom 40% held 7%. Understandably, during Covid-19 in 2020, GDP declined by some 7%, but will only partly recover to drop around 3% in 2021.
Nathi Mthethwa. (Photo by Carl Fourie/Gallo Images)
Cricket South Africa s chaos wasn t bred overnight, but through a series of events that led to Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa enforcing section 13 of the Sports Act on CSA.
At the 17 April Special General Meeting, the members council vetoed amendments to the MOI that would have allowed a majority independent board to be elected.
How did it come to this? The timeline below details events that led to CSA teetering on the de-recognition precipice.
Cricket South Africa (CSA) didn t implode overnight, nor was Sports minister
Nathi Mthethwa s decision to enforce section 13 of the National Sports and Recreation Act a hasty decision.
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Apr 22, 2021
PARIS (AP) The guilty verdict in the trial over George Floyd’s death was not just celebrated in America. It signaled hope for those seeking racial justice and fighting police brutality on the other side of the Atlantic and beyond, where Black Lives Matter has also become a rallying cry.
But the fight is far from over, activists, victims’ families and others in Europe, South Africa and elsewhere said Wednesday.
A Minneapolis jury found ex-police officer Derek Chauvin guilty Tuesday on all counts of murder and manslaughter in the May death of Floyd, whose final words, “I can’t breathe,” reverberated across the world.