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Welcome to Linda Ikeji's Blog: Genevieve's other dress at the Africa Magic Viewer...
Welcome to Linda Ikeji's Blog: Genevieve's other dress at the Africa Magic Viewer...: You've seen the yellow dress, this is the other one she wore last night at the Awards. Stunning!
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Nigerian Billionaire, Folorunsho Alakija, owns N18...
Welcome to Linda Ikeji's Blog: Nigerian Billionaire, Folorunsho Alakija, owns N18...: According to a report released last weekend by American lifestyle magazine, Vanity Fair, Nigerian oil Tycoon, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija ow...
Kanye West crowns Lil Wayne the best rapper alive
Welcome to Linda Ikeji's Blog: Kanye West crowns Lil Wayne the best rapper alive: Lil Wayne? Not Jay Z? Lol. MTV just released their list for the Hottest MCs in the game and when asked who he felt was the best rapper ali...
Faces at Nollywood @20 presidential dinner
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Tiwa Savage In Cape Town..
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Violence comes from apartheid Zuma
Violence comes from apartheid Zuma: President Jacob Zuma says violence in South Africa is a "direct consequence of apartheid", which was a violent system.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Our Greatest Fear —Marianne Williamson
it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.
—Marianne Williamson
Friday, February 8, 2013
Let's Take Control...The Power Is In Our Hands.
PENNY LEBYANE FOUNDATIONS SPEAKS
OUT AGAINST THE SEXUAL OFFENCES ACT PROMULGATION
Penny
Lebyane Foundation is extremely disturbed by Judge Pierre Rabie’s ruling (Pretoria
High Court) which effectively allows children aged between 12 and 16 years to
engage in consensual sex.
We
are awfully concerned by the event that a director of the Teddy Bear Clinic,
Shaheda Omar’s and by the decision to take the matter to court in the first
place. We are certain that Ms Omar and
Judge Pierre Rabie are not conscious of the consequence that this promulgation
will do to the country and the scruples of our children.
The Teddy Bear Clinic for
Abused Children (TTBC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring
abused children are protected and rehabilitated. They provide therapy,
counseling, assistance, love, comfort, safety and ongoing support to children
who have been abused.
Currently, teenage pregnancy in South Africa is
spiralling out of control, (young girls are encouraged to go to schools
pregnant) and by altering the Sexual Offences Act clause; Judge Rabie and
Shaheda have single handily given our children the keys to having sex.
In 2011, "The Department of Basic Education
released the Annual Surveys for Ordinary Schools for 2009-2010", which
stated that : In Grade 3 alone, about
109 pupils fell pregnant in 2009 - as against "only" 17 in the same
grade in 2008. In Grade 4, the number increased to 107 from 69 in 2008, and in
Grade 5, 297 girls fell pregnant in 2009; The highest concentration of pregnant
pupils was in high schools, from Grade 7 to Grade 9; In 2009, a total of 45276
girls became pregnant;
Last year KZN, MEC of Education Senzo Mchunu
said that school girls are falling pregnant in their thousands in Kwa-Zulu
Natal and, in the majority of cases, the men to blame are their teachers. In 2010 and 2011, 12 971 KZN schoolgirls
fell pregnant, and Mchunu said that this year the figure looked shocking. We need to look at the dynamics of this
promulgation and how it ties in other policies within the country for
example: if a girl of 12 years has sex
with a school teacher is this legal now or does it still count as statutory
rape? And, if so, what if the young 12 years old girl says she gave the teacher
consent does this count as OK?
It is also
important to state that according to the The National Youth Victimisation Study of 2005 found that only
11.3% of rapes are reported to the South African Police Service.
If 60 child rapes are reported and that represents 11.3%
of all rapes, they extrapolated that 530 child rapes take place every day. This
equals 1 child rape every three minutes.
“Rape is the
least likely violent crime to be reported, and victims cite fear of reprisal as
the commonest reason for not telling anyone.”
Mavalani high school alone, in rural Giyani, in the northern province of Limpopo, had 24 teenage pregnant girls with an average of two in every class in 2011. And this is still low compared to the rest of the continent, where UNICEF says the comparative figure is over 100 in countries like Nigeria, Uganda, Somalia and Swaziland.
Mavalani high school alone, in rural Giyani, in the northern province of Limpopo, had 24 teenage pregnant girls with an average of two in every class in 2011. And this is still low compared to the rest of the continent, where UNICEF says the comparative figure is over 100 in countries like Nigeria, Uganda, Somalia and Swaziland.
But South Africa has the world’s largest
HIV-positive population, with 5.7 million of its 51 million people; about 12%
are infected with the virus. This
creates added threat that has already prompted health officials to rethink AIDS
and pregnancy prevention programmes targeted at the youth.
In 2011 annual national antenatal
sentinel HIV and syphilis prevalence survey in Pretoria, Surveillance
data shows an increasing rate of HIV infections among pregnant women in
Mpumalanga, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said Mpumalanga had shown an increase in estimated
HIV prevalence of two percent. The
province had a 34.7 percent prevalence rate in 2009 and the figure has since
risen to 36.7 percent, according to the survey compiled by the department of
health.
South
Africa, we have lost our moral fibre and we need to become parents of our
nation otherwise we are going to lose our country to the already unscrupulous
decisions and messages that we are sending out to our children and the world, the
least we can do is to restore and instil biblical doctrines to the decisions we
make for our country and most importantly for our children, Ms.
Lebyane director of the Penny Lebyane Foundation said
The Penny Lebyane Foundation is requesting all
those who are against this promulgation to stand up and join us in a minute of
silence on Sunday the 20th of January at 12:00 noon, and to wear
BLACK if you are against this promulgation.
From a genuinely and extremely alarmed
foundation
The end…
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