This excel document is a non-exhaustive collation of Global and Regional Mineral Governance instruments,platforms, initiatives, institutions and facilities that are working towards achievement of good mineral resource governance
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The GCE O-Level, introduced in Britain in 1951, was never designed for the masses. It was the preserve of grammar schools, an elite stream educating roughly the top 20% of pupils. ( mission school type schooling in Zimbabwe) The other 80% of 16 year olds were never expected to sit O-Levels, let alone pass five subjects. Yet Zimbabwe has taken an examination built for an academic minority and decreed it the minimum standard for an entire nation.
The predictable consequence is that the overwhelmingly 90% of rural pupils leave school without five O-Levels. They’re recorded as having failed Zimsec. 46 years consistently 90% of rural kids “ fail”. They are branded failures, when in fact it is the education system that has failed them. We have imported a colonial sorting mechanism, stripped it of its original context and transformed it into a national instrument of humiliation. There is nothing enlightened about forcing children to climb a ladder that was never built for them.
India and China do not pretend that every kid must become an academic; they use examinations early on to sort students into appropriate pathways, the vast majority into technical and vocational training, while Zimbabwe has turned an elite academic filter inherited from Britain into a universal test of worth. The irony.
The real tragedy is not that rural children fail to obtain five O-Levels. It is that policymakers still mistake an examination designed with a particular end as mass education. It is bureaucratic dogma sustained by inertia and defended by people who have never had to live with its consequences.
@baba_nyenyedzi If you believed the news building up to the world cup you would have thought that it was going to be a flop. It seems that anything with Trump rubs the media and the people further on the left of the political spectrum, up the wrong way
@Thickslender Since US foreign policy is unlikely to shift the girl has a decision to make. The boy can be honorable if he has been in contact with the aunties and tell them kuti ndozviripo paground and if she can't wait he should release her to seek marriage and children yacho
@nickmangwana Bad idea, like saying Athletics Bodies have been directed to ensure all athletes limited to a maximum of 3 events per sports day, this to ensure fairness, cut injury risk & open spots for more kids.
All athletes who have been entered in more than 3 events will be refunded.
Your first meme was probably a Chuck Norris fact. Mine was. He died yesterday in Hawaii at 86, ten days after posting a video of himself throwing punches on his birthday. His caption: “I don’t age. I level up.” This is a little tribute.
The real Chuck Norris was wilder than any meme about him. He lost his first three karate tournaments, then went 65-5 over the next decade. Six-time undefeated world middleweight karate champion. Black belts in five different disciplines. First person ever inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame, and the only martial artist to be named to it three separate times.
His student Steve McQueen told him to try acting. That led to a fight scene opposite Bruce Lee in Way of the Dragon (1972), which became the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong that year. Then Walker, Texas Ranger ran 9 seasons on CBS, 194 episodes, broadcast in over 100 countries.
But his biggest cultural moment started with a college freshman’s joke. In 2005, a Brown University student named Ian Spector built a random fact generator on the Something Awful forums. It was originally about Vin Diesel. When the novelty faded, Spector ran a poll with 12 celebrity options. Chuck Norris wasn’t on the list. He won anyway, by write-in landslide.
By early 2006, the Chuck Norris Fact Generator was pulling 20 million pageviews a month. This was before Twitter existed, before Facebook was public, before YouTube had a single viral hit. A college kid’s joke website about a semi-retired action star became one of the most visited humor pages on the internet. It spawned six books (some hit the New York Times bestseller list), two video games, and a scene in The Expendables 2 where Sylvester Stallone’s character recites a Chuck Norris fact to Chuck Norris’s face.
When asked about his favorite fact, Norris said it was: “They tried to carve Chuck Norris’ face into Mount Rushmore, but the granite wasn’t hard enough for his beard.”
The meme ran for 21 years. Most memes last weeks. Chuck Norris Facts introduced more people to Chuck Norris than his movies ever did. For everyone born after 1995, he was never an aging action star or a karate champion. He was the guy who counted to infinity. Twice. The guy whose tears cure cancer, too bad he never cried.
The last thing the internet saw from Chuck Norris was him throwing punches on his 86th birthday. Which is, honestly, the most Chuck Norris fact of all.