KARIBA FERRY INQUIRY
The inquiry into the Mbuya Nehanda ferry disaster is an important step.
But the test is what follows:
Was the ferry seaworthy?
Were safety rules followed?
Did regulators do their job?
Will the report be published?
Will its recommendations be implemented?
For the 97 lives lost:
Accountability must honour the dead. Reform must protect the living.
@paultungwarara Nhengo dzake nemukadzi wake nevamwe vavakanga vainavo dzainhongwa dzichiiswa mumapurasitiki esvina nevanhu vanotora zvitunha.
Let that sink in PRESDENTIAL ADVISOR. Yo government can nt even invest n the most basic of things in the public health care sector. SHAME ON YOU SIES MAN
🚨 More details from Premier League statement on Manchester City.
The independent Commission found that Manchester City arranged ‘sham’ commercial deals with a number of its sponsors during the period, which were part of a disguised funding scheme, whereby those companies were only required to pay a portion of the relevant sponsorship fees. The remainder was funded by Abu Dhabi United Group Investment & Development Ltd (ADUG), which owned the club. As part of the scheme, further ‘sham’ arrangements, funded by ADUG, were entered into to enable the club to record lower operating expenses than it actually incurred, as well as a ‘sham’ circular arrangement with Fordham, an entity that purchased the club’s players’ image rights, that was funded by ADUG.
The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million during the affected period, to appear to comply with financial rules. The consequence of this, as the Commission found, was that the club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators. The Commission concluded that ‘by its conduct the club clearly intended to circumvent the PL Rules‘.
As a result, Manchester City failed to accurately report its income and expenditure for the purposes of the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules and UEFA’s Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Rules. The Commission found that, had all of the relevant agreements been reported accurately in the club’s accounts, it would have been in breach of both the League’s and UEFA’s spending limits by a very substantial amount.
In the dining hall of New College, Oxford, a portrait hangs prominently of the fabled late Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera. Commissioned by the college and created by artist Nina Mae Fowler, the striking monochrome portrait commemorates the acclaimed and iconoclastic author. Marechera originally attended New College on a scholarship in the mid-1974s after being expelled from the University of Rhodesia for anti-colonial student protests. His turbulent relationship with Oxford ultimately led to his expulsion from New College in 1976.
A short career notwithstanding, Marechera is one of the most important figures in the cultural history of post-Colonial Africa.
"Someone of coruscating intelligence, a natural rule breaker and a brilliant writer, his time at Oxford was stormy and eventful", says New College.
In 1987, he died in Harare, all too young, still defiantly refusing to accept any labels or attributions of belonging.
In 2020 German literary academic Flova Veit-Wild finally published 'They Called You Dambudzo' a memoir of her encounter with Dambudzo, including their "intense, personal and sexual relationship". I'm still searching for the book!
Sex, jealousy, HIV and literary genius: Gabriel Manyati examines Flora Veit-Wild’s tempestuous affair with Dambudzo Marechera and the legacy she spent decades preserving. #DambudzoMarechera https://t.co/8LQhcGrGhM
South Africa’s biggest star took the stage last night at Joburg theatre. We sang along and watched in awe as he displayed his mastery and love to us.
An absolute gift. At 87 yrs old he had us up on our feet with his showmanship. Big love to Ntate Caiphus Semenya🌸