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Legatum, a private international investment group and Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm, today announced that SECURICO has won the US $100,000 grand prize of the 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship. Other winners included five finalists, Nigeria’s Chocolate City Group and Pepperoni Foods, Expand Technologies of Mauritius, Unique Solutions of The Gambia and soleRebels of Ethiopia. Each won US $50,000. The following are the details of the announcement. 9 Dec 2011 05:49 Africa/Lagos AFRICA AWARDS For Entrepreneurship / Zimbabwe's SECURICO Wins $100,000 Grand Prize in 2011 AFRICA AWARDS For Entrepreneurship Divine Ndhlukula, Founder and Managing Director, Securico, winner of the US $100,000 grand prize of the 2011 Africa. Divine Ndhlukula, Founder and Managing Director, Securico. The firm, won the US $100,000 grand prize in the Africa Award. LONDON, December 9, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Legatum (http://www.legatum.com), a private international investm...

President Thabo Mbeki and ANC Chieftain Jacob Zuma when they were jolly good fellows before their political cookie crumbled. Dear Mbeki Brother, I have been excited and impressed by President Thabo Mbeki's successful resolution of the political crisis in Zimbabwe with the peaceful power sharing between the shameless dictator Robert Mugabe and the never-say-die opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on September 15, 2008. But I am shocked by the wishy-washy way the African National Congress (ANC) harassed and embarrassed President Thabo Mbeki out of office! Is this how you honour and reward your heroes? Or is Thabo Mbeki not worthy of your honour? The mass resignations of his notable ministers should be enough to show that they are not happy with the political conspiracy that eventually resulted in the unceremonious resignation of President Thabo Mbeki. When deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi an...

Newt and Callista participate in a sea safari in Bodo, Norway. Newt and Callista participate in a sea safari in Bodo, Norway. Newt Gingrich and his beautiful Callista sent the following report from their vacation in Norway and he has addressed the energy crisis plaguing the United States and the solution to end the high price of gasoline. He tells us why there is scarcity of gasoline America, but not in Norway. This is a must read . ~ Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima The Publisher and Editor of Nigerian Times International Online Media Network Report From Norway: Why They Don't Have an Energy Crisis and We Do by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 06/10/2008 ETUpdated 06/10/2008 ET I am writing to you this week from Norway, where Callista and I have witnessed extraordinary natural beauty - and some things America could learn about creating a more sensible balance between protecting the environment and finding more domestic sources of energy. You see, Norway, unlike the United St...

20 May 2008 10:00 Africa/Lagos Global Peace Index 2008 Report Reveals: Global Upturn In Peacefulness Iceland tops the ranking of the world's most peaceful, Iraq rated least peaceful U.S. remains largely unchanged, ranking at 97 Angola, Indonesia and India are among the big risers Endorsed by Nobel Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Professor Joseph Stiglitz and Professor Muhammad Yunus WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Most countries in the world are performing better against key measures of peacefulness compared with last year, according to the latest rankings of the Global Peace Index (GPI), now in its second year. This year the Index has been expanded to rank 140 countries - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe - according to how peaceful they are, both domestically and how they interact with the outside world. The Index is constructed from 24 indicators of external and internal measures of peace including UN deployments overseas and levels of violent crime. It has wo...

“See there, where the sun kisses the Tanganyika; the spirit of New Zimbabwe is rising from the ripples. It was Lobengula Kumalo who showed me the future and told me to rest in peace.” I was still looking at the place where the sun was kissing the Tanganyika and did not know that Pa Nkomo was no longer with me. When I turned around, I woke up inside the Zimba Remabwe. Read the ABC News: Bye Bye Mugabe? Party Loses Parliament and read my "Bye Bye Mugabe" .

Has Morgan Tsvangirai 's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won the elections in Zimbabwe? Morgan Tsvangirai The Zimbabwe Guardian reported that Tendai Biti, secretary general of MDC is claiming victory in the Saturday polls in Zimbabwe. "We have won this election; we have won this election," Tendai Biti announced at a press conference on Sunday. The results from the polling stations after the Saturday polls, show that MDC has won majority of the seats in Parliament for the main cities of Harare and Bulawayo. The MDC has claimed victory in the Masvingo province, Mashonaland West, Bindura Town Council in Mashonaland Central, and other strongholds of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Papa Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe From all the indications, Morgan Tsvangirai and Simba Makoni , the independent presidential candidate backed by Arthur Mutambara 's faction of the MDC are going to end the notoriety and monstrosi...

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe "My message to the people of Zimbabwe is very, very simple. We have come a long way in this democratic struggle. We have another fighting opportunity against this dictatorship for food and jobs - give it a try. If Mugabe steals it the people of Zimbabwe will know that their vote has been stolen and that he would be ruling by decree. But this is a referendum on Robert Mugabe's misrule over the last 10 years. I don't think that any sane Zimbabwean will cast a vote in favour of Zanu PF or in favour of Mugabe." ~ Morgan Tsvangirai , Presidential Candidate and the leader of a faction of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change in an interview by Violet Gonda of SW Radio Africa on Friday March 7, 2008. Millions of Zimbabweans will go to the polls tomorrow, but, will the ruthless life President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugaabe allow a free and fair election? I have chronicled the agonies of those who are suffering and dying in...

I thank God Samantha Power, resigned with apologies and regrets for her terrible utterances against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton . Samantha Power is brilliant without doubt. But you cannot blame Bill Clinton for the Rwandan Genocide as you cannot blame President George W. Bush for the the genocide in Darfur happening before our very eyes. I am 100% Black African who is committed to the efforts to end the Darfur Crisis and communicated with the former UN Special Envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk and my own insider in Darfur on how to stop the massacre of innocent people in Darfur. But the Sudanese government and the rebels have continued to pour fuel in the fire of the conflict in Darfur and they are both guilty of the genocide. The African Union and the UN are guiltier than the former President Bill Clinton on the Rwandan Genocide. I do not think there is anything Bill Clinton would have done to stop the genocide in the hellish circumstances if the UN failed to do so. America cannot ...

There were hot exchanges between the supporters of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over The Oprah Winfrey show in Iowa , South Carolina, and New Hampshire . The following is the summary of my comments on the washingtonpost.com , Huff Post News and Topix . Oprah Winfrey and Senator Barack Obama need a reality check, because they are politically naïve and unrealistic. Barack Obama does not really know what it means to be the President of the greatest nation on earth and the challenges of leading the world. I have been well informed on the global role of America on earth, so, I can say who is capable of becoming the next President of the United States of America and that American patriot is, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, proud wife, mother and role model for American girls and women. Oprah Winfrey is neither a wife nor a mother and has no clue on raising children; talk less of leading a nation. I am disappointed that a black woman who refused to marry and does not want to have...

Nobel Lecture December 7, 2007 By Doris Lessing The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 On not winning the Nobel Prize I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where in '56 was the most wonderful forest I have ever seen, all destroyed. People have to eat. They have to get fuel for fires. This is north west Zimbabwe early in the eighties, and I am visiting a friend who was a teacher in a school in London. He is here "to help Africa" as we put it. He is a gently idealistic soul and what he found here in this school shocked him into a depression, from which it was hard to recover. This school is like all the schools built after Independence. It consists of four large brick rooms side by side, put straight into the dust, one two three four, with a half room at one end, which is the library. In these classrooms are blackboards, but my frie...

Bye Bye Mugabe

My historical fiction of the agonies in Zimbabwe under the draconian rule of President Robert Mugabe, "Bye Bye Mugabe" is live on Amazon . Domboramwari, a young Zimbabwean blogger and proofreader for the Zimbabwean Times was sympathetic to President Robert Mugabe. But Domboramwari had to go on exile to escape from political persecution when he refused to join the notorious Green Bombers after collecting the financial payment to do so. He fled with his South African girlfriend Nkosi to Johannesburg after telling his old uncle. And he had to help in digging a grave to bury the dead grandson of his mother's neighbor. This is the story of the millions of the traumatized Zimbabweans suffering under the draconian rule of one of the worst dictators in Africa. "When you give someone a book, you don't give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life." – Christopher Morley, 1890-1957, Novelist, Journalist and Poet