Vryheid in Waarheid … Water is Lewe
Wie of wat is Sun Dawu van China? Hy is onlangs 18 jaar gevonnis in China. 'n Boer en besigheidspersoon wat van allerhande dinge beskuldig is om vir 18 jaar te gaan sit. Het China ooit privaatgrond, ek twyfel. Nou is alles wat hy jare voor gewerk het, die regering se eiendom. Sy werkers het… Continue reading Sun Dawu from China
In early January 1488, as Dias’ two ships sailed off the coast of Southern Africa, storms blew them away from the coast. Dias is thought to have ordered a turn to the south of about 28 degrees, probably because he had prior knowledge of southeasterly winds that would take him around the tip of Africa… Continue reading Voyages-Reise (Elemente-Elements)
Heavy flooding in Western Europe - people were trapped in their homes. Some houses washed away with the river of water. Record rainfall has caused swollen rivers to burst their banks and wash away homes and other buildings in western Europe – leading to more than 90 casualties and over 1000 people missing. Data from… Continue reading Western Europe floods
The first Africans taken to the Americas went in small numbers, not directly from Africa, but via Spain and Portugal and the Atlantic sea islands. The development of Brazilian sugar plantations, however, created a growing demand for African slaves. Other Europeans settling their own colonies in the Caribbean and North America followed the Brazilian pattern… Continue reading America – Slavery Whitney Plantation
Founded by Klaus Schwab in 1971, the WEF operates under the motto “committed to improving the state of the world”. From Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the IMF’s Christine Lagarde to leading business minds such as Bill Gates, the wide array of speakers always makes for an impressive showing. * Annual report - 2019-2020… Continue reading W E F World Economic Forum
*Die storms na die dood van wyle Dr Verwoerd het letterlik soos sterk winde oor Suid-Afrika gewaai. Eintlik was daar al destyds hewige stofstorms aan die broei en dit het by Unie wording (onder Britse reëls) begin. Liberaal verligte blankes het met mag en mening gekeer dat die reservate (sedert 1840) of tuislande (1961) hul… Continue reading ‘Apartheid’ sanksies / sanctions (1987)
His date and place of birth is 5 June 1951 at Morifi, Mohale’s Hoek, Lesotho. It was stated in 2014 (mining weekly) that Motlatsi is the Executive chairperson of Teba Limited and non-executive chairperson of Shanduka, Platfields and Verimark. An organisation, Teba was established before 1902 to support mines and the recruitment of mining personnel. … Continue reading Thokoana James Motlatsi of Lesotho 1987
It was stated in the New York time on 16 June 2021 that the engineers in China are building a radically different type of reactor that some experts say offers a safer nuclear alternative. The technology will be used in two reactors here on a peninsula jutting into the Yellow Sea, where the Chinese government… Continue reading Taishan Nuclear Power plant in China
According to reports, China has admitted that "about five" of the fuel rods in the reactor are damaged, but the plant is said to be capable of operating safely with up to 0.25% of its 60,000 fuel rods, or 150, damaged. French nuclear energy company Framatome, owned by Electricity of France (EDF), which controls a… Continue reading China Taishan Nuclear Power Plant
Ferdinand von Zeppelin is considered the father of the rigid airship, but not all rigid airships are “zeppelins”. A zeppelin is a rigid airship manufactured by a particular company, the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin of Germany (the “Zeppelin Airship Construction Company”), founded by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. * The term zeppelin is often associated with the German airships… Continue reading Airships: Zeppelin and Hindenburg disaster
*By 1935, Wünsdor became the headquarters of the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany. Under Hitler’s leadership, Wünsdor became a powerful military stronghold. They built a modern underground communications center called Zeppelin, which had walls up to 3.2 meters thick, and several bombproof bunkers with 80-centimeter thick roofs, and disguised as rural… Continue reading Germany
*An apparent “diamond rush” in KwaZulu-Natal has prompted the provincial government to dispatch experts to a site near Ladysmith where residents have over the weekend been extracting stones they believe are diamonds, using household equipment. * Alles is in rep en roer, daar word gekap en gegrou, op soek na "diamante" wat eerder… Continue reading “Diamond” rush in KwaHlathi Ladysmith
The hilltop city of Constantine, Algeria, perched on a plateau 640 meters above sea level, has long been shaped by its extreme topography. Bisected by the gorge of the Rhumel River, it is known as the “City of Bridges,” with the ancient citadel or “kasbah” on one side and the modern city on the other. … Continue reading Algeria – Constantine
Die "bedelaar" verskyn talle kere as verwysing na Brittanje se tweede Anglo Boereoorlog (1899-1902) waar soldate duisende seemyle gereis het en kom oorlog maak het met ons voorouers - die doel daarvan om geld in te samel vir families. Hierdie gedig, wat geskryf is deur Rudyard Kipling en getoonset deur Sir Arthur Sullivan, het 'n… Continue reading English Crown and the Boers
His parents bought the island in 1954 and they brought a bulldozer, a little D4 Caterpillar out of the Territory with them and started knocking down trees. After that, all the bird species disappeared other than wedge-tail eagles and crows and they were living off the carcasses of the sheep that were dying because… Continue reading Farming on Boston Island Australia
According to ancient Greek mythology, Ikaria owes its name to Ikaros, the son of Daedalus who was the architect hired by Minos (King of Crete) to built the famous Labyrinth where the Minautor was held. ... Ikaria, the legendary home of Icarus whose wings melted when he flew too near the sun, is home to 8,000 Greeks, many of… Continue reading Greece – Ikaria island
The dispute over the controversial oil and gas pipeline known as “Nord Stream 2” ended on Wednesday when the United States Department of State announced that the Biden administration was waiving sanctions against the pipeline’s Russian owner, Nord Stream 2 AG, and its German CEO, Matthias Warnig. German chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany… Continue reading Nord Stream 2 oil and gas pipeline
Politieke partye kan maar elkeen hul eie stempel of beleidsdokumente formuleer soos hul wil - ondersteuners kan dit ook glo, maar is nie altyd die realiteit nie. Partye in beheer van provinsies, is almal onderworpe aan die ANC se meerderheidsbesluite en wetgewings van Nasionale wetgewer en parlement - hulle almal sit ook in parlement. Al… Continue reading Expropriation of properties
Why is there so much conflict, especially in the middle east? When Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot met in London and took a pen to a map of the Middle East 100 years ago this week, only one of them had ever been there. It was, some say, as if the two were playing a… Continue reading Sykes-Picot Agreement Middle east – Ottomans
It was stated that the rationale for the policy developed in the Truman Doctrine drew heavily upon American ideological support of the principle of self-determination. However, the new interpretation changed America's early historic role of merely expressing sympathy to one of active and official economic and military support of the self-determination of "free peoples" who… Continue reading Truman Doctrine America
