BLOGGING

STUDENT MUST CONTINUE BLOGGING

I am worried about students who have stopped blogging because they have passed media. blogging last year was not the end of the world, but the beginning. At work place you a expected to blog each and everyday. blogging should be like facebook and twitter to us as public relations students. Blogging should be a life style. the reason i am staying this each and every orgaanisation use social media to communicate with their stakeholders.

I am advancing and encouraging students to continue with there blogs. we can blog using different topics, bringing new ideas, that can challenge us to think out of the box.

TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE FOR WAGE INCREASE

Angry strikers burn down the truck at Cape Town

 South African Truck Drivers Strike is Affecting the Economy

Wage talks to end a strike by more than 20,000 truck drivers in South Africa have collapsed after unions rejected the employers 18 percent pay rise offer over two years, the Road Freight Employers Association said on Thursday. This afternoon the unions responded that once again they do not accept the deal which met their demand of 18 percent over two years. The board need to communicate this issue clearly to the strikers, by giving them a clear reason why the Union do not accept 18 percent increase to these angry strikers.

The truck driver’s strike it is not only affecting the truck drivers only, but it is also affecting the people of South Africa and its economy. The market is going down, because no food, petrol, wages and goods are being transported from one place to another. When you go to the supermarkets there is no food in the shelves, and this is caused by the struck drivers’ strike. Fuel suppliers have started to feel the pinch as the strike entered its second week, with deliveries to pumps delayed and stations running out of certain types of fuel.   

The truck drivers need to be attended before things get out of hand, just like the Marikina’s strike. The truck drivers should be given the 18 percent that they are demanding, because this people spend most of their time on the road, without their families and at the end of the day they are being paid peanuts. The government should be worried that since 2008 the number of strike has increased to more than 50%, or maybe they are not aware of this?  http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/labour/2012/10/04/truck-driver-wage-talks-collapse-while-mines-stand-still

South Africa is a developing country that it is striving to achieve lot of things, but how would this happen when different employees strike every day and blood is splatted? for more information contact kimtim.tivani@gmail.com

RDP HOUSES NEED ATTENTION

RDP houses are built with cheap materials



RDP Houses

 Now the terrible state of RDP houses in the North West needs urgent attention, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said on Thursday. "We have to remedy this situation as soon as possible together with the human settlements department and the municipalities," she said at a meeting with Klerksdorp residents.  People complained about the poor standard of construction and how they were told their houses were completed, only to find they had been given to other people. Beside that they are houses that collapsed in March this year. To date it has not been fixed though this matter it was reported to the department of human settlements. 

If the government is providing enough money for those houses then a serious investigation need to be done to stop those corrupt tenders. Because it seems like there is a breakdown of communication between the government and people who run those RDP tenders. Before we go further, what is the minister of Human Settlements saying about this matter, because this is a serious case, and if this houses keep on collapsing they might kill innocent people. It is an embarrassment to the Housing Department (or Human Settlements, as they now call themselves) and the Housing Divisions of municipalities that the Public Protector has to be involved in something they knew about all along!  http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Madonsela-RDP-houses-need-urgent-attention-20120802

 Its a shame on Human Settlements Department , for playing with the poor. What is your say on this case? If you need to debate this case further you can e-mail me at kimtim.tivani@gmail.com

Morgan Tsvangirai Refused A Wedding Permit By Zanu-PF Court

Morgan Tsvangirai gets married again, after losing his wife in 2009.

The Zimbabwean Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, married again on Saturday, 15 September 2012 despite being refused a wedding permit by the country's Zanu-PF dominated courts. The wedding was so out of this world, the decorations, the food and the wedding dress was so beautiful. But Mr Tsvangirai's wedding was dogged by court cases during the week which denied him permission to marry Widow Elizabeth Macheka, 35, in either a civil or traditional "customary" ceremony. A customary ceremony went ahead regardless on Saturday in front of hundreds of his supporters and was blessed by a Catholic priest. Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president also attended the wedding, but stayed away at the last minute. 

  

After the marriage license was withdrawn in the Harare Magistrate's Court, Mr Tsvangirai's lawyers tried to arrange the wedding under customary law, but no official was prepared to officiate at the ceremony. The justice ministry is controlled by Zanu-PF and all judges are appointed by Mr Mugabe. "This is political, but we will just ignore it and have a good party," said Mr Tsvangirai's spokesman, Luke Tamborinyika I remember Mugabe speaking about peace and freedom months ago, but this is not freedom for Mr Tsvangirai to be deprived of getting married to his soul mate, because this two have political issues. Mugabe's message is totally different to his actions.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/9545489/Zimbabwes-Morgan-Tsvangirai-weds-anew-despite-courts-refusal-to-issue-marriage-permit.html

  

Mr Tsvangirai's first wife, Susan, died in a car crash in 2009 shortly after Zimbabwe's inclusive government was sworn into power. What does that mean to you?  Mugabe you are not the only man who deserves to be happy in this world. if you want to discuss this issue with me you can e-mail me at kimtim.tivani@gmail.com

  

Angry Pupils Boycott Classess For New Building

Pupils at Refilwe Secondary School in Klopper, Limpopo

Pupils of Refilwe Secondary School in Klopper refused to go to their old school

At least 300 pupils from Refilwe Secondary School in Klopper, outside Mouste in Limpopo boycotted classes demanding to be taught in a new building. The new building is near their homes, while their old school - which is in disrepair, is situated 5km from their village. The 37-year-old school has no fence, no ceilings in most of the classrooms and few have chairs and desks. Most of the windows are broken and the entire structure is surrounded by thick bushes. While pupils waited outside the new building, their teachers sat chatting at the old premises.  "It rained hard on Thursday evening and we could not go to school on Friday since classrooms were flooded," learners representative council secretary Clement Molala said yesterday. "We cannot go back to (the old) school (building) because we are tired of promises." Limpopo education spokesman Pat Kgomo said: "We don't understand why they (pupils) are not in school. The (new) school is theirs, but incomplete. We cannot tell as to when it will be completed." Kgomo could not say when the pupils would be moved into the new school building. 

The department of education should handle this matter before it get out of hands. I mean what Kgomo is staying it is not an excuse. If learner wants to go to school and learn they must be given the opportunity to learn.  And how do you stay focused in class while it is raining with broken windows? I mean really you cannot walk to school for 5km everyday while there is a school around. The department of education should complete the school as soon as possible for learns. Maybe this leaders need to be taken back to classes where the is no desks, tables and windows for few days and get the feeling of how this learns are feeling.  Maybe they will understand the situation of this pupils. South Africa is not taking education as a priority. http://www.sowetanive.co.za/news/2012/09/14pupils-boycott-classes-over-news-building What is your say on this kind of situation, since you are a student or you were once a student? to discuss this matter further you can e-mail, kimtim.tivani@gmail.com



The Government Lose It Again, To Protesters

What is the government doing about the Marikana’s Protesters?

 

Angry Lonmin' Marikana mine protesters



President Jacob Zuma told thousands of striking workers at Lonmin's Marikana mine that government sympathized with them following Thursday's shooting.  The president visited the North West town on Wednesday afternoon, almost a week after 34 people were killed in clashes. Which it was not fair at all, our government takes serious issues not serious. Zuma addressed protestors near the scene of Thursday’s bloody confrontation. The week-long attacks claimed the lives of 44 people, including two police officers. After the death of 44 people all Zuma could say was “we are sorry for the families who have lost their loved once". http://ewn.co.za/en/2012/08/21/zuma-knew-trouble-was-brewing-in-marikana

 

President Jacob Zuma



This people would have not died if the government attended the protesters on time. I blame the government for the death of this people because they waited until this matter get out of hands. I mean the police know how to deal with angry protesters and they were trained how to react, and it is not for the first time South African mineworker’s protest. So the government was very negligent about this strike. They should have communicated with them on time to reduce the anger of the protesters. Our current government is too weak; all they know is corruption and talking when not necessary. 

 Zuma is the president of the country, but when  this people died he was at Zimbabwe atteding the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) Summit. Although  he had to cut his trip short following the shooting. but it was way to late. And it is not like he did not know about the strike, he knew he knew that trouble was brewing in Marikana.

 If you want to more about this issue or you have any question you can e-mail at kimtim.tivani@gmail.com   

Mugabe Speak Peace Again



Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe

Who will believe Mugabe's sense?

Zimbabwe's president called for an end to violence and hostility as the country moves toward a constitutional referendum and elections, on Monday. President Robert Mugabe, 88, in an hour long address at a national shrine known as Heroes Acre outside Harare, said he wanted all parties and religious and activist groups to show tolerance for each other in the coming months. "If people have a difference of opinion and want to defect from one party to another, it must be respected and expressed in elections. We don't want any more violence or blood spilt," Mugabe said, speaking mostly in the local Shona language.

Although Mugabe was speaking sense and making peace at the same time to his people, but people of Zimbabwe find it hard to believe their President who have been Zimbabwe's leader since the country won independence in 1980. In the past he has referred to democracy as a foreign concept to Africans, and on several occasions he has said the West cannot preach democracy to him since he fought British colonial rule in Zimbabwe. So I find it surprising when he speak peace to the world, because peace goes together with democracy. And he should have spoken in a language that everyone understands.

As the leader clenched his fist and raised it into the air, the symbol for his Zanu-PF party, he reassured Zimbabweans that the image of the fist is not a gesture of violence despite its past use and forceful nature when placed alongside the open hand symbol of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic party."It was not for violence against our own kind," he said of the party's fist symbol. Amid violence in recent years, Mugabe has often raised his fist in the air as a warning to political opponents. The raised fist, Mugabe said, was used to fight colonial-era white rule and was "the punch that knocked them down."  Is his message strong enough to convince the nation? http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Zimbabwes-president-calls-for-peace-20120813