A helping hand from students to farmers

Students from the University of Johannesburg bring about change for the farming industry in Soweto.

Farming is well known as the growing of crops and raising livestock. but the definition is not only surrounded in that context alone, farming also has a focus in ensuring that a village is raised from the dust with or without a perfect or pleasing background. in my time when i worked with my group which was named in a tsonga word saying Akhanani which meant,"building each other" we found out the importance and need that farmers had when they started involving themselves in small scale farming. many people had no jobs in the farmed we had our project constructed. Many young lives remain unemployed and their only way into making sure that they get something to it was by making sure that they invest their efforts in the farm to help their young growing siblings and parents who no longer had the power to do it for themselves. The project taught me that there are many ways in which one could avoid famine because some of the vegetables that were produced out of the farm were took to the local markets or would be sold to neighbors and the like. that then meant people were getting double the benefits, food and money at the same time.

Challenges that farmers had to face were the biggest barrier to their success...

waking up in the morning having no hope of getting extra or new resources was the most painful and big burden that was faced by the farmers. They once were promised and came to an agreement with one of the ruling political parties in the area that if they will get funding for each and everything that they needed, and yes they had a tank and electricity installed and a big container for safe keeping. the big problem was making sure that all the assets they got were maintained and functioned well. and in most times they failed keeping up to that standard of making sure that all things function as they also had to buy seeds and pay for water. some would say to us that they make sure that the money comes straight from their pockets and they up losing because they have people who come at night to steal their crops which leaves them selling to people at a lower rate or amount than that which they had in mind. After realisng that the farmers had all efforts ploughed in the farm, we made it a must for us to make sure that the funds they needed were going to be allocated to them and have the farm work in the right way. with the little information we had from them we went further to dig more about the farm and to our luck we got hold of one of the guys who were part and parcel of the party that promised to keep the farm running and they promised to do that once more. so in helping out from the project i was able to establish myself as a thoughtful leader who had a helping hand in changing someone else s life and putting a smile on their face. I also learned many educational skills which i can apply out of the academic environment.

Ebola

WHERE THE NOXIOUS DREADFUL SICKNESS ORIGINATES.

No clear cure has ever been brought forward and showed tremendous changes.

Ebola is a deadly but historically rare virus that attacks humans and primates. It causes bleeding inside and outside the body, and is commonly referred to as hemorrhagic fever. It was discovered in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo formally Zaire   formal

Corpse of a patient who passed on being carefully wrapped and
to be buried at range from the community.

Patients being treated by Doctors under strict uniform and care

A normal human perspective could clearly state that the Ebola outbreak has showed very much bad outcomes to the affected areas, and as a result many of our brothers in the neighboring countries are losing their close friends and family on a daily basis, the spread is unstoppable and its rapidly growing. The football match which was scheduled to be at the Central Republic of Congo is one of the most hurting and unavoidable disastrous incidents that took place because of the |Ebola virus,"when nature calls, duty comes", the haphazard and quick spread of the virus made it impossible for the Republic and the country at large to welcome in any foreigners to the land, that when we really saw that nature has took its course, people could do nothing to stop the ongoing virus from spreading, some even tried using certain remedies to stop the bug but all that could not come to pass. All games had to be postponed because of it. A question comes up in most cases saying that were the Simpsons really telling the truth when they said such things would happen. Or even the holy bible itself when it tells us about the signs of the end of time. But all these questions go unanswered. An awareness has been raised to say that people should have a helping hand, charities, organisations, clubs and even social media platforms have been opened too to help fight the spread of this Ebola virus. Many have also seen it as a curse in their country because the fact that millions of people are admitted daily in hospitals and having no present cure to decrease this virus shows no sign of any kind of hope for the people or hope for life after this. kids are left being orphans, mothers lose their loved ones and there wont be any help coming in either than that of making sure that you never be close to an infected person without covering your eyes, mouth, nose, hands and the whole part of your body. There has been proof stating that the food we eat too must be clearly examined since some of it might have some certain hings which can also cause an individual to get infected 

Nkandla report

The most interesting highlights worth knowing about Madonsela's nkandla report.

After a 2 year investigation, the public protector released a full report on all upgrades which were done at Nkandla at the expense of taxpayers.  

Here are the highlights;

Full picture of the nkandla homestead

1.Public protector, Thuli Madonsela's report on the security upgrade at president Jacob Zuma's Nkandla home is entitled secure in comfort. It is just 450 pages and has a 75 page executive summary.

2. The final costs of Nkandla are "conservatively estimated" to amount 246 million, but could be higher.

3. The initial cost was 27 million, but it escalated rapidly after Zuma's private architect Minenhle Makhaya was appointed by the department of public works . He often recommended more luxurious and expensive options instead of going with the cheaper options and made R16.5 million(calculated as a percentage of all costs) from the nkandla project.

4. Zuma and his ministers should have acted when the Mail& Guardian blew the whistle in 2009 on the R65 million the project cost at that time, but the spending increased after that. Zuma violated the Executive ethics Code by failing to contain state spending and benefiting from it. He wore "two hats" http://goo.gl/TC0NBh

Public protector: Thuli Madonsela

5. Zuma told parliament that his family had built his family their own house and that the state had not built any from which they benefited, but this Madonsela accepted the evidence and that he had told them this "in good faith".

6. Zuma must pay for the non-security upgrades at his home, which include a visitors center, an amphitheater, a swimming pool, a cattle kraal, a culvert, a chicken run, and extensive paving. In the planning stages, there were constant references to Zuma having to repay these. Mail & Guardian these to cost around 20 million.

7. There was little precedent from previous presidential upgrades for the upgrades done at Nkandla. Former president Nelson Mandela, for instance, built his kraal at his own expense and did not require any"fire pool".http://mg.co.za/tag/nkandla-report

President J.Z in the upgraded kraal 

A president is a person of extremely high and stupendous stature, looking at the likes of Mr President Barack Obama, Goodluck Jonathan, Robert Mugabe and the like, you will definitely know how a presidents hospitality is like. President J.Z has been old in the tooth and has faced all storms of politics one could ever imagine of conquering, in his time of leadership the only thing he asked for was just simple security upgrades in his Nkandla homestead and nothing much. Demands from him regarding what he expected aren't known even unto this day because all he asked for was a simple security upgrade, to his surprise there was an exquisite upgrade done that mounted up to a massive 250 million,"they say".
Without any favoritism or any kind of act done i highly think and believe that the one and only president is innocent from all accusations held against him, the nigga deserves stupendous tranquility too. "Pay back the dignity".

Live video of the public protector; Thuli Madonsela, delivering her report on the Nkandla
upgrades.