After 24 years of multiracial democracy, in South Africa, the white minority is the one who has more lands, with a 72% of them; Indians with a 15% and the rest of the black population only has the 4% ever since they lived without rights. South Africans want justice and equality when it comes to lands, because their lands were taken away from them when they lived as slaves. 

The white minority is said to be living in fear because they are scared to be assaulted by the other population. Violence has increased ever since this was announced, police officers have been working on this; but to make this real, the government needs to have the opposition votes and reach two-thirds to finally have the parliament to accept what its intended to happen. 

This article is important because it shows the way people live in their own country, how their country could be fully theirs again. When they were treated as slaves, the conquers stayed there for generations, and it makes sense why the white minority owns most of the lands there, but those aren’t their original lands. Black population deserve to have what was theirs in the beginning. 

Members of this party have been living with fear ever since the attacks started happening, which intimidate them. The government New Patriotic Pary (NPP) is the favorite so far, but ever since the attacks, they have caused a headache to the NDC, making their party a chaos. 

This article is important because it shows how corrupt government things can be. The members of the party shouldn’t feel fear, neither the people voting for whoever they want as presidents, this only makes them fear for their lives and not want to participate in something that they have the right to participate in. 

The last president Nana Akufo-Addo promised that there would be jobs for everybody, fight against poverty and economic growth. This only leaves us expecting what’s going to happen in the future with all the other parties. 

South Africa is called the "rainbow nation" thanks to its diversity of cultures. To get an idea of ​​the magnitude of this diversity, we must know that South Africa has 11 official languages ​​and 8 other recognized languages.

How does a country have so much cultural diversity? Well, at the beginning, in South Africa there were only two villages, the KhoiKhoi and San, but due to migration it was that this country was culturally enriched. First arrived the Bantu peoples from the north in Africa and then the Europeans settlers from the south.

When the Bantu migrants arrived they were not a single culture, but are divided into several. Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Ndebele, Shangaan and Venda are some of them, and each of these cultures came with different lifestyles. The European settlers were also from different cultures, mainly Dutch and, also each group brought with them their different customs.

Over time, the Afrikaans language of Dutch influence was created, which is the most spoken language in the country. Although the great variety of cultures continues, the new generations have moved away from their African roots and prefer to get closer to a western lifestyle.

Before the celebration there is a period of forty days for meditation and rest. This period is known as"Adaabutuw". During this period the noisy activities are prohibited because peace and calm is expected to prevail and also because the ancestors have to rest. Those who participate in the festival must remain in a state of meditation because that allows them to prepare themselves spiritually.

The festival lasts a week and each day special rituals are held.

•        The first day is reserved to clear the path that leads to the royal mausoleum so that the ancestors travel home safely.

 

•        The second day is allowed to eat again new yam, which is prohibited before the festival. Also the sacred symbol of the royal mausoleum is obtained and people is allowed to sing and dance.

•        On the third day the relatives who died are remembered.

•        The fourth day is a holiday and at night the Black Stools (seats of the ancestors) are taken to the stream for ceremonial cleaning.

•        On Friday, the festival is crowned with a great durbar (ceremony) of heads.

•        Nothing special happens on Friday and Saturday. Only recreational activities are done.

This is the biggest narcotics busts in the history of the country, and didn’t arrive to the UK, thanks for the actions of the NACOB. They were concealed in boxes of yam. The police haven’t really found the authors of this, but two suspects are under arrest already; it’s mentioned that there’s a third suspect, but he hasn’t been identified yet.

When the yams were confiscated, they were in storage for costums checks, ready to be exported. Osae Akotua was the one who reported the existence of these cannabis yams, but he didn’t know who were the owners of these packages. Till now, the precedence of these packages is unknown.

This is something relevant for the country because it’s the biggest narcotic bust in history of Ghana. It makes it a case of huge importance, for both governments. 

In January, a petition was started on the official UK Government and Parliament’s petition website got 46,000 signatures, asking the government to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants who have lived in the UK for 10 years or more, but less than 20 years. The government is forced to answer to any petition that gets more than 10,000 signatures, but it refused to grant them the amnesty to those immigrants. 

“There are no plans to grant an amnesty to illegal migrants. Our immigration policies are based on principles of fairness to legal migrants and not rewarding those who don’t abide by the Rules”, says the Government. 

There’s a 20-year rule, that states that a person doesn’t have to have lived in the UK lawfully or legally, but “continuously” to qualify for leave to remain, 30month renewable leave (this rule doesn’t apply to people in prison). Months later, a rumor about the government allowing the illegal migrants to become citizens came out, but the Government shut the rumors down, explaining the rules once again. 

It’s important to comprehend that the illegal migrants went there, to the UK, for personal reasons, it brings problems between the two governments (English and Ghanaian one). But what all people have, is human rights. We all are humans, and we all are immigrants. 

Many South African companies have their European headquarters in the UK, and they use these as a base to serve the rest of Europe. Depending on which way the Brexit swings these companies may be forced to set up a base somewhere else to continue to do business in Europe.

This could create the risk of significant additional cost to companies, as well as major impacts from a human resources perspective. A potentially greater impact for South Africa and its economy could come from changes to international trade agreements. Because the EU is South Africa’s most significant trading partner. 

The US embassy in Pretoria issued an alert saying there was a threat of terrorist acts in shopping centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town, arguing that the Islamic State called the followers of jihadist group to undertake attacks against Western targets during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The alert from the US embassy caused fear among US citizens in South Africa, who wondered if their lives were in danger and how the South African government would protect them.

A few days later, the South African government responded that there were no arguments for the alert issued, because there was no evidence of the veracity of the information provided by the United States. There was no way to prove who was right, which caused uncertainty in the people, but for the government of South Africa it was clear that there was no such threat, but it was disconcerting the way in which the United States acted.

As is well known, the United States has a long history of situations related to terrorism, so it is believed that seized the reaction that a new terrorist threat would cause on its citizens in order to question the efficiency of the South African government and create chaos in the country. The reason why they would do something like this is what has created confusion, since these two countries claim to maintain a good cooperative relationship.

Inequality in land ownership is due to the Native Lands Act of 1913, by which 93% of the land was given to the white minority, thus stripping the South Africans of their land, unfairly. In 1936 a new law changed the percentage, decreasing to 87% of land for whites. Later, the Constitution stipulated that the land stolen should be returned to the stripped, but this has not happened, since the owners want to sell their land at too high prices.

In 2017, the African National Congress (ANC) adopted a resolution to redistribute the land without compensation, since the possession of the lands by white people is unfair, because they were not given to them by the will of the South Africans, but because colonization and apartheid. However, despite changes made by the South African government, inequality persists, 72% of farms and land for agricultural use belong to whites who represent 8.2% of the population.

Regarding the alleged murders of white farmers, this is not a truthful fact, because these murders have not occurred in large numbers, for which the government explains that it is true that there is a lot of crime in the country, and that is why the murders of those farmers, not because they were white.

So once again, the United States, in this case specifically Trump, has issued a totally uninformed trial. This act was highly judged because Trump was "concerned" about these problems just because of the fact that they were white people, thus proving that discrimination, inequality and white supremacy are still present, and that even the president of the most powerful nation in the world doesn't care to put this in evidence.