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Desperate Distortions of Kwame Nkrumah's African Unity Vision on Illegal Immigration is Sickening By Dr. Zamani Saul (Northern Cape ANC Provincial Chairperson) 08 January 2026 Kwame Nkrumah’s vision of African unity is a compelling narrative. Kwame, a pioneering leader and intellectual, championed the philosophy of pan-Africanism at a time when the continent was grappling with colonial rule. He aimed to unify fragmented African states into a cohesive bloc but also sought to harness their collective resources and strengths to combat external pressures. This vision, articulated in the context of decolonisation, was radical and revolutionary. Africa, today still grapples with the historical legacy of colonialism, which partitioned the African continent into so-called "nations" and "frontiers", intentionally sowing seeds of disunity and division amongst African people. Kwame spoke of unity and held a firm conviction that until and unless the peoples of Africa were united, they would never be able to realise their full potential as human beings and as a continent. This articulation is the essence of Pan-Africanism, which is a meaningful vehicle to free Africa from the continued stranglehold of colonialism and neo-colonialism. The issues that arise today with illegal immigration in South Africa prompted some opportunistic political leaders to argue that South Africa's endeavors to strengthen its response to illegal immigration goes against the vision of Kwame for African unity. I must mention it upfront that this argument is outlandish. The call by Kwame for African unity is about a structured approach by continental bodies and is based on institutions and systems and not lawlessness and chaos. First question: is there work done by continental bodies towards the achievement of African unity? Yes, work to achieve this glorious vision of African unity started with the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963 followed by its stronger successor the African Union (AU), established in 2002. The AU energetically engaged with the issue of African unity and none of its policy documents promotes illegal immigration. The AU adopted the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to significantly boost intra-African trade and a single market for goods and services across AU member states. This entails a flagship project, Agenda 2063. Importantly, it is the AU Programme for Infrastruture Development in Africa (PIDA), which focuses on developing regional and continental infrastructure to physically connect markets and accelerate economic growth. For access to the full article, please log in 👇🏿

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A World Cup in China would be incredible.

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🏆🗣️ Hakim Ziyech: "Who would I like to see host the World Cup after 2034? Maybe somewhere in like China or Japan." 🇨🇳🇯🇵 (@brfootball)

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I believe I am among the most highly educated people in Kenya. I hold two PhDs in Applied and Computational Mathematics and was admitted to one of Africa's premier universities, where I graduated as the top student in my class. Unfortunately, despite these qualifications and academic achievements, I remain unemployed.

You’re only mad at Iran because what they just did is exactly what we (the Arab world) should’ve done for Gaza since the beginning.

Foundations of Computer Science by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman — a freely available CS textbook covering automata, languages, and computation infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.h… #online #book #computerscience

🚨 ANOTHER MASTERCLASS FROM @3BLUE1BROWN The compressibility of language isn’t just a math curiosity, it’s the hidden engine behind every LLM you use. Grant’s new video reframes Shannon’s entropy through one elegant lens: Prediction IS compression. → The better you predict the next word, the fewer bits you need to store it → Shannon measured English at ~1 bit per character: astonishingly compressible → This is exactly what GPT-style models optimize → Intelligence, in this framing, is compression FUN FACT: Von Neumann told Shannon to name it “entropy” because nobody truly understands it anyway 😄 Decades later, that same concept became the bedrock of modern AI. Deep-dive resources in the 🧵 ↓

DEVELOPING | Ngizwe Mchunu's lawyer, Xolani Zuma, says his client has not handed himself over to the police.

The reason some of US support South Africans is because we took time to understand their history and story. South Africans are actually one of the kindest groups of Africans you will meet nor interact with. Check them out on Tik tok platforms trying to explain their stories. They are very patient and respectful hence they are not jailed nor being executed left a right in foreign lands. They are not eating people, being destructive, selling drugs to Africans and overall being demonic as a certain 419 nation . The reason South Africans are in defensive positions these days towards Africans is because Africans have refused to listen to their cry. It is tragic . Africans barely took the time to understand why South Africans were online pushing back at AFCON proposals. If they a made video to explain how their problem began with certain nationals after the World Cup in 2010 perhaps that would have explained to Africans. But Africans from what I have come to understand is , they really aren’t interested in facts regarding South Africans. African journalists, leaders, authorities have failed South Africans and it’s a shame. But overall, This is why some of us support them in kicking Africans out. 👐🏾

This was the scholarship I won to pursue a PhD in Computational Mathematics at the Pan African University, one of Africa's premier institutions. The scholarship was highly competitive, and I was selected to represent Kenya. I went on to graduate at the top of my class, which comprised some of the brightest mathematics students from across the African continent. It is important to note that this was an African Union scholarship. As a beneficiary, I am required to remain and work in Africa for at least five years after completing my studies. The primary objective of the African Union scholarship programme is to build adequate academic and research capacity for African universities and institutions. Despite these achievements, I have not been able to secure an opportunity within the university system.

A Gauteng court has handed down life sentences to a former nurse and her ex-gardener for the murder of her stepdaughter in a R6 million insurance fraud scheme.

A freelance journalist who had never taken a statistics course wrote a 142-page book in 1954 that professional statisticians still hand to students before anything else, because nobody before him had bothered to explain the tricks in plain language. His name was Darrell Huff. The book is called How to Lie with Statistics. I read it in one sitting and spent the next three days noticing the tricks everywhere. Over 1.5 million copies have sold in English alone. It became a standard college textbook in the 1960s and 70s. Seventy years later it is still in print, still assigned, still the first thing a working statistician reaches for when they want to teach someone to think clearly about numbers. The man who wrote it was not a researcher. He was a freelancer who wrote how-to articles for magazines. He had no PhD, no academic post, no institutional affiliation. He just understood that numbers could lie without technically being wrong, and he thought someone should explain how. His opening line sets the whole tone of the book. "The crooks already know these tricks; honest men must learn them in self-defense." That one sentence is the entire argument. The manipulation is not coming. It already happened. It happened this morning in the article you read and the chart someone showed you at work and the study your doctor quoted. The only question is whether you know what to look for. Huff called the first trick the Well-Chosen Average. When someone tells you the average salary at a company is $80,000, they have told you almost nothing. If the CEO earns $2 million and the 20 employees earn $30,000 each, the mean is $80,000. The median is $30,000. Both are technically correct. One is a lie. The person reporting the number chose which average to use, and they almost always chose the one that served their argument. Huff's rule: whenever you see an average with no description of which average it is, ask. The second trick he named the Gee-Whiz Graph. A line chart shows company profits rising. The line shoots nearly vertical, almost doubling in height across the chart. You feel impressed. Then you look at the y-axis and notice the chart does not start at zero. It starts at 94. The actual increase in profits was 3 percent. The dramatic visual was produced entirely by cropping the bottom of the chart. Nothing in the data changed. The picture changed everything. Every news organization on earth still does this every day. The third trick is the one that should change how you read every study you ever encounter. Huff called it Post Hoc Rides Again, which is short for the Latin phrase post hoc ergo propter hoc. After this, therefore because of this. Cities with more churches have more violent crime. Therefore churches cause violence. The logic is airtight. The conclusion is absurd. Both church attendance and crime go up as population grows. The two numbers track each other because a third variable drives both. The correlation is real. The cause is invented. Huff showed that this structure is not a rare mistake. It is the default pattern of almost every study reported in a newspaper, because causation is a boring word and because proves is a better headline than correlates with. The fourth trick was the one that floored me. He called it the Semi-Attached Figure. A headache pill company claims their product is twice as fast as the competition. The study behind the claim is real. The product was tested and the numbers are accurate. What the advertisement does not mention is that the study measured absorption rate into the bloodstream, not relief of headaches. The two things are related but not identical. The statistic is real. It is attached to the wrong conclusion. Huff said this is the most dangerous trick of all because the number is never fabricated. You cannot fact-check a semi-attached figure by verifying the statistic. You have to ask whether the statistic actually measures what the claim requires it to measure. Almost nobody asks. There is one part of Huff's story that most people who recommend the book leave out. Years after he wrote it, he was hired by the tobacco industry. He worked on a follow-up manuscript called How to Lie with Smoking Statistics, designed to cast doubt on the research connecting cigarettes to cancer. The book was never published. He testified before Congress in an attempt to undermine the statistical evidence against tobacco. The man who wrote the clearest guide to spotting statistical deception spent the end of his career deploying those same tricks against evidence that was killing people. That detail does not make the book wrong. The tricks he described are real and the defenses he taught are still the right ones. But it is a reminder that the tools in the book are neutral. Understanding how lies are built does not protect you from choosing to build one. The crooks already know these tricks. Some of them wrote the manual. What is one statistic you have seen recently that you now think deserves a second look?

Rhythm City was goated. I hope the rumours that it’s coming back are true 🔥👌🏿. I think this was one of the first episodes….

16 years ago today.. they don’t make world cup songs like this anymore 🏆 😍

BREAKING NEWS According to our sources,Kaizer Chiefs defender Given Msimango hired a Zimbabwean national to drive his Toyota Etios as a bolt driver The Zimbabwean and Msimango agreed on a weekly checking of R8000 but at the end of the week his bolt driver and his brother covered the dashboard camera(Dashcam)with a used chappies bubble gum and also tried to remove a car tracker so that he won't see what is happening or his whereabouts Msimango panicked and phoned his car tracker after 4 hours and the tracker team then recovered his car outside polokwane in Limpopo from Johannesburg en route to Zimbabwe His Zimbabwean bolt driver was found without a Passport,Driver's licence and Work permit but Msimango chose not to open a case because he got his car and money back #Amakhosi4Life #OrlandoPirates #Sundowns Mbuthuma Tito Wadu Ndamane Jamaica

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🚨 BREAKING Officially, the Bab al-Mandab Strait has been completely closed to Israel."

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Norman Finkelstein "If Jews are allowed to say 6 million, 6 million, 6 million, we can talk about the number of Palestinian deaths."

On behalf of mankind, thank you, Iran...

@ngentonga @ThisIsColbert bheka nje nawe, uncultured .... don't look down on people ..

🚨💣🗣️| Neymar: “At PSG, I asked Messi to take the penalties and he said ‘No, I’m not here for that. You take or give to Mbappe’. He doesn't even argue for anything. So peaceful.”