26 December 2021
South Africa/Desmond Tutu: The BBC’s homage to the archbishop in pictures.
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-59793545
South Africa: Desmond Mpilo Tutu has died aged 90. “Already a high-profile figure before the 1976 rebellion in black townships, it was in the months before the Soweto violence that he first became known to white South Africans as a campaigner for reform.” Peace Nobel prize laureate in 1984, he chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Committee. The archbishop of Cape Town, head of the Anglican church in South Africa, formally retired from public life in 2010.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-22292744
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59793726
Sudan: 178 demonstrators have been injured during protests yesterday Saturday and live bullets were used by the security forces according to a doctors' union allied to the protest movement. According to the authorities, around 58 police officers were injured during yesterday’s protests and more than 100 people have been arrested in Khartoum.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59795213
25 December 2021
Sudan: Planned mass protests have prompted the authorities to restrict internet services in Khartoum, to close several bridges over the Nile and to warn protesters “against creating any disturbances”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59789491
South Africa: Mandela's former prison guard Christo Brand intends to sell Mandela’s cell key at an auction in New York on 28th of January. But the South African minister of culture says the “key belongs to the people of South Africa”, “(i)t is not anyone's personal belonging”. Guernsey's had planned to auction it along other memorabilia like a Mandela painting, the exercise bicycle he used in prison and his tennis racquet.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59787369
South Africa: Africa's top cycling team Qhubeka NextHash will not be able to participate at the highest level in 2022. Struggling to find sponsors, they had missed a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) deadline to apply for a licence in October and their application has now definitely been rejected by UCI. “(A)s well as trying to develop African cyclists, (Qhubeka NextHash) also raises awareness and funds for Qhubeka, a charity which raises money to provide bicycles for young people across southern Africa.”
https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/59780212