Governance

He is 36 years old
He is a journalist
He is a human/civil rights activist
He has petitioned for the resignation of President Mugabe
He has been arrested and beaten by the secret Zimbabwean security
He had addressed an opposition rally on March 8, 2015 in Harare

On Monday, 10 August 2015, General Karenzi Karake, the head of Rwanda's notorious National Security and Intelligence Service, was acquitted by a British court.

INTRODUCTION

The 54-year-young black president of the United States of America, Barak Hussein Obama, has recently amplified his foreign policy on Africa by the recent 5-day tour of Eastern Africa, to Kenya and Ethiopia. He became the first sitting U.S. president to address the African Union.

The year is 2000 and we have just survived Y2K. Fears of an apocalyptic, extinction-level event ushering us into the new millennium have been proven untrue.

The Punch Newspaper posted a report on its website on 23 July regarding a protest of admission seekers and their parents at the premises of the University of Lagos.

Maxwell Dlamini finally walked out of prison in July, released on bail after having spent fourteen months in squalid conditions in the prisons of Swaziland’s absolute monarch King Mswati III. His crime was to have sung a pro-democracy song.

But for the pressure from some Western countries, led by America, the recently sacked army chiefs in Nigeria, prompted by their commander in chief, would have derailed the election that brought Muhammadu Buhari to power in March.

The British arrest of Rwanda’s spy chief on an international warrant issued by Spain is a long awaited and necessary development toward ending impunity for Rwandan government officials accused of war crimes.

In July 2015 the Financial Mail published a cover story titled, “Business Schools – Are they too elitist? (http://www.financialmail.co.za/coverstory/2015/07/23/business-schools-r…).