HEAL AFRICA

A SOUTHERN AFRICAN BLOG

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

BABY 2000 IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD

I was reminded of a group prayer that was sent out eighteen  years ago.

Perhaps the student unrest  may still make it happen.

Here is a copy of the the post on a website that no longer exists.   It was also titled HEAL AFRICA (It has no connection with the current website that uses that name today)



The prayer is that all children born after 2000 has the ability to receive the kind of education that will empower them to develop their own unique skills and become leaders in their own special fields.

That the education system honor each child’s uniqueness.




This is how to join:
(Link up (in your mind's eye)  to the prayer group  at 6 p.m. daily - or at any other time that suits you)



Become aware of the love within your heart, and within your "minds-eye" (imagine) see a group of people of goodwill from all over the world

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Feel yourself to be one of them. Their identities do not matter.



Now in your minds eye see how each child who enters school in the new millennium receives an education that will encourage the development of his/her own special skills so that she/he can grow into a loving worthy adult and become a leader in his/her own special unique field.



Ask that it is done

Amen.



Our children are the leaders of tomorrow. It is in their hands that the future of Our Country will rest. Let's all join together in daily prayer.

16-07-1999





The collage was constructed using Google images labelled for re-use




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FREE EDUCATION ON A ZERO BUDGET REQUIRES INTELLEGENT DEBATE

Students should not only ask for free education.
They should debate on the

Quality of education they need,

 Teachers training and

Where the money going to come from to teachers wages, training and establishment upkeep.

Remember one can not build a social structure on a zero budget.


Remember also a zero budget from the mouth of a politician means that the country is already deep in debt.

Money for education needs to be creamed from somewhere in our society in a way that it does not infringe on existing medical and social budgets or increase stress among the poor and elderly etc.


Friday, July 17, 2015

A DELAYED SUCCESS IS BETTER THAN A TOTAL FAILURE



In September 2005, At the UN World Summit all 191 United Nation Member states pledged to meet the eight goals by 2015
"We will have time to reach the Millennium Development Goals – worldwide and in most, or even all, individual countries – but only if we break with business as usual.
We cannot win overnight. Success will require sustained action across the entire decade between now and the deadline. It takes time to train the teachers, nurses and engineers; to build the roads, schools and hospitals; to grow the small and large businesses able to create the jobs and income needed. So we must start now. And we must more than double global development assistance over the next few years. Nothing less will help to achieve
the Goals."
United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi A. Annan
Goal 1:
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day.
Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
Goal 2:
Achieve universal primary education.
Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling
Goal 3:
Promote gender equality and empower woman.
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
Goal 4:
Reduce child mortality.
Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
Goal 5:
Improve maternal health
Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
Goal 6:
Combat HIV/AIDS
Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
Goal 7
Ensure Environmental sustainability
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
Goal 8
Develop global partnership for development.
Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory, includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction— nationally and internationally
Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies— especially information and communications technologies
UN Website

Thoughts to ponder July 2015

FREEDOM IS FOCUSING ON TODAY, AND TO DO THE BEST YOU CAN WITH WHAT YOU HAVE NOW.

Do not die fighting for freedom.   Bondage lies in 'looking over the shoulder to blame'.

War cripples a country and kills people you love.
War destroys the economies of nations.
We can not eat bullets.


Choose peace through education and employment.

Do not vote for militant self righteous leaders .with empty promises.

Learn about the economy.

Struggling companies can not afford wage increase, bonuses for management and an unfair gap between the workers and the bosses.

It is a good idea to consider the damage that a strike will do to the general economy.   It will affect the pensions that of the elderly and those who struggles and it will increase taxes.

If the union leader, who urges workers to strike, has a round fat shiny head,  he possibly lives from the proceeds of strife.   Think before you act.

Saturday, July 04, 2015

IMMUNIZE CHILDREN AGAINST DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE



SUBSTANCE ABUSE IMMUNIZATION.
EMPOWER ALL CHILDREN TO USE THEIR RIGHT TO SAY NO TO DRUGS

Immunize children against drug and alcohol abuse, with early education to give them the tools to say no to substances that overshadow their thinking ability.

Whenever there is an outbreak of any life-threatening disease, we are quick to develop drugs to immunize us against it spreading, but we seem to remain powerless against to increasing drug addictions in schools.

DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE DESTROY MORE LIVES THAN ANY DISEASE OR WAR IN HISTORY.

Drug and alcohol abuse destroys more lives than any disease or war in history, yet we do little to immunize the minds of our youth against addiction to foreign substances.

We can prevent people falling into the drug-trap by teaching little children about the side effects and control that addictive substance has over our lives.

THE WORLD NEEDS A GENERATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE IN FULL CONTROL OF THEIR THINKING ABILITIES AT ALL TIMES

The ability to ‘say no to drugs’ must be established in the consciousness of children long before they are subjected to it. Drug immunity education should begin at kindergarten and continue throughout their school life. It should be presented to the children by means of age related film, art and discussion.

Halfway through every television program there should be one free self empowerment advertisement. This should form part of the licence for a television company to operate in South Africa.

Our aim should be to create a generation of responsible young people who will be in full control of their mental capacities at all times.

ALCOHOL AND DRUGS ACT LIKE FOREIGN CONTROLLING ENTITIES.

It should be understood that someone who abuse alcohol or drugs, literally lends the control of his/her thinking ability to a stranger. - The drug or alcohol.

IF ONE IS NOT IN CHARGE OF ONES LIFE, SOMEONE OR SOMETHING ELSE IS
Taking drugs or alcohol is like lending ones most precious possession, ones brain power, to a stranger. Why trust a drug or any foreign substance willingly with ones actions.
Being ‘blind drunk’ could be viewed as a temporary form of suicide or coma.
Many people never fully recover from a coma.
People may undergo a change in personality, when the substance is in charge of their brains. Some people like the escape from reality. They like the temporary confidence that the new drug is giving.
Eventually the crash comes.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE CAUSES A DEADENING OF THE MIND EMOTIONS RESULTING IN DISEASE AND DESTRUCTION OF EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD.

The body and emotions can take only so much abuse, and as time goes by the nervous system ceases to respond to logic and emotional stimuli. Other bodily organs may also fail and the person may find that he/she may be on the wrong side of the law, worse still – in jail with the only excuse that ‘It was not me who did that’
The fact is that it is you because when you lend your vehicle to a stranger, you should be responsible for traffic fines.

Your body is a vehicle driven by your intellect (your natural computer).
Say no to drugs and alcohol from the start. That "feeling" it gives you is the secret code that will imprison you. It infiltrates your desires and you decision making ability of your brain in the same way as a virus infects a computer. Before it crashes, there are signs of changed or diminished responsibility.
THE CRASH IS NEAR

Perhaps your parents became upset by your behavior. Perhaps they may even have said "I don't know you any more” When that happens, you have sold your sole to a stranger and all you will get in return are some memories of feeling in charge and having a good time. Soon, it may even feel better to sell your sole to drugs, because the real self may have more problems than it can cope with.

If you took drugs willingly, you are not the victim. You need to pay the price for your actions.
You wasted a God-given life and possibly the lives of other.

ENERGY ANATOMY
The new anatomy describes an ‘invisible’ magnetic protection layer or health aura ‘my space’ around the body.

One can experience an invasion of the ‘my space’ when someone stands too close. In ‘my space’.

Narcotic substances can create permanent weak spots or tears in the ‘my space’ magnetic protective aura.
This can lead to the possession or invasion of entities, insanity or disease.

Some alternative practices use drugs to loosen the consciousness from the confinement of the brain – going on trips. This remains a dangerous practice. Even under controlled circumstances.

Life is short enough; I cannot understand why people force themselves to experience other existences when they should be focusing on their reason for incarnating on this earth.


Friday, November 28, 2014

ABOUT CABINET MINISTERS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

ADVISERS TO THE PRESIDENT


Friday, 28 November 2014
Cabinet ministers should be individuals who are nationally the most qualified in their sector of command.

The advisers (ministers) to the president of a country should be chosen from the best equip to influence the ruling of a nation.
Having the most qualified advisers could be an election incentive.
To give examples:

A minister for mining (mineral resources):
 should have the appropriate degrees and experience to run a mining operation. 
He/she should definitely be one who had experience of working conditions below and above the surface.
He/She must have experience to compete on global and national platforms.
He/She should have a good understanding of the neutralization process of mining waste and what impact it has on the environment.
He/She should be able to do an objective environmental assessment and analysis before implementing new projects, and be able to pilot or find alternative solutions to public concerns.   Too many leaders use job creation as the prime reason to push their projects.
He/she needs to be a good speaker and listener. 
He/she needs the ability to evaluate the best course of action for the present, while having an understanding of the future human, financial and environmental impact of his decisions.

He/she needs to realize that Mining is primary an operation that should create prosperity for the country where it is mined.
Proceeds of a mining operation should alleviate poverty of the whole nation and not just a region.

He needs to understand that the raw products of mining are a national asset as well as a global commodity.   We live on one earth, which we all should share.

The minister of health
 should be a qualified professor of medicine and have previous experience of being a chief medical adviser at a hospital or medical institution, either practical or educational.

He/She should have experience of handling the needs of doctors, nurses and auxiliary workers in both private and state run medical facilities.

He/She should have qualifications/experience in psychology, communication, and the medical needs of the majority citizens and those of the poor and have some interest in addressing the medical needs of all citizens.
All cabinet ministers should also have a reasonable understanding of the law, mathematics and be able to do a statistical analysis, or run pilot programs in case of public concerns.

They should be good motivational and nation building speaker who can address and take responsibility for failures.

There should be a bridging course for leaders or company executives to enable them to acquire above skills as well as training in human resource management, communication and psychology.

All leaders should run their sectors so that it creates better human conditions.
We had our share of ministers, who can only rule by blaming someone or something else, take advice from incompetent dreamers, or push their product by playing on the sentiments of the public by promising job creation.

PHOTO ALBUM

 SOUTH AFRICAN CABINET MINISTERS 2014
AFRICAN GOVERNMENT NEWS AND AFRICAN AFFAIRS
AFRICAN GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES
AFRICAN LEADERS AND THEIR WEALTH
HUMAN NEED IN AFRICA

 HISTORY

Friday, November 21, 2014

HEAL THE INNER CHILD OF AFRICA

WAR AND PEACE‎ > ‎

Heal the INNER CHILD of developing countries





There are many African children and adults, who grow/grew up in militant environments. 

Some of them are politicians today. 
Some will be the leaders of tomorrow.  
They have/are militant leaders.
There roll models are/where “Freedom Fighters”.
They regard fighting for the freedom of their countries as their life's destinies.

They dream about having an enemy to kill and to follow in the footsteps of those who fight before them.


Singing war songs and songs about slaying enemies of the past helps them to seal their fate.
Their fate is one of having an enemy to fight.    
 

In many cases they could strip a gun, before they could recite the ABC.
Many of them never completed their schooling.

Food and personal possessions may be (where) scarce, but guns and ammunition where regarded as prized possessions. 


They would dream about owning the best assault rifles like their  worldly counterparts reamed about owning the latest cars.

When democracy came to Africa  the freedom-fighters were not prepared for peace.  

Democratic peace and possessions offered no challenge. 

The truth-commission satisfied their lust for revenge for a while, 
but they were not programmed for peace.


People became restless.   Their souls urged them to fulfill their destinies, their reason for being.   
 What does a fighter do when the fight is over?
All that life taught them was how to fight the enemy so they started to create divisions within their societies and nations. 
They separated the colors in the rainbow, because a rainbow nation includes no opportunity to  fight. 
 It was easy to make all white people and foreigners their enemy.
 Fighting them is all they knew how to do.   

In order to heal Africa we need to find ways to heal the ‘inner-child’ of the nations and its leaders.

While the inner-child of the developing world remained untreated, the seeds of peace will have to wait generations to grow.    

Only skills development education and positive leadership can heal the leaders of tomorrow.


We need to find a way to reach out to the injured ‘inner core of society’, of the world and teach them that love and forgiveness, not revenge and war lead to freedom.

Freedom is not fighting, it is embracing unity.


Only when we become world citizens can we heal the earth.


Written 3 September 2011 by Rose W and edited by EX UNITATE VIRES 21-11-2014

When your neighbor has more than you,
it does not make you poorer
Each person gets to enjoy the fruit of his/her labors
You can build your success alongside that of your neighbor,
Don't indulged in jealousy, but use your neighbor as a roll model.
Like attracts like,
You are lucky to have him/her in your environment.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

A country in debt follows a road to bondage or slavery.



A country in dept can never be a global financial leader.   Such nations can only have power in their local newspapers, but to their foreign competitors they are incompetent fools.

Borrowed money should only be a band-aid, for a very brief period, until the wound heals.

A wound that is too big to heal within the allocated time, needs surgery.
(Drastic internal strategies)

Financial drain often leaks into the pockets of top wage earners and government leaders who consider themselves financially untouchable kings.

African nations must be careful of taking a financial gift in exchange of favors.   Those favors may be invisible shackles of slavery.

Be free Africa.  Be strong Africa.    
Be governable Africa.

Owe nothing to anyone.  
Beg nothing from anyone.

Fight against theft, corruption, racism and violence.


Let the past be in the past, a lesson learned, and strive towards new lessons of the future,
 ground the vision, of the  rainbow nation, of freedom for all citizens.


EX UNITATE VIRES.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

People should all be free to create their own success without being robbed of it.



The people of South Africa are not free.
While city dwellers have to live behind bars and security systems, there is no freedom.
While robbers, rapists and murderers rule the country, there is no freedom.
South Africa merely swapped the bondage of Apartheid for the bondage of crime, corruption and violence.
For something to heal there should first be the recognition of the problem.
While we live in a make-believe bubble of peace, we will never experience freedom.

We still need to fight for freedom.
We need to fight crime, corruption and violence, while we envisage the type of future we want.
We need to have a true vision what freedom is and work towards it.
If we cannot put strong boundaries around our freedom-vision where there are equal opportunities and peace for all people, then we cannot create it.


We cannot create something that we cannot envisage.

Freedom must have the same meaning for all people; otherwise, we shatter the combined effort.

South Africa should strive for that rainbow that signals the end of all bondage.

The end of the bondage of fear,
The end of the bondage of poverty and
The end of the bondage of limitation.

We should all be free to create our own success without being robbed of it.

Friday, October 10, 2014

2015, A YEAR OF JUDGEMENT


During 2015, the eyes of the world will be on African governments.  The world will analyze statistical data relating to crime, unemployment health care, corruption and land use.

They will measure poverty, unemployment, and the gap between rich and poor.

Above all, they will analyze government spending and look at why and how donations and opportunities to make poverty history by 2015 failed.

Governments will be classified, not only by their ability to create and maintain good human relations for all citizens and their ability to handle conflict situations but also on their ability to be global partners.

Aid and donations to third world nations will not continue as before.   Governments who failed will be by passed and those who attempted to create peace and prosperity will be further boosted.

2015 will be a year of judgement for all national rulers.   

Which rulers will weigh too light?

Which leaders will be classed as incompetent fools?

Modern Tribal Africa



Tribal Africans are born soldiers (impis), being ruled by royal families.   

Africa still has to learn the laws of unity and sharing with all tribes.

Many African rulers recognize peace as something to fight for, but they use the old methods of fighting against a group of people (an enemy), instead of fighting the element of violence and unrest.

The real enemy is not the successful white South Africans.   The real enemy to fight is that what counteracts prosperity for all people.

The real enemy is an attitude of crime, corruption violence and armed robberies.

While there are guns in the hands of the public, there will always be those who feel powerful behind it.   Trigger happy cowards.

Some African politicians search past history, to find old scores to settle, in order to create an enemy. 
Conquering an enemy was the way of the past.
Some politicians feel only powerful when they can function in an atmosphere of racial hatred.   
Without an enemy, they have no governing skill.

Africa needs to move from using physical strength through war and cunning tactics in order to secure power.
The way to peace and prosperity is to developing mental strength to grow a strong economy that can overcome poverty.

African politicians need to develop real governing skills.   They need to learn how to empower all races and get them to work together.

African leaders need to acquire the tools to build the rainbow continent.

Friday, March 07, 2014

Do not die fighting for freedom - live it!


Freedom can only exist if there are no suppressors!

 If freedom and peace are not regarded as the right of all citizens,

 and not only a right for those who were previously suppressed,

today's  freedom fighters will one day become the suppressors. 

Separatism becomes a vicious circle.   

Think about it!
(Please note  this is a rewrite of a previous post )

  The three main evils in developing countries.

  1. Lack of birth control (people having more children than they can afford to feed and educate)
  2. Alcohol and drug abuse.   (People allowing substance to take over their brain control)
  3. Disrespect for fellow citizens. (Theft, abuse and corruption)

 

 

Monday, February 17, 2014

The gap between the developed and the undeveloped countries

Change can only happen when people desire it.

The difference between developed and developing countries is determined how intelligent their decision-making processes are and their ability to manage their human resource.

Babies can not walk before they have learned how to roll over or sit up in their cradles.    
The maturity of leaders can be judged on how they are able to put their country or community's needs above their own.  
The old king-and-castle leaders are being seen as exploiters who feather their own nests at the expense of  their citizens. 
The first world expects their leaders to  promote their country as a powerful global co-operative player.   They see themselves as group players with their leaders the captains of their team.



Responsibility and control are two elements of maturity.

A self diagnoses of the maturity of the citizens in a region or an organization can be measured by the way they behave during strike action or protest actions:

A mature group will respect the right and possessions of other.
They will be non-violent.
They will not degrade their community or country.
They will not derail the country's opportunity to achieve or grow financially strong. (Strike action during global sporting of conferencing events)
They will not 'cut their noses to spite their faces' by burning down libraries or schools because they want a better education.
They will not ask the government to fix toilets or broken windows in schools before trying to do it themselves or by asking for help from the community first.
They will not steal from hospitals or institutions that is there to aid those in need.
Nurses will not desert those in their care to strike for more wages.
A first world country know how to maintain roads or public buildings.    Lack of maintenance is a sign of immaturity and in most cases not of poverty.
The gap between the living styles of leaders and citizens is another measure for financial abuse.

This post seems unnecessary for those who have the ability to think for themselves, but there are so many people in developing countries who are still using their combined power destructively.   The problem is that they are being driven by self centered leaders who should have more integrity.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Freedom is not only a right, it is also a responsibility.

Freedom to know the truth is regarded as a basic human right in countries where the governing bodies are prepared to take the responsibility for their actions.

Institutions with something to hide or cover up, on the other hand would welcome a secrecy bill.

Is it possible for any leading African country to take a step back to the days of Apartheid with gagging policies on information sharing?

I do not think the world will tolerate another iron curtain.   Instead of hiding information with secrecy bills, the truth will be published in through the international media, which will focus the world attention on other government shortcomings also.

Parallels will be drawn with countries like Zimbabwe and the suppressive era in our history, resulting in negative criticism for the Sub Saharan African region.

The truth will come to a boil in Google, Twitter, Facebook, U-Tube etc through the internet and other international media.   

We are moving towards globalization.       The world is moving towards responsible action and cover-ups are not tolerated any longer.    The global media hunts the revealing of truth behind a cover-up with the same passion as an Astronomer in his search for undiscovered heavenly bodies.