Amazulu Kakhulu! -Adewale Sobowale
The Zulu are a Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa and the largest ethnic group in South Africa.It is estimated that about 11 million of them live in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. A few of them also live in Zimbabwe,Zambia,Tanzania and Mozambique. The topic of this article means ‘Zulu people,thank you’. You know, a person…
Google it…a fool’s errand! – Adewale Sobowale
So, I had an appointment yesterday. And, as usual with me, I Googled the address some two days ago. The app directed me on an arodan (a never ending) trip. The arodan trip is a journey you send a little child who is disturbing you. The child is sent to go get a mysterious object…
Concerns over recruitment of migrant workers
Photo credit: Business and Human Rights Centre Malaysia risks repeating the same failures in its migrant worker recruitment system unless it urgently restores transparency and accountability, Tenaganita, the Malaysian human rights nonprofit organization has warned. The Sun reports that the group’s executive director, Glorene a Das, said public confidence in labour migration policies has been severely…
Immigration agent bags 3 years of rigorous imprisonment
Photo credit: Indian Express A local court in Mohali, India, has convicted an immigration agent in a visa fraud case and sentenced her to three years of rigorous imprisonment, imposing a fine of Rs 1.02 lakh as compensation to the complainant. The Indian Express reports that Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Anish Goyal held Chhavi Sharma…
What happens if there is a nuclear war?
Nine countries currently either say they have nuclear weapons or are believed to possess them. The Mainichi of June 19, 2025, reported that the first to have nuclear arms were the five nuclear-weapon states – the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom. All of them are signatories to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which commits…
Waiting Game? – Adewale Sobowale
With the advent of 2020 came a lot of welcoming gestures. Peoples went praying to whatever they believed in their various religions and irreligion. They topped it up with wearing their brand new clothes, eating their favourite dishes and imbibing their choice drinks. There was great hope that the year 2020 would be better than…