Facts About the Unhlanga/Reed Dance
In an eight day ceremony, girls cut reeds and present them to the Queen Mother and then dance. The Dance normally takes place in late August or early September. Only childless, unmarried girls can take part.
The aims of the ceremony are to preserve girls’ chastity, provide tribute labour for the Queen Mother and encourage solidarity through working together. Read more
Woods end their marriage
The much awaited curiosity about Tiger Woods’ relationship with Elin Nordegren had finally come to a halt. The celebrity couple had finally got divorced. The writing was on the cards after Tiger Woods’ confession of his series of extra marital relationships had damaged his relationship with his wife Elin Nordegren. Read more
100th Post
Today Marks Bloogle’s 100th Post !!!! . What an achievement, its been a long road and I should say it has not been easy at all trying to balance content of a blog in a country where content cannot be easily found.
Now, Sort Out Mails with Gmail’s Priority Inbox
At times, you receive so many emails that you start wondering how will you ever sort out the clutter. You can relax now as Google has introduced a new experimental beta feature – Priority Inbox in Gmail to sort out your emails automatically. Starting today, several lucky Gmail users have got the new Priority Inbox feature to prioritize their emails as per their requirements. The emails are sorted on the basis of your interaction with mails and particular contacts.
New Priority Inbox divides your Inbox into three categories – Important & Unread, Starred and Everything Else. The self explanatory category names will place the most significant mails under ‘Important and Unread’, mails you’ve marked as important would be placed under the ‘Starred’ section and the rest of the emails go in ‘Everything Else’ section.
This categorization takes place on the basis of your Gmail usage behavior – how often do you correspond to a particular sender, what mails you usually tend to open, etc. Do note that this new feature is in its beta mode at the moment and would be rolled out to all users gradually. Hence, you might have to manually tame it at times to determine which mail is important and which one is not.
Beautiful Images From Swaziland
Breathtaking Images from Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary in Swaziland
Umhlanga Holiday this weekend
The annual Umhlanga Reed Dance kicks off this weekend culminating in the main day which will be Monday 30 August, a public holiday. This year’s event coincides with the regional comesa heads of state meeting and the Swaziland International Trade Fair.
Iniesta congratulates Paul the ‘Psychic’ Octopus
Andres Iniesta has joked about the popularity of Paul the ‘Psychic’ Octopus after helping Spain overcome the Netherlands in the World Cup final.
The midfielder’s late extra-time winner for Spain sunk a sorrowful Dutch team who had a few significant chances to win the match.
The Barcelona star struck with a fine volley deep into the additional half hour to crown Spain as World champions for the first time.
It’s currently unknown whether British-born Paul knew that the winner would not come in the regulation 90 minutes, but if he did he certainly kept quiet about it.
Nevertheless, the Octopus corrected his previous European Championship final mistake by predicting Spain to win this time around to complete a perfect eight out of eight record for the World Cup.
After the game, Iniesta commented on Foxsports: “The Octopus will now be very popular in Spain.”
Paul predicted the only losses of the tournament for both Holland and Germany. His most impressive prediction was arguably his correct call that Serbia would defeat the Germans in the group stages.
Paul’s growing fanbase will be hoping that he is still fed properly now the World Cup is over and could be starting to wonder whether he is any good when it comes to club football
World cup Classic
SPTC’S ONE CONNECTIONS SUSPENDED
SPTC has suspended any further connections onto the fixed wireless network, popularly known as ‘ONE’ pending the resolution of issues in dispute. This was communicated through a joint notice by MTN and SPTC later on Friday. In fact, an order of the High Court issued by Justice Stanley Maphalala further compels SPTC not to market their new product until the matter has been settled by arbitration within a two-week period. “The boards of SPTC and Swazi MTN Limited wish to notify their stakeholders that the parties have reached an out of court settlement in respect of the interim relief court application lodged by the Swazi MTN and others have withdrawn the court action and SPTC temporarily suspended any further connections onto the fixed wireless network pending resolution of the issues in dispute,” read the joint public statement. Phanuel Vilakati, SPTC Acting Board Chairman, reiterated that the suspension would take a relatively short time because they agreed to return to the table to talk things over because that was where they should have started in the first place. He said when they agreed to settle the matter that way, certain conditions were put and one of these was the suspension of the connections onto the fixed wireless network until disputed issues were thrashed out. This follows a matter in which Swazi MTN Limited dropped its case against Swaziland Post and Telecommunications Limited (SPTC) at the High Court, where it was seeking a court interdict stopping the parastatal from providing communications networks. Both parties will now go for arbitration. This follows a deed of settlement signed by the parties, which was made an order of the High Court on Friday. The consent order was issued by Judge Bheki Maphalala. The deed settlement reads; * The Swazi MTN Limited (applicants) agrees to withdraw the proceedings against SPTC (respondent) on the terms and conditions. * Each party is to pay its own costs. * The parties will endeavour to resolve the dispute within a period of two weeks from the date of the agreement is made an order of court. * The respondent hereby undertakes that pending finalisation of arbitration proceedings to be submitted in terms of the joint venture agreement, it shall cease marketing and advertising the Fixed Wireless component of its NGN Network. * The respondent shall refrain from connecting new customers to its Fixed Wireless component of its NGN Network. * The respondent further undertakes to provide applicants an auditable system which will ensure that there are no additional connections from date of this agreement. * None of the parties shall be entitled to any public announcement or statement regarding the agreement, the dispute between them and any issue which is a subject of the court proceedings without the prior consent of the other party before making such public announcement or statement. * Should any party breach the provisions of the agreement, all of which are material, the aggrieved party shall in addition to any other rights it may have in law, be entitled to enforce the provisions of the Agreement as if it were a judgment of the court * The parties agree to make this an order of court, 4th June, 2010. Swazi MTN was represented by South Africa, Advocate Paul Kennedy, who is being instructed by attorney Mangaliso Magagula. Appearing for SPTC was Advocate Patrick Flynn, who was taking instructions from Mabandla Jacob Manzini. Swazi MTN Limited is the first applicant while MTN International (Proprietary) Limited is cited as a second applicant and Mobile Telephone Networks Holdings (Proprietary) Limited is the third applicant. Swazi Empowerment Limited is cited as a fourth applicant and SPTC is the respondent. In its opposing papers, SPTC says it has the exclusive privilege of providing telecommunication services. The corporation contends that in terms of the Section 59 (i) of the SPTC Act, it does not need a licence in providing such services. It claims to have the statutory power to issue a licence as the regulator of the communication services.
ANCYL Julius Malema’s House
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