1. Equal Education (‘EE’) is a movement of learners (known as ‘Equalisers’), parents, teachers and community members working for quality and equality in South African education, through analysis, policy development and activism. The origins of the organization in 2008 were in its research work in schools in the working class community of Khayelitsha, Cape Town and it has since drawn attention, including through litigation, to problems required to be tackled in education and government’s failure so to do. Doron Isaacs (‘Isaacs’) was one of the founders and employees of the organization and Zackie Achmat (‘Achmat’) has served on its board and as Chairperson thereof for many years.
“This is a day I don’t want to relive,” said Richard Kunkel, who traveled from Florida for the hearing. “I don’t want to be here.”
Unfortunately, those of us who value religious freedom have been disillusioned by multiple governments once too often. The current BJP-led government has no pretensions about its dislike for the secular idea. Even those governments that proudly flaunt the label of “secularism” have subjected us to their non-secular realpolitik. Take the politics of Rajiv Gandhi, for instance, often touted as a “secular” Prime Minister: his government not only overturned the Shah Bano judgment, but also banned Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and had the locks of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya opened to Hindus. Every political party, including the Congress and the BJP, has played communal politics with everyone in India — Hindu, Muslim, minorities — in the search for pliable vote banks.
Driven by the aim of fostering religious polarisation, the draft bill has a glaring loophole which confirms its purpose is not gender justice: a Muslim husband who simply throws his wife out without saying ‘talaq, talaq, talaq’ will face no criminal sanction. And none of the protections envisaged for the abandoned spouse will be available for her.
17. The Terms of Reference to this Enquiry make it quite clear in its preamble to the actual establishment of this Panel that the catalyst thereto was the publication of an article by the Mail & Guardian newspaper on 18th May 2018.
That is how the law stands for a Hindu husband who tells his wife one fine day, ‘This marriage is over, now get out’, without going through proper divorce proceedings. If he has a macabre sense of humour, he, as a non-Muslim, can even taunt her by saying ‘talaq, talaq, talaq’ as he pushes her out the door, and no criminal sanction would be attracted.
69. Eventually on 17th March 2010, Achmat sent a Facebook message to ‘Jane’. This runs to over an A4 page and so I quote only selective extracts therefrom:
368. The Chair of the Board , the Human Resources Subcommittee and the Board itself might have heard and thought longer and harder about these issues raised by Hasson in his submission to Achmat. Because these issues were pertinently raised in Hasson’s letter, they may have pondered upon and then examined and worked through the qualities and discipline of leadership required by Equal Education. There may have followed a conversation or seminar or training programme about the impact of the actions and behavior of leaders upon their organsiation. It is possible that this present process would not be currently underway.
227. On 7th July, Ensor contacted all other members of the committee plus Isaacs and Achmat advising that:
These days, Christo and Jeanne-Claude are in the long, quiet process of codifying and consolidating. They are curating the 270-piece Surrounded Islands exhibition, which will travel to nine European museums (beginning with the Sonja Henie-Niels Onstead Foundation in Oslo in the fall of 1984) and eventually reach the United States; they are preparing two books on the Miami project and a small pocket paperback for German audiences on the Reichstag project. And they are choosing illustrations for a book on Christo by a French writer and for a monograph on the artist that will be published in Japan. All of which, in effect, is a long-term, culminative campaign against the enjoinder “no.”
Fruits like apples, plums, pears and guavas have pectin fibre that is useful in cleansing blood. They not only bind with excess fats in your blood but also with heavy metals and other harmful chemicals or waste and remove them efficiently. Moreover, the lycopene glutathione found in tomatoes is useful for eliminating waste and chemicals. Don’t forget to add a bunch of berries like strawberries, blackberries and cranberries to your diet that help keep your liver health in check.
Additionally, Synchrony is extending multi-year agreements with two other brands within Qurate’s portfolio: QVC and Zulily. Synchrony and multi-platform retailer QVC have worked together since 2005, and it has been a partner with e-commerce retailer Zulily since 2017. Through the deal, Synchrony plans to grow its embedded cross-functional team, a move that will enable the company to drive innovative products and services across Qurate’s brands.
Drinking baking soda could be an inexpensive, safe way to combat autoimmune disease: study | Light Senstive Infusion Set Related Video:
, , ,