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Headline: Coca cola hosts its first Sosh Region 2 tournament

Tags: Coca-Cola / Schools/Runner-up/Champions

Teaser: Coco cola hosted their first annual tournament where four schools participated.  

Byline: Obedience Mkhabela and Kabelo Maluleka

Twitter handle: Obedien36784941 & @Zooneechi2

Memezelo celebrates with their trophy

Memezelo secondary school Lethabong High School soccer team tasted the smell of victory when they became the champions of the newly Coca-Cola tournament talent search held in Soshanguve, Block H last Friday.

Memezelo Secondary School

The school was one of the four that participated in the annual tournament. The tournament, first of its own aimed to discover talent around the Soshanguve area.

Coordinator, Richard Thobelo said involving schools was the start to finding talent. Memezelo Secondary School, Reitumetse Secondary School and Vaalman Secondary Schools too part in the tournament.

The original setting of the games came to change from top four to top three contendership when Vaalman failed to pitch. Memezelo opened the first match against Reitumetse, beating it 1-0.  Their second match against Lethabong ended in a draw. The final match came between Lethabong and Memezelo when both teams had four qualifying points to the finals, winning against Reitumetse and locking horns to a 1-1 draw against each other before the final battle for the prestigious tittle.

Both teams were presented with a new soccer kit jersey before the start of the final’s whistle start. The two schools battled it out till the last whistle, with Mememzelo opening their scoring before half time. Lethabong kept composure and kept on putting pressure on the defense of Memezelo trying a few shorts until they got the equalizer before the final whistle forcing the match to penalty shoot-outs.

Both teams lining up 

Lethabong Secondary School

Memezelo lost 4-3 in the penalty shootout, handing the victory to Lethabong. Nicolas Makena, Captain of Lethabong said he was proud of his Team. “It was about who wanted it most and we did. Congratulations to the boys and hard luck to the opposition team,” said Makena.
 Memezelo coach, Khotso Moagi, said he was disappointed in his team but they had room for Improvement. “This was a lesson for us and the boys should not be hard on themselves but they must just have to pick themselves up and prepare for their other league games,” said Moagi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

The expansion of moors power in Europe. Moors in Spain led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad the conqueror

                           The expansion of moors power in Europe.
                        moors in Spain led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad the conqueror

The Spanish occupation by the Moors began in 711 AD when an African army, under their leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from northern Africa and invaded the Iberian Peninsula ‘Andalus' (Spain under the Visigoths).

 A European scholar sympathetic to the Spaniards remembered the conquest in this way. “The reins of their (Moors) horses were as fire, their faces black as pitch, their eyes shone like burning candles, their horses were swift as leopards and the riders fiercer than a wolf in a sheepfold at night The noble Goths (the German rulers of Spain to whom Roderick belonged) were broken in an hour, quicker than tongue can tell. Oh luckless Spain.” Quoted from The Moors and Portugal's Global Expansion, in Golden Age of the Moor, ed Ivan Van Sertima, US, Transaction Publishers, 1992, p.336

The Moors, who ruled Spain for 800 years, introduced new scientific techniques to Europe, such as an astrolabe, a device for measuring the position of the stars and planets. Scientific progress in Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Geography and Philosophy flourished in Moorish Spain.

Basil Davidson, one of the most noted historians recognized and declared that there were no lands at that time (the eighth century) "more admired by its neighbours, or more comfortable to live in, than a rich African civilization which took shape in Spain"

At its height, Córdova, the heart of Moorish territory in Spain, was the most modern city in Europe.

Benjamin Banneker was a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist, and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African American woman and a former slave. He later was asked by George Washington to plan the state of Washington which he later took his plans away when he quitted the plan. Today the state of Washington however it is of his plans and knowledge of the Mosonic knowledge. London’s clock tower today represents his work, hence he became the first American to create a clock, a wooden clock which the British adored much to name the London clock tower “Big Ben”. During the year 1789, Banneker sent George his work calculating a solar eclipse.

The streets were well-paved, with raised sidewalks for pedestrians. During the night, ten miles of streets were well illuminated by lamps. (This was hundreds of years before there was a paved street in Paris or a street lamp in London.) Cordova had 900 public baths myths are that a poor Moor would go without bread rather than soap.The Great Mosque of Córdoba (La Mezquita) is still one of the architectural wonders of the world in spite of later Spain spoiling of its appearance (disfigurement).

Education was universal in Moorish Spain, available to all, while in Christian Europe ninety-nine percent of the population were illiterate, and even kings could neither read nor write. At that time, Europe had only two universities, the Moors had seventeen great universities! These were located in Almeria, Cordova, Granada, Juen, Malaga, Seville, and Toledo.

In the 10^th and 11^th centuries, public libraries in Europe were non-existent, while Moorish Spain could boast of more than seventy, of which the one in Cordova housed six hundred thousand manuscripts.

Over 4,000 Arabic words and Arabic-derived phrases have been absorbed into the Spanish language. Words beginning with "al," for example, are derived from Arabic. Arabic words such as algebra, alcohol, chemistry, nadir, alkaline, and cipher entered the language. Even words such as checkmate, influenza, typhoon, orange, and cable can be traced back to Arabic origins.

The Moors introduced music and several instruments to Europe. The most significant Moorish musician was known as Ziryab (the Blackbird) who arrived in Spain in 822. They introduced Lute or el oud, the guitar or kithara and the Lyre. Ziryab changed the style of eating by breaking meals into separate courses beginning with soup and ending with desserts.

The Moors introduced paper to Europe and Arabic numerals, which replaced the clumsy Roman system. Paper which began first in Africa by the 14^th century.

The Moors introduced many new crops including the orange, lemon, peach, apricot, fig, sugar cane, dates, ginger and pomegranate as well as saffron, sugar cane, cotton, silk and rice which remain some of Spain's main products today.

The Moorish rulers lived in lavish palaces, while the monarchs of Germany, France, and England dwelt in big barns, with no windows and no chimneys, and with only a hole in the roof for the exit of smoke. One such Moorish palace ‘Alhambra' (literally "the red one") in Granada is one of Spain's architectural masterpieces. Alhambra was the seat of Muslim rulers from the 13th century to the end of the 15th century. The Alhambra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

It was through Africa that the new knowledge of China, India, and Arabia reached Europe. The Moors brought the Compass from China into Europe.

The Moors ruled and occupied Lisbon (named "Lashbuna" by the Moors) and the rest of the country until well into the 12^th century. They were finally defeated and driven out by the forces of King Alfonso Henriques. This this battle took place in the Castle of St. George.

About Tariq ibn-Ziyad :
Born: 670 AD
Died: 720 AD, Damascus, Syria
Battles/wars: Conquest of Hispania; • Battle of Guadalete
Allegiance: Umayyad Caliphate
Other work: Governor of Al-Andalus
Battles and wars: Umayyad conquest of Hispania, Battle of Guadalete

About Banneker :
Born: 9 November 1731, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States
Died: 9 October 1806, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States
Nationality: American
Other name: Benjamin Bannaker
Nickname : Big Ben
Parents: Mary Bannaky, Robert Bannaky
Books: Benjamin Banneker, the Negro Mathematician and Astronomer

About King Alfonso Henriques :
Born: Guimarães, Portugal

Died: Coimbra, Portugal

Buried: Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra, Portugal

Spouse: Matilda of Savoy, Queen of Portugal

Children: Sancho I of Portugal, Urraca of Portugal, MORE

Parents: Henry, Count of Portugal, Teresa of León, Countess of Portugal

Book Review (Nora Roberts Partners)

                             Nora Roberts Partners.
                        The Most Successful Novelist On The Planet Earth.

Nora Roberts born on October 1950 (68), silver spring, Mayland .United States. Since her first publish of Iris Thoroughbred in 1981, she became the best New Yorks Times best seller.Today with over 200 books (Romantic novel) and 500 million copies worldwide. Including Come Sundown (2017), Obsession (2016), The Coming Of December (2017), Happy Ever After (2010), Year One (2017) And Playing Odds of (1985), and Luring A Lady (1991).

Bate Matt is the charismatic and charming man with no sense of humour and emotions. Murder a case that’s his fields. Laurel Armand she’s the dedicated beautiful woman, professi9onal human being but lonely for a woman of her statute she could have the queen of England.

Bate, he had wanted laurel for years, although professionally she was his nemesis. But once the two rival reporters headed down to steamy New Orleans to investigate a murder of Susan’s sister, Anne Trulane. Matt bates was determined to make his lovely adversary his willing partner in passion. Determined to get their story, matt and laurel find themselves in the path of a deranged killer putting love and life on the line.


Matt was charming, but Laurel Armand with a face of a romantic as her name. An aura of delicacy that come from the bones fine bones and an ivory skin that make a man want to touch and touch gently. Her hair fell in clouds of misty, swept, back from her face spilling onto her shoulders.

Laurel may look like a fragile southern belle, but she’s determined to prove herself as a journalist, when Susan fisher comes to see laurel and claims that her sister Anne Trulane was murdered. Laurel scents a story and she’s determined to get to the truth.

On the day of her death Anne fled to into the darkness of New Orleans swamp. Laurel wants to know what terrified Anne when a copper head snakes is left by her door steps .she realises that this message means that she’s close to discovering an answer that someone doesn’t want her to know.

Laurel was the one who knew the Trulanes and was her lead story. Don, their head editor of Herald assigned them together favouring Matt Bates expertise’s. He was the perfect candidate to team her with. Bates a beat of his speciality, he has got source and contacts and he knows the background Laurel felt she has a protector now that she doesn’t require.

At the end bates becomes the protector that she thought she never needed. Bates saves laurel from a house filled with snakes on the floor. “Matt pulls a gun and start shooting off them (snakes).while she against her chest, Marion continued to prod on them, one sank its fangs on her ankle before matt pulled the trigger again.” (pg. 217, paragraph 3).

Partners in its fifth cover released early 2010. It’s a book filled with passion, power, and suspense, its time you fall under the spell of Nora Roberts. “The most successful novelist on planet earth” the Washington post. An author who never fails her audience, with about more than 15 books turned to movies worldwide.

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HEADLINE BY: OBEDIENCE MKHABELA

BE SELF-CONSCIOUS PEOPLE WILL FEAR WITH RESPECT
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed”

Bantu Stephen Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk.

Raised in a poor Xhosa family, Biko grew up in Ginsberg township in the Eastern Cape. In 1966, he began studying medicine at the University of Natal, where he joined the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). Strongly opposed to the apartheid system of racial segregation and white-minority rule in South Africa, Biko was frustrated that NUSAS and other anti-apartheid groups were dominated by white liberals, rather than by the blacks who were most affected by apartheid. He believed that even when well-intentioned, white liberals failed to comprehend the black experience and often acted in a paternalistic manner. He developed the view that to avoid white domination, black people had to organise independently, and to this end he became a leading figure in the creation of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) in 1968. Membership was open only to "blacks", a term that Biko used in reference not just to Bantu-speaking Africans but also to Coloureds and Indians. He was careful to keep his movement independent of white liberals, but opposed anti-white racism and had various white friends and lovers. The National Party government were initially supportive, seeing SASO's creation as a victory for apartheid's ethos of racial separatism.

Influenced by Frantz Fanon and the African-American Black Power movement, Biko and his compatriots developed Black Consciousness as SASO's official ideology. The movement campaigned for an end to apartheid and the transition of South Africa toward universal suffrage and a socialist economy. It organised Black Community Programmes (BCPs) and focused on the psychological empowerment of black people. Biko believed that black people needed to rid themselves of any sense of racial inferiority, an idea he expressed by popularizing the slogan "black is beautiful". In 1972, he was involved in founding the Black People's Convention (BPC) to promote Black Consciousness ideas among the wider population. The government came to see Biko as a subversive threat and placed him under a banning order in 1973, severely restricting his activities. He remained politically active, helping organise BCPs such as a healthcare centre and a crèche in the Ginsberg area. During his ban he received repeated anonymous threats, and was detained by state security services on several occasions. Following his arrest in August 1977, Biko was severely beaten by state security officers, resulting in his death. Over 20,000 people attended his funeral.

Biko's fame spread posthumously. He became the subject of numerous songs and works of art, while a 1978 biography by his friend Donald Woods formed the basis for the 1987 film Cry Freedom. During Biko's life, the government alleged that he hated whites, various anti-apartheid activists accused him of sexism, and African racial nationalists criticised his united front with Coloureds and Indians. Nonetheless, Biko became one of the earliest icons of the movement against apartheid, and is regarded as a political martyr and the "Father of Black Consciousness". His political legacy remains a matter of contention.

Commemoration

Biko was commemorated in several artworks after his death  Gerard  Sekoto, a South African artist based in France, produced Homage to Steve Biko in 1978,^[254] and another South African artist, included a work entitled The Interrogators in his 1979 exhibition. A triptych, it depicted the three police officers implicated in Biko's death. Kenya released a commemorative postage stamp featuring Biko's face.

Biko's death also inspired several songs, including from artists outside South Africa such as Tom Paxton and Peter Hammill. The English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel released "Biko" in tribute to him, which was a hit single in 1980, and was banned in South Africa soon after. Along with other anti-apartheid music, the song helped to integrate anti-apartheid themes into Western popular culture. Biko's life was also commemorated through theatre. The inquest into his death was dramatised for a play, The Biko Inquest, first performed in London in 1978; a 1984 performance was directed by Albert Finney and broadcast on television. Anti-apartheid activists used Biko's name and memory in their protests; in 1979, a mountaineer climbed the spire of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco to unfurl a banner with the names of Biko and imprisoned Black Panther Party leader Geronimo Pratton it.

Following apartheid's collapse, Woods raised funds to commission a bronze statue of Biko from Naomi Jacobson. It was erected outside the front door of city hall in East London on the Eastern cape, opposite a statue commemorating British soldiers killed in the Second Boer War. Over 10,000 people attended the monument's unveiling in September 1997. In the following months it was vandalised several times; in one instance it was daubed with the letters "AWB", an acronym of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, a far-right Afrikaner paramilitary group. In 1997, the cemetery where Biko was buried was renamed the Steve Biko Garden of Remembrance. The District Six Museum also held an exhibition of artwork marking the 20th anniversary of his death by examining his legacy

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Also in September 1997, Biko's family established the Steve Biko Foundation. The Ford Foundation donated money to the group to establish a Steve Biko Centre in Ginsberg, opened in 2012. The Foundation launched its annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture in 2000, each given by a prominent black intellectual. The first speaker was Njabulo Ndebele; later speakers included Zakes Mda, Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and Mandela.^[268]

Buildings, institutes and public spaces around the world have been named after Biko, such as the Steve Bikoplein in Amsterdam. In 2008, the Pretoria Academic Hospital was renamed the Steve Biko Hospital. The University of the Witwatersrand has a Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics. In Salvador, Bahia, a Steve Biko Institute was established to promote educational attainment among poor Afro-Brazilians. In 2012, the Google Cultural Institute published an online archive containing documents and photographs owned by the Steve Biko Foundation. On 18 December 2016, Google marked what would have been Biko's 70th birthday with a Google Doodle.

Amid the dismantling of apartheid in the early 1990s, various political parties competed over Biko's legacy, with several saying they were the party that Biko would support if he were still alive. AZAPO in particular claimed exclusive ownership over Black Consciousness. In 1994, the ANC issued a campaign poster suggesting that Biko had been a member of their party, which was untrue. ^]Following the end of apartheid when the ANC formed the government, they were accused of appropriating his legacy. In 2002, AZAPO issued a statement declaring that "Biko was not a neutral, apolitical and mythical icon" and that the ANC was "scandalously" using Biko's image to legitimise their "weak" government  Members of the ANC have also criticised AZAPO's attitude to Biko; in 1997, Mandela said that "Biko belongs to us all, not just AZAPO.On the anniversary of Biko's death in 2015, delegations from both the ANC and the Economic Freedom Fighters independently visited his grave.  In March 2017, the South African President Jacob Zuma laid a wreath at Biko's grave to mark Human Rights Day.

Born: 18 December 1946, Ginsberg, Eastern Cape

Assassinated: 12 September 1977, Pretoria

Spouse: Ntsiki Mashalaba (m. 1970–1977)

Books: I Write What I Like, The Testimony of Steve Biko, No fears expressed, The Essential Steve Biko

Children: Hlumelo Biko, Samora Biko, Nkosinathi Biko, Lerato Biko, Motlatsi Biko

References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Biko
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https://studycircle.wikispaces.com/file/view/I+Write+What+I+Like,+Steve+Biko.pdf
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/steven_biko_177008