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Universal Right to LIFE

The right of all In 2011, Shaun Alberto de Freitas and Georgia Alida Myburgh wrote a paper on the rights of the unborn child. Seeking Deliberation on the Unborn in International Law Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 14, No. 5, 2011 . They emphasized that the paper stand for a push to ensure that the international community define the status of the unborn child, who has been relegated due to lack of priorities, but despite the need to define the child this is not an attack against women,  “bearing in mind that opposition to abortion does not of itself constitute an attack on a woman's right to respect for privacy in her life”. The right of all, the value of every life and the struggle of this truth in the current world environment is a tragic fact. Why should black lives matter be more important than all lives matter, can the chat not be because all lives matter black lives must matter. Does black lives matter represent not a social growth that seeks the elevation...

Our Call from God

We are seeing a call to live out love, faith and hope in a world of institutional structures that speak hate, abuse and anger. As the United States of America dares to peal off the bandage of compromise and silence that has kept racism underground but very much alive and growing. The world watches as things unfold and a new era is begun, through a revival of conscience and principles and a willingness to be. Racism has haunted international relations and development dynamics in its various forms, from the rise of nationalism, the reflection of colonialism and imperialistic dispossession a people of identity, name, culture and dignity. These atrocities which once publicly where part of institutional policy are now privately the foundation of national and in part international culture that is used to limit, denigrate and justify the murder of people of colour. The murder of George Floyd is only part of the killing that occurs the destruction of the flesh. The more critical annihilation i...

So what Next?

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We all desire rights and laws that protect us, security is a right that is often not possessed.  The constitution of Zimbabw e begins with a preamble; which includes a number of declarations. A segmented outline of the preamble as required to emphasise this write up is as follows: “We the people of Zimbabwe, United in our diversity by our common desire for freedom, justice and equality, and our heroic resistance to colonialism, racism and all forms of domination and oppression …. Recognising the need to entrench democracy, good, transparent and accountable governance and the rule of law … Determined to overcome all challenges and obstacles that impede our progress, Cherishing freedom, equality, peace, justice , tolerance, prosperity and patriotism in search of new frontiers under a common destiny, … Resolve by the tenets of this Constitution to commit ourselves to build a united , just and prosperous nation, founded on values of transparency , equality , freedom ,...

Doing The Right Thing

The death of  Ahmaud Arbery  is a testament of the evil in individuals. The evil that is celebrated in some communities as self defence. Defence against something undeserving, something, different indeed something that should be relegated to the back of beyond.  The religious community around the world addresses such events with a call to prayer and teach them while young, teach children values and morals, right and wrong. Yet these men who killed another are moral men in the eyes of their community, they are protectors of right and wrong as defined by them. Their bias and xenophobic world view is a communal attitude, making it dangerous to be different.  In the death of Ahmaud Arbery two world collide. In his death philosophies battle. Some view racism as the actions done only by whites, while other declare that racism is common to all-races hence to them all racism is equal, while others like Adam Hochman a lecturer at Macquarie University states that there ...

Silenced by Uniformity

Silenced by Uniformity  When one looks at the world and views the beauty of creation, It is a wonder that there’re such diverse groups in creation yet in the midsts of each group the individual is unique. You look at the field and see that grass yet in its similarly as being grass, each leave shouts for attention that you would take time to check deeper and realise that each leave is uniquely lined. Suddenly the beauty that was so clear and flowing is riveting with diversity and deeper meaning. That God would choose to make each bee different - unique that in the midst of the mass of its hive it would not be forgotten or lost. Indeed the uniqueness a stamp, treasured by the creator and every observer who dares to see beyond the obvious.  Yet one must ask is uniformity progress, is peace equal to the demand of silence, indeed is individuality a danger to society. Let it not be so in our eyes that we can only accept others and their difference by denying ourselves. Ra...

Migration who belongs to whom?

Comment on a news report  Migration who belongs to whom?   When does a migrant become the property and responsibility of the country of origin? Who defines the time and place? The Stopped deportation of a Zimbabwean man, due to his HIV status and the risk of the country of origins health structures to his health. Has focused discussion in the media's between the battle of law and that of the desire of society. The questions of identity, obligations and justice have been raised. This man who is described as a career criminal who had lived for decades in the United Kingdom ( https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52470783 ). He spent a fortune to remain in a land that he was brought into. He matured in this host nation, he abused the hospitality of the host nation and now the host nation will be asked to care for him on humanitarian grounds while citizens look on.   As migration challenges continue to mount and the complexity of the impartial legal frameworks   aro...