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POPSDomestic Animals Skinned Alive "It's cheaper to make these things from cat and dog than it is to make synthetic fur," Campaigners estimate that over two million dogs and cats are killed for their fur in China every year. China also farms animals such as mink for their fur and makes over half of the world's fur products.
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POPStutu talks international peace & reconciliation
The name Desmond Tutu resonates strongly with people all around the world. He is internationally respected as a "moral voice" to end poverty and human rights abuses. In 1996, he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a body set-up to probe gross human rights violations during apartheid. Tutu spoke in London on Thursday to mark the 75th anniversary of the British Council. "I never imagined in my worst dreams that I would live to see the day when the United States would abrogate the rule of law and habeas corpus as has happened in the case of those described as "enemy combatants" incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay. Or that I would hear an American government and its apologists use exactly the same justification for detention without trial, as had been used by the apartheid government of South Africa - a practice that the United States at the time condemned roundly, as was so utterly right to have done."
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POPS SA Nation Address (irony) The South African nation is fine. There is no crisis. "Grannie, stand up and do something. Don't just sit there moaning and complaining and making white noise like so many others. If there is something about our politics that you don't like, stand up, do something!" "And so I thought: Yes. I may be an Afrikaans Tannie. I might have supported apartheid for all those years only because I didn't know it was so horrible. Because no one told us. I knew nothing. I will get involved. I will make sure democracy stays in full working condition in spite of the struggle-tsotsis and political pirates who want to rape our Constitution and then have a shower of celebration after the treasonous act!" Evita Bezuidenhout/Pieter-Dirk Uys.
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POPSSteve Biko freedom CRY Steve Biko's legacy lives on through the struggle he helped to ignite and through the freedoms that South Africans now possess. While in Medical School, Biko became involved in NUSAS (National Union Of South African Students), a non-racial students' union In 1968, Steve Biko became the cofounder and first president of the all-Black South African Students' Organization (SASO) The primary aim of the organization was to raise black consciousness in South Africa through lectures and community activities. Biko concluded that the apartheid system had a psychological effect on the Black population, which had caused Blacks to internalize and believe Whites' racist stereotypes. According to Biko, Blacks had been convinced that they were inferior to Whites, which resulted in the hopelessness that was prevalent in the Black community. Biko preached Black solidarity to "break the chains of oppression". In the final years of apartheid, the national students' unions remerged.
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POPSHelen Suzman, 'Look, what's going on?' Helen Suzman, "was the first and only woman ever to grace our cells, "says Nelson Mandela in his biography, The Long Walk to Freedom. Mrs Suzman, speaks of her aunt's "funniness, and her bravery in speaking about apartheid & antiSemitism. She used humour, and the regime wasn't altogether used to that ploy." Mrs Suzman added that while her aunt was deeply fond of Mr Mandela, she had no hesitation in challenging him. "She was one of the few people who would ring Nelson Mandela up and say, 'Look, what's going on?' Those who may question whether she really achieved anything in the face of overwhelming state oppression should remember this: what in the end matters is that the moral conscience of a nation should be kept alive, even when almost extinct.
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POPShelen suzman "right and wrong." While she went tirelessly into squatter camps, townships and prisons to see for herself things that were often almost indescribably awful and sad, she never lost her sense of humour. A share of arguments. Ed Hall, Strathpine, Australia "South Africa is the world's rape and murder capital, nearly all victims black. Twenty per cent of South African's have A.I.D.S. , which probably equates to 25% of blacks. S.A. cannot afford suitable drugs. Do-gooders are worse than racists!"
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