Thapelo Maseko receives COSAFA Men’s most promising player award during the 2024 COSAFA Awards at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on the 9th of May 2024 ©Nokwanda Zondi/BackpagePix by Thando Mpembe Saturday May 11, 2024. 16:22 Mamelodi Sundowns forward Thapelo Maseko was awarded the Men’s Most Promising Player at the Inaugural COSAFA Awards on Thursday evening and is extremely delighted about receiving the accolade. Maseko was the top scorer at the African Football League and was also named the player of the tournament, which Sundowns won. The 20-year old described winning the COSAFA Award as something he never imagined…
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At Africa Odyssey, we strive to make a difference in our industry. Whether that’s supporting lodges who sustain community initiatives or help our guests acquire a hands-on conservation experience.We have recently teamed up with the Bushlife Conservancy, a non-profit charitable organisation, who are based in the heart of Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe. Every quarter Africa Odyssey donates proceedings to Bushlife Conservancy and through our donations we have now become part of Bushlife’s Tusker Ranger fund. Our contributions are in aid of their constant work that is vital to the continued flourishing of Mana Pools. Sam with Nick Murray, founder…
Parents are killed in front of their children. As they cry for help, the children die too. Panicked people fleeing attacks become moving targets. Entire communities are set ablaze and destroyed. Dislocation, hunger and thirst follow, a prelude to famine and death. Abandoned, terrified, unprotected, unseen, the people despair.This is not a description of Gaza today. It’s Sudan, war-torn, desperate – and largely ignored. Upper estimates of the number of people killed there since a senseless civil war erupted just over one year ago reach 150,000. About 9 million residents, principally in the western Darfur region, have been displaced. Aid agencies say…
I recently found myself thinking about spiritual maturity and how my understanding of it was once a far cry from what the Bible says on the topic. Coming from a hyper-charismatic background, with its emphasis on sensationalism and the pursuit of spiritual “highs,” my perspective on spiritual maturity was distorted. Glossy visions, ecstatic utterances, and supernatural manifestations seemed to be the yardstick by which spiritual growth was measured. Join me as I draw comparisons between the hyper-charismatic worldview and the biblical perspective. However, as I delved into the Bible, I couldn’t help but notice the glaring inconsistencies between the lofty,…
Benefits of avo seed and rubbing alcohol Avocado is a green fruit with a brown pit, also known as the seed, in the centre. The seed contains “a good range of fatty acids, dietary fibre, carbs and a small amount of protein”, according to medical news site Healthline. Several test-tube and animal studies have demonstrated the seed’s potential to lower cholesterol and blood pressure, and to act as an antibacterial and antioxidant. But more research is needed on the benefits of the seeds for humans. There is also little or no research on the benefits of the topical application of…
If the twenty-nine odd members of the Yoruba Nation self-determination group who stormed the Oyo State secretariat, Ibadan, in the early hours of Saturday April 13 go down in history, it will most certainly not be for their strategic genius. For a group with the apparent intention of taking over the secretariat as the opening gambit of a larger attempt to establish a breakaway Yoruba state, they could have done better than the skeletal masks which hardly did the job of disguising their identities and the five English Pump Action guns and three locally made barrel guns in their possession.…
As the cyclists wind through the mountains, team coach Tadesse Mikiele, trails in a blue minivan, making observations and discussing tactics with his staff. At one point, he beckons over the captain, Genet Mekonen, who has been trailing at the back.“Why are you slowing down on the declines?” he asks her. “You need to be brave. Increase your speed, attack when you go downhill.”Genet peels off to rejoin the group at the front. Two days before their next race, Tadesse says he is happy. “You can see, on the hills, they move up as a team. They do not separate,…
Editors’ note: TGC Africa believes in the power of “coalition.” To that end we delight in finding like-minded, Christ-centred ministries and movements across the continent, so that we might platform them and also promote greater synergy in service of God. One of Paul’s favourite analogies for the church was that of a body, which contains various parts that fulfil a host of important functions. Christianity across Africa is no different. No organisation can do everything, so it’s a joy to highlight others. City to City Africa fosters the growth of urban gospel networks and assists church planters and ministry…
AD Ports Group has signed several agreements with Unicargas and Multiparques leading to securing a 20-year concession agreement (extendable for another 10 years) with the Luanda Port Authority for the operation and upgrade of the existing Luanda multipurpose port terminal in Angola. Photo courtesy of Porto de Luanda The agreements with Unicargas and Multiparques, well-known logistics and transport companies in the country, saw the Group acquire an 81% stake in a joint venture that will operate the terminal, and a 90% stake in another joint venture that will serve the facility and the broader Angolan logistics market. AD Ports Group…
Over the weekend, twenty-nine-year-old Nigerian chess champion and children’s education advocate, Tunde Onakoya, broke the world record for the longest chess marathon after playing sixty hours nonstop in New York City’s iconic Times Square. The previous record of fifty-six hours, nine minutes and thirty-seven seconds was set in 2018 by the Norwegian pair, Hallvard Haug Flatebø and Sjur Ferkingstad. Onakoya, founder of the charity Chess in Slums Africa, used the occasion of his personal milestone to draw attention to the mission of his social project: “the education of African children around the world.” Onakoya’s feat is the latest example…