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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Elderly Gay Man Stoned to Death in Pa. A young Pennsylvania man who claims a gay senior made unwanted sexual advances toward him said the Bible instructed him to beat the victim to death with a sock full of rocks.According to the New York Daily News, “John Joe Thomas of Upper Darby told police he beat Murray Seidman using a sock that was stuffed with rocks because he read in the Old Testament that homosexuals should be stoned to death.” Police said the 70-year-old Seidman, a laundry worker at the local hospital, was hit in the head about 10 times. Thomas, 28, was the sole beneficiary of the victim’s will, although the relationship between the men is unknown. Seidman was dead for at least five days before police found him, the Daily News reports. Thomas left him in his Lansdowne apartment and then returned days later, trying to make it appear as if he had just found the body in a phone call to police on January 12.- SOURCE: ADVOCATE.COM

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Dutch Soldiers to Participate in Gay Pride Parade......Members of the Dutch armed forces dressed in uniform will participate for the first time this year in the Gay Pride Canal Parade in Amsterdam.

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re: Curing lesbianism with rape?............... Dear Richard, A small group of lesbian activists from the poverty-stricken townships of Cape Town walked into South African parliament on Monday and convinced their government to finally start fighting the country’s decades-old scourge of "corrective rape" -- where men rape lesbian women to "turn" them straight. You made that moment possible. Late last year, these activists called on the world to help them pressure their leaders to take action on corrective rape. We answered their call, and more than 170,000 Change.org members from 163 countries joined with them, making this the largest campaign of all time on Change.org.Three and a half months later, they succeeded. Teaming up with 23 major South African organizations, they got some of the most powerful officials in the country to agree to bring together various government arms and civil society groups to develop and implement a national action plan to combat corrective rape.The ministry officials asked for details of specific cases in need of immediate attention, committed to a series of meetings beginning in six weeks, and promised to present concrete proposals to prevent corrective rape by the next meeting.It’s an astounding victory, far beyond what we ever could have imagined when we set out late last year. Now these activists need your help holding the government accountable for its commitments. If there was any question about the effect you had, the chief of staff himself confirmed it: At one point in the session he explicitly said, in a pleading voice, "Please don't petition us again." But that’s exactly what we need to do. The government is making a series of urgent decisions on sexual violence legislation in the next few weeks, and South African activists need your help in pressuring them to follow up their words with tangible action: http://www.change.org/petitions/south-africa-follow-words-with-action-against-rape?alert_id=aDwQnnErnm_oRUEkpiOTW&me=aa Your work led to overwhelming international press coverage of the campaign, taking corrective rape from an unspoken epidemic to a prominent international issue. In the last two weeks alone, the campaign against corrective rape has been covered by Time Magazine, the Washington Post, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Seattle Times, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, MSNBC, Dan Rather, Forbes, Yahoo! News, Salon, and dozens of global outlets from Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Spain, and even a Finnish tabloid. An elated Luleki Sizwe Founder Ndumie Funda (pictured to the right, alongside the chief of staff from the Ministry of Justice) called it "an incredible achievement…I humble myself to the 170,000 people from all over the world who made this possible. It was about time this happened." There is still much to be done, but every Change.org member should be proud about what has been accomplished here. In just 100 days, a tiny group of township activists have managed to mobilize more than 170,000 people from 163 countries and engaged the highest levels of government to address their demands. That’s incredible.Thanks for lending your voice. - Weldon and the Change.org team

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Apology for Delayed Postings, Sick at the Moment

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Prof. Peter Mutharika Escapes Treason Charges

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Prof. Peter Mutharika: Is he running a parallel government? Education, Science and Technology Minister, Prof. Peter Mutharika, is roamin...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Prof. Peter Mutharika Escapes Treason Charges

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Education, Science and Technology Minister, Prof. Peter Mutharika, is roaming freely across Malawian roads and streets after making claims t...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

NDONDOMEKO YA MAPHUNZIRO NDI ZOCHITIKA PA MIBINDIKIRO YA CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL MOVEMENT KU NAMULENGA PARISH

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with Richard Chirombo 1. Kuchita kafukufuku ndi kuunikira mobweleza bweleza ma membala ndi cholinga choti athe kuchotsa machinga a uzimu ...

Zachimalawi Spend The Whole of Friday At Chancellor

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What did we find? How was the situation? Of course,  a 10-vehicle Police contingent was there at the Cottage, ready for any attack. Fi...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Tense Situation at Undule Mwakasungula's Lilongwe House

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Symon Vuwa-Kaunda: President Mutharika is a peaceful man Contrary to claims profered by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Secretary Gene...

Bintony Kutsaila: CHRR staged offices' attack

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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) General Secretary, Bintony Kutsaila, tells Zachimalawi that Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (C...

Employment Opportunity

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Project Manager , Partners In Health, Malawi, Closing 30 March 2011

Joyce Banda, Vice President

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Malawi: Full of Good People

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rt of innovative people

Poor Airtel service in Chigwirizano

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People of Chigwirizano in Lilongwe have been failing to communicate and recharge airtime using the Airtel network for 24 hours now, cripplin...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Curing lesbianism with rape?

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Several weeks ago, survivors of "corrective rape" -- a heinous practice in South Africa where lesbians are raped under the guise ...
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Police, Ndirande Residents in Running Battles

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What started as a mere scuffle between over-zealous Police officers and people who went to Kamuzu Stadium to be party to President Bingu wa ...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

ANALYSING WALT WHITMAN ROSTOW AND KARL HEINRICH MARX’S APPROACHES TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

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ANALYSING WALT WHITMAN ROSTOW AND KARL HEINRICH MARX’S APPROACHES TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT This is an anal...