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  Daily Maverick 25 th  August 2023   An investigation has lifted the lid on China’s leadership school in Tanzania where ‘Chinese teachers sent from Beijing train African leaders that the ruling party should sit above the government and the courts’. The newly enlarged BRICS, which could become a commodities powerhouse, is not the only arena in which the People’s Republic of China is shaking up the global order and expanding its influence. A joint investigation between  Axios  and the Danish newspaper  Politiken  this week revealed how the Chinese Communist Party is teaching young African leaders from the SADC region to embrace its authoritarian alternative to democracy. The  Axios  and  Politiken  researchers were the first Western journalists to go inside the  Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School  outside Dar Es Salaam, which they say is the first overseas training establishment of its kind. Both publica...

 FROM GVUK/HERAD GOA The Govt comes knocking and asks Velsao locals to hand over their land… ...their huts, their heritage their way of life and their peace, for the double tracking project KARSTEN MIRANDA VELSAO:  Villagers from Mollo, a fishing hamlet in the village of Pale, Velsao, received a shock when they received a notice from the government that they had to hand over possession of their lands to the Railways for the double-tracking project. “This is a bombshell! It looks like the government does not care about our plight but is only intent on driving us out from this area which we have called home for generations. Our ancestors lived here. Where will we go? How will we survive? We aren’t only losing our houses and our land but also our way of life and our livelihoods,” said one of the villagers, who felt betrayed by the authorities. The villagers, coming from humble backgrounds, have vowed not to give up their land rights come what may as there is no price fo...

  Stories from Kenya Colony: The drunken millionaire who owned Thika's Blue Post He was the millionaire who went missing, only to be found at Norfolk's roof, drunk. JOHN KAMAU 17 AUG 2023 3 Share Imagine finding a drunken millionaire on the rooftop of Nairobi's most famous hotel, stark naked and wearing a sufuria as a hat! Welcome to the world of Harry Penton, who owned Thika's Blue Post Hotel - the stopover place of leisure and pleasure! John Kamau’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid Of all the amusing stories that I have so far read about Thika, the Harry Penton affair, as it came to be known, remains the most thrilling because it tackles the hidden escapades of white settlers who were usually taken to be mannered and cultured and fought hard to document themselves as such. (Apart from the Happy Valley tales. Interestingly the Harry Penton Affair is only ...