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The coffin of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is carried during his funeral, yesterday. REUTERS/ Amr Abdallah Dalsh Modi calls for calm as 20 killed in Delhi riots INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for calm yesterday after Delhi’s worst sectarian violence in decades left at least 20 people dead and calls for a military curfew. This week’s battles between Hindus and Muslims have seen mobs armed with swords, guns and acid raze a northeastern district of the Indian capital. The clashes, which also left almost 200 injured, were triggered by protests against a citizenship law seen by many critics as anti-Muslim and part of Modi’s Hindu nationalist agenda. They exploded into brutal violence on Monday and Tuesday, with residents forced to flee their homes after seeing their homes destroyed and a mosque attacked. “I appeal to my sisters and brothers of Delhi to maintain peace and brotherhood at all times. It is important… calm and normalcy is restored at the earliest,” Modi tweeted on Wednesday. Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, a political opponent, called for the army to be deployed and for a curfew to be imposed over the flashpoint areas. “Police, despite all its efforts, (are) unable to control situation and instil confidence,” Kejriwal tweeted. Sunil Kumar, the director of the hospital where many of the wounded were taken, told AFP on Wednesday that almost 60 had gunshot injuries. On Wednesday morning residents cleaned out the blackened interior of a trashed mosque, including a charred Koran, burned out during the violence in the Ashok Nagar area. A video circulated on social media and verified by AFP showed men ripping off the muezzin’s loudspeaker on top of the mosque’s minaret and installing a Hindu religious flag. Locals accused the police of doing nothing to help — or worse. “We tried to make many calls to the police… that people are entering our neighbourhoods chanting ‘Jai Shree Ram’,” said Naeem Malik, referring to a popular Hindu chant. “But police did not help us at Vanguard, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2020 —37 all. We tried to save the women at the protest site but instead policemen started beating us up,” Malik said, showing wounds on his leg and hands. Elsewhere a fire engine tried to put out blazes from the previous night, the air thick with smoke from still-smouldering cars, motorbikes, shops and homes. “They say we are not Indians but we are Indians by blood,” Farhat, 22, a student in Islamic studies, said in her father’s shop as police looked on. Court scraps ban on professional assisted suicide GERMANY’s highest court yesterday ruled that a 2015 law banning professional assisted suicide was unconstitutional, saying in a landmark decision that people have “the right to a self-determined death”. The ruling is a major victory for the terminally ill patients, doctors and assisted suicide organisations who brought the case, complaining that the existing law went too far. Judge Andreas Vosskuhle at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe said the right to a self-determined death included “the freedom to take one’s life and seek help doing so”. The court also surprised observers by explicitly stating that the right to assisted suicide services should not be limited to the seriously or incurably ill. The freedom to choose one’s death “is guaranteed in all stages of a person’s existence”, the verdict read. Passed by lawmakers in 2015, the existing law, known as Paragraph 217, was mainly aimed at barring associations dedicated to helping patients wanting to die. It also meant medical personnel faced prosecution for prescribing life-terminating drugs. The legal uncertainty worsened when a lower court ruled in 2017 that officials could not refuse lethal medication in extreme cases, creating confusion among doctors. Wednesday’s verdict was closely watched in a fast-ageing country where Catholic and Protestant Churches still exert strong influence, but polls show growing public support for physician-assisted suicide. Zimbabwe plans subsidized shops for security forces ZIMBABWE plans to set up shops within camps and barracks to sell subsidized goods like maize meal and cooking oil to members of the security forces, cabinet ministers said on Wednesday, as the government seeks to tame anger over economic hardship. Economists estimate that yearon-year inflation reached 525% in December as the southern African nation struggles with its worst economic crisis in a decade, marked by shortages of food, foreign exchange, fuel and power. To help ease conditions for the security forces, the government would establish “garrison” shops to enable service personnel to buy cheaper goods, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said. With monthly salaries as low as $140, political analysts say the lower ranks of the security forces, from the army to the police, have not been spared the effects of the crisis. Mutsvangwa said all government workers would from next month start contributing 2.5% of their monthly salaries to a state savings fund. Security force members who make the contributions would be able to buy goods cheaply from the new shops. The minister said consultations were still being held with the public service commission, which employs all government workers. “Garrison shops in terms of physical structures already exist in the cantonment areas but there is no subsidy that is what we want to try to cure with this proposal,” Ncube told reporters in Harare. Ncube did not say how much would be spent on the subsidies. Mutsvangwa earlier said the government had increased the maize producer price fivefold to $389 a tonne in a bid to encourage farmers to deliver the crop to state grain silos, which have been severely depleted after a drought last year. Farmers, who are expected to start harvesting this year’s crop at the end of next month, would receive 6,958 Zimbabwe dollars (US$389) a tonne, compared with 1,400 Zimbabwe dollars set last June. The agriculture minister said last month the southern African nation only had 100,000 tonnes of grain in its strategic reserves, enough to last just over a month, forcing the government to ramp up imports of maize. Kenya university’s rape memo sparks anger ATOP Kenyan university has apologised after blaming “reckless” female students for becoming victims of rape. The security memo, which was sent to all students on Tuesday, was “insensitive”, the University of Nairobi’s vice-chancellor admitted. A petition started in response to the memo questioned how women could be blamed for their own rape. Popular media personality, Adelle Onyango, posted on Instagram: “This is what victim shaming looks like.” The 31-year-old, who is a rape survivor, told her 374,000 followers that she was outraged that the university had had no condemnation for the rapists. “This is what normalisation of rape looks like. And we will not stand for it.” The memo, signed by the head of security, said the rising number of cases of robbery and rape of university students in the capital, Nairobi, occurred at certain spots close to campuses. “In all the three rape incidences reported last year, a clear case of recklessness on the part of our female students can be drawn,” it said. It gave an example of a drunk student who was gangraped on her way back in the early hours of the morning. Court sides with Trump in ‘sanctuary cities’ grant fight THE Trump administration can withhold millions o f dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with US immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Wednesday in a decision that conflicted with three other federal appeals courts. The decision by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned a lower court’s decision ordering the administration to release funding to New York City and seven states - New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington, Massachusetts, Virginia and Rhode Island. The states and city sued the United States government after the Justice Department announced in 2017 that it would withhold grant money from cities and states until they gave federal immigration authorities access to jails and provide advance notice when an undocumented individual was about to be released. Before the change, cities and states seeking grant money were required only to show they were not preventing local law enforcement.
38 — VANGUARD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2020 japhdave@yahoo.com 08066625505 Osaro, Agbezin rekindle friendship with Treads of Infinity at Alexis ‘Mandela, My Life: The Official exhibition’ opens in South Africa By Japhet Davidson, with agency report DURING Nelson Mandela’s post-presidential years, he spent part of his life establishing institutions and organisations that would help in the fight against poverty, against injustice and help secure a more just and equitable society. The other parts were spent pulling the ears of world leaders, celebrated personalities, and leaders of business to support the work of transformation and nation-building. Recently, the Nelson Mandela Foundation hosted the official South African launch of ‘MANDELA, My Life: The Official Exhibition’ in Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton City, in partnership with Richmark Holdings and TEG Live. MANDELA, My Life: The Official Exhibition, is a world class exhibition on Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary life, in collaboration with The Nelson Mandela Foundation and Richmark Holdings. A century on from his birth, this exhibition poetically and emotively explores the personal and public life of one of the most influential men in modern history. A rich selection of rare personal artefacts, film footage and *Standing out by Agbezin George By Japhet Davidson AFTER the successful host ing of its first exhibition of the year tagged Residency Fate VI, Simply Naija that featured the works of the 4th edition of artists in residency, Alexis galleries, one of the leading galleries in Nigeria is set for another exhibition titled, Treads of Infinity, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by two contemporary artists, Luke Osaro and Agbezin Bamidele George. The joint exhibition which promises to be great judging by the calibre of works and pedigree of the exhibiting artists is scheduled to open on 14th March 2020, at Alexis Gallery, Victoria Island, Lagos and run till 21st March 2020. Speaking at the briefing, Bimpe Owoyemi. a co curator with Patty Chidiac, the curator who stated that the artists will be exhibiting their new styles in the exhibition, said “the exhibition is just a combination of two different ideas that speaks about human expressions which is in line with the theme of the exhibition. It will feature a total of 33 works of paintings and sculptures, 16 works of paintings by George and 17 sculptural works by Osaro”. Continuing, she pointed out that “Agbezin’s works addresses the everyday activities, they are resolutely stylized, maintaining a curios balance between the gestural energies. With his latest study of the quilt art, he now manipulates relationship between colours, pattern, design and forms on rigorously textured canvases. Meanwhile, Luke Osaro loves to share his experience of human activities in bronze cast, bonded stone and glass fiber. As they live out friendship, love, dreams and hope, Treads of Infinity, no doubt is the combination of two different ideas aiming at a sole purpose of depicting or reincarnating the divine attributes of human, with different medium of art”. Speaking about the theme, George who works on canvass on acrylic stated that he documents, combined with newly created audio-visual pieces form the heart of the exhibition and offer an insight into the world that shaped Mandela’s life and journey. The launch was attended by members of the Mandela family, Ndileka Mandela and Makaziwe Mandela-Amuah, Struggle Stalwarts such as Trevor Manuel, trustees of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, media veterans Dan Moyane and Derek Watts, celebrated personalities such as John Smit, Letshego Zulu and Thebe Ikalafeng, as well as captains of industry. The evening was serenaded by Zolani Mahola and the internationally acclaimed Soweto Gospel Choir singing ‘Asimbonanga’, originally composed by Johnny Clegg. Although the night was attended by high profile and influential members of society, it was no reason to avoid heated and uncomfortable political discussion. The official exhibition, in Sandton City until July, begins with a series of large paintings by John Meyer, one of hills, presumably in the Eastern Cape, where three young boys are seen running through rays has been painting in a special way, but after his sojourn in Togo, he fell in love with words and opposite and ever since he has been working more on other dimensions. On the theme, he said that they have been friends for a long time after they met at Artzero programme put together by Authur Arinze and since then they bonded , looking for how to do something together and Alexis galleries afforded them the opportunity. Treads of infinity depicts to him is something that is trending, continuous friendship that will not end like that. Some of his works include Ladies in different mode, standing out, The Reign, Yeye Oge 111 and others. While, Osaro who confessed that he paints and sculpts, but after an encounter with Artzero, Arinze encouraged him to concentrate on sculpturing and he keyed in to that and ever since it has been a success story. “The theme to him is a reflection of of our long time friendship”. He said that he prefers bonded stones for his works as it is good for outdoor and indoor. Some of his works include Hibernation, Adenike, *Late Nelson Mandela with kids during his life time of sunshine and blades of tall grass. The entrance engulfs the viewer, enabling them to fully immerse themselves in what is about to be an excellently curated narrative of Nelson Mandela. The first gallery invites viewers to feel the power and emotion of one of the most dramatic and significant moments of Mandela’s life - the moment he puts Apartheid on trial, supported by the original recording of Nelson Mandela’s Rivonia Trial speech in 1964 and illustrative depictions of the courtroom as Mandela deliver his speech. *Adenike, by Luke Osaro The second gallery explores Mandela’s family life and narrates his journey from childhood to elder through a spectacular seven-metre-long scenic projection wall of animations and landscapes. Elements of Mandela’s childhood are brought to life in an audio-visual piece that uses Mandela’s own words and images of his childhood homes in the Transkei. The third gallery explores the influences that shaped Mandela’s theory of mind, presented through original artefacts, documents and film extracts that allow visitors to delve Lifted and others. Speaking about the works, he said that Hibernation, cut across many areas, it can depict some reflecting, meditating or tired. So it creates in our imagination a two sided figure. While “Adenike, a bronze work that depicts the head of a woman with a special hairstyle is an image of a woman I normally see with a particular hairstyle at all times which is something unique about her and I decided to do that”. Patty Chidiac- Mastrogiannis, founder and director of Alexis galleries is passionate about the arts that she dedicates her gallery and studio space to the development of growing artists, sponsoring and promoting artists in showcasing their works. She also donate part of her proceed from her exhibitions to charity. This exhibition is partnering with WARIF, Women At Risk International Foundation, a non profit organisation formed in response to the high incidence of sexual violence, rape and human trafficking among young girls and women across Nigeria As usual some art loving organisations like Pepsi, Tiger, Indomie, Mikano, Wazobia FM, Cool World, Cobranet, Delta Airlines and a host of others are always there to lend their support to the exhibition. Art lovers, promoters, collectors etc are enjoined to come and explore the artists time and creativity within the period. into the early life of Mandela as he established himself in Johannesburg. Personal items include photographs of Mandela with his first wife, Evelyn, and their children as well as his second wife, Winnie. This gallery also examines the means and methods by which Mandela navigated Apartheid and explores how this experience motivated his early political activism. The ten galleries in total, whose journey lasts one-and-ahalf to two hours, are concluded by a painting by John Meyer depicting Mandela the elder, walking back through the same rays of light and blades of tall grass with a cane. As visitors exit the experience, they are welcome to support the work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation by purchasing official merchandise, including the exhibition catalogue, memoirs, garments and home accessories. By purchasing this merchandise you are allowing the Nelson Mandela Foundation to continue doing the unfinished work of Nelson Mandela. ‘MANDELA, My Life: The Official Exhibition’ will be on show to the public at Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton City, until the 20th of July after which it will move to Cape Town.
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