Wonderful Women Of The World
Posted by Michelle Moquin on June 4th, 2011
Good morning!
I love reading about women who have done, and are doing great things in their lives for others. I search out these women so that I can highlight them, honor and give them the recognition they deserve. Sometimes the women I write about are doing wonderful things that motivate us to do something…to join them in their crusade. And other times, I write about women of the past, who need the support of future generations to carry on their passions when they are no longer able.
Today I write about Albertina Sisulu. Sisulu passed away this last Thursday. She dedicated her life to the ANC (African National Congress), lamented what apartheid did to her family but inspired her children and lived to see them become leaders in a democratic South Africa.
Albertina Sisulu was a trained nurse, a veteran of the anti-apartheid, campaigning for the rights of women and children. She was a leader of the United Democratic Front, a key anti-apartheid coalition in the 1980s that brought together religious, labor and community development groups.
After reading and hearing about her, no doubt she deserves today’s title. My warm wishes and thoughts go out to those that mourn her loss.
South Africa mourns as ANC anti-apartheid icon Albertina Sisulu dies
Albertina Sisulu, one of the last contemporaries of Nelson Mandela, has been hailed as a colossus of the struggle and a mother to South Africa, after her death at 92. Sisulu and her late husband, African National Congress (ANC) leader Walter Sisulu, were key figures in the fight against white-minority rule, enduring decades of persecution by the apartheid regime. In South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, when Mandela became the country’s first black president, Sisulu won a seat in parliament, capping her lifetime in politics. President Jacob Zuma said Friday that “Mama Sisulu”, as she was affectionately known, had “reared, counselled, nursed and educated most of the leaders and founders of the democratic South Africa”. ”We must thank her most profoundly for the selfless service to all South Africans and humanity at large, for her generosity of spirit and for teaching the nation humility, respect for human dignity and compassion,” Zuma said in a statement. ”Mama Sisulu was one of the foremost mothers of the nation and the last of the colossuses of the struggle for the liberation of South Africa.”
Sisulu’s daughter Lindiwe, the country’s defence minister, arrived at her mother’s house in northern Johannesburg on Friday as a stream of top-ranking government and ANC leaders came to pay their respects. Many rememberd Sisulu as not only a struggle hero but a mother to Mandela’s children and others whose activist fathers were imprisoned or forced into exile. ”She gave me unconditional love, she called me her son, I called her my mom and she was my second mother,” said Dali Tambo, whose father, Oliver, was president of the ANC and spent more than three decades in exile.
Mandela’s family recalled how Sisulu cared for Mandela’s children when he and her husband were imprisoned together on Robben Island after being sentenced to life in jail on charges of plotting to overthrow the apartheid regime. ”It is a well-known fact that the Sisulus and the Mandelas share a strong bond that spanned generations,” the family said in a statement. ”It is these family ties that saw Mama Sisulu being the primary guardian and caregiver of (his first wife) Evelyn Mandela’s children during the long period of Nelson Mandela’s incarceration.”
Sisulu remained close to Mandela after her husband’s death in 2003. She was among the first people to visit the 92-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner when he fell ill with a respiratory infection in January and was hospitalised for two days. Mandela’s foundation said “South Africa has lost a treasure”. Born Nontsikelelo Thethiwe in Transkei on October 21, 1918, Sisulu married Walter in 1944, with Mandela as the best man. A nurse by profession, she joined the ANC women’s league in 1948 and helped organise the women’s movement against apartheid-era pass laws, segregated education and other discriminatory legislation. Her activism and her association with top ANC leaders saw her held in solitary confinement, sentenced to house arrest and banned from political activity, while her five children were also arrested and expelled from the country.
She was reunited with her husband — with whom she shared a relationship that The Star newspaper on Friday called “South Africa’s greatest love story” — in 1989. She served four years in parliament before retiring from politics in 1998. Many in South Africa fondly linked her career as a nurse to her role as a national matriarch. She was “a midwife of the South African liberation, a true mother of the nation,” The Star said in an editorial.
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Readers: I love this.
“You strike a woman, you strike a rock.”
Sisulu was the leader in 1956 of a march on Pretoria by thousands of women of all races opposing the extension to women of pass laws — which restricted the movement of black South Africans. This above quote was the slogan of the 1956 March.
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June 4th, 2011 at 11:35 am
This message from Oprah is what “it” is all about…
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June 4th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Great article!
June 4th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
i0Ke
I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance before now to respond to your post asking me what being sexy means. I hope you found the advice Michelle gave you to be helpful. Like she said, being sexy is not one thing. It can be just an illusion but its a total representation.
Be careful of not overdoing it, like too much of a good thing. Individually, the dress, the makeup, the language, the jewelry, might be classy but can easily turn into trashy when overdone.
The one thing I would add to being sexy is to learn to walk in high heeled shoes. Start out by practicing walking on shoes with a 1 inch heel. When you have the poise, increase your heels to 2 inches and work yourself up to wearing a 4 inch heel comfortably. High heels make the legs look shapelier and have a slimming effect leg for most women. There is a widely recognized acronym – “CFMPs” – for those super high heeled shoes – Come Fuck Me Pumps. The power of the heel speaks for itself.
About my comment regarding listening to the advice of men, and you asked how to know when to trust what they are saying since they lie, at the time, I was thinking more of men like Doug, TMD, who would give you an honest answer. He has established his credibility in my opinion. And if you want to know how men make the decision to get emotionally involved, a man would know the answer.
Now, in general, whether a man tells the truth or not, that’ s on the individual. But a woman could lie about that as well just as easily. I thought there might have been some honest men on the blog that might give you some help in that area. No one did so perhaps I was being naïve. Maybe they don’t even know how they get emotionally involved, or they never really do. My apologies I don’t know men better.
But that’s how I would say to you how to know when to trust a man’s words, when all men are known to lie. I say the same for female interaction too. What is your history of interchange with them? Those men you are meeting now, you don’t know them, you just met them, so don’t believe everything they say until they have established some history of credibility.
I wish you success this weekend experimenting and being sexy. It sounds fun!
Holly
June 4th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
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June 5th, 2011 at 7:33 am
Beginner’s Guide to Twitter
Joel Comm
Everyone seems to be atwitter about Twitter. The free online service lets users send and receive very short messages — no longer than 140 characters apiece.
A typical Twitter message, known as a “tweet,” might provide a quick update on what you’re doing or request help with a problem. Users post tweets to a personal Web page from their cell phones, PDAs or computers. How Twitter can be useful and how to sign up…
TWITTER FOR FUN AND FAMILY
To use Twitter in your personal life…
Keep friends and family updated on your life when you don’t have the time or inclination to call or e-mail. You might tweet, “We arrived home safely from our trip”… or, “The car’s running again. It was just a fuse.”
Real-life tweet: A passenger on a plane that skidded off a Denver runway last winter used his cell phone to tweet about the event moments after it occurred.
His friends never had to worry about his safety, because they got his tweet and learned that he was unharmed before the incident was reported in the media.
Arrange social activities, even at the last minute. Rather than place dozens of calls to find someone who is free, send out a single tweet. This tweet might read, “I’m going fishing. Anyone want to join me?”
Real-life tweet: Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal used Twitter to inform his friends and fans that he was sitting down to dinner alone in Phoenix. A pair of local basketball fans drove to the diner and hung out with him.
Solicit opinions, advice or assistance on short notice. You could tweet, “Can anyone suggest a good place for dinner in Albany?”… or, “My car broke down in Portland. Can anyone recommend a good mechanic?”
TWITTER FOR BUSINESS
To use Twitter in your professional life…
Keep colleagues and clients up-to-date about schedules and plans. You could tweet, “Any customer expecting a service call today will receive one by 5:00 pm despite the snow” or, “My flight was delayed. Can someone stand in for me at this afternoon’s meeting?”
Search for tweets about your company, industry or products written by other Twitter users, then provide fast feedback. A plumber might offer responses to plumbing-related questions to build goodwill with customers.
A manufacturer might respond to a complaint about a product with troubleshooting tips, turning negative buzz about the product into positive buzz about the company’s customer service.
For example, cable company Comcast has a customer service employee monitor Twitter for mentions of Comcast and respond quickly.
The Web site TweetBeep (http://tweetbeep.com) and Twitter’s own search page (http://search.twitter.com) can help you find relevant tweets.
Show clients and potential clients the person behind the business. Customers are more likely to trust you if they believe that they know you and like you as a person. To build this human connection, tweet about your hobbies… your charitable work… or your company’s softball game, in addition to your business and products.
HOW TO SIGN UP
Twitter is easy to use. Visit http://www.twitter.com, click “New to Twitter? Join today” and follow the simple directions.
E-mail a link to your Twitter Web page to keep friends, family, colleagues and clients posted on your life or business. You can find people to follow by clicking on “Find People” from your Twitter home page.
Warning: Click “Settings,” then check the box by “Protect my updates” on your Twitter account page if you want to maintain control over who reads your tweets. Leave this unchecked only if you do not expect to share sensitive information and would like to reach strangers as well as friends.
Always be careful. If you are going to be out of town for a few weeks, you may not want to tweet about that if everyone can read your posts.
You also can choose to receive tweets from individuals on your cell phone. Though Twitter is free, your service provider may charge you when you send or receive messages from your phone depending on your plan.
Personal interviewed Joel Comm, an Internet entrepreneur, Loveland, Colorado, who has helped found such Web sites as WorldVillage.com and ClassicGames.com (now Yahoo! Games).
He is author of Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time (Wiley). http://www.twitterpower.com
June 5th, 2011 at 9:34 am
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Carl