Anita Roddick - Another Loss, Especially To The HIV Sector

Sometimes I wonder if the world is ever set to be alright? If she is ever ready to be calm? Can there ever be solace? Would we ever find the happiness and peace we crave? To all this questions, my answer is Doubt.

The above questions I believe would have been, unswervingly or obliquely, the reason behind religion. And to say it, many years since the invention of this self-righteous pursuits, we are yet to the get to that promised all-mighty happiness and peace. Never mind, it keeps some with something to do.

At every step as the aging world moves, one epidemic or another, wars – cold and hot, tyrannies – direct or indirect, etc attacks her. The HIV one has been nearly the most unfathomable. But we are determine to live; and so arose many soldiers of charity to combat it in any way possible. Among them was Anita Roddick.

Mrs. Roddick, like many others, Elton John, Bill Gates, etc, regardless of her wealth, waded into that murky water trying to save, to help, to aid, to support, to encourage, to build; and she did a wonderful job. But like I wrote about Lucky Dube, yet again, the good ones never last.

She didn’t die of the Hepatitis C which she has lived with for decades, but brain haemorrhage. For us in the field of HIV, it is a great loss. It is one irreparable. It is a huge vacuum and which there might be no filling. She was a wonderful woman. Although I don’t know her in person, but her work speak for themselves.

She will be remembered ever dearly for her inputs to find solace for the ones affected with HIV especially for her work with Body & Soul which has children as part of their mission. Also for Hepatitis C Trust; Anita did a lot.

As she passed on at the young age of 64, the gay community, HIV sector, Hepatitis C, and numerous other charity work Anita was involved in either by voice or action, will miss her forever. And the questions on the lips of all that felt her humane activities directly or indirectly will ever be like the ones asked in the beginning of this text:

Is there hope at all?

Adieu Lucky Dube

Lucky Dube was gunned down on the 18^th of October within the community he has lived. As I read the news on BBC, I couldn’t but feel a loss of such a man who has preached peace, unity and love through his lyrics.

I play Lucky Dube’s work every time and at work in Scope Charity, many young people has been quite happy with it that I have more often written out the star’s name to consider myself a marketing link. I love his tunes and his lyrics are what I call music as a medium of passing on messages than what we have now in my generation when young artists repeatedly mumble 2 lines full of sex and curse words for longer than any reasonable person would be happy to listen to music with so much noise that I ask myself what it is with them and what their mission/objective/aim is.

His death isn’t welcome news, not for Lucky nor any other person. Lucky sang with zeal and gusto, sending out clear concise message with a voice that reaches as if to the sky. He sang about South Africa as much as about the world. But as always, the good ones never last.

May his soul and the souls of all others who have passed into the world unknown find rest and to the families of all the victims of crime and violence, I pray for strength to bear it.

Cheap Bullying Wont Help The Conservative Party

For months now I have not been able to post anything to my blogs due to many hurdles on my way via my computers all behaving badly. But today, I am forced to make comments as the election arguments reel in the polity and the media.

It’s a shame that the Conservative party has to employ a cheap bullying tactics of lies to demand election in Britain. For all we know, first, Britain never elect a Prime Minister. Rather, what we get is that a party is elected and that party gives the country her leader – only voted by the party itself – to sit in for them as Prime Minister. So when David Cameron keep going on about Gordon Brown not having a mandate, it shows the more how cheap he can go to argue idiotically and such shows his lack of leadership qualities.

Secondly, election in United Kingdom is nominally Five yearly, so when the labour party changed its leadership, it should change the norm since an election is not entirely at their whims and caprice to foist on all of us. An early election also will be denying the party her 5 year mandate given just over 2 years ago. It is we the masses that can call for an early election not the Conservative or any other party.

Thirdly, I think Mr. Brown’s response to the election saga is quite intelligent for a leader. Even if he was going to call for one, the rancour of the Conservative party should not in any way acquire that.

Well done Brown. Whether good or bad, sit in there until its time. I’m sure Cameron will be pushed out soon by his blind party.