Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Welcoming 2014...

It has been a super amazing 2013, you will all agree with us. While 2003 has taught us a lot of things both good, bad and the ugly. There is alot to be thankful for. As we approach the new year in Couple of hours, We wish you and yours a fruitful and brighter year. 

May the new year be kind and easy on us all and may our dreams come through. 

 Welcome
                 2014...


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Monday, December 30, 2013

QUOTE OF THE DAY!





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WORLD'S HIGHEST TENNIS COURT ON TOP OF THE WORLD'S MOST LUXURIOUS HOTEL.


Did you all know the world's highest tennis court is hovering 1000ft above the Arabian Gulf, at the very top of the Burj Al Arab Hotel. The Burj Al Arab is the 4th highest building in the world and holds the title of beiing the only 7 star hotel in the World.

The Tennis court is circular n shape instead of the usual square shape and it doubles as a helipad also. The hotel’s helipad, which is situated 211 meters high covers a surface area of 415 square meters. No doubt thiis unque tennis court is only used by the rich and wealthy.


You definitely have to not have a fear of heights to play a game on this court.



                    Bottom view

I will say, this is technology at its best. Who want to join me to play a game of tennis, hehehehe!


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How To Get That Luscious Kissable Lips This Festive Season


Today's post is a tip on getting nice, smooth, healthy looking lips this season. The lips are a very important part of the body, and one of the main attractions on anyone's face. The last thing you want to have are crusty, cracked, blistered lips especially if you are one who will be spending the season with your spouse.   

For those who enjoy biting their lips, and i don't mean in a sexy way, but biting and cutting of cracked skin till it bleeds, that ish aint sexy, at all.

Now how do you get your lips looking plump and fresh like the picture above you ask? One word, exfoliate. Regular exfoliation is the best thing you can do to not only your skin but your lips too. I'm going to tell you how to achieve this; you need the following;
Brown Sugar - serves as a good scrub, helps remove dead skin effectively while leaving a sweet taste in your mouth.


Natural Honey - has very good nutrients and will help to lock in some moisture in the lips


An old toothbrush - Because it been used a lot, the bristles wont be as hard as a new one. You aren't trying to make your lips bleed, all you need is to buffer them a bit.


Sweet lip balm to help moisturise your lips. Always have some handy!


STEP 1:

Put a teaspoon of brown sugar into a small clean bowl and add a table spoon of honey to it. Mix it together till you have a nice grainy paste.

STEP 2:

Take some of the sugar-honey mix with the old toothbrush and scrub your lips. Scrub them just like you brush your teeth, use gentle circular movements. Brush the upper lip from side to side, open your mouth a little and get the inside lip, do the same to your lower lip.

Just think of where you would normally cover when applying lipstick.

STEP 3:

After doing the gentle lip brushing for about a minute, rinse off with luke warm water, pat dry with a clean towel and then a very important part...

STEP 4:

Apply a good moisturizer on your lips, flavored lip balm, chapstick or just good ole regular Vaseline will do just fine.

I recommend you exfoliate your lips once or twice a week to keep them looking nice and luscious. If your lips look good, you look healthy and you can get the lipstick effect below easily.





Seasons greetings from us to you, and we wish you fantastic 2014 as the year a wrap up!


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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Being A While!


Ok so yall are gonna have to forgive me, yes i know I have not posted in a whole month or so. School has been demanding all my time and i have to oblige so please forgive me.

So here i am sending my late christmas wishes and hope that as the year 2013 comes to an end, the coming year 2014 ushers us into some more life exploits.

My word for today been the last Sunday of the year 2013, “I have seen something else under the sun: the race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned;  

BUT Time and Chance Happens to them ALL”.


Eccl 9:11

Hope we have a splendid holidays, with friends, family and loved ones.


See you all in 2014!





Friday, December 13, 2013

Enjoy The Latest Features of Instagram

For those of us who are Instagram lover, who share our pics and video of our  daily moment with friends and close pals. Here is a new thing coming from Instagram, as you can now share or send you pics and video to some selected few of your contacts.

The wait is over for Instagram’s new messaging service, Instagram direct. Perverts worldwide now have a new way of feeding their disgusting needs. For the rest of us, this is a cool way to share pics and talk with 

Like I said, its directed to just a select group of our IG friends. However, as most were wrong about, you cannot send a message without a pic. Yes, every message must come with a photo and you can also send the pic to mutiple friends as one time. You can also check to see who has and has not checked the message as well as chat in real time. 

Don’t worry about ads though, insiders at Instagram say its still way to early to even have that discussion. Then you go in to post a picture (the same way that you’ve been posting pictures on Instagram), you’ll see two new tabs on the top of the post: Followers and Direct.

With Direct, you can choose a specific friend and type a special message, and that goes only to your friend. Once that friend opens up the photo, their profile picture within the message gets a check mark, noting that it’s been read. Users can also like direct photo messages, and chat can ensue from there.

You can send Direct messages up to 15 people, and Instagram Direct also offers up suggested recipients.

When you receive a photo, you’ll see a little inbox icon on the top right corner of the app, which will send you directly to your new messages. You can chat privately one-on-one or with a group of people.

People who mutually follow each other can easily send messages to each other. If you don’t follow someone, and they’ve sent you a direct message, it’ll show up as a pending request rather than a received message in your private inbox.

When you accept, that person can henceforth send you direct messages that will land in your inbox.

Instagammers can not send text-only messages to each other, but must send pictures to start the chat function.

Users have had some options for privacy on the network, with the option to block certain users or mark your profile as private, which means you must accept follow requests.

But the move toward a more private, precious Instagram makes sense.
Messaging adds a new layer of engagement to the app. Users can now start up a conversation, which shouldn’t be difficult considering they’re watching their friends lives unfold in pictures.

Get on and update your Instagram today to enjoy the moment of sharing your with you coolest dudes, and stop that annoying pest who comment on every single of your pix... This is the best way to get raid of them if you don't want to be too rude to block them from your followers list.


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Sunday, December 8, 2013

Sunday Post: Our Life...Our Story!


Our life is our story. This is the caption I saw on a friend's fb page last night and I reflected on it and then decided to write something on it. Looking at the life of Mandela, indeed is a man whose life has left an inspiring story. What kind of story is yours? 

As we leave to go to our various places of worship...  I do hope we take a moment to dwell on ourselves and the legacy we want to be remembered for. And may I ask to what impact has been your existence. YES::: Christmas is coming and its a period of thanksgiving, giving and giving... And lots of giving.

The significance of Christmas is sacrifice, the most wonderful time of the year, to think, reflect and make resolutions.  As we felicitate and plan for the season, even in between out busy schedule, while not you take time to reflect on the year so far? 

...our Life.....Our story.....

What is your story.



Happy Sunday my peeps!

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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Why Late Mandela Is In Hell – Jim Solouki and Martin Baker


This is absolutely unbelievable. A Christian blog run by “Christians” wrote this article with reason’s why Nelson Mandela is in hell fire…(Its shocking but just read and decide..They also used the photos in this article with the captions)
Greetings True Christians!
Today Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, ended his worldly life and entered the depths of Hell. Mandela was an unsaved heathen, and died without knowing the Lord.
Not only did Mandela influence American Democrat Barack Hussein Obama, but he also practiced a heathen African tribal religion.
Unfortunately, while Mandela did some great things for the nation of South Africa by ending apartheid, Heaven is like an exclusive club, unsaved unwelcome. Mandela died unsaved, and is therefore not welcome in Heaven.
Nelson Mandela was also influenced by Darwinism and Communism! Mandela was an avid reader of Marx in the 1950s, and everybody knows that God hates Communists!

Mandela allied himself with Communists and heathen Indian Gandhi, who is also in Hell. Instead of seeking a Christian approach to freedom from apartheid, Mandela instead turned entirely to heathens. In fact, Mandela and Gandhi even are rumored to have engaged in rampant homosexual acts with each other while planning protests!
Mandela was also friendly toward Muslims, God’s hated people!

Mandela was linked to the American Civil Rights movement, and many members of this movement were Muslims. Know what the Muslims did after they got African Americans equal rights? They crashed airplanes into buildings and started sectarian wars in the Middle East. Nelson Mandela was allied with these heathen scum, and is now being punished for his earthly mistakes.
Tonight I watched many news stations. On every channel, they showed Africans lining the streets of South Africa, doing happy dappy heathen dances, perhaps in hopes that the voodoo rain god might look with favor upon the soul of Mandela.
Unfortunately, these savages are of the same cloth as Mandela. Nelson Mandela may have been a great AFRICAN nature, but by world standards, he was rather lacking. But alas, this is the best that Africa can do. Africa is a heathen continent filled with heathens, and it is no wonder that God allowed the people of Africa to be enslaved.
I implore those Africans still living to reject the sinful ways of Nelson Mandela and embrace Christianity so that they might not follow Mandela into Hell. Let us pray for the Africans, out of love.

Dear Lord Jesus Christ, please lead the Africans away from heathen religions and to You. Please lead the Africans to Christianity so that they may stop being punished with AIDS, poverty, and dirty water, and so that they may avoid the fate of Nelson Mandela and avoid being cast into hell. This we pray in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
A heartfelt Christian messages from your friends,
- Jim Solouki and Martin Baker

Culled: Tiwa Blog
After reading this I was just speechless... so we want to hear from you what you think about what Jim Solouki and Martin Baker has said. I wonder why some people will speak evil of the dead. Please share your thought and expression.




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Men Cheat, Women are Materialistic... Is it True?




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Happy weekend to you, you and you. I hope the weekend is going as it were planned, if not... take a seat and read on as I bring to you another interesting write-up in our relationship and life segment. 
Am sure you are conversant with the statement:
“ALL men are chronically unfaithful.”
“Women are materialistic.”
These are two of the most common phrases in any conversation about relationships in all over the world. I’m exploring the validity of those statements.
While majority of  men complain about the materialism of today's modern women, apparently our women are totally consumed with thoughts of money; of course not all men cares about cash, well i think some still do.
Haven been opportune to visit other continent and meet with people of diverse race, ethnic and belief. I realise that the perception on Love and money in a relationship does not differ at all. For instance, in Nigeria where I am from, they’ll tell you that a Nigerian girl, especially the Lagos girl, falls in love with your wallet before she even looks at you. When I first heard this complaint, I felt so bad for our men. Poor kiddos, how could they cope dealing with these greedy materialistic girls? I mean I know I’ve definitely judged Nigerian girls harshly. College girls from struggling families have two hundred and fifty thousand Naira (plus) weaves, the latest smartphones, and expensive trips abroad, I know it’s their pocket-money doing all that. As I’ve grown older, I’ve gotten kinder, and less judgmental(here’s hoping though).
On the flip side, Nigerian women moan about the legendary infidelity of Nigerian men, Nigerian men can’t be trusted. Listening to the variety of stories about the men is absolutely petrifying; some get engaged to two women at the same time, others take mistresses on their honeymoon, placing them in the same hotel as their wives, while others maintain two families or sleep with the maids and nannies. Unfortunately, these stories are not fiction; we all have a few of them in our families or our close circle of friends. It’s enough to make a girl reconsider getting into this thing called marriage.
Even though I do not want to be judgmental, I  had experiences that have made me rethink who gets the blame in this messy situation. Recently a friend was talking about setting up a close friend of ours; apparently he had a number of single friends who would be ideal for her (Shola). Call me a skeptic, but I was surprised that he knew so many people who Shola could have fulfilling relationships with, not because she is difficult or anything of course. His answer was that they all had really well-paying jobs. Now don’t get me wrong, I would not want my to be with an ambition-less pauper, but I think there are many other qualities beyond a well-paying job that make someone a potential partner, like that pesky thing called compatibility. However, in his experience security is the first thing a Nigerian girl asks about.
Its also no surprise that, even while I was in Nigeria several years back, hustling the street of Abuja as a naive marketer, I’ve been on the receiving end of Nigerian men both young and old trying to throw money at me. Yet when you refuse their blatant offerings, and try to find out more about them, they are uncooperative but they’ll complain about materialistic women. I’ve heard multiple times that the majority of Nigerian women are unintelligent and unable to have decent conversations. This is generally said as a back-handed compliment to me, others in the same vein say things like “you have beauty and brains”, as though the two are incompatible. Apparently women just talk about movies, celebrities and make-up. Hearing this you would think these men are coming up with the solutions to Syria and Nigeria’s problems in their daily chats, lol!. Nah, generally they are discussing football, PS3 and if you are lucky, how to make money. I find these comments extremely insulting and not flattering in the least. I for one have never noticed a marked deficit in female intelligence among my friends and casual acquaintances, if the only women they encounter are unintelligent, the problem might be with their selection criteria not women in general. I’ve had as many terrible conversations with men as with women. This paragraph is brought on by a recent experience I had on a “date”, my date asked a question regarding some of my future academic pursuits. As I began to answer the question with the seriousness I felt it deserved, I noticed he wasn’t paying attention; he was looking down and chatting on his phone, how rude. This was the same guy who had previously commented on the lack of intelligent conversations. Ironic eh?
I’ve spent a good bit of time considering both angles and I’ve reached a conclusion, it’s truthfully a chicken and the egg situation. Are the women materialistic because they realize that’s all they can depend on the men for? Are the men unfaithful because they are with women who choose them for only for what’s in their pocket? Do men present the situation to be used through their own laziness? They rather flash their bank cards than spend time courting a women learning about her interests and what makes her tick. Do women simply utilize the opportunities presented to them by men? Are both men and women simply not just using each other?
After interacting with men and women, both at home and abroad. I’ve decided that this system is mutually beneficial for the active players. The men get bought women who are so desperate for money that they’ll do anything to stroke their man’s ego. These women will turn a blind eye to all their misbehavior, and accept crappy treatment from them. The women on their part have embraced the ideology of “it’s as easy to love a rich man as a poor man.” As long as they are kitted out in the latest designers, get to travel abroad and drive nice cars, life is good. I only feel bad for those who are genuinely searching for love, for that person that completes them. 60%  are looking to be married just to be, 30% consider marriage to be their meal ticket and the remaining 10% (probably an overly generous estimate) are sincerely searching for love. Yes, these statistic are just randomly thrown out from my brain, but I don’t think the results would be different if I performed a rigorous scientific study. I’d love to hear if y’all agree or disagree.
Have a blessed week.
-bosydeprincessa


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Bleaching And The Skin

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I believe we all share the desire to change something about our physical appearance. Even the so-called “most beautiful women” have some niggling beauty problems. These desires are normal and dare I say… good? Those ugly days keep a lot of us humble and a bit more appreciative of the “look up the word hot in the dictionary and you’ll find my picture” days.  It just gets problematic when we let those ugly days destroy our sense of self.
Why the preaching? Why bleech off your skin when you can make it look beautiful with natural non chemicalized products.
Back home in Nigeria, as a young child I remember hearing horror stories of women who bleached and had their skin turn green. In those days it was easy to identify women who had bleached from their unnatural skin color, weird odors, dark knees, elbows, heels, knuckles, scalp, and other telltale signs. Bleaching ain’t like it used to be, you have to be a pro or know the person to identify “bleachers”.
I’m going on and on assuming you know what bleaching is. Bleaching, skin lightening or “toning” (as some folks incorrectly call it) involves using chemicals to “lighten” (read change) your skin color. According to Web-MD, a large percentage of skin lighteners contain mercury, mercury is toxic and can lead to psychiatric, neurological and kidney problems, also causes some cancers, not my words though... But Reseachers has proven that. 
I used to think Nigerians were the only consumers, or should I say victims of, skin lightening products. Untill i saw some white folks abroad who also indulgeces in such. My childish brain couldn’t logically process the fact that while Nigeria is a huge market, there was no way all these companies created products exclusively for us, and there must be a market elsewhere. As my knowledge of world history grew, I realized that most cultures had at one time or the other placed a high value on fairness/lightness of skin.  Of all the theories explaining this trend, there’s one argument I buy into; when societies were mostly agrarian, only the wealthy could avoid being out in the sun all day. I assure you, regardless of how fair or light-skinned you are continued sun exposure seven days a week will change that. Lightness was therefore a sign of wealth, the ability to pay or own others who would perform all your back-breaking tasks.  Of course nothing involving humans is ever that straightforward, there are always other contributing cultural and societal factors. 
However, meeting people from other nationalities also helped me realize that Nigerians aren’t the only ones with this light vs dark mentality. From a good Italian friend I learned that her mum and aunts used lightening creams, apparently it was a relatively common practice. Another French  friend of mine also said her mum was disappointed when she married a “dark” brown french man, (*imagine), she was sad that her grand-kids would be dark, rather brown.
 These experiences among many others led me to look kindly on bleaching Nigerians; if other people experienced the same dilemma then I couldn’t hold my people to a higher standard.
That had been my stand for the last few years, but encountering the reality of bleaching in Nigeria has made me reevaluate things. I’ve seen pictures and run into old classmates who I’m totally unable to recognize because they are 4 or more shades lighter. I have a complexion that’s very variable based on the weather, I’ve looked at summer pictures of mine and cringed at how orange I looked, yet in winter I get so pale. Unfortunately, I’ve been subject to an assortment of questions because of this; someone actually asked if maybe I was unknowingly bleaching. Ouch... Considering my personal experience I realize that complexion is not static, yet when you go from a dark mocha to a light caramel something unnatural has occurred.
So what prompted my sudden desire to write about bleaching? Some years back i took a trip to Prince Ebeano supermarket has the dubious honor of being my inspiration. I had heard a bit about this Ebeano place, apparently they had natural hair products and you know I’m all about that. The first floor was dedicated to beauty products, so I headed upstairs to explore their natural hair section. I was very disappointed that none of the staff knew about the supposed natural hair products, so I went exploring. As I wandered through the aisles, I saw the usual, relaxers, shampoos, cleansers and then I found myself in the ‘bleaching world’. I noticed they had a large selection of body washes, as I was about to pounce on a bottle of Olay body wash I noticed ‘lightening’ written in cursive. Huh? I performed the mental equivalent of a head scratch, when did Olay start producing bleaching shower gels. I began to pay attention and I noticed that virtually everything around me was marked lightening, whitening or toning, of course no one used the controversial term, bleaching. I was so disgusted, it is one thing to know that bleaching is an endemic problem but to see the products so boldly displayed was a shock to my system. For some reason, I imagined the bleaching trade existed as a back door/ under the table business, naïve of me I know. I had seen enough, so I grabbed some face wash and was ready to be out of there, I totally forgot about why I had come up in the first place until my sister brought my attention to the pitiful number of natural hair products they had on display. There really wasn’t anything I wanted, so I guess the search for natural hair products continues.
What’s that they say? Until you walk a mile in someone’s shoes don’t judge. Truthfully, we all perform some level of body modification; extensions, fake eyelashes, acrylic nails, none of those things are naturally part of us, bleaching is just taking it all a step ahead. Yet, I do feel that our government and these cosmetic industries deserve a tongue lashing. Skin lightening creams do have their uses, they are sometimes used to fade scars and dark spots, but many countries regulate their use and production. It doesn’t mean that there’s no illegal trading occurring, but you won’t find major stores with aisles dedicated to bleaching products.  I remember when Olay’s slogan was “Love the skin you’re in”, I guess the change to “Challenge what’s possible”, is quite apt considering their involvement in the bleaching skin industry.  I understand that for most companies profit is their bottom line, but governments have a duty towards their citizens. Granted the Nigerian government has not fulfilled one hundredth of their responsibilities to their people, so regulating the bleaching industry is probably not a priority. Yet, for every educated and enlightened person who bleaches, you have 5 others who do not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and are mentally and financially unable to handle the potential complications.
Whenever I think of bleaching, I remember my mother’s story about when she first came to Lagos as a corper. A lady at the market stopped her and asked what “cream” she used. My mum being the totally oblivious person she is answered honestly that she used Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion. Let’s just say the woman was not impressed and abused her thoroughly.
This story always cracked me up, but it gets less amusing every time the question is directed at me. Apparently bleaching is so pervasive in Nigeria that the idea of a person being naturally light-skinned is so foreign.
Your mission if you choose to accept it is to dissuade everyone you can from bleaching and try not to get slapped or insulted in the process, In view of this, on this blog I will be sharing with us the basic home made natural products we can use to get a fairer even tone skin without bleaching the skin.
I hope you keep a date with us on our subsequent post.
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Friday, December 6, 2013

Fact You Didn't Know About Nelson Mandela


1. He was born in July 18 1918 into the Xhosa- speaking Thembu people in a small village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa 

2. He was named Rolihlahla Dalibhunga by his parents and was given his English name, Nelson, by a teacher at his school. 

3. He is also sometimes called Madiba, which is his traditional clan name. 

4. Mandela has been called both ‘the world’s most famous political prisoner’ and ‘South Africa’s Great Black Hope.’ 

5. His father, a counsellor to the Thembu royal family, died when Nelson Mandela was nine, and he was placed in the care of the acting regent of the Thembu people, Chief Jongintaba Dalindyebo. 

6. He was circumcised at the age of 16 

7. Nelson Mandela was an activist against apartheid, and he was the leader of the armed wing of the African National Congress. 

8. Nelson Mandela was the first South African President who was elected in a completely democratic election. 

9. He was elected at the age of 77 

10. Mr Mandela set up South Africa’s first black law firm with Oliver Tambo 

11. Nelson Mandela was an activist against apartheid, and he was the leader of the armed wing of the African National Congress. 

12. Nelson Mandela spent twenty-seven years in prison. 

13. Nelson Mandela won the Nobel prize in 1993. 

14. In 1994 he published his autobiography ‘long walk to freedom’ which he wrote secretly while in prison. 

15. In his spare time, Nelson Mandela studied to become a lawyer. 

16. Nelson Mandela’s favorite breakfast is plain porridge, with fresh fruit and fresh milk. 

17. Nelson Mandela has honorary degrees from more than 50 international universities. 

18. During his 27-year jail term, he stayed in cell number 46664 

19. Besides campaigning globally for peace, Mandela focused his still prodigious energies increasingly on empowering disadvantaged children and fighting against HIV/Aids. 

20. He was diagnosed of prostate cancer in 2001 

21. In June 2004 aged 85, Mandela officially retired from public life. His parting gift – a R1-billion endowment to South Africa, to be raised by the three charitable organisations that bear his name: the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and the Nelson Mandela Rhodes Foundation. 

22. He was incarcerated on Robben island for 18 of his 27 years in prison. 

23. While in jail on Robben Island in the 1980s, the former president contracted tuberculosis. 

24. Nelson Mandela retired from Public life in June 1999 and currently resides in his birth place 

25. Mandela’s birth name – Rolihlahla – is an isiXhosa name that means ‘pulling the branch of the tree’. Colloquially it also means ‘troublemaker’. His English name, Nelson, was given to him by a missionary
schoolteacher. 

26. He was expelled from the University of Fort Hare after joining a student protest. He later completed his degree through Unisa, which he followed up with a law degree from Wits University. 

27. He fled the Eastern Cape for Johannesburg after Jongintaba Dalindyebo, the leader of the Tembu people, tried to set up an arranged marriage for him. After arriving in the city, he found work as a night watchman at a mine. 

28. He lived in Alexandra township at first but later moved in with close friend Walter Sisulu and Sisulu’s mother in Orlando, Soweto. 

29. Mandela’s first wife, Evelyn Mase, was a nurse and Walter Sisulu’s cousin. She was the breadwinner in the family and supported Mandela while he studied law at Wits University and became further involved in politics. They had four children together and divorced in 1958. 

30. He was the first commander in chief of the ANC’s armed wing. 

31. In 1962, he left the country to garner support for the armed struggle. During this time he received guerilla training in Morocco and Ethiopia. 

32. The circumstances surrounding his arrest at a police roadblock outside of Howick later that year remain unclear but it is believed that an American CIA agent tipped off the police about his whereabouts. He was convicted of sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the government. 

33. During his time in prison, Mandela was restricted to a 2m x 2.5m cell, with nothing but a bedroll on the floor and a bucket for sanitation in it. He was consigned to hard labour in a lime quarry for much of that time and was, at first, only allowed one visitor and one letter every six months. 

34. The apartheid government offered to release Mandela on no less than six occasions but he rejected them each time. On one such occasion Mandela released a statement saying: ‘I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom … What freedom am I being offered while the organisation of the people [the ANC] remains banned?‘ 

35. Mandela wrote a memoir during the 70s, copies of which were wrapped in plastic containers and buried in a vegetable garden which he kept at prison. It was hoped that fellow prisoner Mac Maharaj, who was due for release, would be able to smuggle it out. But the containers were discovered when prison authorities began building a wall through the garden. As punishment, Mandela’s study privileges were revoked. 

36. After he was separated from his second wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, he asked struggle stalwart Amina Cachalia, with whom he had a long relationship, to marry him but she turned him down. On his 80th birthday, Mandela married, the widow of Mozambique’s former president Samora Machel. 

37. The ANC was labelled a terrorist organisation by the apartheid government and was recognised as such by countries including the US and Britain. It was only in 2008 that the United States finally removed Mandela and other ANC members from its terror list. 

38. The United Nations declared his birthday, July 18, Nelson Mandela International Day. This was the first time the UN dedicated a particular day to a person. 

39. Hundreds of awards and honours have been bestowed on Mandela. Among others, he was an honorary citizen of Canada, an honorary member of the British Labour Party, and an honorary member of Manchester United. He also had a nuclear particle (the ‘Mandela particle’), a prehistoric woodpecker (Australopicus nelsonmandelai) and an orchid (Paravanda Nelson Mandela) named after him. 

40. When Mandela was 9 years old, his father died of lung disease, causing his life to change dramatically.

Live on great Madiba...


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The Life Of An Hero: Nelson Mandela ( 1918 - 2013


Born in 1918, Nelson Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1943, as a law student.

He and other ANC leaders campaigned against apartheid. Initially he campaigned peacefully but in the 1960s the ANC began to advocate violence, and Mr Mandela was made the commander of its armed wing.

He was arrested for sabotage and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964, serving most of his sentence on Robben Island.

It was forbidden to quote him or publish his photo, but he and other ANC leaders were able to smuggle out messages of guidance to the anti-apartheid movement.

He was released in 1990 as South Africa began to move away from strict racial segregation - a process completed by the first multi-racial elections in 1994.

Mr Mandela served a single term as president before stepping down in 1999.

After leaving office, he became South Africa's highest-profile ambassador, campaigning against HIV/Aids and helping to secure his country's right to host the 2010 football World Cup, where he made his last public appearance since his official retiring in 2004.

He was also involved in peace negotiations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and other countries in Africa and elsewhere.

The young as well as older people have been deeply affected by his death. The Madiba has been credited with uniting South Africans of every colour.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 along with FW de Klerk, South Africa's last white president.


Mr Mandela won admiration around the world and he will be remembered for preaching reconciliation after being freed from almost three decades of imprisonment in Apartheid South Africa. 


All around the world flags are flying at half-mast from the buildings in Washington DC, Paris and across South Africa. World football body Fifa also ordered its flags to be lowered. What a great way to honour a man!

"He achieved more than could be expected of any man. Today, he has gone home," said US President Barack Obama.

However, the parliament in Pretoria is expected to hold a special joint session to reflect on Mr Mandela's life and legacy.

Books of condolence will be opened at public buildings in South Africa and at the country's embassies throughout the world.

Mr Mandela's body will lie in state for three days at the Union buildings in Pretoria before a funeral is held on Saturday in Qunu, the village in Eastern Cape where he was born.

"We love you great Madiba... The great legend... Our hero, our Pride. We do not mourn you rather we celebrate you. You are a true leader and we are happy that you finish the race well. We do hope that other world leaders will emulate this and make the world a better place"- posh diva.

From us at Bosydeprincess's Blog, you "showed us that none of us are free until all of us are free. we pay tribute to his moral fortitude and to his humility. With these qualities, Nelson Mandela inspired countless people around the world. For us  Madiba means freedom. Our sorrow runs deep with his passing. We extend deep sympathy and condolences to his wife Graça Machel, and his family and the people of South Africa"


Adieu!

The big question that kept bugging my heart is, "have you ever wondered what you will be reminded of when you depart Mother Earth, what significance has your life giving to the world today?, I know you have projects, plans and aspirations to change the world, wouldn't it be the right time to start?"

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