Long time ago, people who sacrificed their sleep, family, food, laughter and other joys of life were called Saints. But now, they are called IT professionals. The cause of people’s unhappiness is sacrificing what they want most for what they want now. Your role may be thankless, but if you’re willing to give it your […]

Sacrifices

• South Africa Will Be Next After IranMay 12, 2026
  Israel has already indicated through a blog that appeared in the Times of Israel on 2 January 2026, largely ignored by African media, that it would like to see Africa further fragmented, beginning with South Africa. With a US base in Botswana, South Africa probably has very little chance of countering any combined US-Israeli aggression. Its internal divisions are deep, especially along racial lines. White …
• The Cape Of Good Hope Is Open For BusinessMay 12, 2026
  International shipping groups including Maersk announced on 1 March that they were rerouting vessels bound for the Red Sea via southern Africa. The Cape of Good Hope. That stretch of ocean at the bottom of this continent, the one the Portuguese named and the world has mostly ignored since the Suez Canal opened in 1869, is suddenly the world’s most important shipping detour. When the …
• Burkina Faso, Burundi, DRC, Liberia, MozambiqueMay 12, 2026
  Based on factors including fiscal balance, petroleum import reliance, poverty and national wealth, Janes assesses Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, and Mozambique to be particularly vulnerable given acute fiscal fragility and high energy vulnerability.  The band are the names of the countries on the list of most exposed to the economic fallout of a war they had nothing …