Tag Archives: Christmas

ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT |  With Christmas day around the corner, you and your friends are already loosening the belt and buckle to the dining table for lots of food. As you cheer with your friends and relatives, you are reminded to ensure that you don’t waste food if you …

Higher inflation will reign in Christmas spending after a post-Covid splurge last year, but Cameroonians and Zimbabweans will still be extremely generous with Christmas gifts, decorations and food this year, according to an annual report SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | African households will focus on gifts and decorations as …

CAPE TOWN | Xinhua |  South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday asked 10,000 new police officers, who were  deployed nationwide since Dec. 15, to help ensure a safe holiday period in the country. He made the remarks when speaking at a passing-out parade of 1,400 newly trained officers in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Works and Transport is set to meet transport operators in a bid to regulate unnecessary hikes in public transport fares ahead of the festive season. Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala said his Ministry will convene a meeting with leaders of the Uganda Taxi …

COMMENT | Samson Tinka |  As the year closes in, the public is occupied with many activities – some personal, work related, government or non-governmental. These activities are associated with huge numbers of people at same places, movements, shopping and merrymaking. Every person is rushing to close the year on a positive note. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  As the year-end festivities and business transactions pick up pace, the police have issued a warning to mobile money dealers and Village Savings and Credit Cooperation Organizations (SACCOs), highlighting their susceptibility to armed robberies during this period. This follows a recent surge in armed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bishop of Namirembe Diocese, Rt. Rev. Wilberforce Kityo Luwalira celebrated his last Christmas at the helm of the first diocese in the Church of Uganda province. Prior to the delivery of his sermon to hundreds of congregants at St. Paul’s Cathedral Namirembe, Bishop Luwalira …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It is time the country resorted to dialogue to end attacks on security personnel and abductions, Dr. Samuel Stephen Kazimba Mugalu, the Church of Uganda Archbishop said. Kazimba who was delivering his Christmas sermon at All Saints Church at Nakasero said nothing is unsolvable once …

Why early Christians wouldn’t have found the Christmas birth story of the messiah so surprising COMMENT | Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III | Every year on Christmas, Christians celebrate the birth of their religion’s founder, Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee. Part of this celebration includes the claim that Jesus was born from a virgin …

How to rekindling its spirit COMMENT | Dion Forster | If the media, popular entertainment, and retail habits are taken as indicators then the celebration of Christmas is no longer just the reserve of Christians. This has some consequences for the religious and non-religious alike. In popular culture and the media, Christmas …