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  Big hope:  Mary Moraa   PHOTO/ Timothy Olobul u KENYA: All five of Kenya’s champions from Doha in 2019 will defend their titles at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on 15-24 July.   Beatrice Chepkoech, Ruth Chepngetich, Timothy Cheruiyot, Conseslus Kipruto and Hellen Obiri have been named on the Kenyan team for the event at Hayward Field, where they will be joined by athletes including Olympic champions Peres Jepchirchir, Faith Kipyegon and Emmanuel Korir.   Obiri won her second consecutive world 5000m title in Doha and has been selected for that event as well as the 10,000m, joined by Margaret Chelimo in both. Chepkoech and Kipruto defend their 3000m steeplechase titles, while Cheruiyot will look to return to the top in the 1500m after securing silver behind Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen in Tokyo.   Chepngetich will be joined by Angela Tanui and Judith Jeptum in the women’s marathon, as well as Olympic champion Jepchirchir....

World Happiness Day   Today I donated my watch, phone and $500 to a poor guy. You don’t know the happiness I felt as I saw him put his knife back in his pocket. …. I miss working at the zoo. My boss fired me because I left the lion’s cage door open. I mean who would want to steal a lion. … I was in a cab today and the driver said: I love my job, I am my own boss. Nobody tells me what to do.” Then I said, “Turn left.” …. Why do some pharmacies (in the US + Canada?) make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get to the pharmacy for prescriptions while healthy people (?) can buy cigarettes at the front? …. Why do some people order a double cheeseburger, large fries and get a diet Coke? … Why do banks leave the vault doors open but chain pens on the counters? …. Why do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in our driveways and put our junk in the garage? … Why does the sun lighten our hair but darkens our skin? … Why can’t women put on mascara with their mouths close...

  JOE KADHI Legend     Michael Curtis, Allen Armstrong, John Bierman, Gerry Loughran, Jack Beverley, Mike Chester, John Dumoga, Tony Dunn, Cyprian Fernandes, Henry Gathigara, Samy Githenji, Bill Harris, Mike Harris, Charles Hayes, Ron Jones, Joe Kadhi, Joseph Karimi, Barbara Kimenye, Brian Marsden, Chege Mbituru, George Mbugguss, Bob Muthusi, Joram Amadi, Boaz Omori, John McHaffie, Hilary Ng’weno, Brian Tetley, Ngugi was Thiong’o, John Platter, Joe Rodrigues, Philip Ochieng … these are some of the people who were the pioneers of the Nation newspapers in Nairobi, Kenya. There were others but a thinning memory limits my recall. I really cannot recall many of the pioneers of Taifa (Leo) except the illustrious Hezekiah Wepekhulu. Many of these illustrious fashioned me as a journalist but Joe Kadhi, Philip Ochieng and Hilary Ng’weno were my inspiration as were Joe Rodrigues and Boaz Omori who continue to mourn and remember them in my prayers. I have to add another name to my p...

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  DEATH AND FUNERAL ANNOUNCEMENT Enid Marion Burke 1 3 th Se p t e m b e r , 19 3 8 – 2 5 th J u ne , 2 0 22     M um p a ss e d a w a y o n S a t u r d a y , 2 5 th J u ne , 2 0 22 a f t e r a s h o r t i ll ne ss b r av e l y b o r ne . Wife of the Late James Emmanuel Burke (Jim). Mother to James Burke and Gillian Burke Grandmother to Vincent and Imara Sister to Sybil, Rosemary, Virginia, Allison, Hazel, William (Bill) and Jonathan     F un e r a l S e r v i ce Ma ss t o b e h e ld o n T ue s d a y 5 th Jul y , 2 0 22 a t S t . Ma r k s C h ur c h W e s t l a n d s a t 11 :0 0 am and thereafter, Cremation at the Kariokor Crematorium at 1:00pm Live webcast details to follow All Covid Regulations to be followed.

  PAUL NAZARETH A dedicated clubman Paul Nazareth is typical of the young Goans who grew up in East Africa and Nairobi and Mombasa in particular. It was the same in Kampala, Uganda and Dar es Salaam Tanzania as well as in other smaller towns peppering the three East African countries. Everyone was into sports, of one kind or another or multi-sports. If the school (especially the Dr Ribeiro Goan School) was the nursery of sport for boys and girls, then the Goan clubs were the epicentres of the upper grades of sports, just a level down from National representation for brilliant few and international sports arenas for the minor gods of their chosen sport. Nonetheless, it did not matter that you were a club player, a Kenya representative player, an Olympian or one of the few who played in world championships, especially hockey. We admired and tried to copy the superstars, but we did not them as superstars, they were mostly all our buddies. Paul Nazareth was one of them, a d...

 

  About the White Australia policy At the end of the 19th century, Australian colonies had concerns about who was migrating to Australia. With a rise in the number of migrants from China and the Pacific, many colonies passed tough immigration legislation. The Immigration Restriction Act was one of the first Commonwealth laws passed after Federation. It was based on the existing laws of the colonies. The aim of the law was to limit non-white (particularly Asian) immigration to Australia, to help keep Australia ‘British’. Pass or fail: the dictation test Under the Immigration Act, migrants who entered Australia between 1901 and 1958 could be asked to take a dictation test. To pass the test, they needed to write 50 words in any European language, as dictated by an immigration officer. After 1905, the officer could choose any language at all. A Chinese immigrant, for example, could be asked to write out 50 words in French, Italian or an...