It has often been said that we live and die at cellular level. It is, therefore, important to pay attention to scientific innovations that improve cellular health. In recent months, I have been busy studying the concept of Redox Signalling among cells after stumbling on an exciting testimony by a Filipino lady, whose daughter almost died from abnormal cells in her blood.

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Daily Telegraph has posted an interesting Sky News Australia video on their website, in which they talk about the creation of a cowpox-like virus that can kill every known type of cancer. This development has also been reported by other online news websites such as Mailonline, Newshub and news.com.au.

Congratulations to South Africa’s National Rugby team, the Springboks, for winning their third Rugby World Cup in Yokohama, Japan! They beat England’s Roses with a final score of 32-12.

Our paper entitled “Binary Search Based PSO for Master Node Enumeration and Placement in a Smart Water Metering Network” has been accepted for the Africomm 2019 conference, which will take place in Porto Novo in Benin from 3 to 5 December, 2019. Africomm 2019 is the 11th European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) International Conference on e‐Infrastructure and e‐Services for Developing Countries.

South Africa’s biggest banking sector’s union, South African Society of Bank Officials (Sasbo) has announced that over 40,000 finance sector employees will take part in a strike against retrenchments in the industry on Friday, 27th September, 2019. Continue reading this post…

It has been quite sometime since I last wrote about the Chichewa-English dictionary project, which is being led by Rev Dr Steven Paas. Since 2016, this dictionary is published by Oxford University Press (OUP). 

In March 2018, I wrote about Trevo’s popularity in Southern Africa. Trevo was really growing very fast. They had many distributors and in July 2018, they opened a distribution depot in Namibia. Many Trevo distributors in Namibia received the news with gladness because importing products through Tanzania and South Africa was costly; the process was also characterised by many delays.

A few days ago, I got in touch with Jessica from Wuhan in China. She is works for Linking Global Information and Technology Co. Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Transn, the largest translation company in China. Transn uses IT and the Internet to provide language services globally. Jessica informed me that there is huge demand for English teachers in China.

I have got some very exciting news to people who like Rain International’s seed-based nutrition products in Southern Africa. Rain CORE and PURE are now available in the region. The promotion for the PRE-SALE KITs is on until end of February!!!!

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While living in Namibia, I noticed that I was gaining too much weight and I was no longer my old-self. I registered with a gym. The subscription fee was around N$250 per month. I used to enjoy my gym sessions. The folks at that gym were awesome and I made so many friends, in the process.
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I have recently relocated to Cape Town from Namibia. I used to live in South Africa more than ten years ago. Back then, I was not a fan of trains simply because I used to think that trains are a very slow mode of transport. Having lived in Japan, where trains are part and parcel of daily life, for almost five years, those views vanished. 

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