By Ustaz Mark Bang Here in our country, it’s so controversial that it’s now up to weak people to forgive and ignore. To forgive their leaders and sometimes ignore the facts of suffering. When vulnerable people open their mouths to utter things out of their senses because of their[Read More…]
OpEd
The soil is on heat, but no one wants to mount it
The soil of South Sudan is highly fertile. It sounds like an insult when it is only called the land of South Sudan without adding the word ‘fertile’. It is agriculturally fertile; do you know that? If a few feddans of the land, which are cultivated, sustain people until the[Read More…]
Back to school, my teacher
The global education campaign is “back to school”. Is back-to-school only limited to primary school children? Is it only the secondary children to go back to school? Doesn’t it apply to you also, my teacher? I think it must apply to you too! But why should you? Don’t you want[Read More…]
Tongue is a poor man’s great tool
If the poor and the rich were chemical reactions, they would be reversible chemical reactions with two arrows, one above, pointing at the products and one below, pointing back at the reactants. This is to say that if two poor men are reacted with “commitment” as a catalyst, they can[Read More…]
One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
By Ustaz Mark Bang Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it (KJV Proverbs 22:6). This nation is in the hands of looters, thieves, sycophants and greedy individuals who always pretend to serve the nation in[Read More…]
My Lost Plans
By Theem Isaac Machar Akot Mourners are not only those who have lost their loved ones or are the pained ones who are undergoing extreme agonies in the sickbeds. They are also those who have floating plans for the future. I had big plans for myself to accomplish[Read More…]
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out
Many people know what integrity means; yes, Integrity in leadership means having strong moral principles, standing by your words, and doing the right thing. It’s a highly valued trait since most employees look to their leader for cues on how to act. A leader that demonstrates the company values in[Read More…]
I am poor by choice
I have chosen to chase a good living standard in a rightful way. As for other ways, as you can see, I’m too fit to gain a good living standard by any other means. I’m dam fit to join my uncle’s political camp and use my writing ability to earn[Read More…]
Citizen’s worst enemy empowered by poor economic turmoil.
By Ustaz Mark Bang As people continue crying for years, hopping for poverty to end, trying to say I will get rich to do this and that. Majority have forgotten what it means to suffer by working in order to get rich. The worst enemy of the world, is[Read More…]
What if this country was a movie?
In South Sudan, life begins in the morning and ends at noon. Many people don’t get the chance to see the new dawn. They are cut off from the queue the same morning or during the day. It is disheartening to start a life with an ending, but it is[Read More…]
Why today’s diversity divides more than yesterday’s
Don’t look at diversity as a new word, it is a very old word in the manifesto of the SPLM. In fact, before SPLM, diversity was existing. For every opportunity that used to come, the leaders made sure it was divided equally so that every community felt represented. If the[Read More…]
The youth ride on bewilderment
By Theem Isaac Machar When a hunter wounds a hyena, just slightly on the leg, it keeps on eating the flesh on the edge of the wound, claiming that it is rounding it. It is something dangerous to its health because the result is obviously the elimination of its[Read More…]
The Subconscious mind thinks only in the Present and does not know anything about the past or future.
By John Simon Yokwe Keri A Chinese philosopher elaborated that, “if you are thinking of today’s life cultivate rice, and if you are thinking of ten years to come, plant trees, but if you are thinking of next generations, educate your children.” That philosopher was actually addressing questions of[Read More…]
Over dependency will kill us one time
By Ustaz Mark Bang We all know that our current administration depends on loan from International Monitory Fund (IMF) that keep endowing cash to our country. This money isn’t for free but loans that we, our children and children’s children will face its challenge in paying it as debt.[Read More…]
ONLY CONNECT!
A complex sentence has two parts: the independent part and the dependent part of it. The independent part stands alone and can make a meaning by itself; but its dependent part can’t stand alone, neither can it make a meaning by itself. A student who is ambitious works hard. A[Read More…]
Dollar hike is a great misery in juba
By Theem Isaac When the people in the village heard of you to have made it to Juba city, the place village people perceive abounds with jobs opportunities and money; they think you have made it in life. You would always receive a couple of phone calls from cousins[Read More…]
The weaker the foundation, the poorer the education attained
Even scientists who deny the Bible are in concurrence with the verse which says a house built in a sandy place is less durable than that house built in a rocky place. When one’s foundation for education is weak, the likelihood of the whole education being weak is possible. From[Read More…]
Never attempt to dive when you fail, life has no referee
In football, diving sometimes awards diver a ball but the story takes a different course in life. It happens in football because a diver and referee are two different people, but in life, a diver is the diver and the referee at the same time, making it hard for judgement[Read More…]
Harnessing the Digital Tide: The Church, Banking, and the Promise of Progress in South Sudan
By James Luala In the heart of South Sudan, where the church is not only a spiritual beacon but also a pillar of communal strength, an unprecedented transformation is taking root – the advent of digital banking. As the Head of International Development Groups at Stanbic Bank, I had[Read More…]
Addressing Women’s Safety; What Does the Bible Have to Say?
By Jehovah’s Witness “My husband threatened to stab me to death on several occasions. One time he beat me unconscious. I often had to leave my children with their violent father for weeks while I ran and hid for my life…” This is what Zenobia Mwakivike went through for[Read More…]