Zimbabweans are the type of people who would laugh at you if they saw a top-end safe in your home housing just $7.53. If you can’t handle ridicule, don’t try to go to a bank to deposit $4.
We have a terrible attitude when it comes to security. We’ve convinced ourselves that we are too poor to be targeted by criminals. The logic goes, what kind of criminal would waste time trying to pickpocket a failed state (hyperbole) and its struggling companies and institutions?
Well, the criminals have given us an answer. They’re not about to pass up a quick buck.
If you were a pickpocket and saw a guy with a $5 note hanging out of his pocket, would you ignore that to focus on the lady you saw shove $500 into a handbag? You’d grab the $5 and then turn your attention to the handbag.
Ladies and gentlemen, Zimbabwe is that guy with the $5 note hanging out of his back pocket. Our lax cybersecurity attitudes have come to bite us where the sun doesn’t shine. The thieves are coming for that $5 note.
Zimbabwe is third most attacked country
Reports show that Zimbabwe is the third most attacked country in the world. Check Point Software Technologies released the Global Threat Index for July 2024, revealing this concerning information.
Check Point measures how well a country’s cybersecurity defenses match up against the cyber threats it faces. It also considers the number of attacks and the number of impacted organizations within each country.
The gap/metric (Normalised Risk Index, or NRI) is given as a percentage. The bigger the gap, the more dire the situation.
Zimbabwe has an NRI of 77%. Sheesh. We are sitting ducks here. That’s good for 3rd in the world and second in Africa. Ethiopia is doing internet completely wrong, coming in with an NRI of 100%.
Our neighbours fare better. Zambia is 63rd with an NRI of 40.5%, while South Africa is 59th with an NRI of 42%.
These are bad scores. It’s just that Zimbabwe and Ethiopia are doing much worse.
What threats?
What’s really going on in Zimbabwe? Check Point has a live cyber threat map that shows just how active cybercriminals are. On this very day, there have been over 10.6 million attacks globally.
Focusing on Zimbabwe, we find that in the last 30 days, these are the malware type trends and the percentage of affected organizations:
It makes for grim reading. It shows that 17.1% of organizations were affected by Botnet attacks.
Elsewhere in the report mentioned above, we find that Phorpiex, known for orchestrating large-scale spam campaigns, has been particularly active in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
It’s not just Check Point saying this, lest you think they were hired by economic saboteurs to smear the good name of Zimbabwe.
Interpol reports:
Worryingly, nearly half of the African countries surveyed reported ransomware attacks against their critical infrastructure between January 2023 and December 2023.
This includes attacks targeting government infrastructure, hospitals, financial institutions, and Internet service providers. To give a few examples, …. government institutions in Ethiopia, Senegal and Zimbabwe, and South African Internet service provider RSAWEB have all been subjected to ransomware attacks. Even the African Union faced a crippling attack from the BlackCat group (also known as ALPHV) against its internal network in 2023, …
Tiri kuitwa kanyama kanyama guys, they are picking us off one by one.
We can’t stay on this road
Much has been said about cybersecurity, and most of us have heard these things but never really considered that we were targets. I don’t believe we will see any change in our organizations’ resilience unless and until the general public finally takes cybersecurity seriously.
I cannot count how many IT guys I’ve spoken to who say there is little they can do about grown human beings still clicking on links from unknown senders in their emails.
Drop a flash drive on the ground, even a 2GB one, and someone’s father will plug it into their work computer to check if it works so they can take it home.
If we still can’t take cybersecurity 101 tips seriously, we’re in deep trouble.
This explains why, when we talked about Google advising users to disable 2G on their phones because criminals are exploiting it and using false base stations to spam and spread malware, a good number of people thought Google was merely trying to get us to buy new equipment.
It also explains why, when one of the biggest financial institutions in the country was hacked, we quickly moved on to the EPL coming back.
At this point, it looks like we will only take this seriously when we personally suffer losses. That’s the hardest way to learn the lesson.
Below are a number of articles that touch on basic cybersecurity tips:
- Safeguarding data privacy: Top 10 tips for organisations in Zimbabwe
- You’re not too small to be a victim, protect your business from DDoS attacks
- As we celebrate Computer Security Day let’s remind each other of these good habits
- US$30 million lost to Ponzi schemes this year, here’s how you can spot these scammers
- How to protect yourself from massive cyber-attack #WannaCry FAQ
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The thief will steal the $5 without thinking or planning. To steal the $500 the thief will have to consider that the person could be carrying a firearm, or there may be guards or bodyguards accompanying the person. The thief also knows the risk of stealing from those with large sums as they may be having easy connections with the authorities, and their money can afford them to get lawyers or bouncers and even hitmen! They also know that a lot of people do not report thefts and muggings, and the police are not interested in the small issues.
Localisation, which blinkers us to not think beyond the boarders is the biggest threat. This has resulted in in international ICT companies and Audit Firms relocating to other countries or closing locally. Even the education system which has been localised seems to produce people who do not know or not care about what goes on outside our borders. Some of the countries and foreign companies we have large contracts with leave a lot to be desired if one gets basic information about the countries and companies that is readily available on the internet.
We have a computer society and an internet society in the country but, like SADC, only the membership may be benefitting as they seem to be making themselves exclusive by not letting others tell about what they do.
The offensive tone and wording leaves much to be desired.
Are you Zimbabwean?
Why do you have so much self hate?
And next time please use recognized sources with proven Cases.
This maybe true but the impact of the attacks is close to zero for example if someone from Zimbabwe download a software from pirate Bay even if the software has a malware it’s unlikely they will still anything coz most of these machines won’t have access to the internet plus most Zimbabweans do not really use computers for important things like storing personal information or mining cryptocurrency etc.
Self hate + Self love is one way to describe a Zimbo😆
😂😂 Well said
what about the extremely poor practice which seems to be widespread of having everyday users accounts at administrator level?? Worse is that service providers/ fiscal support people all want to install software that doesnt operate properly when not run as admin or needs admin approval to run in the first place. The whole practice of IT as a whole needs to be fixed as well as the poorly engineered software that is being installed. The fiscal software is the WORST
Maybe because we are top 3 country in piracy.
Most people in Zimbabwe do not by music, Games or software it’s all piracy that’s why we always get attacked
Imagine downloading a cracked windows software,cracked anti-virus software, cracked Call of Duty.
The internet is for porn and freemium. The most cracked software is probably also the best selling, what did call of duty make in revenues? It would compete against our GDP that we show off with.
me too!
Bho!
* Croco
Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham, how is the exchequer account? As you know i’m currently seized with the Crusades.
You need to go home to your people Richard.
His brother has made out laws of us.
How do you calculate strike rate in cricket?
Following the stories 👏👏👏
There is a chill today Black Rifle Coffee company.
Piracy is one heck of an attack vector. Once I installed Lulu on my machine to monitor traffic, my eyes were opened to what life on the high seas has brought me! If I launch a program, Lulu will fill my screen with blocked connections from executables that disappear if you go to the directory and reappear at the next launch with a new random alphanumeric names. It’s no wonder bot farms are an issue 😕 I now have to do a ritual of switching off WiFi before launching the programs I might need for the day at once because if they see a connection at launch, they will call home!
Lol, God, I have a small wish. I want to be rich enough to wipe my machine and reinstall nothing but OG software! Even the Affinity suite will do🙏🏾😬
what does your headline mean with “us” at the end of headline, please clarify? .. “Zimbabwe is third most attacked country in the world because cybersecurity is a joke us”?
It’s a generalised statement backed by data and anecdotal engagement here and on other forums. No need to take it personally or feel your national pride has been challenged. We have room to do better on this.
headline “Zimbabwe is third most attacked country in the world because cybersecurity is a joke us” ?
Aren’t light based data transfers harder to intercept and hack, eg. LIFI
Falcon F4 (F16) lan party, dogfight, team furball, guns only. Server 127.0.0.1
Putting in those flight hours on the Sim at home.
Guys, don’t play with journalists. Remember Jeremy Clarkson on the BBC set, I don’t know the full story but the three monkeys went to Amazon. They have hands too, and they spend a lot of time exercising them…kkkk
Top Gear one of my favourite shows on TV was about the relationship between the presenters.
Joey did his best to salvage it but it was never the same.
Hi.
Just a bit off topic .
Is the Pindula app still Zero Rated on Econet?
If yes, can someone drop me the App link here !
Thanks
Hanzi ndinoda vakomana vakadzi vononetsa, ah Baba simbi yenyu iyi hameno henyu murikubasa.kkkkk
Do not get me started with $5million IAP fees before a company starts operating. Why are we surprised data is expensive compared to our neighbours? In RSA you don’t need all of that, they could be showing off, but they don’t. You show off presumably because the world revolves around your circle and head.
War Vets a frank discussion. If you knew this would be the current state of affairs, would you have soldered on hungry, tired, traumatised. Or you would have back home to sleep?
I would go ask for my share.
I would turn my plough back into a sword.
I would sleep.
I have a little joke with my self. Fis ting mi du wen mi wake up….check for bugs.
Just found a bug on my phone adapter, ‘fe’ something. Took it off and we are charging again.
Karate
Brand Ambassador is implied.
I remember Dzizdai when you know who wanted to make you Brand Ambassador for the Bees.
I would have loved the fact but unfortunately I didn’t see a contract or money exchanging hands. I would rather work for money than work for food.
Most expensive data in the World.
1. Zimbabwe
1 hour 1200MB =$1 USD
24 hours per day x 30 days a month = $720 per month limited internet.
Total usage = 864 GB
Average salary = X?
Good luck downloading the X Plane world scenery.
Munozotinetsa, only our children deserve to be online, they deserve it. Imimi you are poor you are fine, what do you even need internet for anyway.
Today is a Sunday so I feel like preaching.
God has given you one life. Yes one life. What are you going to use it for?
To advance humanity
To serve your country
To serve your community
To have fun
To have you own fashion sense and not listen to other peoples cues
Or are you going to use it;
To murder people
To gossip
To slander
To steal from widows and orphans
To be jealous
Depressed
Be a tyrant
You have one life, you are not coming back this is your moment.
Are you going to use your life to remain in perpetual poverty?
To be in perpetual fear.
Or you are going to seize opportunities as they arise.
One life.
Who invented the concept of money, humans, no?
Why then do you think by giving God $20 on Sunday service he is going to pay your back.
The Lord loves a cheerful giver, not a giver expecting something in return.
If you don’t study and listen to your teachers you will fail. No amount of prayer will save you from a U, but the Lord will appreciate your dedication to prayer, perhaps you should do theology instead, you clearly like it.
It is insane to think God needs your money. God doesn’t need anything from you but your heart.
The Rabi said the two greatest commandments are;
1. Love the Lord your God
2. Love you neighbour
Very simple application of the law of Moses explained by a spirit inspired man.
You cannot lobe your God if you kill innocent people, you cannot love your neigbour if you covet his belongings.
Always ready and packed.
A gentleman never tells.
You mustn’t be too serious.
I’m very serious look at me.
I’m serious on the radio
I’m serious on TV
I’m at Indabas
I’m serious in the newspaper
I now want to go to TikTok to be very serious
I mean serious business always, look suit, look my watch its very expensive so I must a very serious and important person.
* LOVE
*UBER
Johnson’s portrayal of pirates in the first volume is one of muted neutrality,
and the pirates are described as both ‘bold Adventurers’ and ‘Tyrant like’;
‘rogues’ who would torture a man until he revealed his valuables or in ‘justice’
for his mistreatment of others. The pirates’ society is several times described
as a ‘Commonwealth’, and frequent references are made to pirates voting on
important matters.37 When it came to the matter of choosing a captain, it was
argued
That it was not of any great Signification who was dignify’d with Title; for
really and in Truth, all good Governments had (like theirs) the supream
Power lodged with the Community , who might doubtless depute and
revoke as suited Interest or Humour. We are the Original of this claim
[said one of the pirates].38
The pirates of Johnson’s first volume, then, lived in a unique pioneering
community in which each man was imbued with equal rights and rights of
equality, was able to express his opinion through voting. Captains and other
officers had no powers that were not vested in them, and liable to be taken
away, by the rest of the community. Johnson may or may not have intended
his portrayal of pirates to be seen in contrast to the mores of legitimate society
in England, but if he did then the message was perhaps too subtle for his
readers. In August, 1724, an article appeared in The Weekly Journal, or
Saturday’s Post, a London newspaper published by Johnson candidate
Nathaniel Mist, in the form of a (probably apocryphal) letter telling how a
country gentleman and Justice of the Peace, upon being read the General
History, flew into a rage over the ‘impudent Libel upon great Men’, perceiving
the book to be a thinly veiled attack on the ruling elite.39
37 For example, Johnson, General History, pp. 117, 139, 145
38 Johnson, General History, p. 194
39 The Weekly Journal, or Saturday’s Post, 29/8/1724
The model of pirate society, first put forward by Dow and Edmonds, but most
deeply explored and illustrated by Rediker, has largely been accepted by
historians whose primary focus has not necessarily been the social order of
pirates, but upon whose work that social order has had some bearing. The
two most recent studies of the groups of pirates who infested the Indian
Ocean and the Caribbean respectively in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, have each borne hints of Rediker’s pirate social order in their titles:
Jan Rogozinski’s Honor Among Thieves: Captain Kidd, Henry Every, and the
Pirate Democracy in the Indian Ocean, and The Republic of Pirates, by Colin
Woodard. Both books, in fact, are less about democracy and republicanism in
the pirates’ social order than about the narrative history of piracy in particular
regions, but nonetheless the egalitarian and democratic nature of pirate
society espoused by Rediker et al influenced the way Rogozinski and
Woodard perceived and understood the pirates’ activities. Woodard described
Caribbean piracy of the eighteenth century as ‘resistance, a maritime revolt
that shook the very foundations of the newly formed British Empire… fuelling
the democratic sentiments that would later drive the American revolution. At
its centre was a pirate republic, a zone of freedom in the midst of an
authoritarian age’, and it was this quest for ‘freedom’ and democracy that
drove Woodard’s pirates.79 On the other side of the world, in the Indian
Ocean, Rogozinski’s pirates ‘created a way of life totally unlike anything back
home or on other vessels’, leading ultimately to ‘absolute democracy’.80 For
Rogozinski, the pirates’ democratic and egalitarian society was not
necessarily what drove men to piracy, but was what enabled pirates to
operate successfully for years on end, as lone crews and in consortship, at
sea and ashore in their settlement at St. Mary’s Island, Madagascar.
I have treated clothing as a personal necessity because seamen must be
clothed, the ‘simple exercise of keeping warm is indeed one of the basic
needs of the human species,’485 and although a seaman ‘has the least
Occasion of any Man living for [a wife], for he has everything made and
dress’d to his own Hand; and he that cannot be his own Laundress, is no
Sailor’,486 worn-out clothing had to be replaced from somewhere. However,
clothing might, in some cases, also be considered a tradable commodity.
Popular consumerism swept through England during the early modern
period, centring first on appropriate apparel. Attractive clothing was the
article of choice among the middling and labouring classes: this held true
as much for shoppers in the marts around the kingdom, as it did for
thieves working in town and country.487
Clothing played an important role as a signifier of status, it ‘was the apparent
making of the man or woman – by all public calculations at any rate’.488 The
great desire across all classes for a good wardrobe gave rise to a flourishing
market for second-hand clothes,489 which, although well supplied by legitimate
means, also gave rise to a flourishing trade in stolen clothes. ‘Clothing was
the most sought-after, and at the same time, the most easily disposable
commodity in this period’.490 For seamen, the cost of new clothing can be
ascertained from the numerous contracts awarded throughout the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by the Admiralty to clothing suppliers to
supply the ‘slop’ clothing to ships’ pursers for eventual resale to the seamen
who manned the ships of the navy. The slop contracts specified not only the
type of clothing to be offered and the materials to be used in its construction,
but also the retail value of each item, from neckcloths at 5d and stockings at
3s each, to kersey waistcoats at 7s and broadcloth breeches at 12s, with the
most expensive item being broadcloth coats, which sold for £1
1.5.2 Technology Development
Conclusions
The Reference Mission was developed
assuming advances in certain technology
areas thought to be necessary to send people
to Mars for a reasonable investment in time
and resources. The Reference Mission is not
intended to lock in these assumed
technologies. The purpose of identifying
technologies at this time is to characterize
those areas that can either significantly reduce
the required mass or cost of the program or
significantly reduce its risks (for example, in
the area of fire safety). Alternative means of
satisfying these requirements may be
identified and, if promising, should be
supported. The alternatives could be the
result of a dual use development, spin off
from other programs, or a fortunate “spill
over” from some unexpected area.
At this particular stage in developing
human exploration missions to Mars, it is
difficult to do more than speculate about spin
off and spill over technologies that could
result from or be useful to this endeavor.
However, identifying dual uses for some of
the assumed technologies can be started now
and, to a certain degree, may be required for
such a program to progress. In the current
political environment, investment in
technology is seen as a means of improving
the general quality of life for people on Earth,
and multiple use of technologies is
emphasized to obtain the best return on the
resources invested in their development. The
following is a list of twelve technologies
which are important to space transportation,
humans living in space or on a planetary
surface, or the utilization of extraterrestrial
resources.
Resource Utilization
•Extraterrestrial mining techniques
•Resource extraction process and
chemistry
•Material preparation and handling in
reduced gravity
•Extraterrestrial manufacturing
Transportation and Propulsion
•Advanced chemical systems that provide
high performance and are compatible
with the resources available on the Moon
and Mars
•Nuclear propulsion to enable short trip
times to Mars
•Aerocapture/aerobraking at the Earth
and at Mars for propulsive efficiency
and reusable systems
•Lightweight/advanced structures
• Reduced-g combustors
Cryogenic Fluid Management
•Long-term (years) storage in space
•Lightweight and high efficiency
cryogenic liquefaction
•Zero g and microgravity acquisition,
transfer, and gauging
EVA Systems
•Lightweight, reserviceable, and
maintainable suit and PLSS
•Durable, lightweight, high mobility suits
and gloves
Regenerative Life Support Systems
•Contamination and particle control
•Loop closure
•Introduction of locally produced
consumables
•Food production
•Trash and waste collection and
processing
•High efficiency and lighter weight active
thermal control systems
Surface Habitation and Construction
•Lightweight structures
•Seal materials and mechanisms
•Construction techniques using local
materials
Human Health and Performance
•Zero-g adaptation and countermeasures
•Human factors
•Health care at remote locations
•Radiation protection in transit and on
surface
Power Generation and Storage
•Long life, lighter weight, and less costly
regenerative fuel cells
•Surface nuclear power of the order of
100kw
•High efficiency solar arrays
Teleoperations/Telerobotics
•Remote operations with long time delays
•Fine control manipulators to support
wide range of surface activities
•Telepresence sensors and displays
Planetary Rovers
•Long range (hundreds of km) rovers
•Motor lubricants (long-term use)
•Dust control
•High efficiency lightweight power
generation and storage
Advanced Operations
•Automated systems control
•Systems management and scheduling
•Simulations and training at remote
locations
Fire Safety
•Fire prevention
•Fire detection
•Fire suppression
Some of these technologies (such as
nuclear thermal propulsion, Mars surface
space suits, and in situ resource extraction), at
the system level, are unique to the Reference
Mission or to human space exploration in
general. It is likely that NASA or cooperating
international partners will have to bear the
burden for support of this research and
development. The Reference Mission, as it is
described here, will fail if these systems are
not advanced to a usable state. Other areas,
such as medical countermeasures, closed-loop
life support systems, autonomous operations
systems, surface power systems, and surface
mobility, may be of more general interest and
may provide opportunities for government
and industry to develop shared programs. In
still other areas, such as long-lived electronics
and materials research, where the underlying
research will probably be done by industry to
address general problems of technology
development, NASA or the international
partners should focus on infusing that
technology. The exchange of information
should be continuous between NASA and the
commercial sector particularly concerning the
needs of future missions, so that industry can
incorporate research into its privately funded
programs where it is justified. In all areas,
subsystem or component technologies may be
developed by industry to meet commercial
requirements, and the Mars Program will
need to have processes that allow the element
designers to use the most advanced
capabilities available.
Recommendations
•Establish a Mars Program Office
(discussed further under International
Participation and Management and
Organization) early in the process (now,
probably) at a low level to lay the
foundation for technology requirements
to be undertaken by NASA or other
government agencies with similar
requirements. Formal organizational
agreements should exist between these
offices if the technology development is
not formally assigned to the Program
Office.
•Rank technology investments according
to their return to the Program, as either
cost or risk reductions.
•Prior to initiation of the Reference
Mission, take critical technologies to a
demonstration stage. NASA should
ensure that experimental work in
support of the Reference Mission is
incorporated into the International Space
Station program at the earliest
reasonable time.
•Create a database (in the Program Office)
of available technologies that can be
used in design studies, and track the
progress of these technologies. The
database should include domestic and
international capabilities.
Dazzle us guys, inspired the youth to look to Space.
Table 3-26 Key Elements of Lower-Cost Programs
• Use government to define only requirements
• Keep requirements fixed; once requirements are stated, only relax them; never add new
ones
• Place product responsibility in a competitive private sector
• Specify end results (performance) of products, not how to achieve the results
• Minimize government involvement (small program office)
• Ensure that all technologies are proven prior to the end of competition
• Use the private sector reporting reporting system: reduce or eliminate specific
government reports
• Don’t start a program until cost estimate and budget availability match
• Reduce development time: any program development can be accomplished in 3 to 4
years once uncertainties are resolved
• Force people off development programs when development is complete
• Incentivize the contractor to keep costs low (as opposed to CPAF, CPFF, or NASA)
• Use goegraphic proximity of contractor organizations when possible
• Use the major prime contractor as the integrating contractor
Reference: National Woman’s History Musuem
Pocahontas Live Movie ‘Soldier of Fortune’
Spy, Diplomat, Entrepeneur, Medicine Woman
Born
• A powerful alliance of about 30 Algonquian-
speaking groups and petty chiefdoms in
Tidewater Virginia
• Their economy was based on agriculture and
foraging (land was very important!)
• Powhatan tribes lived in villages on creeks and
rivers that fed into the Chesapeake Bay
• Men hunted and foraged for food while
women were responsible for planting and
harvesting corn and vegetables
Pocahontas’ actual birthdate is unknown, but most
historians agree she was born between 1595-1597
• Pocahontas is described as a favorite daughter of
Wahunsenaca (powerful chief of the Powhatans
who united over 30 tribes under himself)– his
“delight and darling,” according to the colonist
Captain Ralph Hamor
• Not much is known about Pocahontas’ mother, but
she was one of about 100 wives that Wahunsenaca
had. It is believed that she died while giving birth to
Pocahontas
• At birth, she was formally named Amonute, not
Pocahontas.
• “Pocahontas” is actually a childhood nick name that
means “playful” or “mischievous.”
• Her informal, personal name was Matoaka, which
means “white (or snow) feather.”
• John Smith called her Nonpareil, which means “to
have no equal” in French, because of her “wit and
spirit.”
• Pocahontas was born into the Powhattan Alliance
(Mattaponi/Pamunkey tribes). The English called it
the Powhattan Alliance, but to its members it was
called Tsenacommacah.
Early Life
As a young girl, Pocahontas would have worn little to no clothing
and had her hair shaven except for a small section in the back that
was grown out long and usually braided.
The shaven parts were probably bristly most of the time as the
Powhatan Indians used mussel shells for shaving. In winter, she
could have worn a deerskin mantle (not everyone could afford one).
As she grew, she would have been taught women’s work; which was
separate from men’s work, but both were equally taxing and equally
important as both benefited all Powhatan society
Special Duties
In 1603 Pocahontas was given her Dream-Vision: she was by the water
and ships came like white birds out of the water and strange people
poured out of them. Her own people started to disappear. When she
saw a big pile of heaped shells on the shore, she walked closer to them
but then saw they were bones not shells.
• She left to go to Werocomoco (it was common to return to their
mother’s village for Wahunsenaca’s children) to train to become a
Beloved Woman (a medicine woman). She was trained in “reading the
land” and in the ways of the medewewin (medicine dance). She was
involved in the manito aki (ceremonial / spirit world)
• Some Historians think since she was named Matoaka (which means
“white/snow feather”) and white feathers always signify a Beloved
Woman (medicine woman) that she might have had that “calling” since
birth.
Change Arrives
In 1607 a crew of 100 men of the Virginia Company of London came to
the Tsenacommacah. They called it James Towne in honor of King
James I.
• The crew fought over social class. John Smith actually arrived to James
Towne in shackles because he did not get along with another
gentleman on the journey. Many of the men felt that “rooting in the
ground” was beneath their dignity and they did not want to do the
necessary labor to survive in the swamp. They suffered greatly from
disease, dirty drinking water, famine, and depended on help from the
Native Americans.
• Pocahontas frequently delivered messages and goods on behalf of her
father. John Smith would spend time with her to learn Algonquian.
• In 1608 Matoaka/Pocahontas becomes a spiritual guide to Nantaquod
(John Smith)—this is after the infamous incident and ceremony that
they are both known best for now.
In 1609 over 500 more colonists arrived in Jamestown, (this
time including men, women, and children). The Powhatans
could see that the colonists did not intend to only stay for a
short while, as first promised.
• Many of the settlers died of disease, starvation, and in
skirmishes. Pocahontas warned John Smith of one of the
attacks before they took place.
• John Smith was injured in a gun powder accident and had
to return to England in 1609. Pocahontas was told that he
died. In his absence, Jamestown suffered a Starving Time.
• In 1610, there were less than 70 colonists who had survived
the Starving Time
Womanhood
• The years 1609-1610 would be important ones for Pocahontas. She would be
about fourteen, which was adulthood and marriageable age.
• She began to dress like a Powhatan woman, wearing a deerskin apron and a
leather mantle in winter, since she was of high status. She might also wear
one-shouldered fringed deerskin dresses and start decorating her skin with
tattoos. When she traveled in the woods, she would have worn leggings and a
breechclout to protect against scratches, as they could become easily infected.
She would have also grown her hair out and worn it in a variety of ways: loose,
braided into one plait with bangs, or, once married, cut short the same length
all around.
• In 1610, Pocahontas married Kocoum, whom Englishman William Strachey
described as a “private captain,“ which implies he had command over some
men. The fact that he was not a chief, and not high in status, suggests that
Pocahontas may have married for love. Although Pocahontas was the favorite
daughter of the paramount chief, she still had the freedom to choose whom
she married, as did other women in Powhatan society.
• In 1613, Pocahontas was kidnapped by Captain Samuel Argall.
He forced her relatives to trick her onto his ship The Treasure
and had Kocoum killed. Captain Argall used Pocahontas as a
noble hostage for ransom. He demanded corn, the return of
some prisoners and stolen items, as well as a peace treaty.
• Pocahontas’ father tried to negotiate, but Captain Argall moved
Pocahontas to the Henrico settlement (near present day
Richmond). This is where Pocahontas met Jon Rolfe.
• Pocahontas started a strict religious conversion to Christianity
and was baptized with another new name: Rebecca.
• Rebecca, may have been a symbolic gesture to Rebecca of the
Book of Genesis who, as the mother of Jacob and Esau, was the
mother of two “nations”, or distinct peoples, which suits
Pocahontas’ narrative.
Becoming Lady Rebecca
After a year of captivity, Sir Thomas Dale
took Pocahontas and 150 armed men to
Powhatan, and demanded a ransom.
• A skirmish occurred, and Englishmen
burned villages and killed Indian men.
• It is during this event that Pocahontas told
her father that she wished to marry Rolfe.
• John Rolfe also asked for permission to
marry Pocahontas from his governor. In his
request he explained that he felt he would
be saving her soul.
• Both the Powhatans and British governors
gave them permission to marry. They
married on April 5th
, 1614.
Peace
• The marriage was viewed by all as a peace-
making event—the “Peace of Pocahontas.”
• Rolfe also helped save the Virginia colony by
promoting tobacco cultivation, and was
likely aided in some part by his wife.
• Pocahontas bore a son named Thomas and,
in 1616, the Rolfes traveled to England.
• While in England, Pocahontas dressed in the
Elizabethan style pictured in her famous
portrait. She was considered an Indian
princess by the English, she was granted an
audience with King James I and the royal
family.
England
Pocahontas became of symbol of Indian religious conversion (one of the goals of the Virginia Company).
• The company decided to bring Pocahontas to England in 1616 as a symbol of the tamed New World “savage.” She
toured the country with about a dozen other indigenous Virginians.
• Although Pocahontas was not a princess in the context of Powhatan culture, the Virginia Company nevertheless
presented her as a princess to the English public.
• While some considered her a curiosity rather than a princess, Pocahontas was treated well in London. She attended a
masque where she sat near King James I and Queen Anne.
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Pocahontas in england
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pocahontas-and-her-untimely-death-after-being-called-as-a-missionary/
• Eventually, the Rolfe family moved to rural Brentford, where Pocahontas would
again encounter Captain John Smith.
• She was so overcome with emotion that she could not speak and turned away
from him. Upon gaining her composure, Pocahontas reprimanded Smith for the
manner in which he had treated her father and her people. She reminded him
how Powhatan had welcomed him. She became angry and reminded him how
he had not been afraid to threaten every one of her people—except her. She
said the settlers had reported Smith had died after his accident, but that
Powhatan had suspected otherwise as “your countrymen will lie much.”
Honours
In July 2006, on the 400th anniversary of Jamestown’s
founding, a delegation of Virginia Native Americans
visited her grave and held a private ceremony to reclaim
their native daughter back into her heritage.
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Modern honors for pocahontas
Virginia Indians dance at Cobham Hall near
Gravesend, England, during a welcome ceremony
Friday, part of celebrations marking the 400th
anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia.
(Associated Press/The Spokesman-Review
This statue of Pocahontas, by
William Partridge, has stood at
Historic Jamestowne since 1922.
Her hands and arms are
burnished gold from visitors
touching them for almost 100
years.
Disney is for historians;)
Tibvire
ZiFM stand what gwan. TK, Miss Red, Pozzo, Abisha Palmer and all.
Musha mukadzi tinozvibvidza.
Kunyepa uko, uri Daisy ndiri Tuku
Sir you love horse so you are going to miss the horse ride.
There is also other reasons. Most sites don’t have SSL. Or if they do aren’t valid so it flags most sites when trying to open. Secondly, the domain registrar, run by mango is terrible. The security around that entity is shocking. Owning a Zimbabwean domain is risky, unless you use global dns providers like cloudflare to secure your websites. Local technologies are a huge risk
Musangano kuma Cell C
Oh my God! I totally love Chief Hwenje.
There is a Pastor in SA with a vulgar sounding name…kkkkk
So not let other people use your laptop or connect their phones unless they are trusted.
I found someone copying 5 GB of documents from my Laptop, hanzi Mukoma murikuda ma movie here.
Zviripamba pano
These Cyber security thieves gnaw at you slowly.
They infect your chargers, phones and laptops. Almost like a challenge, catch us if you can. Sorry I have no time for side shows.
They also ask for cooking oil at take half the bottle after accusing you of misusing money to buy lots of food.
Its a game to them, until bodies start pulling up, execute with extreme prejudice.
Let’s bring them to the table too, its only fair.
Kudenga kune ngirozi. August is a time to get of Cyber Security thieves.
* dem!
I notice how most cyber security thieves use 1960s tactics. Still effective, they just reveal who you are.
In the spirit world we have a name for you.
*YouTube
At NASA, “systems engineering” is defined as a
methodical, multi-disciplinary approach for the
design, realization, technical management, opera-
tions, and retirement of a system. A “system” is the
combination of elements that function together
to produce the capability required to meet a need.
The elements include all hardware, software, equip-
ment, facilities, personnel, processes, and procedures
needed for this purpose; that is, all things required to
produce system-level results. The results include sys-
tem-level qualities, properties, characteristics, func-
tions, behavior, and performance. The value added by
the system as a whole, beyond that contributed inde-
pendently by the parts, is primarily created by the
relationship among the parts; that is, how they are
interconnected.1
It is a way of looking at the “big pic-
ture” when making technical decisions. It is a way of
achieving stakeholder functional, physical, and oper-
ational performance requirements in the intended
use environment over the planned life of the system
within cost, schedule, and other constraints. It is a
methodology that supports the containment of the
life cycle cost of a system. In other words, systems
engineering is a logical way of thinking.
1 Eberhardt Rechtin, Systems Architecting of Organizations:
Why Eagles Can’t Swim.
Systems engineering is the art and science of devel-
oping an operable system capable of meeting require-
ments within often opposed constraints. Systems
engineering is a holistic, integrative discipline,
wherein the contributions of structural engineers,
electrical engineers, mechanism designers, power
engineers, human factors engineers, and many more
disciplines are evaluated and balanced, one against
another, to produce a coherent whole that is not dom-
inated by the perspective of a single discipline.2
Systems engineering seeks a safe and balanced design
in the face of opposing interests and multiple, some-
times conflicting constraints. The systems engineer
should develop the skill for identifying and focusing
efforts on assessments to optimize the overall design
and not favor one system/subsystem at the expense
of another while constantly validating that the goals
of the operational system will be met. The art is in
knowing when and where to probe. Personnel with
these skills are usually tagged as “systems engineers.”
They may have other titles—lead systems engineer,
2 Comments on systems engineering throughout Chapter 2.0
are extracted from the speech “System Engineering and the
Two Cultures of Engineering” by Michael D. Griffin, NASA
Administrator