In celebration of Madiba's 100 years
By Ali Mphaki
The United States’ first black President Barack Obama will deliver the annual Nelson Mandela lecture in Johannesburg on July 17, the Nelson Mandela Foundation has announced. This is to honour the centennial of the anti-apartheid icon's birth. The Foundation said Obama's lecture will focus on "creating conditions for bridging divides, working across ideological lines, and resisting oppre…
Families of sports heroes in the dark about exhibition
By Ali Mphaki
It is a noble idea. But the department of sports and recreation’s quest to remember past sport heroes in an exhibition has been marred by damning allegations that some of the families of those on show were never consulted. Launched on March 20 by the newly appointed Minister of Sports and Recreation Thokozile Xasa, the exhibition aptly entitled “Sport in Struggle – Hon…
Tale of two suspects at Bertha Gxowa
By Ali Mphaki
One is a medical doctor. The other an ordinary worker who suffers from albinism. Both were arrested by security guards for allegedly stealing property of the Bertha Gxowa hospital in Germiston. The worker Velimseni Masondo,40, works at the hospital’s registry department. The medico, Dr Dalton Molombe Kambundji is a Congolese national who works as HOD at casualty. In what is seen as selectiv…
How the law can help change racist minds in South Africa
Theconvesation/africa
Much recent news and public discourse might seem to indicate that South Africa’s non-racial rainbow is fading. Racism, its expression and its consequences, seem to be all around. First prize goes to former real estate agent Vicki Momberg. She was recently sentenced to a three year jail term (one year suspended) for the vicious racial abuse of black traffic…
Patients fed mish-mash food in hospitals under the Gauteng department of health
By Ali Mphaki/Cartoon by Wilson Mgobhozi
Its three months since patients at most Gauteng government hospitals last tasted a meal with vegetables. So dire is the situation that in some hospitals they use petty cash to buy veggies in their desperate attempt to feed their patients a balanced nutritious meal. The Gauteng department of health has 37 hospitals u…
ALL SET FOR MAMA WINNIE’S BURIAL
By Ali Mphaki / Pictures by Dumisani Dube
It’s almost finished. Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is sleeping at her Orlando West home in Soweto for the last time this Friday – albeit inside a casket. Hundreds of mourners had earlier Friday converged at the Kupane Funeral parlour in Orlando east to accompany her mahogany casket being ferried to her home in a black Cadillac limousine hearse - in what wil…
The remains of Mother of the Nation fetched from mortuary to home
By Ali Mphaki
It was a somber moment as onlookers watched a black Vito with military number plates outside the Kupane Funeral parlour in Orlando east on Thursday afternoon purportedly performing a dry run on how they will transport the remains of Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Friday.Flanked by military police in their bikes and several vehicles belonging to the milita…
They came in droves to bid farewell to Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at a packed memorial service held at the Orlando Stadium on Wednesday. The memorial saw speakers from various political parties share the podium to deliver their eulogies to the woman popularly known as Mother of the Nation. Mama Winnie died last Monday at a Johannesburg hospital and will be buried at the Fourways Memorial cemetery on Saturday. Pics by Mujahid Safodie…
Cheating hip hop artist scraps wedding plans to his fiancé manager on social media
Staff Reporter
Who is the boss now?? (Boso ke mang?)
This is the question on the lips of a horde of fans of hip hop artist Jabulani Tsambo, otherwise known as HHP, after he annulled wedding plans to his fiancé Lerato Sengadi on Facebook on Tuesday morning.
The two lovebirds were scheduled to walk the aisle later this year in what…
Council in frenzy to clean up area around house
of Mother of the Nation
Pic and story by Boxer Ngwenya
Jo’burg city council employees have been hard at work sprucing up the area around Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s home in Orlando West, Soweto.
With all roads leading to Madikizela-Mandela’s home since her death last Monday, there has been a frenzy of activity by especially Joburg Water to ensure the area …
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