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ICYMI: My friend the Rev Zolile Mbali, who has died aged 84, was an Anglican priest in the UK and in his native South Africa, from which he was forced to move in the early 1970s. Zoli was born in Johannesburg to a Xhosa father and a Sotho mother, Elizabeth (nee Makhoatle), a teacher. After […]
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ICYMI: My friend the Rev Zolile Mbali, who has died aged 84, was an Anglican priest in the UK and in his native South Africa, from which he was forced to move in the early 1970s.
Zoli was born in Johannesburg to a Xhosa father and a Sotho mother, Elizabeth (nee Makhoatle), a teacher. After his birth his mother took him to live on the family farm beyond Matatiele in the remote Drakensburg foothills of Transkei. He lived there until he was 10, combining herding with learning in isiXhosa and Sesotho. Sent to further his education in Afrikaans, he stayed with a clergyman uncle near Johannesburg, whose curate at the time was Desmond Tutu. Continue reading…
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‘We want to correct the historic record’ – families of the Cradock Four, beaten and killed in 1985, seek justice 40 years on
An inquest has opened into one of the most notorious killings of South Africa’s apartheid era, with a former general denying he ordered the deaths of four men who became known as the Cradock Four.
Fort Calata, Matthew Goniwe, Sicelo Mhlauli and Sparrow Mkonto were stopped at a roadblock on 27 June 1985 by security officers and beaten, strangled with telephone wire, stabbed and shot to death. Continue reading…
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[COSATU] The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in the Shonamalanga Region expresses its profound dismay and unequivocally condemns the uMhlathuze Municipality for its persistent and deliberate failure to meet its most basic legal obligation: paying workers for overtime.Once again, the Municipality has defaulted on this duty. Employees did not receive their legally entitled overtime payments on 25 May 2025. After serious engagements, the employer committed to making payment by 30 May 2025, a commitment
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My friend the Rev Zolile Mbali, who has died aged 84, was an Anglican priest in the UK and in his native South Africa, from which he was forced to move in the early 1970s. Zoli was born in Johannesburg to a Xhosa father and a Sotho mother, Elizabeth (nee Makhoatle), a teacher. After his […]
http://dlvr.it/TL6v1F