Author: Recent South Africa News

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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ICYMI: ICYMI: Racquel Smith and two others convicted over disappearance of Joshlin Smith, who court heard was sold to traditional healer A South African woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment alongside two accomplices for trafficking her then six-year-old daughter, in a case that gripped South Africa and gained international attention after the girl went missing […]
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ICYMI: [Parliament of South Africa] The Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Public Administration (Traditional Affairs, Human Settlements and Water & Sanitation) is of the view that invoking Section 106(1)(b) of the Municipal Systems Act in various municipalities can and must get answers for the benefit of quality service delivery for the people. The committee has, over the past two weeks, received presentations from provincial executives of North West and KwaZulu-Natal on the reasons behind the department’s decision to
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ICYMI: Racquel Smith and two others convicted over disappearance of Joshlin Smith, who court heard was sold to traditional healer A South African woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment alongside two accomplices for trafficking her then six-year-old daughter, in a case that gripped South Africa and gained international attention after the girl went missing last […]
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ICYMI: Racquel Smith and two others convicted over disappearance of Joshlin Smith, who court heard was sold to traditional healer A South African woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment alongside two accomplices for trafficking her then six-year-old daughter, in a case that gripped South Africa and gained international attention after the girl went missing […]
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