Supposed former liberation fighters recently started camping outside Luthuli House. On Thursday, they allegedly held ministers Thandi Modise and Mondli Gungubele hostage before police intervened.
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
Hit by difficult economic times and a provincial unemployment rate hovering around 47%, the Libode district in the OR Tambo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape is a tough place to live.
Most people in the area feed their families by subsistence farming on communal land, and a six-year-old agricultural project run by a group of military veterans is helping to make a difference in their fight against poverty and desperation.
The Iringa Multipurpose Co-Operative, run by veterans of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)and other military organisations, was set up in 2015.
Jongilizwe Mbovane, the chair of the co-operative, said the project began with five military veterans assisting learners around Libode with school uniforms.
PAC mourns the death of its former army chief Johnson Mlambo due to Covid-19
By Baldwin Ndaba
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Johannesburg - The PAC and Pan Africanists in the diaspora are mourning the death of Johnson Mlambo – the former commander-in-chief of the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (Apla) – who succumbed to Covid-19 on Saturday.
The PAC said on Sunday members of his family were being tested for Covid-19, and they appealed to visitors to their home in Daveyton to respect and observe the coronavirus regulations.
Funeral details would be released soon.
Mlambo – popularly known in PAC circles as “chairman” – was instrumental in intensifying military attacks on the apartheid government soon after his release from Robben Island in 1983.