Ayanda Kota, who founded the Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) in 2009, has died of cancer. He was born in Grahamstown in 1976, now Makhanda, and died here. It was in Makhanda and Cape Town that he dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of poor people. He went to Nombulelo Secondary School in Makhanda’s Joza location.
Brandon Moseley of Felts Mills and Brian Ashley of Copenhagen harvest a corn field rented from the Petrus Farm on what is locally known as Carrolls’ Hill on county Route