Nosipho Luthuli, 71, says that in August angry community members gave her 10 hours to vacate her Butterworth home of 48 years or risk it being torched and her being attacked.
IT has been said on many websites that the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) once based its fighters and support personnel in Malaysia on a permanent basis.
Long-distance bus operators such as Intercape have identified this province as the epicentre of taxi violence and intimidation against their drivers and those they seek to transport. Intercape alone reported 70 cases of violence and intimidation against its drivers and passengers over just a single year.
Transport minister Fikile Mbalula is seeking leave to appeal against a Makhanda high court judgment which says it is his job to provide for the safety of long-distance bus operators and their passengers. The court in September slammed Mbalula and provincial transport MEC Xolile Nqatha for what it termed their “lamentable indifference” to the deadly violence being perpetrated by the taxi industry against long-haul bus operators such as Intercape.
Butterworth-born television actor Ama Qamata has been nominated in the African Social Star category of The People’s Choice Awards 2022 on entertainment channel E! and is in the running to attend the awards which will be broadcast live from California on December 6. The acting bug bit Qamata, 24, when she was cast as Snow White in primary school.