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.
Traditional leaders and the Eastern Cape provincial government have expressed shock at the killing of a respected woman traditional leader, Nkosikazi Nomlindelo Dondashe, who has been found shot dead. The body of the 53-year-old acting head of the Ngqusi Traditional Council was found dumped in Theko Fihla forest, outside Centane, on Wednesday night.
It took road contractor Yandisa Maliswana eight days to fix an often impassable, muddy dirt road in his village, where the community had waited for years for a proper thoroughfare.
Thalami Civils, the Pretoria-based construction company behind the dodgy R15-million Lesseyton sport field in Enoch Mgijima local municipality, has scored a lucrative R41-million water scheme project tender from another bankrupt ANC-run municipality in the Eastern Cape.