The more than 600 people who died on the steamship in 1917 personify South Africans who refuse to panic despite the cruelty of the people we depend on.
New Brighton residents picketed outside the Mendi Arts Centre on Wednesday because general workers did not have their contracts renewed by the centre’s management.
Buffalo City ward 9 councillor Mendi Wetsetse has been told by the provincial ANC leadership to step aside. Concerned ANC members in the ward wrote to the party asking it to implement the step-aside rule against Wetsetse, who faces a case of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, in relation to a complaint levelled against her in 2021.
Two of the province’s top tertiary institutions, Nelson Mandela University and Fort Hare University, instilled the importance of keeping the legacy of liberation hero Sizwe Kondile alive at the late ANC stalwart’s memorial lecture on Friday afternoon.