Persistent vandalism in Nxuba is increasingly fraying the nerves of residents, with the public swimming pool, cemetery, youth centre and buildings dedicated to apartheid struggle icons lying in ruins.
Traditional leaders in Peddie and Lusikisiki are happy that a woman who masterminded the murder of her schoolteacher mother by and the killers her boyfriend, a former policeman, and his cousin have each been sentenced to life imprisonment.
So rife and violent are the zama zama turf wars in Jerusalema informal settlement that Nomonde’s two-year-old son Thabo would often scream mama robala fatshe (mama lie down).