Amid the sea of caps and gowns at the University of Fort Hare’s graduation ceremony was 54-year-old security guard Mpumelelo Pinini, who had been safeguarding the institution for more than a decade.
Work has begun on the construction of temporary homes for more than 20 families that were left without a place to stay after a heavy storm tore through Kwa-Saki village in Xesi (formerly Middledrift) three weeks ago. The devastating storm the second to hit Kwa-Saki village in three years left homes and businesses in ruins and disrupted the village’s electricity supply.
UDM leader Bantu Holomisa says he remains positive about his party’s future in the Eastern Cape and has issued a warning to those undermining former president Jacob Zuma’s popularity in the province in light of his new party uMkhonto weSizwe’s rise to prominence. Holomisa spoke in a podcast interview with DispatchLIVE on Friday afternoon after concluding his two-day “presidential visit” to the Eastern Cape.
More than 20 families have been left counting their losses after a heavy storm tore through a village in Xesi (formerly Middledrift), leaving homes and businesses in ruins and disrupting the electricity supply. The devastating storm the second to hit Kwa-Saki village in three years struck at about 6pm on Sunday, according to villagers.