Abject poverty and a sickly mother and toddler in need of care have left three young children with no choice but to put their schooling on hold.The Qalashe siblings aged 13, 11 and nine have been attending school intermittently to look after their three-year-old brother and 29-year-old widowed mother, Nofika, who has been bedridden since 2021.
Shops were shuttered across the metro as thousands marched on the Eastern Cape premier’s office to demand action to end the recent spate of violent kidnappings in and around Buffalo City.
Two families who were filled with grief when their relatives, Zoleka Gantana and her assistant Kholosa Mpunga, were kidnapped, shot and their bodies chopped up, burned and dumped in a dam in Peddie, are preparing to give bury their relatives.
The family of a businessman who died at the Nompumelelo Hospital in Peddie after being shot in the leg has accused the facility’s management of negligence.