Western Mpondoland Queen Tina MaDosini Ndamase has warned of a man pretending to represent the royal house and trying to convince young girls that he has found suitable husbands for virgin brides.
One of the most deeply rural councils in the Eastern Cape, the Nyandeni local municipality, is embarking on a drive to position the area as an investor-friendly destination.
While most people would be happy to just receive gifts on their birthday, an Eastern Cape businesswoman used her big day to help the flood-stricken people of Port St Johns. Thandolwethu “Tdoz” Nolatsho, who originally hails from Mbutho village in Tsolo, used her 40th birthday celebration party, held in Port St Johns on Saturday, to raise more than R150,000 in less than 30 minutes to help those who were displaced by recent floods.
To avoid royal succession battles, AbaThembu senior traditional leader Nkosi Mfundo Bhovulengwe Mtirara publicly pronounced his four-year-old son as his successor during his wedding celebrations at the weekend. Guests at the three-day royal wedding witnessed the union of Mtirara, 50, head of AbaThembu of Matyengqina, and AmaHegebe’s Princess Buyiselwa Holomisa, 44, now known as Nkosikazi Nobandla Mtirara.
Clans and tribes who lost their identities, cultures, customs and sovereignty in various wars or as a result of the colonial and apartheid regimes are now reviving themselves.