Former Eastern Cape government director-general Marion Mbina-Mthembu and seven others were granted bail by the Zwelitsha magistrate’s court in Qonce on Tuesday after appearing on allegations including fraud and money laundering amounting to R20m.Mbina-Mthembu appeared alongside the former CFO in the office of the premier, Myirhakazi Hannah Ntshingila, and the former acting head of education, Sizakele Netshilaphala.
Former Eastern Cape government director-general Marion Mbina-Mthembu and seven others appeared in the Zwelitsha magistrate’s court in Qonce on Tuesday on charges including fraud and money laundering amounting to R20m.
Nelson Mandela's eldest daughter Makaziwe offers a unique portrait of the statesman and underscores the price many struggle activists' families paid, writes Mike Siluma.
president mandela on his autobiography, a long walk to freedom. and in the book, you write and he writes that when mandela was a child in this community of qunu, that africans weren t afforded the privilege of having the title of land and owning that land. they had to pay rent to the government, annually. talk about what it meant to go back and his decision to be buried in qunu, and now to runner as the first black president, and with a state funeral and all the pomp and circumstance there in qunu? it is very significant and lovely. i mean, he loved those hills around where he was born. he never talked about religion much or western religion at all, and he talked about the ancestors. he talked about his people. he was, when his father died, when he was 8 or 9 years old, and his father had been a counselor to the king of the tembu, he was brought to what
was known as the great place, and he became a charge, became another son, as it were, of the king, where he was imbued with all of the transitions of the tembu tribe and the larger clan and he loved the those things. he loved their style of leadership, he loved listening to the stories of the battles against the british, against the zulu, and he was imbued with a feeling of african aristocracy, african history, african greatness. and in a way, the fact that he was so far from where white settlements were, so far from cities, preserved that sense of confidence that he had by living in a royal village and being educated by a king and having these kingly and royal responsibilities that were devolved upon him. and what happened when he eventually ran away, because the king tried to arrange a marriage for him, and the king s real son, justice, he ran away to