Eight years later, the container is still underground. Had the victims of the Lily Mine disaster been the CEO, the director-general, minister of mineral resources and energy or the President, would their remains still be underground today?
Activists and community members recently gathered at the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in Cape Town to engage on the issue of rising xenophobia in South Africa. The meeting comes just more than a week after Operation Dudula launched its Western Cape branch in Cape Town. Activists and.
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Wealthy businessman Wandile Bozwana met a violent end when he was gunned down in his car in Pretoria in October 2015. Sadly, Bozwana s death is not unique, and bears many of the hallmarks seen in other assassinations in South Africa.
That Bozwana had political connections also reflects a trend of political rivalries being settled through violence. His alleged killers are on trial only now, six years after his death, perhaps reflecting the corrosive impact that intimidation and violence has had on South Africa s criminal justice system.
Assassinations, politics, the taxi industry and big business are interlinked in South Africa. This nexus is epitomised by the case of Wandile Bozwana who was killed in October 2015 while he stopped at a traffic light in Pretoria. He was shot nine times and died a billionaire, having built his fortune acquiring government contracts.
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She said: “We appreciate your leadership and lessons we’ve learnt from you. All I’m saying to you today is that as a pensioner who has no shares in any mining company, that we know very well from the sufferings of the Zuma Foundation, I said let me come and give the little that we can afford with my family to say please continue during your pension years that God has given you to enjoy