NEWS: EThekwini Mayor Cyril Xaba has revealed that the group of Congolese nationals that once violently picketed outside Durban Central Police Station, later camped at Diakona Church and eventually camped outside the Home Affairs refugee centre in Moore Road, has demanded to be housed by the municipality in the city of Durban.
That was after they refused to be reintergrated into the local communities or be moved to Lindela.
Xaba revealed that upon learning that there is a group of Malawians in Sherwood, the group of the 457 Congolese also moved to the area.
He says one of them was behind the interruption of his speech recently - KZN Tonight Podcast
@GosiameMalepe Please check your emails and call me. I'll explain further what you need to do to move the process forward. My sincere apologies for everything you've been through.
@MojapeloSir @GosiameMalepe That won't be necessary. This matter is being resolved. All the parties need to play their part, and in no time, all will be well.
Hi Gosiame. Please check your emails and call me. We are resolving your issue. My sincere apologies for everything we have put you through. It's going to be ok. Take care.
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The first time I met Dr Tshepo Motsepe, we were sitting together at an event where former President Mbeki and I were scheduled to speak about the importance of encouraging South Africans abroad to return home to build the country. I was suffering from a cold and sneezing uncomfortably. A highly qualified doctor, she texted her driver a prescription for me and before long I just saw medicine being delivered. I have seen her a few times since in different circumstances and each time I left with one impression of a kind, caring and nurturing human. A mother.
When I see the regrettably unAfrican social media critique of her at 71, I wondered what happened to us. Our humanity and culture.
Looking at our own mothers, at 71, many would have lost a step or syllable or two, and have wrinkles that merit the journeys they have travelled: Raising children and communities. Building careers and families. All the while being underestimated; taken for granted; earning less while doing the most; being abused and used; walked all over and not appreciated.
Despite our best efforts, we can't dictate what nature serves us. Certainly, I don't know where or how most of our grandmothers, mothers, sisters or aunts would look like at 71. Or how anyone of us would. But I sure hope and pray I would be as dignified, qualified and respected as Dr. Tshepo Motsepe is in her field and society.
She has bothered no one. Has never been in the papers for the wrong things. Never sought the limelight or approval of public. And obviously hasn't resorted to the short-cuts most of us take with botox, bleaching, BBL, weaves, and the likes that seek to defy or redefine nature.
She is like most of our mothers, and just happens to be in the public eye because she married the most public of figures, the President of the Republic, Cyril Ramaphosa. She deserves the respect and adulation we pay our mothers and women like her who have carved their own paths and successes. Unless what we are reflecting in these social media streets is how we treat our own mothers.
It took 15 years for COPE to die.
It has taken 5 years of Ramaphoria to die.
Remember when people used to even take walks?
Some of us kept asking where is substance behind the performance.
When we left Nasrec 2017, I warned that there is little for the ANC to celebrate ✌🏾