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Friday 22 January
2021, 0145
Real News. Scrolla.Africa
RUNAWAY TRUCK CRUSHES MOTHER
AND HER BABY
Zukile Majova in Mount Frere
A mother with a baby on
her back lost their lives
when a runaway truck
crashed into a municipal
waste removal truck in
Mount Frere in the
Eastern Cape on
Thursday.
Several injured people including the drivers of both trucks were
taken by ambulance to the local King Madzikane kaZulu
Hospital.
The truck lost its brakes as it entered the small overcrowded
town, hitting cars parked on the side of the main street.
Fruit and vegetables hawkers in front of "Eat Some Meat"
butchery escaped with their lives, but lost their wares and their
makeshift stands under the truck's wheels.But the most painful sight was the lifeless body of a mother and child trapped under the trucks for over an hour while authorities used the jaws of life to cut through the wreckage. Ntembiso Sisulu who saw the runaway truck told Scrolla.Africa the horse and trailer ploughed into five cars and everything in its path. “As I am talking to you, I am looking at this shocking sight of a mother and her baby who are just lying there. “She had nowhere to run as the big truck was approaching. People were screaming and running for their lives. “The two trucks collided head-on killing them instantly.” This is now the third runaway truck to kill people and damage property in this town, affectionately known as KwaBhaca. Umzimvubu Local Municipality issued a traffic alert advising motorists using the N2 to use the Umtata Bypass when they have no need to go through the town.
THOSE WE HAVE LOVED AND LOST – A
brave soldier for democracy
Raised in poverty by his
grandmother in the dusty
location of Kromkrans in
Mpumalanga, Jackson
Mthembu knew the lash of
apartheid from his earliest
years.
At the age of seven he had to
work in the mealie fields of a
white farmer to put food on the
family’s table.
Born in 1958, he was of the
generation who came of age in the student uprising of 1976 in
which he was a leader.
Thus began a career of struggle in which he did many things - a
student activist, a union shop steward, a civic organizer and a
member of the Detainees Parents’ Support Committee.
His career as a student was cut short when he was expelled
from Fort Hare University in 1980.Mthembu - whose clan name was Mvelase - was repeatedly jailed and ultimately charged with sabotage, treason and terrorism. But he always came back stronger and more determined after the spells in detention. When the time came to negotiate he was among the leaders who negotiated the settlement for a new South Africa at Codesa in the early nineties. It was there that he forged a close and long-lasting friendship with Cyril Ramaphosa that endured until the day he died. Mthembu was a thoughtful and hugely likeable man. For that reason he was chosen to liaise with the press as the national spokesman of the ruling party under President Nelson Mandela. In 2007 he was elected to the ANC’s National Executive Committee and has served there ever since. The courage that Mthembu showed during the dark years of apartheid never left him and he stood up not only against then President Jacob Zuma but his colleagues in the ANC leadership when he called on the entire NEC to resign in the wake of the Nkandla scandal. He led the Ramaphosa group that plotted the removal of the corrupt Zuma regime and was appointed to Ramphosa’s cabinet in 2018, serving as Minister in the Presidency. His compassionate nature made him a good choice tol head the ministry of women, children and people with disabilities.
In March 2019 his eldest daughter Khwezi committed suicide by hanging and at her funeral he spoke of the incresible pain that a parent feels when burying a child. Earlier this month Mthembu announced on his twitter account that after experiencing abdominal pain he had sought medical attention at the military hospital in Tshwane, where he tested positive for Covid-19. The announcement of his passing on Thursday was made by his old comrade President Ramaphosa: “It is with deep sorrow and shock that we announce that Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu passed away earlier today from COVID- related complications.” In his final tweet Mthembu responded to a man who questioned why the same leaders who told people to wash their hands and wear masks were succumbing to Covid. “They are human too,” he wrote.
Bad sex: woman dies while sleeping with her brother- in-law Lungani Zungu It ended tragically for a 56-year-old woman, who died while having sex with her 50-year-old brother-in-law in Durban on Thursday. It's understood that the secret lovers had booked a secluded hotel in Verulam, north of Durban. Their plan was to have quality time. But their love-making episode ended abruptly after the woman complained of breathing problems. After having difficulty breathing, the woman collapsed.
Shaken, the brother-in-law called the emergency services - and not his family - as he feared this would expose their secret love affair. Another source said at that time, the shamefaced brother-in- law had a tinge of hope that his lover would wake up. While waiting for the emergency services, he paced around the ensuite hotel room. But he was in for a bigger shock as the medical team from Reaction Unit South Africa (Rusa) confirmed the woman dead on arrival. “On arrival the man stated that he and his sister-in-law had booked into the room at approximately 09:30 this morning. After spending a few hours together the woman complained of respiratory distress during foreplay and became unresponsive,” said the unit. The reaction unit, which was the first to arrive on the scene, said that an investigation was underway to determine the cause of death for the woman. The unit would not disclose the name of the deceased, and withheld further information. According to a local business owner, the couple were regular guests at the hotel.
“I’m here most of the time, and I see people who walk in and
out of the hotel. I used to walk inside the hotel, but I thought
they were a normal couple.”
Provincial police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala
confirmed the incident but said no case was opened.
"No case was opened due to the fact that she died of natural
causes."
A brief history of those who went out
with a bang
Arthur Greene
On Thursday, a 56-
year-old woman
passed away in under
very strange
circumstances: she
died while having sex
with her brother-in-
law in Durban.
Although this tragic
occurrence sounds extraordinary, dying in the act happens
more often than you might think.There have been several examples of this phenomenon that have been recorded in history. One of the earliest known cases is that of Pope Leo VII, who is reported to have died in the heat of a passionate moment in 939AD. Extraordinarily, Leo VII was just the first of four popes who would eventually suffer this fate. Pope John XII was allegedly beaten to death by the husband of a woman he was in the arms of at the time in 964AD, just 25 years after Leo met his fateful end. His successor, John XIII, unbelievably died under the exact same circumstances. In 972AD he also died at the hands of an enraged husband. The final pope to perish in this way (at the time of writing this article) was Paul II in 1471. He allegedly suffered a heart attack whilst “being sodomised by a page boy”. It is not just popes who have died whilst having sex. The most famous example is that of Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President of the United States, a four-term governor of New York and an heir to the Rockefeller family fortune.
In 1979, at the ripe old age of 71, Rockefeller had a heart attack whilst going at it with a 25-year-old woman who was not his wife. Another statesman who enjoyed extramarital intercourse a little too much was Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria, who in 1998 reportedly had a heart attack “during a Viagra-fuelled orgy with three prostitutes”. Speaking of happy endings, in 2016 a clip went viral in which an elderly man suffered a heart attack whilst visiting a sex worker. The footage shows the deceased being wheeled through hospital, with the unfortunate woman still attached to him. These tales seem to show us that men, especially elderly men, are slightly more likely to suffer a heart attack when they are engaging in intercourse. However, according to a recent study, men engaging in extramarital sex are even more likely to suffer this fate, possibly because of the added stress, but probably because an angry husband might murder them.
Residents flee the stench of RDPs for their old mkhukhus Mkhuseli Sizani Residents of Simangweni Street in Joe Slovo Township, Port Elizabeth are abandoning their RDP houses. Tormented by the stench and mosquitoes, 13 families have decided to abandon their RDP homes that are crumbling because of continuous flooding from sewage. The problem has been so bad that in 2019 a boy drowned in a sewage dam caused by the blocked drains behind the houses.
Luthando Jabavu told Scrolla.Africa: "Our shacks were better than these RDP houses. They were built in 2008 but immediately after we occupied them sewage became our nightmare. Every month my toilet gets blocked and poo comes back and floods my house.” He said he had to leave his house and erect a shack because the walls at the bottom were crumbling. "I have been wearing a mask way before there was a coronavirus outbreak because of the smell,” he said. “This has even affected my health because I cough all the time. At night I can't sleep because of the mosquitoes." The residents have lost hope and the municipality has no immediate solutions. Another resident, Enderson Mbinda, said: "Is this a better life we were promised? We never lived like this in our shacks even though we were using the inhumane bucket system. A child drowned in this sewage that comes from our houses. We break drains with picks because the municipality is no longer maintaining them." Simphiwe Tyukana, ANC Ward 41 councillor, said: "Poor workmanship is the main cause of this problem.”
"The aim was to ask Human Settlements to rebuild those
houses and change the sewage system. But there are no funds
for that."
He added that temporary shelters erected in 2015 for affected
families were stolen.
Tebogo’s booty brings in the bounty -
but don’t touch!
Tebogo Moobi
Tebogo Thobejane is like a
walking ATM. The beautiful
socialite and actress walks into
a club, spends three hours
mingling with guests, and walks
out with a cool R20,000 in her
back pocket.
The Soweto born actress is no
stranger to the attention her
body brings. She broke the
internet when she made her
first appearance as Belinda, thewedding planner on Muvhango. But don’t make the mistake of thinking she is all booty and no brains. Tebogo studied Acting, Live Performances and Production at AFDA in Johannesburg and has put in years of work to get her spotlight. While she is always ready to smile and joke, her motto is: "You can look but you can’t touch." Speaking to Scrolla.Africa, Tebogo said that using her natural assets to make money was not her original idea but she learnt what to do when she was in Los Angeles, USA, five years ago. "My friends and I were at the club having fun and the men went crazy. They were really fascinated by my body. And when we left, the club owner paid us for being there," she says. She said she realised that what had always been a hang-up in her life when she was a young girl, had now become her gold mine. She said she was always booked and made about three appearances at different clubs per week but then along came Covid. “The clubs are not operating so I decided to go for auditions and I landed the role on Muvhango.” She encouraged other young women to be proud of their bodies.
"People can call you names. Let them call you slay queen or anything else, but if it works for you, go for it. Don’t worry what others say," she says. South Africa to pay 2.5x EU for vaccine, but US joining Covax spells good news Arthur Greene South Africa is set to pay almost two and a half times what most European countries have paid for the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine. It's a big blow, but there is other better news on vaccine pricing following the change in the US presidency. On Thursday, a senior health official told AFP that SA will pay $5,25 (approx R80) per dose of the vaccine, while EU member states will reportedly pay $2,16 (approx R33) for each dose they purchase.
“The National Department of Health confirms that the price $5,25 is what was quoted to us,” said Anban Pillay, the Deputy director general of health. This news arrives just two weeks after the government announced that it had purchased 1,5m doses of the vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII). This brings the country’s overall bill to $7,875,000 - almost R120 million. Pillay added that the higher price was because other countries contributed to research and development. This creates more questions than it answers, as around 2,000 South Africans participated in clinical trials for the vaccine in 2020. However, while the country will pay significantly more than expected for these doses, the US’s announcement that it has joined the Covax initiative opens the door to more vaccines. The Covax programme pools international funds to buy vaccines and equally distribute them around the world. One of Joe Biden’s first actions as president of the US has been to join the global fight against the pandemic by joining it.
The president’s predecessor, Trump, had consistently failed to even confront the impact of the virus in his own country, let alone the rest of the world. This move marks a major turnaround in US foreign policy, returning the world’s wealthiest nation to the international stage. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, announced the move in a speech to the World Health Organization on Thursday morning. Covax is set to deliver its first doses next month, and the programme says it will provide enough vaccines for 2 billion inoculations this year, equal to approximately 20% of its member countries’ populations.
Can the best dressed man also be the
best dressed woman?
Sizwe Sibiya
Siv Ngesi is no stranger to the
spotlight.
He has featured on the famous
GQ top 10 best-dressed men
list and in 2015 was voted one
of Cosmo’s Sexiest Men.
Now, in the #BussItChallenge,
he's deploying his drag queen
alter ego "Sivanna" to see if he
can dress as well as a woman.
The comedian first posted a
video of transforming into Sivanna with the caption “I had to
get involved #BussitChallenge #dragqueen”. But it wasn't until
he posted four pictures with the caption “I introduce to you
Sivanna!” that he shook Twitter.
Some weren't ready for him to be the best-dressed drag queen
of January. But there was also a huge number of people who
applauded his bravery - “showing support to the LGBQT
community”, as one user put it.Video and Picture source: @iamSivN Why you should stay away from loan sharks Lungani Zungu Thabile Ngcobo was desperate when she couldn’t pay her debts in October, so the 26 year old turned to a mashonisa and borrowed R1,500. “I had debts to pay and I had to buy clothes for Christmas for my kids so I went to the loan shark in October,” she said. But if the 26-year-old woman from Mandeni, KZN thought she was in trouble then, her situation got a lot worse. The mashonisa, known only as Mkhize, allegedly took her Sassa grant card and ID document earlier this month when Ngcobo failed to keep up with the monthly payments.
Ngcobo told Scrolla.Africa she had agreed she would pay R350 monthly for six months, which amounts to a total of R2050, but she failed to make the payments in November and December. The unemployed Thabile said she relied on a child support grant she gets for her two children aged eight months and five years. “I’m raising my children alone. Their father is absent and he is also unemployed.” Ngcobo said she knew it was illegal to borrow money from loan sharks but that she had no other option. Scrolla.Africa tracked down the loan shark who admitted that he lent money to people. “I don’t go around saying I’m a loan shark. Desperate people come to me, and I help them. I have been doing this for many years.” When asked about taking Thabile’s Sassa card and identity document, he said she had voluntarily handed him as a guarantee that she would pay. Mkhize said she must pay first before he gave her back her cards.
“No. She can’t take my money and then run to the media when she is struggling to pay it back,” he said. Provincial police stressed that it was illegal for loan sharks to operate and urged people not to borrow money from mashonisas. The police urged Ngcobo to open a case so they could investigate. We promise this is the last time we will write about Trump Well, until he goes broke or goes to jail. Here’s a sample of the joy that spread across social media, as people across the world celebrated the exit of the 45th American president. A video from Jimmy Kimmel. Available on the Scrolla website, www.scrolla.co.za
Video source: @jadedcreative
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