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ACCUSED BOYFRIEND ‘THOUGHT SHE WAS SLEEPING’ Make-up artist dead in bathroom THANDEKA MGQIBI thandeka.mgqibi@inl.co.za Additional reporting by Nadia Khan Facebook NADIA KHAN TWO days before her death, Sherne Pillay told her mother she planned to break up with her boyfriend. Last Saturday, the day she told her mother she would inform him of her decision, she was found dead. The 27-year-old, who was a make-up artist, told her mother about her decision while they were together for her son’s sixth birthday. The son lived with his grandmother. "She said that Saturday was going to be her last day with him. She was going to leave him for good,” recalled Nadira Pillay. “She said to me, ‘Mom, I am going to leave him. I made a promise to God that I…
PREM BASDEO WAS ON TRIAL FOR ALLEGEDLY KILLING HIS SECOND WIFE Murder accused killed CHARLENE SOMDUTH charlene.somduth@inl.co.za Supplied ON MONDAY, Prem Emmanuel Basdeo was to stand trial in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria for the alleged killing of his wife, Dawn Basdeo. However, on Sunday afternoon, he was shot and killed in what police are investigating as an armed robbery. Basdeo, 60, a former superintendent at Sydenham SAPS in Durban, was with his son, Jordan Basdeo, at the time of the shooting. Albert Herman, his Legal Aid attorney, said Jordan sent him a message at 1am on Monday to inform him of the incident. “In the message to me, Jordan said his father was shot and killed. He was traumatised. I have not spoken to Jordan." Captain Kay…
COMMUNITY MEETING DISRUPTED ‘This is not India,’ Newlands residents told JANINE MOODLEY janine.moodley@inl.co.za A GROUP of residents in Newlands were told “This is not India” during a meeting regarding a council notice for the rezoning of a park to residential accommodation. Residents of Sooklall Drive were seeking answers from Joyce Johnson, an ANC ward councillor, regarding the development on Runton Way when Muzi Hlengwa, the leader of the African People First movement, arrived. He allegedly said the project would go ahead, regardless of their objections. In a video of the meeting that was shared on social media, he told the residents to give the developer a chance. “We need houses … you afford expensive houses but want to block us from having our own houses. Tomorrow, I can build a…
COMPLAINT AGAINST EFF LEADER Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments JANINE MOODLEY janine.moodley@inl.co.za A PIETERMARITZBURG advocate has opened a criminal case against EFF leader Julius Malema, for threats recently made to the police while addressing residents in the Free State. Advocate Ashin Ashok Kumar Singh, 51, said it was time Malema was held accountable for hateful and racial utterances. He laid the complaint in his private capacity last Tuesday, at the Mountain Rise SAPS. Malema was recorded as saying: "If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the ‘80s. “We will not only fight them in the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their houses with their own families. We…
eThekwini Municipality responds... JANINE MOODLEY janine.moodley@inl.co.za MSAWAKHE Mayisela, the eThekwini Municipality spokesperson, said the area in question was a vacant piece of land and not a park, as claimed by the residents. He said the land was earmarked for a private residential development and not low-cost housing as alleged. “This land is located within a fully developed context, which encompasses residential, mixed-use and commercial developments. A key feature of the existing site’s context is the limited topographic constraints, which permit the site being utilised for higher density residential development.” He said it was untrue that the land would be developed for low-income housing. “The city is calling upon residents to lodge comments on the city’s proposal for the Subdivision, Public Open Space Closure and Rezoning of the aforementioned site to…
HINDUISM TEACHES FORGIVENESS Horse trainer found guilty of racial utterances JANINE MOODLEY janine.moodley@inl.co.za FRANK Robinson, a Durban horse trainer, has been found guilty of using racist language on Facebook during Diwali. His hearing was held by the National Horseracing Authority’s (NHA) disciplinary panel last Thursday. Robinson, 51, appeared at the inquiry with his lawyer, Mannie Witz. It was subsequently ordered that his licence be cancelled but the penalty was wholly suspended for two years – provided that he not commit the same offence in that time period. He was also fined R25 000. In a statement, the NHA said an inquiry was held after Robinson was charged with a contravention of Rule 72.1.43. The rule refers to using language that could reasonably be construed to be racist to other people…
