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IN A STORY OF LOVE AND SACRIFICE, THEY HAVE… CLARITY WHAT’S CLEAR TO THEM COULD HELP OTHERS CHANELLE LUTCHMAN chanelle.lutchman@inl.co.za SIBONELO NGCOBO African News Agency (ANA) JUST over seven years ago, Neera Govindsamy, 54, of Phoenix, lost her sight. All she can see now is some light and shadows. Since then, her husband Johnny has been her eyes. So when Johnny’s eyes started to deteriorate, Neera was worried. The pair of tested glasses he needed cost R1 600, but on his caretaker’s salary it was not something they could afford. The couple decided to sell the only item of value they had – an old lounge suite – and so managed to buy the glasses. The couple have been married for more than 25 years and live in a room…
SWAM 60 LENGTHS AND RAISED R3 000 Teen swims Midmar Mile in school pool CHARLENE SOMDUTH charlene.somduth@inl.co.za DRISTI Moodley is not your average teenager. After having lost several family members to cancer, she decided to help those children who have the least. Recently, as part of her drive to raise money for organisations helping people beat cancer, Dristi swam in her school pool the distance she would have covered had she swam the Midmar Mile. The Grade 8 people at St Henry’s Marist College had planned a fund raiser for the Midmar Mile, but it was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. “When I heard I could not swim the Mile in the dam, I felt annoyed because I wanted to challenge myself with an open-water swim. However, I also…
R28 MILLION LOTTO WINNER ‘I can now buy my own home’ NADIA KHAN nadia.khan@inl.co.za OWNING her own home was something a Merebank mom always wanted but never thought she would achieve. But all that changed at the end of February when she won R28 million in the National Lottery. The woman, who is in her forties, works in a retail store. She had played the Lotto for many years, spending about R100 a week. She played the Daily Lotto, Powerball, Lotto and Sportstake but never won anything substantial. Then luck came her way. “In January, I bought a R3 Daily Lotto ticket using the quick-pick method and won R129 000. I invested some of the money and used the rest to spoil my children and me. “For the big win,…
COUPLE REVEAL ‘THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY’ Silence from British royals over Meghan/Harry tell-all POST REPORTER Supplied CBS. ZANELE ZULU African News Agency (ANA) Archives BRITAIN’S monarchy maintained its silence on Tuesday, after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry accused a family member of making a racist remark about their son and said Markle had been alienated to the point of contemplating suicide. According to a Reuters report, Oprah Winfrey’s tell-all TV interview with the couple has dragged the royals into the biggest crisis since the death of Harry’s mother Diana in 1997, when the family, led by Queen Elizabeth, was widely criticised for being too slow to respond. “Worst Royal Crisis in 85 Years,” read the front page of the Daily Mirror newspaper, while the Daily Mail’s cover asked…
FAMILY CONFLICT There are ways to heal rifts CELEBRITIES or not, the relationship between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and the British royal family boils down to a disconnect, says Meenaaz Adams, the director of Family and Marriage of South Africa (Famsa), Durban. She offers input and tips for resolving family issues. Q: Where family tension is so intense that a couple has been cut off, as in the case of Meghan and Harry, are there still avenues for working towards reconciliation? A: Mediation through neutral, non-related individuals would be critical to a respectful and reasonable way forward. Q: The couple is already isolated from Harry’s family. Was doing the tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey a good idea? A: In this case, it did…
‘RACISM’ Learners protest over teacher abuse CHARLENE SOMDUTH charlene.somduth@inl.co.za TEACHING at Greenbury Secondary has been restored after matric pupils protested against alleged racism on Friday and Monday at the school. The school’s management met officials from the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education on Monday to address the issue and the school reopened on Tuesday. A teacher, who declined to be named, said some pupils were upset because two teachers, who only taught isiZulu, faced dismissal because they did not want to teach other subjects. “The matric pupils found out about this on Friday and protested. “They flipped desks and threw books around. Some of the teachers tried to calmly talk to them but they would not listen.” The teacher said the school was closed on Monday as other pupils were concerned…
