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OFFICERS OF INDIAN ORIGIN FEEL LET DOWN ‘Racism’ within metro police CHARLENE SOMDUTH charlene.somduth@inl.co.za … the city declared racism as one of its enemiesMSAWAKHE MAYISELA eThekwini Municipality spokesperson SEASONED Durban metro police officers who have given decades of service to the city feel let down. The officers, all of Indian origin, claim they have been racially abused and undermined by a cabal of Africans at metro police. Yet, despite their plea that the city investigates the matter, they have been ignored. Issues first surfaced about five years ago when Steve Middleton, then acting head of metro, appointed, on an acting basis, 34 police men and women to senior positions. They were made up of 17 Africans, 10 Indians, five coloureds and two whites. According to one of the aggrieved policemen,…
WANTS LANDLADY TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE Woman plummets into sewer pit NADIA KHAN nadia.khan@inl.co.za A VERULAM woman is nursing her wounds and her dignity, after falling into a sewer pit on Saturday. Rebecca Rosendaw, 45, moved into an outbuilding near Mount Vernon earlier this month. On Saturday, she was sprinkling Jeyes fluid around the property, to ward off snakes, when a portion of the concrete caved in. Rosendaw said she did not know there was a sewer pit on the property and wants the landlady to be held accountable for what happened. “I could have died. I keep having nightmares that I am falling into a dark hole and can’t get out. “I can still get that smell of sewage on me,” she said. Rosendaw, a housewife, said she and…
LIVING IN FEAR, STOCK STOLEN OR DESTROYED Foreign traders under attack plead for mercy CHARLENE SOMDUTH AND NADIA KHAN FEELING oppressed in their own countries due to wars, political infighting and poverty, foreign nationals travelled to South Africa for a chance at a better life. Before they arrived, they heard that the country would provide them with job opportunities, safety and equality. However, in recent months, the foreign traders have come under threat, allegedly by members of the uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA). Last Monday, a group of men, an allegation the MKMVA denied, damaged and set alight trading stalls belonging to foreign street vendors in the Durban Central Business District. Many street vendors – who trade on Bertha Mkhize (Victoria) Street, Ingcunce Road (Albert Street) and near The…
MK VETS DENY BEING INVOLVED Xenophobic acts condemned by groups NADIA KHAN AND CHARLENE SOMDUTH DOCTOR NGCOBO African News Agency (ANA) THE South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says the attacks on foreigners is a potential trigger for further xenophobic attacks. Pavershree Padayachee, a senior legal officer for the SAHRC in Kwa-Zulu-Natal, said the commission was concerned about the attacks. “It has also been alleged that members of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) attacked and assaulted non-nationals and petrol-bombed their shops or business in the Durban CBD. The SAHRC condemns these ongoing violent attacks and the looting and threats on businesses owned by non-nationals in the city.” She said the SAHRC reminded all citizens, residents and other persons in the republic that such acts were illegal and…
COUSINS RECALL MEETING THE KING AT AN INTERFAITH PRAYER Unforgettable moments STAFF REPORTER Supplied IN JANUARY 2013, the POST published a photograph of cousins Vinita and Prianca Singh, who met King Goodwill Zwelithini at the eNyokeni Royal Palace in northern KwaZulu-Natal during an interfaith prayer. At the time, the girls, the granddaughters of Omie Singh, a KZN MPL at the time, were invited on stage. The cousins described their experience with King Zwelithini, who passed away on Friday, as unforgettable. “I hope all our school friends could meet our king. He was so nice and hugged me. “He asked me what grade I was in and I told him that I passed to Grade 3,” Prianca said at the time. Vinita said: “The king asked me if I like Nongoma…
RELIGIOUS GROUPS PAY TRIBUTE King was instrumental in nation-building STAFF REPORTER KwaZulu-Natal Christian Council and KZN Church Leaders’ Group: (We have) learned with shock of the passing of His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelithini. We kindly express our deepest condolences to the royal family as well as the people of our province and all South Africa. This is a huge loss, as His Majesty was considered the torchbearer, father and pillar of the Zulu nation. What we appreciated in particular was that His Majesty was deeply concerned about social ills suffered by his people – such as violence against women and children, the loss of ubuntu, the ongoing attacks on foreign nationals, the attacks in hostels and the political violence. On numerous occasions, His Majesty pleaded with the nation for calm…
