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JOHANNESBURG - The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA) is calling on the government to make Ancestors’ Day a public holiday. The day is May 8.
CONTRALESA General Secretary, Zolani Mkiva says African spirituality should be elevated. Mkiva said: ‘This is not just about a day and declaring it and that’s it: We can’t romanticise it. Rajah argued that such a move “It’s about a positive installment towards amounted to premature judgment, as the total liberation of our people, no imminent harm could be demonstrated it’s about the change of the mindset to by the applicant AfriForum. say, for too long, we are a people that
She went on to argue that Neukircher’s has been terrorised and demonised by judgment was based on arguments a system of colonialism and apartheid, stumbled upon by the applicants’ legal but it is time for us to decolonise, to responding affidavit. mustgothrough goingforward .” team during court proceedings, but emancipate that voice. were never contained in the founding “To ensure that we place spirituality at affidavit nor in the applicant’s the centre of trajectory that this country
of the matter on the table, not make us JOHANNESBURG - The Economic speculate, wonder and imagine what Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the family the motives may have been,” says EFF of 28-year-old Hillary Gardee have and the Gardee family Spokesperson called on the Police Minister, Bheki Sinawo Thambo.
Cele, to give them facts and not speculation The party said nothing could comfort about her murder. the Gardee family at this stage.
They say the police and the public Members of Gardee’s family say the should also refrain from fuelling more gruesomeness of her tragic murder had speculation on the motive for Gardee’s only dawned on them now. murder. She was buried in Mbombela, Mpumalanga,
Cele says law enforcement is still on the weekend. probing why this happened. Speculation The three men accused of Hillary is rife about the identities of the Gardee’s murder, Sipho Mkhatshwa, three men arrested for the murder of Philemon Lukhele and Albert Gama the daughter of the EFF former Secretary-General appeared in the Nelspruit Magistrates Godrich Gardee. Court on Monday.
They are charged with murder, rape, conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping and possession of illegal firearms.
“I don’t think there’s any measure of relief that can be had in a situation like this, I mean of course we want justice to be served and we want it served swiftly, but what happened to Hillary is extremely gruesome. She went through an unspeakable amount of torture and I think today that all dawned on us. It’s going to affect all of us, as we go to our personal isolation and going to our homes.’’
Harm Clarity
“At this stage, we can’t give much clarity into motive other than the general speculation that’s been happening, I think we must caution Cele from adding fuel of speculation because he’s dramatising this tragedy, he’s creating rumour mongering and speculation and suspense. We’re in shock, we are in mourning, let us get concrete, logic reasons as to what the motive was for kidnapping, gang-raping, and murdering Hillary Gardee, not give us political or economic motives. Let’s get the crux