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Thousands sign AKA petition

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JOHANNESBU­RG - A petition calling for justice for slain South African rapper Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes has garnered close to 10 000 signatures.

Started by a woman named Lelo N, the petition is addressed to KwaZulu-Natal Police Commission­er, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, National Police Commission­er General Fannie Masemola and Police Minister Bheki Cele, expresses the sentiments of many South Africans fed up with crime levels in the country. AKA was gunned down outside the Wish restaurant in Florida Road last month. His former manager and long time friend, Tebello Tibz Motsoane, was also killed in the incident.

In the petition, Lelo recalls how a hit man walked into their home and fired several shots at her father.

“Unlike AKA, my father had to go through excruciati­ng pain of knowing what was happening to him. Bleeding and perhaps losing air, he tried to flee to one of the other rooms in the house as the hit man followed him. He shot through the door of one of the rooms that my father had ran into when trying to call an unresponsi­ve emergency number.

“The hit men went in and shot, hitting him with another bullet in his hand as God knows how was trying to fight the hit man off.

“My father finally succumbed to weakness from blood loss. As he dropped to the ground, he was shot three more times. The next time I saw my father, he was in a hospital ER with blood dripping from his neck and

Novelist James Foster and his wife Em spend time at a resort in the fictional seaside country of Li Tolqa, where a local festival is underway. The couple’s chronic marital strife is exacerbate­d when Gabi, a fan of the only novel James has published to date, invites them to spend time with her and her husband Alban. The four have dinner and decide to spend the next day driving in the countrysid­e, even though they have been warned that tourists are to remain on the resort compound at all times. At a beach, as James urinates behind a tree, Gabi unexpected­ly grabs him from behind and proceeds to give him a handjob. After a long day of sunbathing and cooking, the tourists embark on a drunken drive back to their hotel.

Scream VI is the third film of the series to be set outside the fictional town of Woodsboro, California, moving the location to New York City, and follows a new Ghostface who targets the surviving members of the ‘Woodsboro Legacy Attacks.’

Scream VI combines the violence of the slasher genre with elements of black comedy and a whodunit mystery, and satirises the trends of film franchises and subversion of audience expectatio­ns. Sisters Samantha and Tara Carpenter and twins Chad and Mindy Meeks, leaving Woodsboro behind and starting a new chapter of their lives in New York City only to again be plagued by a streak of murders by a new Ghostface killer. bullets through his body,” Lelo said.

She said despite her father surviving the shooting, he became a quadripleg­ic, and three years later, he died of renal failure.

“He died a very sad man who never knew justice. Despite suspects being provided to the police with motivating statements. All we were left with was the sad memory of his last three years, a young single mum of three young children and the case number of another South African cold case,” Lelo said. Lelo said justice needed to be served.

“How many more of our siblings, fathers, mothers need to die senselessl­y before perpetrato­rs are brought to book. Is it your father, your uncle or maybe your brother or your son next? W This week, Cele said he is constantly updated on the murder investigat­ion.” 4:30 Forensic Files; 5:00 e.tv news; 5:30 The Morning News;

5:55 Worker’s Prayer;

6:00 The Morning Show; 8:30 Wrede Stad; 9:30 Elif; 10:30 Verdeelde Liefde; 11:30 House Of Zwide; 12:00 Scandal!; 12:30 Imbewu; 1:00 Durban Gen; 1:30 Peddling Poison; 2:00 Devi; 2:30 Sophie And Sheba; 4:35 Judge Judy; 5:00 Isono: The Sin; 5:30 Daai Crazy Somer; 6:30 Durban Gen; 7:00 House Of Zwide; 7:30 Scandal!; 8:00 e.tv news; 8:30 Isono: The Sin; 9:00 The Powerball Draw; 9:05 Imbewu; 9:30 The Black Door; 10:00 Family Time with Angus Buchan; 10:05 Rocky V.

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SCREAM VI
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(Courtesy pic) Thuso Mbedu is now making inroads in the fashion industry.

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