Bring criminal charges in Kwasizabantu mission horror

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Shoprite Regional Office Kwazulu- Natal. Please can you address the shortage of trolleys, especially the basket trolleys, at your Chatsworth Centre store. Please come during month- end and see for yourself. It is ludicrous for customers to run around looking for a trolley, or to wait at till points in the hope that you will get one. Sort it out asap.

How often have companies using this format checked on the efficiencies of their agencies? Sadly there are more rough stones out there than diamonds as they are wont to find out. Will they address it though? Poor Service Delivery. Call your own number/ s and check it out regularly because that’s what your clients go through all the time at their costs.

ODDS AND ENDS

The trees and thick vegetation in many places in the world, especially in England, turned red this week. Boris Johnson and Donald Trump were quick to say that it was not due to climate change. They said it was most probably Liverpool and Manchester United supporters hiding there. | Coceelen.

I wonder how much of a difference the “one- day” strike made in this corrupt stricken mess of a country. Also against GBV? Maybe all the abusers will look at a strike and say “woah! … time to stop!” Start from the top. Then you will see change. | RG.

Why is there a rush for a ferris wheel in Durban? Praneetha Aniruth, who runs an online company that promotes Durban, says it’s a great tourism initiative, but why are taxpayers not recognised in a similar manner with regards to the crematorium issue at Mobeni Heights? Is tourism more important than the taxpayers who fund this city? “Ferris wheel is great for Durban” shows how taxpayers go in circles at government departments to sort out issues. So much thanks to “I love Durban” tourism company.

Cosatu, you only talk but no action. All your strikes that I have known have had no effect. You always seem to fail to bring the country to its knees. It was just a normal day for us workers at work.

The testimony from ex- pupils and staff of Kwasizabantu mission is chilling, to say the least. If they are true, those running the place must all be locked up, along with the parents of some of these people. It is beyond inhumane to subject a 6- year- old to a virginity test.

As she said, she had no idea what was being done to her. This was a most crude and cruel violation of her person and rights over her body. If she can prove that this was done to her, I feel certain she will have a very good civil suit to launch against the mission.

I have been horrified by the revelations at the hearing into Kwasizabantu mission. Those poor people were subjected to psychological torture and physical and sexual assault. Missions have played important roles in this country and elsewhere in educating, feeding and housing the poor. But as with any organisation, there will always be the bad apples who give everyone else a bad name. I hope that criminal charges follow from the hearings and that the mission’s victims get some measure of justice.

I trust the state will do everything in its power to ensure that Phillip Truter survives to testify against his VBS co- accused. It would be a shame if something happened to him before he tells all he knows.