He won a world title and the trophy to prove it, but it was the promise of keys to his very own home that left a World Wheelchair Bodybuilding champion speechless.
SA’s first professional wheelchair bodybuilder Max Kulati battled to raise enough money to defend his title in Slovenia, but through personal fundraising and the donation of an undisclosed amount by his main sponsor, the Eastern Cape branch of the South African Association of Physiotherapy (SASP), he is confident he can bring back the gold.
Angry parents and school governing body (SGB) members carrying placards picketed outside Verite Primary School in Mountain View, Kariega, as class tests were under way on Wednesday.
A mother and father watched helplessly from outside as their two-year-old son clung to the locked security gate at the door of their home and screamed “tata” as he burned to death.
“Tired of struggling for water”, read a headline in The Herald earlier this week.The article highlighted the plight of Moeggesukkel — ironically, translated it means tired of struggling — who have been battling to access water in the Bethelsdrop informal settlement in Nelson Mandela Bay for nearly a year.
About 1.5-million litres of water are being lost every month from a burst pipe in the Moeggesukkel informal settlement in Bethelsdorp in parched Nelson Mandela Bay and, according to the residents, that is the way it has been for nearly a year, despite multiple attempts to alert the metro.
Five toilets and three taps — that is what more than 2,000 residents are forced to share in a small, rundown shack settlement on the outskirts of Kariega.