The department of co-operative governance & traditional affairs (Cogta) aims to transform its community work programme into a talent pipeline geared towards nurturing technical and artisanal skills to meet the job market demands.
The justice cluster task team in the Eastern Cape is now prioritising and reviewing criminal cases of traditional initiation and botched circumcisions where initiates died, were injured, or had penile amputations or underwent unlawful circumcisions.
Ekurhuleni businessman Mongezi Mkiva, the brother of Nelson Mandela’s poet laureate Zolani Mkiva, who was shot dead in Gauteng, will be buried at his ancestral home of Bholotwa in Dutywa on Friday.
Xhosa warrior and traditional leader Nkosi Jongumsobomvu Maqoma is not getting the recognition he deserves, according to several speakers who spoke at his memorial lecture held at Mngqesha great place in Qonce on Tuesday. The lecture was delivered by political analyst Prof Somadoda Fikeni.