LISTEN | They re fighting for their lives, says aunt as family strives to protect the Tembisa 10 The 37-year-old mother of decuplets was identified as Gosiame Thamara Sithole. Stock photo. Image: 123RF/VITALINKA
SA s most famous babies the “Tembisa 10 are in an undisclosed hospital in Pretoria “fighting for their lives”.
This is according to the babies aunt, who spoke to TimesLIVE on Wednesday evening. She asked not to be named.
When a reporter arrived at the family s home in a Tembisa township on Wednesday, the family was agitated as they had been inundated with calls and requests from the public and news organisations.
Global giant BT can t ditch us, says Iqbal Surve s AEEI
News24
10 Jun 2021, 04:10 GMT+10
African Equity Empowerment Investments (AEEI) claims that global telecoms group BT won t be able to end its relationship.
AEEI is a subsidiary of Iqbal Surve s Sekunjalo Group.
Fin24 previously reported about BT s intensions to split from Sekunjalo. BT (formerly British Telecom) is the UK s biggest fixed-voice and broadband provider.
In 2008, BT sold a 30% stake in its BT Communications Services South Africa (BTSA) to Sekunjalo as part of a black empowerment deal.
But the global giant announced last week that it will cut its ties with Sekunjalo, and will explore alternative options to meet its BEE obligations.
Brendan Seery All of us in the developing world are suffering so that the rich in the global north can have a comfortable life and a clean conscience. Electric vehicle is changing in street. Picture: iStock One of the most common “bangmaak stories” you’ll hear from the conservative business and political establishment in South Africa is that x action or y statement or z policy will have the terrible effect of scaring away precious “foreign investment”. It’s a such an effective scare story because few people bother to interrogate it. The question which needs to be asked, when it comes to foreign investment, is: What is the real benefit? A good example was the investment, around the time of our first democratic elections, by Irish businessman Tony O’Reilly into what is now known as Independent Newspapers