RUNAWAY TRUCK CRUSHES MOTHER AND HER BABY - Scrolla.Africa

Friday 22 January
                                       2021, 0145

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RUNAWAY TRUCK CRUSHES MOTHER
AND HER BABY
Zukile Majova in Mount Frere
A mother with a baby on
her back lost their lives
when a runaway truck
crashed into a municipal
waste removal truck in
Mount Frere in the
Eastern Cape on
Thursday.
Several injured people
including the drivers of both trucks were taken by ambulance to
the local King Madzikane kaZulu Hospital.
The truck lost its brakes as it entered the small overcrowded
town, hitting cars parked on the side of the main street.
Fruit and vegetables hawkers in front of "Eat Some Meat"
butchery escaped with their lives, but lost their wares and their
makeshift stands under the truck's wheels.

But the most painful sight was the lifeless body of a mother and
child trapped under the trucks for over an hour while
authorities used the jaws of life to cut through the wreckage.
Ntembiso Sisulu who saw the runaway truck told Scrolla.Africa
the horse and trailer ploughed into five cars and everything in
its path.
“As I am talking to you, I am looking at this shocking sight of a
mother and her baby who are just lying there.
“She had nowhere to run as the big truck was approaching.
People were screaming and running for their lives.
“The two trucks collided head-on killing them instantly.”
This is now the third runaway truck to kill people and damage
property in this town, affectionately known as KwaBhaca.
Umzimvubu Local Municipality issued a traffic alert advising
motorists using the N2 to use the Umtata Bypass when they
have no need to go through the town.

THOSE WE HAVE LOVED AND LOST
Zukile Majova

                               A brave soldier for
                               democracy

                               Raised in poverty by his
                               grandmother in the dusty
                               location of Kromkrans in
                               Mpumalanga, Jackson
                               Mthembu knew the lash of
                               apartheid from his earliest
                               years.
                               At the age of seven he had to
                               work in the mealie fields of a
white farmer to put food on the family’s table.
Born in 1958, he was of the generation who came of age in the
student uprising of 1976 in which he was a leader.
Thus began a career of struggle in which he did many things - a
student activist, a union shop steward, a civic organizer and a
member of the Detainees Parents’ Support Committee.
His career as a student was cut short when he was expelled
from Fort Hare University in 1980.

Mthembu - whose clan name was Mvelase - was repeatedly
jailed and ultimately charged with sabotage, treason and
terrorism. But he always came back stronger and more
determined after the spells in detention.
When the time came to negotiate he was among the leaders
who negotiated the settlement for a new South Africa at
Codesa in the early nineties. It was there that he forged a close
and long-lasting friendship with Cyril Ramaphosa that endured
until the day he died.
Mthembu was a thoughtful and hugely likeable man. For that
reason he was chosen to liaise with the press as the national
spokesman of the ruling party under President Nelson
Mandela. In 2007 he was elected to the ANC’s National
Executive Committee and has served there ever since.
The courage that Mthembu showed during the dark years of
apartheid never left him and he stood up not only against then
President Jacob Zuma but his colleagues in the ANC leadership
when he called on the entire NEC to resign in the wake of the
Nkandla scandal.
He led the Ramaphosa group that plotted the removal of the
corrupt Zuma regime and was appointed to Ramphosa’s
cabinet in 2018, serving as Minister in the Presidency.
His compassionate nature made him a good choice tol head the
ministry of women, children and people with disabilities.

In March 2019 his eldest daughter Khwezi committed suicide by
hanging and at her funeral he spoke of the incresible pain that a
parent feels when burying a child.
Earlier this month Mthembu announced on his twitter account
that after experiencing abdominal pain he had sought medical
attention at the military hospital in Tshwane, where he tested
positive for Covid-19.
The announcement of his passing on Thursday was made by his
old comrade President Ramaphosa: “It is with deep sorrow and
shock that we announce that Minister in the Presidency
Jackson Mthembu passed away earlier today from COVID-
related complications.”
In his final tweet Mthembu responded to a man who
questioned why the same leaders who told people to wash
their hands and wear masks were succumbing to Covid.
“They are human too,” he wrote.

Bad sex:
woman dies
while
sleeping with
her brother-
in-law
Lungani Zungu

It ended tragically for a 56-year-old woman, who died while
having sex with her 50-year-old brother-in-law in Durban on
Thursday.

It's understood that the secret lovers had booked a secluded
hotel in Verulam, north of Durban.

Their plan was to have quality time.

But their love-making episode ended abruptly after the woman
complained of breathing problems.

After having difficulty breathing, the woman collapsed.

Shaken, the brother-in-law called the emergency services - and
not his family - as he feared this would expose their secret love
affair.

Another source said at that time, the shamefaced brother-in-
law had a tinge of hope that his lover would wake up.

While waiting for the emergency services, he paced around the
ensuite hotel room.

But he was in for a bigger shock as the medical team from
Reaction Unit South Africa (Rusa) confirmed the woman dead
on arrival.

“On arrival the man stated that he and his sister-in-law had
booked into the room at approximately 09:30 this morning.
After spending a few hours together the woman complained of
respiratory distress during foreplay and became unresponsive,”
said the unit.

The reaction unit, which was the first to arrive on the scene,
said that an investigation was underway to determine the
cause of death for the woman.

The unit would not disclose the name of the deceased, and
withheld further information.

According to a local business owner, the couple were regular
guests at the hotel.

“I’m here most of the time, and I see people who walk in and
out of the hotel. I used to walk inside the hotel, but I thought
they were a normal couple.”

Provincial police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala
confirmed the incident but said no case was opened.

"No case was opened due to the fact that she died of natural
causes."

A brief history of those who went out
with a bang
Arthur Greene

                                         On Thursday, a 56-
                                         year-old woman
                                         passed away in under
                                         very strange
                                         circumstances: she
                                         died while having sex
                                         with her brother-in-
                                         law in Durban.
                                         Although this tragic
occurrence sounds extraordinary, dying in the act happens
more often than you might think.

There have been several examples of this phenomenon that
have been recorded in history.
One of the earliest known cases is that of Pope Leo VII, who is
reported to have died in the heat of a passionate moment in
939AD.
Extraordinarily, Leo VII was just the first of four popes who
would eventually suffer this fate.
Pope John XII was allegedly beaten to death by the husband of
a woman he was in the arms of at the time in 964AD, just 25
years after Leo met his fateful end.
His successor, John XIII, unbelievably died under the exact same
circumstances. In 972AD he also died at the hands of an
enraged husband.
The final pope to perish in this way (at the time of writing this
article) was Paul II in 1471. He allegedly suffered a heart attack
whilst “being sodomised by a page boy”.

It is not just popes who have died whilst having sex.

The most famous example is that of Nelson Rockefeller, former
Vice President of the United States, a four-term governor of
New York and an heir to the Rockefeller family fortune.
In 1979, at the ripe old age of 71, Rockefeller had a heart attack
whilst going at it with a 25-year-old woman who was not his
wife.
Another statesman who enjoyed extramarital intercourse a
little too much was Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria, who in

1998 reportedly had a heart attack “during a Viagra-fuelled
orgy with three prostitutes”.
Speaking of happy endings, in 2016 a clip went viral in which an
elderly man suffered a heart attack whilst visiting a sex worker.
The footage shows the deceased being wheeled through
hospital, with the unfortunate woman still attached to him.
These tales seem to show us that men, especially elderly men,
are slightly more likely to suffer a heart attack when they are
engaging in intercourse.
However, according to a recent study, men engaging in
extramarital sex are even more likely to suffer this fate, possibly
because of the added stress, but probably because an angry
husband might murder them.

Residents flee the stench of RDPs for
their old mkhukhus
Mkhuseli Sizani

Residents of Simangweni Street in Joe Slovo Township, Port
Elizabeth are abandoning their RDP houses.

Tormented by the stench and mosquitoes, 13 families have
decided to abandon their RDP homes that are crumbling
because of continuous flooding from sewage.

The problem has been so bad that in 2019 a boy drowned in a
sewage dam caused by the blocked drains behind the houses.

Luthando Jabavu told Scrolla.Africa: "Our shacks were better
than these RDP houses. They were built in 2008 but

immediately after we occupied them sewage became our
nightmare. Every month my toilet gets blocked and poo comes
back and floods my house.”

He said he had to leave his house and erect a shack because the
walls at the bottom were crumbling.

"I have been wearing a mask way before there was a
coronavirus outbreak because of the smell,” he said.

“This has even affected my health because I cough all the time.
At night I can't sleep because of the mosquitoes."

The residents have lost hope and the municipality has no
immediate solutions.

Another resident, Enderson Mbinda, said: "Is this a better life
we were promised? We never lived like this in our shacks even
though we were using the inhumane bucket system. A child
drowned in this sewage that comes from our houses. We break
drains with picks because the municipality is no longer
maintaining them."

Simphiwe Tyukana, ANC Ward 41 councillor, said: "Poor
workmanship is the main cause of this problem.”

"The aim was to ask Human Settlements to rebuild those
houses and change the sewage system. But there are no funds
for that."

He added that temporary shelters erected in 2015 for affected
families were stolen.

Tebogo’s booty brings in the bounty -
but don’t touch!
Tebogo Moobi

                               Tebogo Thobejane is like a
                               walking ATM. The beautiful
                               socialite and actress walks into
                               a club, spends three hours
                               mingling with guests, and walks
                               out with a cool R20,000 in her
                               back pocket.
                               The Soweto born actress is no
                               stranger to the attention her
                               body brings. She broke the
                               internet when she made her
                               first appearance as Belinda, the
                               wedding planner on
Muvhango.
But don’t make the mistake of thinking she is all booty and no
brains. Tebogo studied Acting, Live Performances and

Production at AFDA in Johannesburg and has put in years of
work to get her spotlight.
While she is always ready to smile and joke, her motto is: "You
can look but you can’t touch."
Speaking to Scrolla.Africa, Tebogo said that using her natural
assets to make money was not her original idea but she learnt
what to do when she was in Los Angeles, USA, five years ago.
"My friends and I were at the club having fun and the men
went crazy. They were really fascinated by my body. And when
we left, the club owner paid us for being there," she says.
She said she realised that what had always been a hang-up in
her life when she was a young girl, had now become her gold
mine.
She said she was always booked and made about three
appearances at different clubs per week but then along came
Covid.
“The clubs are not operating so I decided to go for auditions
and I landed the role on Muvhango.” She encouraged other
young women to be proud of their bodies.
"People can call you names. Let them call you slay queen or
anything else, but if it works for you, go for it. Don’t worry what
others say," she says.

Can the best dressed man also be the
best dressed woman?
Sizwe Sibiya

                               Siv Ngesi is no stranger to the
                               spotlight.

                               He has featured on the famous
                               GQ top 10 best-dressed men
                               list and in 2015 was voted one
                               of Cosmo’s Sexiest Men.

                               Now, in the #BussItChallenge,
                               he's deploying his drag queen
                               alter ego "Sivanna" to see if he
                               can dress as well as a woman.

                                The comedian first posted a
video of transforming into Sivanna with the caption “I had to
get involved #BussitChallenge #dragqueen”. But it wasn't until
he posted four pictures with the caption “I introduce to you
Sivanna!” that he shook Twitter.

Some weren't ready for him to be the best-dressed drag queen
of January. But there was also a huge number of people who

applauded his bravery - “showing support to the LGBQT
community”, as one user put it.

Video and Picture source: @iamSivN

Why you should
stay away from
loan sharks
Lungani Zungu

Thabile Ngcobo was desperate
when she couldn’t pay her
debts in October, so the 26 year
old turned to a mashonisa and
borrowed R1,500.

“I had debts to pay and I had to
buy clothes for Christmas for my kids so I went to the loan
shark in October,” she said.

But if the 26-year-old woman from Mandeni, KZN thought she
was in trouble then, her situation got a lot worse.

The mashonisa, known only as Mkhize, allegedly took her Sassa
grant card and ID document earlier this month when Ngcobo
failed to keep up with the monthly payments.

Ngcobo told Scrolla.Africa she had agreed she would pay R350
monthly for six months, which amounts to a total of R2050, but
she failed to make the payments in November and December.

The unemployed Thabile said she relied on a child support
grant she gets for her two children aged eight months and five
years.

“I’m raising my children alone. Their father is absent and he is
also unemployed.”

Ngcobo said she knew it was illegal to borrow money from loan
sharks but that she had no other option.

Scrolla.Africa tracked down the loan shark who admitted that
he lent money to people.

“I don’t go around saying I’m a loan shark. Desperate people
come to me, and I help them. I have been doing this for many
years.”

When asked about taking Thabile’s Sassa card and identity
document, he said she had voluntarily handed him as a
guarantee that she would pay.

Mkhize said she must pay first before he gave her back her
cards.

“No. She can’t take my money and then run to the media when
she is struggling to pay it back,” he said.

Provincial police stressed that it was illegal for loan sharks to
operate and urged people not to borrow money from
mashonisas. The police urged Ngcobo to open a case so they
could investigate.

We promise this is the last time we will
write about Trump

Well, until he goes
broke or goes to jail.

Here’s a sample of
the joy that spread
across social media,
as people across the
world celebrated the

exit of the 45th American president. A video from Jimmy
Kimmel.

Available on the Scrolla website, www.scrolla.co.za

Video source: @jadedcreative