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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.

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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 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