WeeklySA_AdminMZILENI’S LAST SHOT
Veteran photographer Mike Ndumiso Mzileni passed away at his Soweto home on Wednesday, aged 80.
Mike Mzileni retired from full-time journalism in 2000, having worked for publications like City Press, The World, the Sunday Express, the Rand Daily Mail and the Sunday Times in an illustrious career spanning five decades.
Mzileni’s career highlights include covering the 1976 student upheavals, risking life and limb along with other newshounds in the line of perilous duty. Some of his work remains a permanent feature at the Hector Pietersen Museum in Orlando West, Soweto.
In 2016, he showcased some of his 1976 portfolio – along with the late Bongani Mnguni, Len Kumalo and Tladi Khuele – at the 40th anniversary June 16 exhibition held at The Market Photo Workshop, organised by Black Ink. Funeral arrangements are still to be announced.
SOWETO TO HOST TSIETSI MASHININI LECTURE
The 7th annual Tsietsi Mashinini Lecture will be held at the student leader’s alma mater, Morris Isaacson High School, in Soweto on June 11.
The theme of the lecture is “Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic” and will be delivered by keynote speaker K S Maaroganye, a psychiatrist who also speak on the high incidence of depression and suicide in South Africa, especially among the youth. He is the public sector psychiatry convenor for the SA Society of Psychiatrists.
The event organised by the Morris Isaacson Alumni, Thusanang Youth Trust, the Mashinini family and the school’s administration. It will take start at 2pm.
As president of the Soweto Students Representative Council, Mashinini became the central figure behind the 1976 student uprisings. He fled to exile a highly wanted man amid a massive police dragnet and died in Conakry, Guinea in 1990.
HUGE REWARD FOR DANGEROUS FUGITIVE
The police in Gauteng have issued a reward of R100 000 to anyone who can come forth with information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of Mbuso Ndabazovela Biyela who is wanted for multiple cases of murder that occurred between the year 2017 and 2022 at Jabulani and Lenasia in Gauteng and Nquthu in KwaZulu-Natal.
The suspect is tall, light in complexion and deemed armed and very dangerous.
Anyone with information that can lead to the arrest of the suspect as well as the conviction is urged to call Major-General Mbuso Khumalo at 082 555 8642 and Colonel Friccah Masilela at 082 822 7270 or Crime Stop at 08600 10111 or by using MySAPS app. All received information will be treated as confidential.
COLLECT CHRONIC MEDS AT POST OFFICE
Patients of government clinics can now choose to receive their chronic medication at a Post Office instead of collecting it from their clinic.
This collection service is available in all provinces, except the Western Cape, at 342 post offices.The service is aimed at patients who live or work closer to one of these post offices than a Government clinic. Post Offices are open until 17H00 on weekdays and Saturday mornings, allowing much longer hours for collecting medication.
According to the Post Office, queues at its outlets have vastly reduced since the collection point for SRD grants was moved to supermarkets. Medication can now be collected very quickly and stress-free.
Patients who would like to collect their medication from their local post office, should arrange it with their clinic. The Department of Health sends the patient an SMS when the medication is ready for collection and patients have 14 days to collect it before the medication is returned to the Department of Health.
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