Breakfast Edition: 29 July 2015
SOUTH AFRICANS CONVEY THEIR LOVE FOR TUTU: Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu is expected to remain in hospital until at least the weekend, after he was re-admitted late yesterday. According to a media release by the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, the 83-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate was readmitted to the hospital after expressing renewed discomfort. “His oncologist confirms that his PSA level is pleasingly low,” the foundation statement said. “His doctors considered it prudent for him to return to hospital for observation, the statement quoted Mpho Tutu as saying. “He’ll have a few days of bed-rest while his medical dream team brings the situation under control and determines the next course of action, if any. Graeme Raubenheimer reports.
Archbishop Desmond #Tutu has been readmitted to hospital. Sending our best wishes to this champion of human rights. pic.twitter.com/fdK3PRWjeA
— AmnestySouthernAfric (@AmnestySARO) July 28, 2015
Put your feet up, Arch! #DesmondTutu #WelcomeHome pic.twitter.com/Roaz2tZ7sQ
— Desmond Tutu PF (@DesmondTutuPF) July 23, 2015
Praying for Arch Bishop Emeritus #DesmondTutu will be whole and completely restored. https://t.co/2T9Y6ZiMne
— Lesiba Kgwele (@LesibaKgwele) July 20, 2015
POLICE KEEP AN EYE ON TEMBISA: Gauteng police are still keeping an eye on the situation in Tembisa, after yesterday morning's shooting at a taxi rank, in which a woman was shot and killed and three more passangers wounded. It's believed the shooting was as a result of route rivalry between the Tembisa and Midrand taxi assosiations. No arrests have yet been made and police major Mac Mgomizulu says they are keeping a close watch this morning.
55 bullets fired in #Tembisa #taxiviolence ,2 suspects on the run http://t.co/DGs0AV7Sy4 #Sangweni @ERCrime @GCALERTS pic.twitter.com/NpT0jIJLSx
— Kempton Express (@KemptonExpress) July 28, 2015
COMPROMISE REACHED ON RULES OF PARLIAMENT: The Speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Mbete has reached a compromise in terms of the ammendment of parliamentry rules - to deal with disruptive members. All parties, accept the EFF, are in agreement that the presiding officer should be allowed to call in unarmed marshalls to remove such members. The DA's chief whip, John Steenhuyzen however says they were adamant that no police or armed officials should be involved.
MACIA COURT CASE RESUMES: The defence in the trial of nine former police officers, accused of killing Mido Macia, claim the Mozambican taxi driver "fell out of the police van" and insist the handcuffs they restrained him with accidentally hooked onto the back of the van. A video of Macia being dragged from the back of the van through the streets of Daveyton on the East Rand went viral in 2013. He was later found dead in a police holding cell. As Sli'ndelo Masakane reports, all nine accused have pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder.
LEARNERS PAY TRIBUTE TO THEIR TEACHER: In New Zealand, Palmerston North Boys’ High School teacher Dawson Tamatea unexpectedly passed away. At his funeral, the students put on a very emotional and powerful Haka performance that is sure to give you chills. The Haka is a very intense ancestral traditional war dance of the Maori people of New Zealand.
BOBBI KRISTINA'S FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS: Bobbi Kristina Brown's funeral is set to take place in Georgia this weekend. The family of the 22-year-old aspiring actress, who died at a hospice last Sunday after being found unresponsive in a bathtub at her home near Atlanta on January 31, will reportedly gather to mourn and celebrate her life at St. James United Methodist Church in Alpharetta, Georgia before she is buried next to her late mother, Whitney Houston, at Fairview Cemetery in New Jersey next Monday.
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