BY Phumlani Saul

ELIZABETH Dandara (28) normally sleeps until the sun is high, but yesterday morning she woke up very early.

The woman from KwaNobuhle kasi, Uitenhage said she was up early to wash her family’s clothes.

She had barely left her bed when a speeding jikeleza taxi crashed through the bedroom wall!

Elizabeth believes that waking up early in the morning saved her life. Unfortunately, all her family’s food and furniture was damaged.

She said the taxi crashed into her house at about 5.45am, causing the wall to collapse on the spot where she had been sleeping.

“I normally sleep late, but yesterday I was restless, so I got out of bed and started to do my washing,” she said.

“About 15 minutes after I had left my house, I heard my neighbours screaming, some calling my name.

“I was confused and didn’t know what was happening. I then heard a big crash as the wall fell and my house was covered in dust.

“I saw an Opel Corsa at rest in my house.

“I immediately screamed for my two kids and my sister, but they were fortunately asleep in another room.

“The wall that separated my bedroom and the lounge had collapsed.”

She thanked God for saving her life. “If I hadn’t gone outside I would be dead now. I had saved R2 500 with my stokvel for Christmas food, but now it’s all gone down the drain.

“The driver promised to repair the damages. He claims his brakes failed.”

By Phumlani Saul and Lolwethu Leeu

More than 150 people closed Mondile Clinic in Khayelitsha, Uitenhage, on Tuesday morning.

The protesters sang songs and blocked Mondile Street by burning tyres in front of the gates to the clinic which they had locked.

Zimasa Ngxili said, “Patients arrive at this clinic at 7am and are told to go back home at 3pm without being attended to.” Ngxili said this had been going on for three years. He said nurses arrived at 8am and started working at 10am at a started by gossiping.

“They have a complaint box near the door, but it’s a futile exercise writing complaints, because the very same people who read them are these problematic nurses,” she said.

Another Patient, Noluthando Mpazamo,told DK news, “Last month, they told me my folder is missing.”

Community leader Zamuxolo Xoki said, “Today when we arrived, we were sent outside whilst it was raining. The clinic committee said there was no use sitting inside when there is no one to assist us, because our folders are missing.

“We have been told the data capturer is on leave and that there is no clerk in this clinic. In fact, there has been no clerk at this clinic for over more than 15 years,” said Xoki.

Member of the ten-person clinic committee Lindiswa Poti confirmed that the committee had told residents to stand outside. ”We were waiting for the district officials to arrive … Many folders are missing.”

“The district must appoint a clerk … When the district officials arrived yesterday when we called them, they walked past us to a closed meeting with the nurses.

Eastern Cape Health spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said, “Residents are encouraged to raise their concerns but shutting down services is discouraged. I have requested the district manager to attend to their complaints.”

By Zwadile Bhefile

THE POLICE yesterday surprised shoppers in the supermarket and butchery at Walmer shopping centre, in Port Elizabeth.

People were shocked to find almost half of the staff were bust for not having correct immigration documents!

The drama happened during an inspection by the employment and labour department with police, Sars, municipal health inspectors, National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications, Home Affairs and agriculture departments. Eastern Cape Labour spokesman Mishack Magakwe said they got a tip-off that employers weren’t following labour laws.

“They failed to issue employees with payslips, pay overtime and there were unlawful deductions. Workers weren’t registered for UIF.”

By Lolwethu Leeu

AT FIRST he was a good man – until he moved in.

Portia Magoga (36) from Blikkiesdorp, Uitenhage said from the time her boyfriend started living with her, he became abusive.

And on Sunday, she claims, he burnt down her two-roomed shack.

“I regret letting this man move in with me. My children lost their school uniforms in the blaze. The clothes I’m wearing now were donated to me.”

She met him in November.

“As soon as he moved in, he demanded that I give him my three kids’ grant money. When I refused, he threatened to burn down our shack or kill us.

“I told him to leave because he was making our lives hell, but he refused to go,” she claimed.

When he allegedly set fire to the shack, Portia and her kids were not at home. Now she does not know how to get her life back together.

“I’m unemployed and I don’t know where I’ll get money to buy materials to rebuild my shack.”

The 41-year-old boyfriend was arrested four hours later in a nearby shebeen.

Lieutenant Gerda Swart confirmed the arrest.

“A case was opened and the man was charged with arson and malicious damage to property,” she said.

By Daily Kasi News Reporter

Th

e National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Monday welcomed the effective 15-year imprisonment of Zuko Mdingi, 28, for the murder and robbery of his employer following a salary dispute.

NPA Eastern Cape spokesperson Luxolo Tyali said the Tsomo Regional Court sentenced Mdingi to 15 years for murder, 10 years on a charge of robbery with aggravating circumstances and five years for theft.

“Evidence presented in court is that Mdingi was employed as a livestock herder and caretaker at a property belonging to the deceased, Xolisa Makalima (49), who stayed in another property of hers at the same village of Mbeveni in Mthwaku area in the district of Ngqamakwe,” said Tyali.

“On the evening of 27 May 2018, Mdingi went to where Makalima stayed to get his salary but she told him she did not have the money. It is then that Mdingi drew a knife and stabbed the woman before strangling her with a rope. Thereafter, he took her car keys, three cell phones, R60 in cash and clothes belonging to her son.”

Mdingi left for his hometown of Mbizana, where he was arrested, following the discovery of Makalima’s body.

“The cell phones he had stolen were recovered from him, with conversations between him and a sangoma on Whatsapp. In the messages, he disclosed how he killed the deceased and was asking the sangoma to help him evade arrest,” said Tyali.

“The killer initially pleaded not guilty, but changed his plea to that of guilty when he was confronted with the overwhelming and incriminating evidence by prosecutor Ayanda Nkumanda.”

The court ordered that Mdingi’s sentences for the different crimes would run concurrently.

By Phumlani Saul

“DON’T hit me! Please call the cops!”

This was the plea of a man who was beaten up by angry residents on Wednesday night.

It happened after the man, in his 30s, was accused of robbing a woman in Mandela squatter camp in Uitenhage.

The residents beat the man with knobkerries and sticks and threw stones at him before he was rescued by cops.

Robbery victim Nonzukiso Mehlwana (30) told Daily kasi news: “I was walking down the street and the next moment I saw the man flashing a knife at me. He grabbed my bag and ran away. Luckily, people who were sitting outside a shack saw the incident and came to my rescue.

“The thug was caught and beaten by the crowd. He confessed that he and his friends robbed people of their cellphones and sold them for drugs.”

Nkululeko April (22) said: “Last month I was also robbed of my Samsung tablet.”

Police spokeswoman Lieutenant Gerda Swart said: “The suspect was admitted to hospital with serious injuries. He will appear in court as soon as he is discharged.”

By Phumlani Saul

THIS Ben 10 did not care how his sugar mama’s husband felt about her cheating on him.

But now he knows the hurt of heartbreak.He said his younger friend stole Cikizwa Mabhulu (51) from him.

Thanduxolo Makhalipha (32) from KwaNobuhle in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape said: “We dated for five years. She said she was not happy with her husband.

“I dumped girlfriends of my own age to concentrate on her.

“But in 2014 I lost my job as a jikeleza driver. That is when the fighting over money and her cheating started.

“When I tried to end things in July last year she pleaded with me not to go,” he said.

“Then the other day I saw her cosy with my friend drinking in a tavern. She ruined my life. How can she cheat with my friend?

“What is worse is that he is younger than me!”

But Cikizwa said: “He is trying to embarrass me more than he already has. I have a court order against him as he is abusive when he is drunk. He is just bitter that things did not work out between us. Now he is out to destroy my life because I refused to buy him booze and cigarettes.”

Cikizwa said Thanduxolo did not break up her marriage of 22 years. She was divorced from her husband in 2014.

• New Ben 10 Godfrey Magugu (30) said: “I started dating Cikizwa in December 2014 after we met at an umgidi ceremony.

“I knew she was then dating Thanduxolo, but she told me she did not want him because he was abusive.

“I love her very much. He can’t take her away. She is mine.”

By DK news Reporter

A man who was gunned down outside his child’s school in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday has been identified as a 43-year-old taxi boss.

Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the victim was waiting in his car for his 35-year-old wife who had just dropped their 9-year-old son off at school.

She says the moment the wife got back into their Audi Q7 an unknown person approached the vehicle and fired a shot through the driver’s side.

A second suspect then also approached and fired two more shots.

The men got into a waiting white VW Polo and fled the scene.

The wife was not injured in the shooting but taken to hospital.

The victim sustained a gunshot wound to his head, neck and shoulder and died at the scene.

Police suspect that he was the target of the shooting.

His name is known to DK

News but is still being withheld.

By Phumlani Saul

A WORKER is in pain after allegedly being moered by his boss for working slowly.

Thandisizwe Oliphant (26) of KwaNobuhle in Uitenhage works as a packer at the Citrus Orange Farm in Kirkwood.

And he claims what his mlungu boss did to him has left him and his colleagues traumatised. Last Friday they downed tools in protest.

he has money to bribe cops.”

Bleeding, Thandisizwe managed to make it to the cop shop, where he opened a case.

The communications manager known only as Peter Naatjie said: “The manager has been suspended and there is a disciplinary hearing. We are doing an investigation.”

Worker Nobengazi Mabhele, (36) said: “It’s not the first time he moered someone at this farm.”

Warrant Officer Gerda Swart said: “An assault case was opened.”