A 50 years old Mother survives by beadwork

Pretoria - A 50 years old mother, Grace Vuma born in the dusty villages of Bungeni shares her way of putting food on the table for her family.

She currently lives in Pretoria, Grace began doing necklaces and other items through beads since 1997 and has found her passion since. 

Receiving pressure from being a single mother and poverty she had to sell items made from beads to sustain income for her family.

"I make Xitsonga culture necklaces and sell them to other shops that sell traditional clothes and items, each beadwork costs R 240." said Grace.

People come back to her to purchase more items because they love her work.

"My costumers love what I am doing, and I am planning on doing beadwork's for other cultures not just for Xitsonga," she said.

All of her children have been raised through the income she makes from the beadwork, and she has now extended her business to selling fruits and snacks.

As time goes Grace wishes to expand her beadwork venture and open a store. 

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SA's future imprisoned by its unacknowledged past - Mamphela Ramphele

2016-09-16 08:02

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Dr Mamphela Ramphele during her lecture at Stellenbosch University. (Tammy Petersen)

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Stellenbosch - South Africa needs to acknowledge that 22 years into democracy, society remains wounded, Mamphela Ramphele said on Thursday.

"The future we aspire to is imprisoned by our unacknowledged past," the activist and former politician said at the annual e'Bosch Prestige Lecture held at Stellenbosch University.

"Is it now time to sit down again to dare to acknowledge the dream of 1994 is fading into the darkness of our despair. Like all heritage, the 1994 dream is being contested and in some spaces denounced as a sellout."

People like Nelson Mandela are accused by some of having let white people get away with murder, symbolic and actual, she said.

"The contestations of 1994 stem from our failure to acknowledge that our diverse heritage was purchased at a heavy cost. It requires an emotional settlement deal."

'We carry scars'

This will be attained through conversation and talking about the past and what divides society, she said.

"We need to sit down and tell each other the stories by which we have lived, including the last 22 years.

"Abuses of human rights and [colonialism], including slavery and economic exploitation wounded both black and white people. These abuses fractured the eternal connectedness between us. We carry those scars in our bodies, souls, minds."

Such facilitated conversations would enable injustice to be acknowledged and for forgiveness to be sought and given, Ramphele said. 

"Forgiveness is guaranteed within the Ubuntu framework. Both the wrongdoer and the wronged will benefit from the reconnection that follows. 

"It's not a favour – it's a requirement to re-establish that connection. They can then see themselves in each other as people.

"We need to go back to those conversations avoided in the 1990s."

Ramphele's lecture formed part of the e'Bosch heritage project, an initiative by the Stellenbosch University and municipality launched in 2012 which aims to unite the divided communities in Stellenbosch through debate and special projects.

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15 years of 9/11

on Sunday, with victims' relatives reading their names and reflecting on a loss that still felt as immediate to them as it was indelible for the nation. Hundreds of victims' family members, survivors and dignitaries gathered at ground zero under an overcast sky that shrouded the 541m-tall top of One World Trade Center, the centrepiece of the rebuilt site. "It doesn't get easier. The grief never goes away. You don't move forward - it always stays with you," said Tom Acquaviva, of Wayne, New Jersey, who lost his son Paul Acquaviva. James Johnson, a retired New York City police sergeant who is now police chief in Forest City, Pennsylvania, came to ground zero for the first time since he last worked on the rescue and recovery efforts in early 2002.  "I've got mixed emotions, but I'm still kind of numb," he said. "I think everyone needs closure, and this is my time to have closure." Nearly 3 000 people died when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville on September 11, 2001. It was the deadliest terror attack on American soil. The 15th anniversary arrives in a country caught up in a combustible political campaign, and keenly focused on political, economic and social fissures. But some at the ceremony pleaded for the nation to look past its differences.  "The things we think separate us really don't. We're all part of this one Earth in this vast universe," said Granvilette Kestenbaum, who lost her astrophysicist husband, Howard Kestenbaum. "We're all ordinary, and we're all special, we're all connected. We waste precious time by thinking otherwise." The nation tries to put partisan politics on hold on the anniversary, and both Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican rival Donald Trump were at the anniversary ceremony at the World Trade Center. Neither candidate was expected to make public remarks at a ceremony where politicians have been allowed to attend, but not speak, since 2011. Clinton and Trump also followed a custom of halting television ads for the day. While ground zero and the nation around it are forever marked but greatly changed since 9/11, the anniversary ceremony itself has become one of the constants in how America remembers the attacks after 15 years. Organisers included some additional music and readings on Sunday to mark the milestone year. But they were keeping close to what are now traditions: moments of silence and tolling bells, an apolitical atmosphere and the hourslong reading of the names of the dead. "This idea of physical transformation is so real here," September 11 memorial President Joe Daniels said. But on this September 11 itself, "bringing the focus back to why we did all this - which is to honour those that were lost - is something very intentional." 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Cape Town – Members of Parliament gloated about their respective election victories during the first post-election sitting of the National Assembly on Tuesday.

DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen picked on Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, who owns a stake in McDonald’s SA.

"In the House we have Mr Ronald McDonald himself. The ANC’s election results are his fault," he said, referring to the fast-food franchise’s mascot clown.

"He arrogantly told his supporters in Tshwane, Johannesburg, and Nelson Mandela Bay that the ANC was not going to lose any key metros.

"Now he’s swapped his Happy Meal for a bit of humble pie."

EFF leader Julius Malema was scathing of the ruling party during his speech on the election results. After the debate concluded, he stood up to raise one last point of order.

"Madam Speaker, I never thought I would live through the day where the ANC was crying for the EFF votes," he said cheekily, before sitting down again.

ANC defiant

His comrade Mbuyiseni Ndlozi followed him, asking stand-in Speaker Mmatlala Borotho if Baleka Mbete would be returning to her seat to give her take on the election results.

"Madam Speaker, I never thought I would live through the day where the ANC was crying for the EFF votes,"

In his speech, ANC Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu defiantly declared that the ANC still won the elections with 54% of the vote nationally, down from 61% in the 2011 local government elections.

EFF MPs cheered and jeered as Mthembu claimed victory. Ndlozi shouted sarcastically: "Well done! Hip hip [hooray]."

During his speech, Freedom Front Plus MP Pieter Mulder asked: "Will Mr Zuma go back to Soweto and tell voters what went wrong? Will he go to Tshwane and tell the people that the ANC lost before Jesus came back?"

Ramaphosa laughed when DA MP Kevin Mileham remarked that President Jacob Zuma would be working in a DA-led metro in Pretoria, and visiting a DA-led metro in Cape Town when visiting Parliament.

The National Assembly is due to have its second plenary session of the third term on Wednesday at 15:00.

Cape Town – Members of Parliament gloated about their respective election victories during the first post-election sitting of the National Assembly on Tuesday.

DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen picked on Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, who owns a stake in McDonald’s SA.

"In the House we have Mr Ronald McDonald himself. The ANC’s election results are his fault," he said, referring to the fast-food franchise’s mascot clown.

"He arrogantly told his supporters in Tshwane, Johannesburg, and Nelson Mandela Bay that the ANC was not going to lose any key metros.

"Now he’s swapped his Happy Meal for a bit of humble pie."

EFF leader Julius Malema was scathing of the ruling party during his speech on the election results. After the debate concluded, he stood up to raise one last point of order.

"Madam Speaker, I never thought I would live through the day where the ANC was crying for the EFF votes," he said cheekily, before sitting down again.

ANC defiant

His comrade Mbuyiseni Ndlozi followed him, asking stand-in Speaker Mmatlala Borotho if Baleka Mbete would be returning to her seat to give her take on the election results.

"She needs to come and share her perspective," he said with a smile.

In his speech, ANC Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu defiantly declared that the ANC still won the elections with 54% of the vote nationally, down from 61% in the 2011 local government elections.

EFF MPs cheered and jeered as Mthembu claimed victory. Ndlozi shouted sarcastically: "Well done! Hip hip [hooray]."

During his speech, Freedom Front Plus MP Pieter Mulder asked: "Will Mr Zuma go back to Soweto and tell voters what went wrong? Will he go to Tshwane and tell the people that the ANC lost before Jesus came back?"

Ramaphosa laughed when DA MP Kevin Mileham remarked that President Jacob Zuma would be working in a DA-led metro in Pretoria, and visiting a DA-led metro in Cape Town when visiting Parliament.

The National Assembly is due to have its second plenary session of the third term on Wednesday at 15:00.

Cape Town – Members of Parliament gloated about their respective election victories during the first post-election sitting of the National Assembly on Tuesday.

DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen picked on Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, who owns a stake in McDonald’s SA.

"In the House we have Mr Ronald McDonald himself. The ANC’s election results are his fault," he said, referring to the fast-food franchise’s mascot clown.

"He arrogantly told his supporters in Tshwane, Johannesburg, and Nelson Mandela Bay that the ANC was not going to lose any key metros.

"Now he’s swapped his Happy Meal for a bit of humble pie."

EFF leader Julius Malema was scathing of the ruling party during his speech on the election results. After the debate concluded, he stood up to raise one last point of order.

"Madam Speaker, I never thought I would live through the day where the ANC was crying for the EFF votes," he said cheekily, before sitting down again.

ANC defiant

His comrade Mbuyiseni Ndlozi followed him, asking stand-in Speaker Mmatlala Borotho if Baleka Mbete would be returning to her seat to give her take on the election results.

"She needs to come and share her perspective," he said with a smile.

In his speech, ANC Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu defiantly declared that the ANC still won the elections with 54% of the vote nationally, down from 61% in the 2011 local government elections.

EFF MPs cheered and jeered as Mthembu claimed victory. Ndlozi shouted sarcastically: "Well done! Hip hip [hooray]."

During his speech, Freedom Front Plus MP Pieter Mulder asked: "Will Mr Zuma go back to Soweto and tell voters what went wrong? Will he go to Tshwane and tell the people that the ANC lost before Jesus came back?"

Ramaphosa laughed when DA MP Kevin Mileham remarked that President Jacob Zuma would be working in a DA-led metro in Pretoria, and visiting a DA-led metro in Cape Town when visiting Parliament.

The National Assembly is due to have its second plenary session of the third term on Wednesday at 15:00.

The country was dying a slow death under the ANC

Cape Town – EFF leader Julius Malema told the ANC on Tuesday to "jump into the nearest hell”.

The country was dying a slow death under the ANC, he said in the National Assembly, during a debate on the August 3 local government elections.

The ANC had dug its own grave, which was why it lost a number of municipalities to the DA and other opposition parties.

He said voting with the DA in hung municipalities was an emergency measure. The party would go back to fighting white monopoly capital once it had rescued the country from the brink of collapse.

“I hear people, and the ANC, saying we are voting for a white party.”

The ANC had worked with the National Party in the fight for democracy, he said.

'Instagram celebrity' ministers

"We will never vote for a party presided over by a person who defied the Constitution. This is the party that killed our people in Marikana. We will never vote for you. He will never get our vote," he said, referring to President Jacob Zuma.

Malema said the ANC should not blame the EFF for losing metros such as Nelson Mandela Bay and Tshwane. 

“We don't vote for crooks, we don't vote for kleptocracy. We don't vote for a party that is going to pass a nuclear deal that is going to collapse this country. Zuma wants to enrich his family and he will never get our vote.”

He told the ANC to get their "Instagram celebrity" ministers to vote and campaign for the party.

“Don't blame it on the EFF. It is of your own making. You've got yourself to blame. You are self-destructing. You can jump into the nearest hell,” he told ANC MPs.

Self-inflicted setbacks

ANC Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu said their engagements with the EFF had convinced them the  party was driven by bitterness and vengeance and had nothing to offer people.

The ANC remained the people's choice and the losses it suffered at the polls were not because any other party was better than it. 

“The losses and setbacks suffered in these elections are self-inflicted. The message sent to us by our people by not voting in their majority, and including many who abstained and decided to stay at home, has been loud and clear and we have heard it,” he said.

The party would change its behaviour and the perception that it was aloof, inward-looking, self-serving, and arrogant.

DA leader Mmusi Maimane said millions of voters chose hope over fear in the elections.

“They refused to succumb to divisive race-based rhetoric, because they know that we are better together. So, to my ANC colleagues on the other side of this House, the lesson of this election is very clear: never take the voters for granted.”

He said voters would throw politicians out of office if they were disrespected.