Happy birthday to you my Husband @solontsizwa. Am the luckiest girl in the world to have been blessed with a love like yours. Lockdown of nie, we’re going to celebrate you my person. I love you with all of being. Been about ya and I’m still about ya!!!”Multi-talented actress, Dineo Langa celebrates her husband, Solo with sweet words on social media.

Dineo shares a photo of herself with Solo and captioned it with:

“Happy birthday to you my Husband @solontsizwa. Am the luckiest girl in the world to have been blessed with a love like yours. Lockdown of nie, we’re going to celebrate you my person. I love you with all of being. Been about ya and I’m still about ya!!!”

Media personality Somizi Mhlongo, has slammed CY Frozen Foods, a Musina based butchery, for disrespecting domestic workers following their advert. The butchery has come under a lot of criticism after it posted an advert that, it is open for business during this lockdown and they are selling ‘domestic worker’s food’ which included chicken necks, gizzards, heads and feet on their list.

The advert had many saying it had racist undertones and it undermines the dignity of domestic workers.

Somizi has also come out guns blazing to slam the company. He said domestic workers play a significant role in our lives and, they don’t deserve such disrespect.

The TV star made an example that their home is also their helpers home, he added that she can eat anything she wants and even drink whatever.

Emotion overcomes an elderly woman after she received a food parcel from the Nelson Mandela Foundation and others on Freedom Day.
Image: Supplied / Nelson Mandela Foundation
The Nelson Mandela Foundation on Monday highlighted that SA was not a free nation if the basic needs of all people were not taken care, especially during the coronavirus epidemic.

“On this day of Freedom Day, we can never say to people ‘happy Freedom Day’ when we know that [the less fortunate] are starving,” said Sello Hatang, CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

“We must go back to the words of Madiba in 1993. On the eve of our democracy being achieved he said that voting alone is not enough. All of us must strive to ensure that people have water, that people have bread and that they have shelter,” Hatang said.

He, along with members of the Imbumba Foundation, the Siya Kolisi Foundation and the #Each1Feed1 initiative travelled to the Musanda-Mauluma and Matsila villages in Venda where they distributed about 500 food parcels to those hardest hit by the coronavirus lockdown.

This included those who ran their own informal businesses which had since stopped operating due to the lockdown regulations, the elderly and child-headed households and owners of Early Childhood Development (ECD) facilities who haven’t been paid school fees due to children being kept at home during this time.

The foundations distributed food parcels which, according to them, could feed a family of five for a month. They also gave out hygiene products.

“The initiative intends on supporting families for a minimum of three months,” a statement issued by the Nelson Mandela Foundation read.

Joining the foundations on Monday were former soccer star Kaizer Motaung Jr and media personality Maps Maponyane, when they met the local chief and pledged their solidarity.

Siya Kolisi, the captain of the national rugby team, partnered with the Nelson Mandela Foundation in distributing food parcels on Freedom Day.
Siya Kolisi, the captain of the national rugby team, partnered with the Nelson Mandela Foundation in distributing food parcels on Freedom Day.
Image: Supplied / Nelson Mandela Foundation
Maponyane was quoted as saying: “More than anything else, the overarching freedom that every single human being must be offered is the freedom of dignity. What’s made this whole Covid crisis just so detrimental is the number of families that will be struggling, the ones that will be suffering as a result, with no source of income, with needing to stay in lockdown without being able to move, without being able to work – and therefore losing that freedom of dignity. And I think that’s what makes the work that we’re all doing for #Each1Feed1 important.”

Last week, the foundations distributed 500 food parcels in Zwide in the Eastern Cape. On Saturday, distributions were made to support child-headed households in Zandspruit, Johannesburg.

In a bid to give lasting solutions, the initiatives have also started on a project to provide boreholes to address water shortages.

rchbishop Desmond Tutu reflects on Freedom Day in the time of the coronavirus.
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South Africa has not fulfilled the vision that it had when it obtained its liberation from apartheid 26 years ago, archbishop Desmond Tutu foundation said on Monday.

“The democratic South Africa that celebrates its 26th birthday today is not the fair and just country that it should be – that many in 1994 dreamed it would be,” read a statement from the Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation.

“This cannot be blamed on the coronavirus. If anything, the virus has done the country a ghastly favour by exposing the unsustainable foundations on which it is built… that must be urgently fixed,” it continued.

Like the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the Tutu’s foundation said it is impossible to celebrate freedom when many in the country remained impoverished.

“Celebrating the spirit of Freedom Day today means powerfully accelerating the need for food, security, human rights and dignity for our all our vulnerable sisters and brothers,” it said.

They called for reflection and selflessness.

“That is the promise Freedom Day brings in the time of the coronavirus crisis, the promise of reaching beyond ourselves and rediscovering our inter-dependent soul, obligations and humanity.”

Fans and friends have mourned the death of popular actor Sipho Ngema.
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Rhythm City has joined dozens of friends and fans in paying tribute to late actor Sipho Ngema, who played the role of Raymond on the show.

The actor died in a Johannesburg hospital last week after suffering from pulmonary hypertension, which caused his heart to fail.

In a statement to TshisaLIVE, Rhythm City’s creative director Eric Itumeleng Mogale said they had lost a friend and a fighter.

“We would like to send our heartfelt condolences to the Ngema family. May The Good Lord protect your beautiful hearts in these challenging times. We truly lost a friend, a fighter, and an artist.”

Eric said he had known Sipho for years and was heartbroken by news of his death.

“I worked with Sipho for many years. I knew him when he was still doing props at Scandal in 2005 before he pursued his love for acting. He played a stint role in Rhythm City as Lerato Tselapedi’s boyfriend from Rustenburg. May your soul live on Mthi wam (Sipho Ngema).”

Besides his role as Raymond, Sipho was much loved for playing Terror on Uzalo and a drug boss in the Mzansi Magic miniseries Stash in 2013. More recently he featured on e.tv’s Isipho.

Sipho’s daughter Mbali told TshisaLIVE last week that the family were devastated by his passing and struggling to make sense of it all.

She said while many knew him as a hard man on screen, he was a softie at home.

“I will definitely miss his voice and love for music. To the world he seemed hard-core and strict, but he was a genuine softie to his six children.”

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