By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - In this week's edition of A Long Walk to Democracy: We zoom in on elderly safety. This follows the death of a 71-year-old pensioner at Shallcross south of Durban just over a week ago. It is alleged he was stabbed to death while on his way to a local shopping complex. This murder is among the many where older persons have been killed across Durban in the recent past. Newsbreak visited the Shallcross area where many elderly persons now fear to leave their homes. Tashlan Naidoo started off by speaking to long time Shallcross resident Mr Aboobaker...

By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - In this week's edition of A Long Walk to Democracy: We zoom in on elderly safety. This follows the death of a 71-year-old pensioner at Shallcross south of Durban just over a week ago. It is alleged he was stabbed to death while on his way to a local shopping complex. This murder is among the many where older persons have been killed across Durban in the recent past. Newsbreak visited the Shallcross area where many elderly persons now fear to leave their homes. Tashlan Naidoo started off by speaking to long time Shallcross resident Mr Aboobaker...

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#PODCAST A LONG WALK TO DEMOCRACY: Elderly safety in Durban starting to become a major concern #sabcnews

By Newsbreak's Shanell Daniel - 

At just 16-years-old South African activist, Vernon Moodley, was exiled in Zambia in the early 1960s and ultimately died after a drowning incident in 1967. Over 60 years later, his family has found a sense of closure after Moodley's remains were repatriated to South Africa and laid to rest on home soil on Friday. This follows the successful repatriation of just 42 freedom fighters who were honoured by government in a ceremony at Freedom Park, in Pretoria. Speaking to Newsbreak Talk's Shanell Daniel, Moodley's sister, Veronica Ally, goes back in time and shares the family's turmoil after Moodley's exile and shocking death...

By Newsbreak's Shanell Daniel - 
At just 16-years-old South African activist, Vernon Moodley, was exiled in Zambia in the early 1960s and ultimately died after a drowning incident in 1967. Over 60 years later, his family has found a sense of closure after Moodley's remains were repatriated to South Africa and laid to rest on home soil on Friday. This follows the successful repatriation of just 42 freedom fighters who were honoured by government in a ceremony at Freedom Park, in Pretoria. Speaking to Newsbreak Talk's Shanell Daniel, Moodley's sister, Veronica Ally, goes back in time and shares the family's turmoil after Moodley's exile and shocking death...

#PODCAST REPATRIATED EXILED ACTIVIST VERNON MOODLEY REMEMBERED BY FAMILY

By Newsbreak's Salma Patel - 

Rescue and relief efforts are continuing along the N3 Toll Route in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands and have now extended towards Harrismith in the Free State. Aid organisation - The Al Imdaad Foundation - is still on the ground assisting those commuters who are still stuck in their vehicles. Hygiene has now become an issue and the foundation is distributing packs for this. The foundation's Disaster relief manager, Abed Karrim, was also one of the commuters who was entrapped in the snow with two other colleagues at Nottingham Road. He says they are still assisting people along the N3...

By Newsbreak's Salma Patel - 
Rescue and relief efforts are continuing along the N3 Toll Route in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands and have now extended towards Harrismith in the Free State. Aid organisation - The Al Imdaad Foundation - is still on the ground assisting those commuters who are still stuck in their vehicles. Hygiene has now become an issue and the foundation is distributing packs for this. The foundation's Disaster relief manager, Abed Karrim, was also one of the commuters who was entrapped in the snow with two other colleagues at Nottingham Road. He says they are still assisting people along the N3...

#PODCAST Aid organisation - The Al Imdaad Foundation - is still on the ground assisting commuters along the N3 Toll Route

By Newsbreak Talk's Shanell Daniel - 

The N3 Toll Route has been closed from Estcourt in the Kwazulu-Natal Midlands to Harrismith in the Free State due to heavy snowfall. This after the snowfall left motorists stranded in their vehicles and unable to move due to the thick snow on Friday evening. Newsbreak Talk gets an update on weather conditions and road traffic conditions is Kwazulu-Natal, Gauteng, Eastern Cape and other parts of the country that have been affected by the adverse weather conditions.

By Newsbreak Talk's Shanell Daniel - 
The N3 Toll Route has been closed from Estcourt in the Kwazulu-Natal Midlands to Harrismith in the Free State due to heavy snowfall. This after the snowfall left motorists stranded in their vehicles and unable to move due to the thick snow on Friday evening. Newsbreak Talk gets an update on weather conditions and road traffic conditions is Kwazulu-Natal, Gauteng, Eastern Cape and other parts of the country that have been affected by the adverse weather conditions.

#PODCAST A LONG WALK TO DEMOCRACY: Elderly safety in Durban starting to become a major concern #sabcnews

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