A Better Version of Me

  By Naledi Mdashe Fundiswa Florence Mdashe the second child out of two kids, she was raised in the rural area, where she lived with her grand-parents, aunts, uncles and many cousins. She was the youngest in her home and was the first one to ever go to University in her family. She describes her motive to go to university as “breaking the financial generational curse”, she says that she wanted more for her family and that she saw potential in her eldest cousins, to go further their education, but still not one of them went to university but her. She is an experienced teacher, who has been teaching for over 30 years. She has taught different generations at a very young age, she started teaching when she was only 23 years old. One thing she wished for was to hear her mom say “she was proud of her” she went and graduated university but fortunately that did not happen because both her parents passed away when she was still in High School and her grand-mother followed before she even gr...

  Tazne Van Wyk’s killer found. By Naledi Mdashe     Moyhdian Pangkaeker in the Western Cape High Court. Picture: Armand Hough/ African News Agency (ANA). Eight-year-old Tazne Van Wyk went missing on 7th February 2020. Two weeks later she was found dead in a stormwater pipe outside Worcester. Moyhdian Pangkaeker (56-years-old) has been declared guilty of the kidnapping, rape and killing of the eight-year-old on Wednesday the 26 October 2022, in the Western Cape High Court. The accused has been convicted on 21 of 27 charges against him. The 56-year-old’s DNA was found under Tazne’s nails and many assume that she was fighting for her life. Pangkaeker was arrested on 17 February 2020 in Cradock, Eastern Cape. The 56-year-old told the police to look for his ex-wife in her back yard, she was found dead in a cardboard wrapped with a carpet. He was found guilty of multiple rape charges against him, including his daughter who he impregnated and others who he forcibly commi...