Lulamile Feni

South Africa

Journalist at Daily Dispatch (South Africa)

Daily Dispatch Journalist - Traditional Affairs correspondent.

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Articles

Prominent taxi leader dies in shootout with police

3 days ago | dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni

Prominent taxi leader dies in shootout with police Zola Yolelo and five shot dead in Mthatha ‘after occupants of vehicle started firing’ Premium By LULAMILE FENI - 25 June 2025 Zola “Bishop” Yolelo, a prominent figure in the Eastern Cape taxi industry, was killed in a shootout with the police’s National Intervention Unit (NIU) on Monday, along with five others...
Making money out of misery cannot be tolerated

4 days ago | dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni

Making money out of misery cannot be tolerated Premium By DISPATCH CORRESPONDENT - 24 June 2025 It is in difficult times such as disasters that human solidarity is expected to take centre stage. Grieving with those who lost their relatives, offering a helping hand to those who are rebuilding their lives and any other form of goodwill goes a long way in demonstrating our interconnectedness...
Mthatha childcare centre enters fourth week with no electricity

4 days ago | dailydispatch.co.za | Sikho Ntshobane |Lulamile Feni

Mthatha childcare centre enters fourth week with no electricity Premium By SIKHO NTSHOBANE - 24 June 2025 A care centre in Mthatha which looks after disabled and autistic children has had its electricity cut off for almost a month...
Shattered mother, 28, buries three daughters swept by floods

4 days ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Lulamile Feni

A 28-year-old single mother Yola Bavu and her family pay last respects to her only three children during a somber funeral service held at Singangweni in Mthatha on Monday. A young mother’s world was shattered as she watched her three daughters — her only children — laid to rest, a painful reminder of the devastating floods that have now claimed 97 lives in the Eastern Cape.
Shattered mother buries three daughters swept away in floods

4 days ago | dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni

Shattered mother buries three daughters swept away in floods Premium By LULAMILE FENI - 24 June 2025 A young mother’s world shattered as she watched her three daughters — her only children — laid to rest, a painful reminder of the devastating floods that have now claimed 95 lives in the Eastern Cape...
BREAKING | Eastern Cape taxi boss and five others killed in shootout with police

4 days ago | dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni

A prominent Eastern Cape taxi boss and five others were killed in a shootout with the police’s National Intervention Unit on Monday. The taxi boss, who was prominent in Mthatha and whose identity is known to the Dispatch, was shot and killed on the R61 between Mthatha and Ngcobo reportedly at about 6pm. When the Daily Dispatch arrived at the scene on Monday evening, the road was closed just near Ross Mission. A number of police vehicles, including those from forensic pathology, were on the scene.
‘I grasp concepts better in isiXhosa than in English’

5 days ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Lulamile Feni

Hlumelo Makunga and his former school teacher Nomakwezi Dlali. Hlumelo Makunga, a 19-year-old Wits University student, is living proof that learning in one’s mother tongue can be beneficial to schoolchildren. In 2016, when Makunga entered grade 4 at Ngubezulu Primary School in Tsomo, he was introduced to Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education (MTbBE). IsiXhosa was the primary language of instruction (80%) and English was a secondary language (20%) until he passed grade 7.
Shooting of WSU deputy vice-chancellor ‘was a hit’

5 days ago | dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni

Shooting of WSU deputy vice-chancellor ‘was a hit’ It wasn’t a robbery — Mpambane’s valuables were still in his car, says top cop Masemola Premium By LULAMILE FENI - 23 June 2025 The gunning down of Walter Sisulu University (WSU) institutional support and development deputy vice-chancellor Sinethemba Mpambane has been labelled an assassination...
Legal giant Sangoni given special send-off

6 days ago | dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni

The Eastern Cape provincial government paid its respects to the late former Eastern Cape Judge President Temba Clement Sangoni with an official Provincial Funeral, Category 2, at Qokolweni Great Place in Mthatha on Saturday. Senior judges, including Acting Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga and Justice Dumisa Ntsebeza of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, paid tribute to the legal giant.
Flood disaster no excuse for self-enrichment

1 week ago | dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni |Sikho Ntshobane

Flood disaster no excuse for self-enrichment Premium By LULAMILE FENI and SIKHO NTSHOBANE - 20 June 2025 Finance MEC Mlungisi Mvoko has issued a stern warning against using the flood disaster, which claimed 92 lives so far and left thousands of people displaced, for self-enrichment...