Bapsy Mlangeni: Alive and kicking
Thursday, October 02, 2014
As I went through Facebook last week, I came across an advert on a friend’s timeline promoting The Legends Music Festival at Millennium Restaurant in Mogoditshane. One of the names that struck me was that of Bapsy Mlangeni. “Ah, this man is still alive,” I exclaimed as I enlarged the picture to see properly.
The other four names in the advert did not strike me as such, for I had recently attended a show where Neo Maphaka, the former CJB lead singer featured. Also I am friends with Thabile Mazolwana, Table Madiba and Phamela Nkutha on Facebook.
Our weekly edition carries painful articles of people being murdered. Whilst some are classified as Gender Based Violence (GBV), there are still a large percentage of murder cases, which often happen at drinking spots, after people are heavily intoxicated. We have in the past carried articles where an individual was murdered because they refused to give someone a cigarette, and sadly this is where we are at now!In this very edition, there is an...