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Khulumani's facilitator Nomarussia Bonase is presently in Indwe in the Eastern Cape, working with Khulumani members. She has managed to trace a number of the still 'unfound' TRC beneficiaries whose names appeared in newspaper supplements at the end of 2011.

In an interview published in the Witness on 21 November 2011, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA), has challenged the government on a range of current burning issues including failures in the delivery of reparations to victims of apartheid gross human rights violations.  

Khulumani welcomes the growing awareness that apartheid reparations remain the unfinished business of the nation. The relevant excerpt from this interview follows:

On November 8, 2011, Khulumani received correspondence dated 3 November 2011, from the Chief Operations Officer in the TRC Unit in the Department of Justice, Dr de Wee.

The 122nd Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, meeting in Lesotho, during October 2011, adopted the following resolution with regards to outstanding TRC reparations:

Khulumani Board Member Shirley Gunn asked President Zuma, at a breakfast held in Cape Town on 1 November 2011, to explain the purpose and objective of the R1 billion President's Fund. The President could not answer her question!

President Zuma's response is shocking: the President does not know what the President's Fund is. The President and his aides laughed nervously and one of them commented that there are several presidents' funds. What ignorance! 

Today marks 13 years since the first TRC Report containing Reparations & Rehabilitation recommendations was handed to President Mandela. Khulumani demands full implementation of these recommendations.

Today Khulumani launches a second RED CARD Campaign. Khulumani:

RED CARDs a President who ignores survivors who suffered terrible harm in the struggle for freedom & democracy;
RED CARDs Members of Parliament who take Special Pensions while their comrades are destitute;

A South Korean woman has been offered a little over $4 in government compensation for the death of her brother during the 1950-53 Korean War, embarrassing officials who say they were bound by an out-dated law.

The woman was two years old when her brother was killed in combat in 1950, but never knew of his existence until told of his death by a neighbor, local media reported, adding the children's mother has suffered from dementia.

The family had not received any compensation until April when the soldier's sister was awarded 5,000 won ($4.33) under a law in effect during the war.

Khulumani marks World Mental Health Day on October 10 with an expression of support for the 'Time to Change' Campaign being run jointly by MIND and Rethink Mental Illness.

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In General:
27/01/2012: Khulumani’s Project Officer, Ms Angela Tembo, has been invited to submit a report on “Revisiting Women’s Health Strategies: Lessons Learnt From Khulumani Support Group Widows Project” for Agenda, the feminist journal in South Africa. The report will highlight the cultural practices that widows in three provinces of the country, Limpopo, Free State and Mpumalanga, continue to face in their everyday lives and that harm their wellbeing.

Eastern Cape:
From Prince Mfolozi (Transkei) 17/01/2012 - "Thank you very much about what you have done for my Region by sending Comrade Russia, a great achievement has happened as even today she was working with us in our new office but all the report is with her. I am back in the office now as I and some of the Committee members we accompanied her to Ngcobo Taxi Rank and now she is on the way to Ngcobo."

Limpopo Province:
The Khulumani Limpopo Provincial Committee has organised a provincial meeting on Thursday, February 2, 2012 at the Regional Training Centre in Polokwane on the corner of Rabe and Paul Kruger Streets, commencing at 09:00. The meeting will be chaired by SACC General Secretary Reverend Pataki and will be addressed by a number of Khulumani's strategic partners including the Department of Justice, the Human Rights Commission and Lawyers for Human Rights. COSATU General Secretary, Comrade Zwelinzima Vavi, has committed to attending. Event detail & programme.

Western Cape:
03/02/2011 - Khulumani wishes to express its deep condolences to Zukiswa Puwana from the Western Cape Khulumani Provincial Executive Committee for the passing of her mother in Lady Frere in the Eastern Cape. We are very sad about your loss. Khulumani sends its love and support to Zuki at this time of mourning.

Preparations are underway for the Western Cape Provincial Capacity-Building for Participatory Democracy workshop scheduled for 6-9 February 2012, thanks to the assistance of the Foundation for Human Rights.

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