Lenasia Watch

A 3 day long search for missing Lenasian teenager Bilal Asmal has finally ended in tragedy.Bilal who was cashing a cheque for his uncle in order to pay staff at a nearby shop in fordsburg was kidnapped thursday afternoon at around 1:30pm when 4 robbers kidnapped him for R20000 that he had on him.Through several [...]

Eastwave radio, a radio station who have earned there place amongst the Indian community seems to be having a few problems. Drive time deejay Saleem Cassim claims to be unfairly dismissed after rumours that he was instrumental in sabotaging the stations computers and causing the computers to crash. After numerous complaints by local residents wanting to [...]

Ms Fatima Fredericks was ecstatic last December when she heard she would be receiving a house to the value of R600000 in her name courtesy of Calgro, highveld stereo and MS5 contractors. How this began was through a phone call Ms Fredericks sister Mrs. Suraya Jaffer made to the highveld radio station during there Christmas wish [...]

Having survived the bitter cold yesterday (22nd April 2009) at the numerous voting stations in Lenasia, voters are relieved that they have made there mark in there country and have thus given themselves the right to lodge complaints about there country. What has been even more overwhelming is the hype and eagerness people showed to vote, [...]

Sophie Maleke of Thembelihle informal settlement in Lenasia,having arrived at her local voting station withstanding the cold at 05:30 in the morning,was sad when her name could not be found on the voters roll.Being the first to arrive at the voting station she was unfortunately not the first to vote as officials were scrambling to [...]

Residents of Lenasia were up early this morning to begin voting. All polling stations were functioning properly except for a slight delay in the arrival of ballot papers at the Trinity school voting station. There was also some confusion about temporary ID documents at the Lenasia fire station. Here is a video of voting at [...]

Being close to elections many of us have been able to see the numerous placards and marketing campaigns of various political parties bombarding our every senses,political parties are squinching at the thought that elections are just a day away from today,and who knows who will be winning this election.needless to say the political campaigns onslaught on scrambling every last vote [...]

A rally in support of Gaza and in protest of Israel’s illegal occupation of palestine has been planned for Wednesday night 7:30pm at the Baitun-Noor hall in Lenasia. The rally has been organised by the PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY ALLIANCE whose message is “Unite against Apratheid Israel” Speakers include: . Moulana Ebrahim Bham (General Secretary of [...]

Lenasia is a large town located south of Soweto in Gauteng Province, South Africa. The town is not far from Johannesburg Central Business District (35 km) and is zoned within the “City of Joburg” Municipality. The first inhabitants of Lenasia were of Indian origin. During the Apartheid era, Johannesburg’s Indians were placed in the vicinity of [...]

An accident occured earlier this evening near the entrance of Lenasia on the K53 road involving a white Mercedes. The car apparently overturned and one of the occupants was killed instantly, it is not clear if there were any other passengers in the car. When we arrived on the scene there were no ambulances or [...]