East Coast Radio Newswatch
ECR Newswatch @ 14H00
KZN's #1 for local news, this is East Coast Radio News Watch. Social development MEC in Bailichinga has ordered an investigation into abuse allegations at a Chezworth children's home. We'll then present the report in three weeks on our own findings, but also it will give us the way forward onwards is going to happen going forward. Reports have emerged of children at the Aryan Benevolent Home Facility in the South of Durban allegedly being assaulted with wet towels and belts. Shenga says the accused workers have been removed pending investigations. She visited ABH this morning and met with the management. These children already come from abusive places and if they are in our homes, in the homes, in Warsaw's Natal, it is really where they should find all the support they need, but also mostly they come back. We also want to really remind them about the children's right. The acid forfeiture unit has seized a luxury SUV and two properties worth 25 and a half million land linked to former Itaguini Mayor Santile Gumeide. The unit claims the seized properties were funded through payments to the company Al Shaddai. It's one of four firms involved in a multi-million-round Durban solid waste tender that is at the centre of a corruption case in which Gumeide and 21 others are the accused. The trial is being heard in the Durban High Court. In Shobe's news, Lupita Nyong'o has called the Cancer Storyline in a quiet place, day one very therapeutic to form after the death of Chadwick Boseman. The Black Panther actor died from colon cancer at the age of 43 and 2020. Nyong'o has told People magazine it was daunting to take on the character but added that it's really important to be reminded of our mortality. And Tim Burton's Beatle Juice will have its world premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival. It's the sequel to the 1988 film starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine Ohara. It will open the festivities on the 28th of August. It's expected in cinemas a week after its premiere at the Italian festival. The top story is our social development MEC Mbali Shinga has ordered an investigation into abuse allegations at a Chadsworth children's home. You can find more news at at ecr.co.au for new swatch hunting on Patelele.