Shallcross suspected drug kingpin Yaganathan Pillay has been laid to rest.
Community members came out in their numbers to pay their last respects.
Teddy Mafia's funeral is nothing short of opulence and extravagance. The community is all out paying their respects. Thugs are always revered and looked up to in communities, I thought this only happened in the locations amongst Black People.
I think I saw that animal that chopped off 2 people heads with an axe in broad daylight and on camera walking about at the funeral. #TeddyMafiapic.twitter.com/NGtpnc8D4I
Law enforcement officials were deployed to monitor proceedings, a move which raised the ire of some South Africans.
Money will always be power and the driving force to the SA justice system, in the cost of its people. What good justice system lets a man they found with drugs worth R5 Million go free. Even this funeral shows #TeddyMafia had all the badge boys on payroll. SAPS is a joke.
it's very disturbing how the gov't encourage gangsterism by sending police to these funerals ,Also the media are enablers of gangsterism for covering and giving these funerals airtime, unbelievable that they're airing this #TeddyMafia funeral, very strange and bizarre
In a broadcast election debate, Durban-based Vibe FM turned its attention to the question of local arts funding.
African National Congress representative Amanda Bhani was asked why the eThekwini Municipality and other municipalities in KwaZulu Natal don’t have proper policy on the funding of art. In response, Bunny said the city of eThekwini had drafted an arts policy that is being circulated for discussion with stakeholders.
The Democratic Alliance’s Nicole Graham
accused the local ANC would claim there is little money available for arts and
culture, but this is not the case. She added that unfunded mandates only means
that it’s not listed as competency of the municipality.
Msizi Mkhize of Black First Land First (BLF)
said that the art industry in South
Africa is not taken seriously. He added that the private sector in the arts is
owned by white people and this is why they run activities everywhere. Mkhize
said money is only allocated to well-developed areas.
The National Freedom Party’s Skhumbuzo
Sibisi stated that art and culture should be associated with tourism so artists
can been exposed to different people who visit the country. He also added that
positions in the art department are given to people who do not know anything
about the industry.
The ANC also emphasized that they are not
focused on mainstream art issues but they are more focused on local art as they
use local centres to minimize cost.
Other political parties were invited but they did not arrive.
