Not much good news this week
Contrary to popular belief newspapers do like to report good news, tell us when it happens.
THE first few pages of this week’s Herald are filled with hard-hitting crime reports.
From a jealous husband who hired a hitman to take out his wife’s lover, to a spurned policeman who gunned down his former girlfriend, to a conspiracy to murder a school principal, to a fatal fight over alcohol.
There is also an alarming report of a councillor from the Umzumbe Municipality, who is facing murder charges. Ironically he is the chairman of the council’s Public Accounts Committee. He has also not been suspended by the municipality.
On a sad note the decomposed body of one of three teenage girls who drowned in the Mzimkhulu River has been recovered. Her family had been keeping a dawn-to-dusk vigil on the banks of the river.
Last week the bodies of the two other girls were found.
Contrary to popular belief newspapers do like to report good news, tell us when it happens.
