Family of the late Thembisile Yende visit substation
Family of slain Thembisile Yende called for the Pieterboth Substation to be renamed as the Thembisile Yende Substation during their visit to the station.
KwaThema – They were commemorating a year after her body was found in her office last year 13 days after she was reported missing to the police.
The group was not allowed to enter the substation’s locked gates.
Family and friends, together with La CGT, the labour confederation labour union from France, during the visit, vouched to fund the programmes within The Thembisile Lucia Yende Foundation.
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Family spokesperson, Mbonani Yende, says the foundation is aimed at empowering and affording learners from poverty-stricken backgrounds with all their educational needs.
“Thembisile was active in the community and we want to carry her legacy forward by identifying learners who we will donate whatever they need to be in school.
“We don’t want the learners to feel inferior or bank school because they don’t have school uniform or shoes.
“We want to fight gender-based violence and inequality in class and the workplace because Thembisile died trying to fight this scourge,” he says.
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Mbonani says they are hoping to attract more international and national sponsors to be able to afford to absorb more learners.
“We want to make a difference in a learner’s journey to school and through more donors this dream will come to life,” he says.
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