Author: Tshwarelo Mogakane

Major win for security guards who feared they’d never see their pensions 
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Major win for security guards who feared they’d never see their pensions 

Former security guards who battled for years to access their hard-earned pension funds have scored a major legal victory after the Johannesburg High Court dismissed... Read more.
Fatal stabbings in Gauteng schools
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Sex pest deputy principal finally suspended 

Four grade 5 Mpumalanga primary school pupils endured the trauma of seeing their alleged abuser daily as the authorities dragged their feet to bring the alleged... Read more.
Politics

No punitive action against official who spent R2m on guardhouse

Mpumalanga Department of Education head Lucy Moyane and officials implicated in the dubious spending of more than R2-million on, a security guardhouse are yet to... Read more.
Crop-planting season underway
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Legal Aid SA calls for more funding to fight land injustices

Legal Aid South Africa has called for additional funding to support its land rights management unit, which provides legal assistance to farm occupiers, labour tenants,... Read more.
Dispute over leg iron cushions delays Meyiwa trial
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Meyiwa murder investigator’s life in danger, researcher warns

A prominent anti-crime activist and researcher has warned that the life of one of the investigators in the Senzo Meyiwa trial “remains in great danger” and that... Read more.
Corruption and land reform failures fuel hunger 
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Corruption and land reform failures fuel hunger 

Corruption, land reform failures, and sky-rocketing electricity prices are worsening South Africa’s hunger crisis, with one in five households now facing severe... Read more.
Parly committee fails brutalised black Mpumalanga farm tenant 
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Parly committee fails brutalised black Mpumalanga farm tenant 

Parliament’s land reform and rural development committee has failed to rescue a distressed farm labour tenant’s family from the abuse and intimidation by a white... Read more.
Mpumalanga plans to do away with fancy schools
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Premier Ndlovu criticised for sidelining MECs

Mpumalanga Premier Mandla Ndlovu faces backlash over an alleged power grab, as his office moves to centralise the government’s project planning, monitoring and... Read more.
General Fannie Masemola
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Court blasts tardy police boss Masemola over botched review bid

The Cape Town Labour Court has rebuked national police commissioner General Fannie Masemola’s office for delaying a review against the reinstatement of a Stellenbosch... Read more.