Grade 10 scandal rocks Mpumalanga municipality
The Mpumalanga premier is investigating allegations that a senior manager in the Thaba Chweu Local Municipality doesn’t have a matric. Locals have reported to... Read more.
Mpumalanga ‘cash cow’ agency bleeds R285m in unpaid loans
Mpumalanga’s main business funding agency has become a cash cow for inexperienced entrepreneurs who take loans and vanish. The Mpumalanga Economic Growth Agency... Read more.
Five Mpumalanga men in court over Capitec bank R2m loans scam
A group of young people have been granted bail after appearing in a Mpumalanga court for allegedly helping themselves to over R2-million through a loan scam targeting... Read more.
Ndlovu quizzed after MEC caught on video meeting supplier
Mpumalanga premier Mandla Ndlovu has found himself drawn into a political firestorm after the EFF suggested he may have been complicit in the appointment of a “captured”... Read more.
Still no answers for 20K Mpumalanga youth scrambling for 300 jobs
Finding a job in Mpumalanga has become almost impossible — just ask Mthobisi Mathe. The 28-year-old from Makoko, a poverty-stricken village bordering the Kruger... Read more.
Mpumalanga municipality pleads guilty pumping sewage into river
The eMalahleni Local Municipality in Mpumalanga’s coal mining town has pleaded guilty to a series of environmental crimes, including polluting water sources and... Read more.
Eskom staff linked to pump tender fraud get R60K bail each
Six Eskom employees accused of fraudulently reprocuring an industrial pump at 23 times its original price have been granted R60 000 bail each. The suspects were... Read more.
Broke ex-lotteries chief hit with delayed cost order in pension battle
A Special Tribunal has ruled against a former National Lotteries Commission (NLC) executive, but granted him a 12-month reprieve on legal costs, citing his dire... Read more.
Infrastructure projects to turn Mpumalanga into construction site
Premier Mandla Ndlovu has declared that Mpumalanga is set for a massive infrastructure transformation, calling on the private sector to join hands with the government... Read more.
Protestors call on Ramaphosa to remove Queen Modjadji VII
Hundreds of Balobedu protesters have gathered outside the Union Buildings at Government Avenue, Arcadia, in Gauteng’s capital city, Tshwane, demanding that President... Read more.