Ziwaphi Relentless quest for the truth

The African National Congress (ANC) is ordering Mpumalanga’s capital city to re-instate a municipal manager who was suspended almost one year ago for maladministration. Mbombela municipal manager Jacob Dladla was suspended in February after defying 361 council resolutions and approving ...

What would be an ideal institution to co-ordinate whatever initiatives of this nature? South Africa can play a decisive role, not as a big brother, but as a country that has gone through a lot of ills, transformation and democratic ...

The last time I entered Swaziland was back in the 1980’s with the assistance of an ANC operative. We did not have passports. In fact we did not need them. Our thoroughfare was made even easier with the aid of ...

A major shakeup in a Mpumalanga municipality has seen its mayor and ten of its councillors being axed by the African National Congress (ANC). On Tuesday night, executive mayor of the Thaba Chweu municipality in Mashishing (formerly Lydenburg), Clara Ndlovu, and the ...

Mpumalanga education officials are in hot water after it was discovered schools they claimed had been built don’t even exist. A visibly upset Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) chairperson, Fish Mahlalela, demanded answers from education officials appearing before the ...

My understanding of Parliaments is that its purpose is to improve the quality of government. An effective Parliament should be the basis for effective government. Parliament is the most important link between the public and the executive – it should keep ...

Lack of funding has forced the closure of a music training centre for young people started by legendary musician Ray Phiri. The Ray Phiri Arts Institute shut its doors because it didn’t have money to pay the rent and the ...

I read the article of Mr. Taabe in the previous edition of this publication, I must have read it four to five times, in an attempt to locate where in his piece, is he really providing facts to challenge my ...

Cde Jomo Nyambi a member of Parliament at the National Assembly presented the following response to President Kgalema Motlanthe’s State of the Nation Address on service delivery and the land and agrarian question . We present an abridged version of his ...

[media-credit id=1 align=”aligncenter” width=”300″][/media-credit] MARCH 2006: Mbombela council official Differ Mogale signs a secret deal with the Matsafeni Trust to transfer a portion of their ancestral land to the municipality for the construction of the 2010 stadium. The land, worth ...