Work finally appears to be starting on Mpumalanga’s notorious “road of death” nearly 10 years after government first promised to create a safe and efficient corridor for the thousands of workers who risk their lives daily on the R537 Moloto ...
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Tinkhundla system – a living monument of apartheid
Sadly the fact that tinkhundla is a direct product of the evil apartheid system is entirely not entertained or rather dismally ignored particularly by those who believed that the breakthrough in South Africa was a revolution. The correct discourse emerging ...
Read More »Why was Comrade Lucky Ndinisa just another Rat on the run?
I will not respond to Cde Maviyo’s confusion on the hat that he chose to respond to, because I also don’t subscribe to asking which hats people and comrades wear whenever I engage in the battle of ideas. (Ziwaphi Vol ...
Read More »No more ANC T-shirts says man whose RDP house is delayed
A Mpumalanga mud shack-dweller who has been waiting for his RDP house for the past 13 years says he is now too embarrassed to continue wearing his ANC T-shirts. Nkosinathi Lubisi, 38, from Mandela Park near Matsulu outside Mbombela, said ...
Read More »Phosa reinstates criminal charges against Venter
In a dramatic turn of events, former Mpumalanga premier and ANC treasurer-general, Mathews Phosa has reinstated all the criminal charges that he had previously suspended against his former butler, Jan Venter. “I have opened a case of crimen injuria against ...
Read More »Another former ANC mayor joins EFF
Mpumalanga’s former executive mayor at the Ehlanzeni district, Khosi Mkhonto, has joined the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) after being frustrated as an ANC member. Mkhonto served as mayor of the district, which consists of Mbombela, Mashishing (formerly Lydenburg), Malelane and ...
Read More »A critique to an article, ‘the ANC that Lucky Ndinisa created’
Firstly I am confused which Tom Nkosi’s hat must I respond to, whether to Tom Nkosi the editor of Ziwaphi or the Tom Nkosi the leader of SACP in Phillip Radebe (Hlanzeni) and the man who has been tasked to ...
Read More »Mbombela stadium forged letter
This is the letter with a forged signature of acting municipal manager for Mbombela, Sgananda Siboza, that was presented at a Gauteng FNB branch by a person linked to Lefika Emerging Equity, a company owned by Kaizer Chiefs manager, Bobby Motaung, for a bank ...
Read More »Dancing to preserve and celebrate a marginalised culture
For the past five years, a group of young girls have been using dance to preserve and ommenelebrate the marginalized Mapulana culture in Mpumalanga. The girls were inspired to form the Makgakga cultural group in 2009 when a teacher, Jeannette ...
Read More »Youth online directory a gateway to job creation – MEC
Mpumalanga Department of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism MEC Eric Kholwane has called on the youth of the province to unearth their inner entrepreneurial skills in order to contribute towards economic growth. Kholwane was speaking during the launch of the ...
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