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Mpumalanga education authorities have denied suggestions that the requirements of a director’s post in the Department of Education were lowered to suit newly elected deputy president of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL), Desmond Moela. Provincial department spokesman Jasper Zwane said ...

An ANC Youth League (ANCYL) regional leader in Mpumalanga has appeared in court in connection with murder. Bheki Lubisi, 28, who is chairman of the ANCYL in the Ehlanzeni region, was initially arrested along with four community members at Driekoppies ...

The office of Mpumalanga Premier David “DD” Mabuza has denied the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) public statements that the premier is using civil servants and political leaders, including President Jacob Zuma, as his political zombies. EFF provincial secretary Alfred Skhosana ...

First National Bank is refusing to answer media enquiries regarding a teller who has been appending the bank’s official stamps on blank ANC membership forms, which are believed to be used in manipulating the ANC’s membership system. The teller may ...

South African playwright Athol Fugard so loved the story of a Mpumalanga farm labourer who devoted all his spare time to painting, that he’s written a play about it. Called “The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek”, the play focuses on ...

With my past experience as a government communicator, I find it very frustrating by the way the government of the day is communicating messages. During the Mbeki era Government Communication & Information Systems (GCIS) was strategically positioned in the Presidency ...

Mpumalanga provincial government’s head of treasury has failed to answer media questions whether she has a security clearance or not. This follows the emergence of allegations that the head of department for provincial treasury, Nombedesho Nkamba, does not have security ...

The Mpumalanga Economic Growth Agency has a new chief executive officer, affectionately known as Mr X, and this is the man that the leaders in the province believe will finally find the solution to the troubled parastatal. Xola Sithole was ...

Mpumalanga’s overgenerous ANC regional deputy chairman Siphiwe Nathaniel Mashile has refused to comment on a R2 million tender he received from the same provincial department where his wife is an official. Mashile, of the Ehlanzeni regional ANC structure, made headlines ...

Former ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa has denied having a vendetta against Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza or circulating a document alleging that Mabuza was an apartheid spy. African Eye News Service spoke to Phosa following an urgent press conference held by ...