Supporters of the ANC’s media tribunal have been given ammunition following reports that a Mpumalanga journalist admitted to writing stories that favoured Premier David Mabuza ahead of the ruling party’s elective provincial conference, says a political analyst. This week independent ...

A controversial former municipal manager in Mpumalanga’s capital city, Mbombela, has been given a R1,5 million golden handshake two years after he was dismissed. African Eye News Service is in possession of a copy of a confidential report adopted by ...

A special team is investigating the state of several infrastructure projects, some of which Premier David Mabuza promised would be completed within 100 days of his appointment. The projects include a R885 691 project to install boreholes in the Umjindi ...

The widow of murdered Mbombela municipal speaker Jimmy Mohlala is convinced that the five people who have been arrested in connection with her husband’s murder have been framed to protect the real killers. The widow, Bonny Mohlala, told African Eye ...

For the fourth consecutive year, another politician has been killed in Mpumalanga. While Velaphi Ntshalintshali, 37, is believed to have been the victim of domestic violence and not a political plot, the string of murders is enough to send shivers ...

Mpumalanga’s capital city has failed to keep to the law relating to the release of information to the public. For 48 days, the Mbombela local municipality has failed to positively respond to queries about a R1,5 million golden handshake paid ...

The man suspected of pulling the trigger in the murder of Jimmy Mohlala, corruption-busting speaker of Mpumalanga’s capital city, has been arrested. “We found him at a hiding place in Matsulu township on Monday at about 5pm. He was arrested ...

Political and community activists swamped the KaBokweni magistrate’s court on Monday to catch a glimpse of the suspects accused of executing the corruption-busting speaker of Mpumalanga’s capital city, Jimmy Mohlala. Two of the accused are policemen, while a third accused ...

The African National Congress (ANC) and police in Mpumalanga issued what is probably the harshest statement in defence of the organisation’s provincial chairperson who is also the Premier of the province, David “DD” Mabuza. Both statements condemn those behind a ...

Chiwayo defies ANC decision to recall him Lassy Chiwayo was appointed as the executive mayor of Mbombela local municipality since 2008 after the removal of Justice Nsibande. In March 2010, the ANC Ehlanzeni region took a decision to recall him, just ...