Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza’s office has bought three luxury vehicles worth R5 million in one year for his use. At least one of these was purchased barely a few weeks after finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced cost curtailment measures to ...
Read More »Mbombela rocked by yet another AFCON scandal
New allegations of tender rigging linked to the Orange African Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2013 soccer tournament held at Mbombela earlier this year have emerged. The latest allegations follow shortly after this newspaper published a story about a company that ...
Read More »Dodgy Afcon adverts dog capital city
Mystery surrounds the payment of more than R1,5 million that the Mbombela local municipality in Mpumalanga claims to have paid to produce adverts for the Orange Afcon 2013 soccer tournament. According to a report presented to the Mbombela council by ...
Read More »Mpumalanga regime will collapse one day – Mpatlanyane
The widow of one of Mpumalanga province’s so-called January murders predicts the collapse of the Mpumalanga “regime”, following the withdrawal of the case against three suspects who were implicated in her husband’s murder. A visibly irate Pinky Mpatlanyane, whose husband, ...
Read More »Stories for a job scandal
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 ...
Read More »MEC and state attorney defy the Legislature
A Mpumalanga HOD accused of irregularly spending more than R350 million will not face disciplinary action in a separate matter involving R4,2 million. Public works, roads and transport MEC Dikeledi Mahlangu would not discipline Kgopane Mohlasedi because the case was ...
Read More »Cogta investigates dodgy borehole project
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 ...
Read More »Mpumalanga capital city ignores PAIA rules
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 ...
Read More »Police contradict each other over “stolen” R4 million at premier Mabuza’s farm
After months of official denials, Barberton police confirmed this week that a case relating to R4-million that went missing from a farm owned by David Mabuza, the Mpumalanga premier, has been opened. But the provincial organised crime unit insisted that ...
Read More »I will continue where I left off – Mario Masuku
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 ...
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