The ANC Youth League’s (ANCYL) Deputy President Desmond Moela has condemned the outfit’s members who have romantic relationships with members of opposition parties. Addressing more than 500 party supporters in Emjindini township near Barberton, Mpumalanga, over the Valentine’s Day weekend, ...

The Emakhazeni local municipality in Mpumalanga is investigating an official who is accused of deliberately supplying dirty water to the community of Siyathuthuka township in Emakhazeni. The municipality’s executive mayor Hamza Ngwenya confirmed with African Eye News Service (AENS) that ...

An eight year-old girl’s dream of becoming a medical doctor has been given a lifeline after the Mpumalanga Department of Education agreed to give her a conditional admission at a local school. Like most children her age, Sibongile Mgwenya was ...

The multiple-award-winning Mpumalanga-born writer Goodenough Mashego has written an award-winning play that will be showcased in California, in the United States of America, in the next two months. Mashego, from Bushbuckridge, received an invitation to watch his play, The Last ...

The South African Communist Party (SACP) in Mpumalanga has threatened to withdraw its support of ANC councillors – should they be imposed on communities ahead of the 2016 local government elections. SACP provincial secretary Bonakele Majuba made the announcement at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Steve Tshwete local municipality in Mpumalanga has been named the greenest municipality in Mpumalanga. The entity, which is based in Middelburg, won R300 000 and a certificate at the annual provincial Greenest Municipalities Competition held in Emalahleni recently. “We ...