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Domestic violence, rape victims afraid to report

Domestic violence and rape victims are still afraid to report cases to get help, and those who report them, they do it with full of doubt, GRIP. Speaking to a social worker at Greater Rape Intervention Programme, Thandiwe Maseko, said ...

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Woman blames police inaction for her abuse

A Mpumalanga woman who has been abused by her police husband blames the police for failing to act by repossessing his state issued firearm and reprimand the suspect.  Khabo Maseko (not he real name) who was married to the officer, ...

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Chaos at Mpumalanga’s COSATU march, as premier fails to receive memorandum

The Mpumalanga leg off the nation-wide strike by the Congress of the South African Trade Unions turned ugly on Wednesday morning when police fired a stun grenades and the province’s premier failed to receive the memorandum of demands on state ...

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Fear that “negligent” doctors are still at work

For more than three weeks, Mpumalanga’s health authorities have failed to answer a media enquiry on whether they have or would be taking action against two doctors accused of medical malpractice. Mbombela based attorney, Silungu Thobela, successfully sued Mpumalanga health ...

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Give me a better job or else…

A sexual harassment victim at the Mpumalanga provincial legislature may have used the incident to blackmail the legislature speaker and secretary into giving her a job with better perks in exchange for her silence. In a letter, which was leaked to ...

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SANCO prefers Cyril

The South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO) Mpumalanga Province convened its  7th Elective Provincial Conference of SANCO in Mpumalanga on the 2nd of June 2017 at Badplaas Aventura ,Manzana (formerly Badplaas). Mpumalanga’s South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO), wants African ...

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Cyril Ramaphosa will not steal your money, COSATU

Nkomazi – The Congress of South African Trade Unions says that there would be no need for government to build a house for deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa when he becomes president. In a thinly veiled reference to the R250m that ...

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Gordhan was dismissed for nuclear deal, SACP

The decision for SA president Jacob Zuma to remove finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, was taken because Gordhan had refused to get the Guptas in the nuclear deal, says South African Communist Party’s second deputy general secretary, Solly Mapaila. Mapaila said ...

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It’s ANC tradition for deputy to succeed president, Mthembu

African National Congress and national assembly chief whip, Jackson Mthembu, made the call for the installation of ANC deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa as the next president of the ruling party. But… he didn’t mention his name. Addressing hundreds of supporters ...

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Legislature won’t investigate tender “scandal”

Mpumalanga provincial legislature secretary has, again, refused to take action against an executive manager implicated in what appears to be an illegal tender bid adjudication meeting. This, after the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) requested legislature secretary, ...

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