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A major shakeup in a Mpumalanga municipality has seen its mayor and ten of its councillors being axed by the African National Congress (ANC). On Tuesday night, executive mayor of the Thaba Chweu municipality in Mashishing (formerly Lydenburg), Clara Ndlovu, and the ...

Mpumalanga education officials are in hot water after it was discovered schools they claimed had been built don’t even exist. A visibly upset Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) chairperson, Fish Mahlalela, demanded answers from education officials appearing before the ...

My understanding of Parliaments is that its purpose is to improve the quality of government. An effective Parliament should be the basis for effective government. Parliament is the most important link between the public and the executive – it should keep ...

Lack of funding has forced the closure of a music training centre for young people started by legendary musician Ray Phiri. The Ray Phiri Arts Institute shut its doors because it didn’t have money to pay the rent and the ...

I read the article of Mr. Taabe in the previous edition of this publication, I must have read it four to five times, in an attempt to locate where in his piece, is he really providing facts to challenge my ...

Cde Jomo Nyambi a member of Parliament at the National Assembly presented the following response to President Kgalema Motlanthe’s State of the Nation Address on service delivery and the land and agrarian question . We present an abridged version of his ...

[media-credit id=1 align=”aligncenter” width=”300″][/media-credit] MARCH 2006: Mbombela council official Differ Mogale signs a secret deal with the Matsafeni Trust to transfer a portion of their ancestral land to the municipality for the construction of the 2010 stadium. The land, worth ...

James Nkambule’s broadside against the Chairperson of the ANC in the Province of Mpumalanga, Comrade D.D Mabuza and other comrades in his article: The ANC, The ANC, In The Belly of the Beast, December 2008, betrays a bitter and vindictive comrade who ...

The acting spokesperson for Mpumalanga’s Organised Crime Unit was removed from his post this week for lying to the media about investigations into the assassination of Jimmy Mohlala, speaker of the Mbombela local municipality in Nelspruit. Superintendent Malcolm Mokomene, who ...

Murdered Speaker of Mbombela Municipality, Jimmy Mohlala, may have been killed and buried, however, he continues to fight in death, just as he did when he was still alive. Last week, Mohlala scored two important victories, the first was against Bobby Motaung ...