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/ 19 February 2007
Fred Khumalo wishes for suicide bombers to put an end to South Africa’s culture of shopping malls.
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/ 11 November 2005
Communist heavy-hitter Phillip Dexter says he has received repeated death threats after spearheading corruption investigations into senior Mpumalanga provincial politicians as well as trade union and business figures. The investigations launched by Dexter have touched on business interests of top former Mpumalanga bureaucrats and politicians.
Four senior staffers have resigned from the South African NGO Coalition (Sangoco) this month, as the funding crisis at Southern Africa’s biggest non-profit umbrella body deepens. Head office operations manager Mabalane Mfundisi and research manager Fayrana Shabodien threw in the towel at the weekend, amid reports that Sangoco has battled to pay staff salaries for the second month running.
POLICE arrested another two Mpumalanga education officials in their Middelburg offices on Wednesday morning on forgery charges linked to the province’s 1998 matric exam scandal. National detective services spokesman Director Nasser Mohamed said afterwards both unnamed suspects were arrested in the department’s exam printing section at 9:45am following an intensive one-year forensic investigation. The suspects, […]
SCHOOLING in Mpumalanga came to a virtual standstill on Wednesday as thousands of teachers joined protest actions by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). Education spokesman, Peter Maminza, confirmed that almost all township and other predominantly black schools in the province failed to open when teachers boycotted classes on Wednesday morning. A small […]
Mpumalanga teenager Willie Sibuyi dreams of being a scientist one day, or an aircraft engineer. He has already wowed his neighbours in Chochocho village with working models of a helicopter and satellite telephone built from scrap. But Sibuyi (17) knows that his dream will probably never materialise. He is one of tens-of-thousands of talented township […]
Unscrupulous food suppliers are systematically stealing from starving children by plundering Mpumalanga’s R34 -million school feeding scheme. A forensic audit completed in January indicates widespread corruption by suppliers, teachers and, in some cases, even parents. Just one company supplying 80 schools in the Kabokweni district near White River, for example, stands accused of charging for […]
South Africa’s largest land rights movement, the 20-year-old National Land Committee (NLC), has been brought to its knees by ideological infighting, financial mismanagement and an exodus of member organisations. The crisis, which was set to be debated at an emergency board meeting on Thursday, has already frightened off the foreign donors who funded the NLC’s umbrella structure since its inception.
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/ 28 January 2005
Mpumalanga’s Economic Empowerment Corporation (Meec) this week backtracked on a public pledge by suppressing a damning forensic report on fraud and corruption at the corporation. Meec chief executive Ernest Khosa, who is being probed in connection with a series of irregular multimillion- rand loans, instead ”questioned” board directors on aspects of the report’s findings.
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/ 10 September 2004
The national government on Thursday ordered an urgent independent forensic investigation into 14 contentious deals in Mpumalanga that have cost the taxpayer R72,1-million. Chief land claims commissioner Tozi Gwanya has instructed senior independent property valuer Derick Griffiths to verify whether sales prices for the 14 vegetable and dairy farms in Mpumalanga’s Badplaas valley were inflated or otherwise manipulated by land speculators and government officials.