MPUMALANGA’S education department has failed to act or comment in the case of a farm principal accused of sexually molesting a boy of 16 at the school. The alleged offence was reported to police more than a week ago, and education spokesman Peter Maminza promised last Friday the department would investigate immediately. He said at […]
MORE than 60 Mpumalanga high school pupils crammed into a courtroom on Tuesday to face charges following Monday’s violent protest against a teacher who hit a boy. The pupils are from Sozama Secondary School in Mhluzi township, near Middelburg, and are charged with public violence and malicious damage to property. They were not asked to […]
A SCHOOL wall collapsed onto an eight-year-old Mpumalanga pupil on Tuesday afternoon, fracturing his skull and breaking several ribs. The 2m wall fell on Elken Siburi as pupils filed out of Tshweni Primary School, 20km from White River, after watching a movie. He was transferred to a hospital in Pretoria for specialised treatment, and is […]
MPUMALANGA’S department of education fired two high-ranking officials on Thursday for their involvement in the 1998 matric scandal in which results were fraudulently inflated to 72%. Former examination head, Gogo Ndlovana, and first education specialist, Kate Mokone, were fired upon the recommendation of Professor Papa Maithufi who headed an internal investigation into the scandal. Maithufi […]
TRAFFIC officers at the Giyani testing centre in Northern Province are being investigated for demanding sex in exchange for learners? and drivers? licenses. The allegations were brought to light when a woman refused to have sex with a traffic officer and laid a complaint against him. Department representative Obed Langa said the head of the […]
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SOUTH Africa?s drivers? licence system is to be scrapped in favour of a fully computerised ?corruption proof? process after government admitted it was unable to root out systematic abuse in several provinces, where licences are sold to applicants who have never driven vehicles. Transport minister Dullar Omar has already approved the new system, and will […]