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Justin Arenstein works from Africa. Investigative journalist & #CivicTech strategist. Manages innovation fund tech labs across Africa. Founder @afriLEAKS @Code4Africa @AfricanCIR @HHAfrica Justin Arenstein has over 7519 followers on Twitter.

The nine lives of Wa Afrika

The nine lives of Wa Afrika

Mzilikazi wa Afrika made headlines as the journalist arrested by police. We take a look at his career thus far.

Spin doctor red-faced over fake letter

Spin doctor red-faced over fake letter

We followed the trail of letters that got Sunday Times journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika arrested and found they led back to the Mpumalanga premier.

New Mpumalanga ANC chairperson David Mabuza. Photo: Sunday Times

By Mpumalanga, for Mpumalanga

The election of David Mabuza as ANC chairperson in Mpumalanga two weekends ago has sparked fear and despondency among the province’s top civil servant

No more shenanigans

The ANC has warned against unruly behaviour — as seen at recent conferences — at the upcoming provincial conference in Mpumalanga.

Stadium show must go on

Mpumalanga provincial authorities started building the province’s 2010 stadium on the 118ha piece of land two years ago without actually owning it.

‘Greed is eating into ANC’s soul’

Mpumalanga Premier and ANC chairperson Thabang Makwetla has announced that he will not stand again for either position, opening the way for supporters of ANC President Jacob Zuma…

Phosa moves from the shadows

Mpumalanga is perhaps the biggest provincial winner of the revolution in the ruling party at its Polokwane conference. The province’s early support for Jacob Zuma as ANC…

Mpumalanga’s mining tycoons in probe

The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) is to probe black empowerment mining tycoons accused of cheating the Mpumalanga government out of millions of rands in royalties and share…

Councillors in stadium revolt

Major financial irregularities in Mpumalanga’s R920-million 2010 World Cup stadium project have sparked an unprecedented revolt by ANC councillors in Nelspruit. The angry…

Shop ’til you drop

Fred Khumalo wishes for suicide bombers to put an end to South Africa’s culture of shopping malls.

Premier’s reshuffle seen as ‘reward’

Mpumalanga Premier Thabang Makwetla restored two controversial politicians to his Cabinet this week, amid claims that he is rewarding political favours. Senior ANC provincial…

Death threats for Mr Fixit

Communist heavy-hitter Phillip Dexter says he has received repeated death threats after spearheading corruption investigations into senior Mpumalanga provincial politicians as…

Staff bail as Sangoco cash crisis deepens

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.…

Two more arrested for matric exam scam

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.…

Cosatu strike empties Mpumalanga schools

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).…

Two worlds tearing a boy’s dreams apart

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…

Feeding scam leaves children starving

Unscrupulous food suppliers are systematically stealing from starving children by plundering Mpumalanga’s R34 -million school feeding scheme. A forensic audit completed in…

Donors ditch land NGO

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…

Parastatal boss ‘UK-bound’

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.…

High price for land reform

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…