Mpumalanga’s Department of Public Works this week sought to dismiss a report by the provincial treasury that uncovered financial mismanagement, inefficiency and management incompetence in the department.
An internal government report into the finances of the Mpumalanga Department of Public Works has uncovered financial mismanagement, inefficiency and sheer incompetence.
A group of 54 Mpumalanga families will have much to celebrate this weekend when the land claims commission returns land they lost during apartheid.
A man is in isolation in the Nelspruit Medi-Clinic with symptoms of malaria or possibly the feared Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars).
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/ 16 January 2003
The Mpumalanga Parks Board denied on Wednesday afternoon that it would endanger the lives of eight lions at a predator sanctuary in the province by moving them to another location.
Three girls between the ages of 10 and 15 were raped and a woman was gang-raped and her boyfriend murdered in separate incidents in the KwaMhlanga area of Mpumalanga this week.
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/ 6 November 2002
Union activists have forced three doctors to resign from Middelburg hospital in Mpumalanga. Mpumalanga’s Department of Health says it is investigating clashes between the doctors and members of Nehawu at the hospital and is considering taking action against the union.
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/ 11 October 2002
The Mpumalanga Department of Health announced last week that it has begun a programme to prevent mother-to-child-transmission of HIV, days after the Mail & Guardian exposed provincial inaction in complying with a court order to provide anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive pregnant women.
A three-month-old baby is the latest victim of Mpumalanga’s crumbling health system. She died of an unspecified chest ailment on Wednesday night while being rushed 300km for a simple chest x-ray.
Sizwe samaYende and Justin Arenstein Mpumalanga’s largest hospital, Philadelphia, broke ranks this week and announced it would provide nevirapine to pregnant women, regardless of the province’s policy on the issue. Eighty doctors, nurses and support staff signed a memorandum to MEC for Health Sibongile Manana on Wednesday warning that further delays in providing nevirapine were […]