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A schoolboy tricked his sister into letting him into her hostel room before raping her roommate. THE brother of a Northern Province schoolgirl raped her roommate in front of her, after tricking them both into letting him into their bedroom before dawn on Wednesday, African Eye News Service reports. Police spokeswoman Inspector Mosima Serite said […]

TEACHING at four Northern Province high schools was disrupted and one principal abducted in separate incidents of violence on Wednesday. School children protested at three schools in the Lowveld area and at one in the Central area. In the Lowveld, pupils at Magulasaba High School near Giyani allegedly held their principal hostage for five hours […]

TWO teachers who allegedly incited pupils to bunk school and join a community protest march last month have been given two weeks to motivate why their suspension should be lifted. There was no schooling at three schools in the Bushbuckridge area in Northern Province when pupils supported community protests against the Bushbuckridge local council between […]

ARMED police were called to guard a high school in Northern Province at the start of the mid-year exams on Monday. Police were asked to patrol Nkgonyeletse High School at Ga-Mashabela village near Jane Furse where pupils ran riot last week forcing the school to close down. An urgent meeting involving parents, teachers, pupils, education […]

PARENTS at a controversial Mpumalanga primary school have given police one month to arrest people implicated in the theft of R4 500 from school funds. Parents at Ndlaphu Primary School at Daantjie, near Nelspruit, claim police have made no progress in a fraud case reported two years ago when money was stolen from the school’s […]

A NORTHERN Province primary school teacher appeared in court on Tuesday after he allegedly shot a man in a bar early Sunday morning. Masekela Vincent Malesa, 33, of Namakgale township near Tzaneen was not asked to plead on an attempted murder charge in the Namakgale District Court. He was granted R3 000 bail, which he […]

A NORTHERN Province technical college was systematically fleeced of almost R500 000 over the past few months without realising it. Officials at Giyani Technical College only discovered they had been defrauded when they wanted to buy something in town on Monday and were told their bank account was overdrawn. It appeared someone had been using […]

POLICE on Monday dismissed reports that the stabbing incident at a Witbank school where a coloured pupil allegedly injured a white colleague was racially motivated, African Eye News Service reports. Shaun Craig McDonald, 18, a Grade 11 pupil at Hoerskool Reynopark in Witbank allegedly stabbed Hendrik Trichardt during a schoolyard brawl on Tuesday afternoon. Witbank […]

TWO Mpumalanga schoolteachers got a nasty surprise on Thursday when education MEC Craig Padayachee dropped in unexpectedly and announced he would charge them with misconduct. The two teachers, a man and a woman, teach at two of four schools Padayachee visited in Barberton on Thursday. When he visited KaMhola High School and Barberton Combined School, […]

The gates remain locked at Vukuzenzele Combined School, after parents and pupils chased away 22 of the 27 teachers last month. A SCHOOL dispute has stopped pupils at an Mpumalanga village getting lessons for nearly three weeks, and there is no sign that it is ending. On Friday the gates at Vukuzenzele Combined School, at […]

David Mabunda, the first black director of the Kruger National Park, is doing all he can to increase the number of black visitors to a park that has long been perceived as a preserve of whites.

MPUMALANGA incest accused Robert Jan Fedder, who hanged himself over the weekend, would have celebrated his 41st birthday this week. Fedder was charged last year with living as man and wife for 15 years with one of his younger sisters, who gave birth to two sons. “We should be celebrating his birthday, instead we are […]