Flamboyant Mpumalanga politician Steve Mabona’s surprise resignation two weeks ago came after the African National Congress repeatedly grilled him on truancy. Legislature records indicate that Mabona has missed 78% of legislature and portfolio committee sittings in the past 14 months, failing to arrive at 57 of 73 meetings he was meant to attend.
Pupils at an exclusive school in Nelspruit are being subjected to cruel punishment, writes Justin Arenstein Mpumalanga politicians took time off from their professional duties late last month to voice their outrage at the alleged public flogging and systematic abuse of children attending an exclusive high school in Nelspruit, the provincial capital. The toyi-toying pupils […]
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.
Seventy renegade South African chiefs have banded together to campaign for their territories to be "returned" to the kingdom of Swaziland.
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/ 20 September 2002
Hardline health authorities in two of South Africa’s provinces hardest hit by HIV/Aids continue to defy high court orders to provide potentially life-saving drugs. Officials in Limpopo and Mpumalanga are still persecuting anyone who provides nevirapine to 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.
Mpumalanga’s politicians are living rent-free in flats paid for by the taxpayer and are fighting for even more luxurious lodgings in Nelspruit. The legislature has requested the government to build between 16 and 20 units at a cost of R53-million.
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/ 8 February 2001
MPUMALANGA’s education department has postponed the release of a ?damning? report on racism in local schools, which allegedly details practices like R300 registration fees for black pupils and a ban on black or English speaking pupils attending assemblies or lunch breaks with Afrikaans pupils. Education spokesman Peter Maminza said the preliminary report on ‘institutional racism’ […]