Current and former workers at SG Coal, a large company that has a monopoly on coal hauling in the province, have accused it of unbearable working conditions and unfair treatment
An Eastern Cape man was jailed for 20 years on Friday for killing his five-year-old stepdaughter.
A Middelburg man accused of bludgeoning his five-year-old stepdaughter to death after quarrelling with her mother has denied killing the child.
A man accused of killing his five-year-old stepdaughter claimed in court on Monday that the blood found on his jacket belonged to a sheep.
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/ 10 September 2005
A security guard was arrested on Friday for allegedly helping robbers make off with R6-million after a patrol company was robbed in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga police said. Captain Leonard Hlathi said a cash-in-transit vehicle had just delivered the money at D and L Patrol offices on Louis Trichardt Street when the robbers arrived.
A two-year-old boy was found by a neighbour locked inside his house with the bodies of his dead parents and siblings in Mhluzi, near Middelburg, on Friday afternoon, police said. A police spokesperson said the neighbour saw the child at a window after receiving no response when she knocked on the door.
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/ 18 September 2004
The mutilated body of a newborn baby boy apparently eaten by a dog was found near an informal settlement on the farm Rietvlei near Sundra, Mpumalanga police reported on Friday. Inspector Leonard Hlathi said farm residents spotted the baby’s body and informed police on Thursday.
National police commissioner Jackie Selebi ordered an immediate inquiry on Tuesday into alleged police brutality after a man was mauled by a police dog, then arrested and shackled to a hospital bed.
A 19-year-old golf caddie was convicted for the murder a British tourist at an Mpumalanga hotel in October when he appeared in the Middelburg Circuit Court on Wednesday.
Golf caddie Prince Mogane was jailed for life by the Middelburg Circuit Court on Thursday for murdering British tourist Diane Conway in the Royal Hotel in Pilgrim’s Rest, Mpumalanga in October.