A programme to provide a basic amount of free water to every household in South Africa has now reached an estimated 27-million people.
Political control changed hands in 21 municipalities in four provinces following a 15-day floor-crossing window period for local councillors — 13 of them in the Western Cape, it emerged on Friday.
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.
Two more men were arrested on Wednesday in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow the government, police reported. Detective services representative Phuti Setati said thus far 17 people had been arrested in connection with the coup plot by white extremists.
The three-week municipal workers’ strike looks set to end after the SA Local Government Association announced on Tuesday night it had reached a tentative agreement with two trade unions.
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.
The Ba Gashai tribe, part of the bigger Ba-Phalaborwa people, may keep a valuable private game reserve across seven adjoining farms near Phalaborwa in the Limpopo Province, awarded to them as part of government’s land restitution programme
Limpopo was the province with the highest economic growth rate last year. It also has the highest economic growth rate on average over the past six years, Statistics SA said on Thursday.
The number of South Africans missing after the massive bomb blast in Bali, Indonesia, was fluctuating between 19 and 32, said the Department of Foreign Affairs.
The remaining two men wanted in connection with the rape of a British tourist in Mpumalanga on Saturday were arrested following a shootout on Tuesday morning. Police confirmed the arrests and said the four men would appear in court ”very soon”.
The Sunday Times has published pictures of six men wanted in connection with a series of bombs in Gauteng and Mpumalanga last week.
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration said on Friday it would soon set up a meeting between striking municipal workers and their employer.
The number of South Africans carrying the HIV virus that causes Aids appeared to be stabilising, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday.
Dismissed medical superintendent of the Rob Ferreira Provincial Hospital in Nelspruit, Dr Thys von Mollendorff will be taking the Mpumalanga Health Department to the Labour Court.
Aids lobby group, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), says it has lodged a complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission against a Mpumalanga health MEC.
Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza on Saturday expressed shock at the rise in the number of farm evictions in the Mpumalanga area.
It is one of a farmer’s worst nightmares — a windy day, dry conditions and then a veld fire.
Four farmers were attacked in separate incidents in various areas of Mpumalanga since Thursday, police said on Sunday.
Political parties and at least one anti-childabuse activist group on Friday decried South Africa as a ”paradise for rapists.”
The man arrested in connection with the murder of a British tourist earlier this week was expected to appear in court on Monday, police said on Friday.
Four journalists employed by a regional news agency in Mpumalanga, had been assaulted and threatened without the police taking any action to protect them, the Media Institute of Southern Africa reports.
Nine tourists were killed and ten others seriously injured when their luxury tour bus left the road between Piet Retief and Pongola in Mpumalanga on Wednesday, police confirmed.
An official sod-turning ceremony on Wednesday marked the start of construction of a pipeline to pump natural gas from Mozambique to South Africa.
A conservation campaign promoting South Africa’s yellowfish above the exotic bass and trout has elevated the indigenous species’ popularity with anglers so much that foreigners are starting to visit the country to add yellowfish to their trophy lists.
In recent by-elections around the country, the African National Congress (ANC) won six seats while the Democratic Alliance (DA) won three.
A British woman was shot dead and her husband wounded during an attack at a hotel in Pilgrims Rest on Tuesday night, Mpumalanga police said on Wednesday
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has been subpoenaed to testify at the corruption trial of former Mpumalanga government adviser Pieter Rootman, the presidency confirmed on Sunday.
Cabinet has decided to reduce the number of higher education institutions from 36 to 21, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Thursday.