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.
How many of the year’s events can you remember?<br>
1 Who won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature?<br>
2 Which KwaZulu-Natal mayor said Cape Town could "keep [the] moffies and gays"?
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/ 28 December 2002
Praise for the 7,2% improvement in the 2002 matric exam results was tempered on Friday by warnings that huge inequalities still existed between South Africa’s nine provinces when it came to education resources.
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/ 13 December 2002
Although all political parties have lost support recently, the African National Congress (ANC) continues to be the dominant party in South Africa, according to the latest Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) survey.
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/ 5 December 2002
Traditional healers are battling to get patients to go for follow-up tests after they have tested HIV-positive.
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/ 15 November 2002
Oom Krisjan is a regular recipient of important Western Cape government information via e-mail. This week his attention was drawn to one particular missive from provincial Housing MEC Nomatyala Hangana.
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/ 22 October 2002
The weapon allegedly used in the murder of a British tourist at Pilgrim’s Rest was found on Friday afternoon, apparently in the suspect’s home, police said.
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/ 20 September 2002
The Cabinet’s April 17 statement on HIV/Aids policy — widely hailed as a crucial change of heart — is looking increasingly threadbare. Was it, as some maintain, merely a tactical manoeuvre to deflect international condemnation in advance of the G8 meeting in Canada.
The Treatment Action Campaign wants to act against provinces that don’t want to roll out the programme to prevent mother-to-child-transmission of HIV.
Last week we erroneously reported that the African National Congress called for HIV/Aids to be declared a notifiable disease.
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 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.”
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.
An official sod-turning ceremony on Wednesday marked the start of construction of a pipeline to pump natural gas from Mozambique to South Africa.
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.
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
Cabinet has decided to reduce the number of higher education institutions from 36 to 21, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Thursday.
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.
The hijacking of a bus carrying about 40 Taiwanese businessmen on the N12 in Mpumalanga is bad news for South African tourism.
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.
A 13-year-old girl has been burned to death in Dirkiesdorp and three other children have been hospitalised in the wake of a massive veld fire.
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 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.
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
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”.