Dihatshwane village just outside Mafikeng in the North West is arguably one of the most neglected villages in the province.
<b>Mmanaledi Mataboge</b> quizzes the newly elected North West ANC chairperson on plans to focus on governance rather than infighting.
Assault charges against <em>Mail & Guardian</em> photographer Oupa Nkosi have been withdrawn as a result of insufficient evidence.
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/ 13 February 2011
Supra Mahumapelo made a dramatic comeback on Saturday when he elected as the ANC leader in the North West.
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/ 12 February 2011
Voting is under way at the ANC’s North West conference, where more than 700 delegates are due to elect the province’s new leadership.
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/ 12 February 2011
The outgoing ANC North West task team acknowledged its mistakes as the province kicked off its elective conference on Friday.
The ANC’s coming North West conference is likely to mark the end of the traditional practice of electing leaders from "slates".
A bankrupt North West municipality spent more than R7-million within eight months on two sister companies to help with its financial fortunes.
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/ 25 January 2011
Hundreds of children and teachers were unable to attend school in the North West after they were left stranded due to heavy rain and flooding.
Heavy summer rains across South Africa have caused severe damage to agricultural areas and destroyed scores of households.
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/ 26 November 2010
The ANC’s North West and Western Cape task teams are working against the clock to convene provincial congresses by the end of December.
North West premier Thandi Modise on Thursday appointed six new ministers to her provincial executive committee in a major cabinet reshuffle.
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/ 22 November 2010
The family of slain AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche and AWB leadership applied for access to the trial of the two people accused of his murder.
The trial against a man and a youth accused of killing right-wing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche was postponed in the Ventersdorp Magistrate’s Court.
The trial of two men accused of hacking to death right-wing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche is expected to get under way on Monday in Ventersdorp.
The deployment of ANC deputy secretary general Thandi Modise as the new premier of North West will not necessarily end infighting in the province.
Two grade 11 tourism studies learners from North West province have won a trip to an international tourism conference in Germany.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema engaged politicians at Parliament’s public hearings on the establishment of a state-owned mining company.
A court will on Wednesday hear the media’s arguments for access to the trial of the two people accused of killing right-winger Eugene Terre’Blanche.
AWB leader and farmer Eugene Terre’Blanche was buried on his farm in Ventersdorp on Friday after a week of flared tempers sparked by his violent death
In Tshing, outside Ventersdorp, a Soweto football derby encounter generates more excitement than the news of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s demise.
Fire trucks, ambulances and police units are being sent to Ventersdorp ahead of the funeral on Friday of murdered AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche.
Guest houses in the normally sleepy North West town are inundated with bookings from journalists all over the world.
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/ 18 December 2009
Where the signs to Sun City begin to fade, the village of Ledig appears; its inhabitants hope to be the Platinum Province’s next success story.
The ANC’s NWC has set up teams to tackle problems in the North West and Western Cape after the executives in both provinces were disbanded.
The ANC’s North West leadership has launched a desperate rearguard action to stave off its possible dissolution by the party’s NEC.
The North West committee has been notable for standing up to national leaders, including Cabinet ministers.
Alleged political instability may require intervention at a higher level. Mmanaledi Mataboge reports .
Residents of Miga village near Mafikeng in North West have called off an election day protest against delays in electrifying their homes.
Some 16,5% of South Africans suffer from common mental disorders like depression and anxiety, the SA Depression and Anxiety Group said on Monday.
Unemployment and a lack of access to good education made me leave home in the 1980s and I see that my children are following in the same footsteps.