Phillip Nkosi

MPUMALANGA’S education department has failed to act or comment in the case of a farm principal accused of sexually molesting a boy of 16 at the school. The alleged offence was reported to police more than a week ago, and education spokesman Peter Maminza promised last Friday the department would investigate immediately. He said at […]

A SCHOOL wall collapsed onto an eight-year-old Mpumalanga pupil on Tuesday afternoon, fracturing his skull and breaking several ribs. The 2m wall fell on Elken Siburi as pupils filed out of Tshweni Primary School, 20km from White River, after watching a movie. He was transferred to a hospital in Pretoria for specialised treatment, and is […]

TRAFFIC officers at the Giyani testing centre in Northern Province are being investigated for demanding sex in exchange for learners? and drivers? licenses. The allegations were brought to light when a woman refused to have sex with a traffic officer and laid a complaint against him. Department representative Obed Langa said the head of the […]

SOUTH Africa?s drivers? licence system is to be scrapped in favour of a fully computerised ?corruption proof? process after government admitted it was unable to root out systematic abuse in several provinces, where licences are sold to applicants who have never driven vehicles. Transport minister Dullar Omar has already approved the new system, and will […]