Two protesters have been shot dead and several properties were set alight in a Piet Retief township in Mpumalanga, police said on Tuesday.
The impression that science is only for the rich, the clever or the select few should be dismantled, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said on Monday. Speaking at the official launch of the Mondi Education Centre at Piet Retief, she said of the 748 000 grade 12 pupils now starting their matric exams, only 48 102 had enrolled for mathematics on higher grade.
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Municipal councillors are the servants of the people and not the bosses of the communities, Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi told party supporters in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, on Saturday. Buthelezi was speaking during the IFP’s local government election campaign in the province.
The remains of two Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) cadres, believed to have been killed and buried in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, in 1983, were exhumed on Monday. Months of research have led the National Prosecutions Authority to the conclusion that the exhumed graves belonged to Madoda Bonga and one other, as yet unidentified, cadre.
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.