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Truancy the final straw for Mabona

Flamboyant Mpumalanga politician Steve Mabona’s surprise resignation two weeks ago came after the African National Congress repeatedly grilled him on truancy. Legislature records…

Dungeons and sjamboks in school’s reign of terror

Pupils at an exclusive school in Nelspruit are being subjected to cruel punishment, writes Justin Arenstein Mpumalanga politicians took time off from their professional duties…

Two worlds tearing a boy’s dreams apart

Mpumalanga teenager Willie Sibuyi dreams of being a scientist one day, or an aircraft engineer. He has already wowed his neighbours in Chochocho village with working models of a…

Feeding scam leaves children starving

Unscrupulous food suppliers are systematically stealing from starving children by plundering Mpumalanga’s R34 -million school feeding scheme. A forensic audit completed in…

Donors ditch land NGO

South Africa’s largest land rights movement, the 20-year-old National Land Committee (NLC), has been brought to its knees by ideological infighting, financial mismanagement and…

SA royalists pledge fealty to Swazi king

Seventy renegade South African chiefs have banded together to campaign for their territories to be "returned" to the kingdom of Swaziland.

Provinces stonewall action

Hardline health authorities in two of South Africa’s provinces hardest hit by HIV/Aids continue to defy high court orders to provide potentially life-saving drugs. Officials in…

Bureaucracy claims another life in Mpumalanga

A three-month-old baby is the latest victim of Mpumalanga’s crumbling health system. She died of an unspecified chest ailment on Wednesday night while being rushed 300km for a…

MECs want the lap of luxury — for R350 a month

Mpumalanga’s politicians are living rent-free in flats paid for by the taxpayer and are fighting for even more luxurious lodgings in Nelspruit. The legislature has requested the…

?Damning? school racism report delayed

MPUMALANGA’s education department has postponed the release of a ?damning? report on racism in local schools, which allegedly details practices like R300 registration fees for…