Piet Retief
latest news & developmentsPiet Retief protests turn violent, two dead
Two protesters have been shot dead and several properties were set alight in a Piet Retief township in Mpumalanga, police said on Tuesday.
Study of science not ‘only for the rich and clever’
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…
IFP: ‘Councillors are servants of people’
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…
Remains of MK cadres exhumed
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…
Nine tourists killed in Mpumalanga bus crash
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.