Ziwaphi Relentless quest for the truth

A young vegetable and chicken farmer from Gauteng was named the overall winner of the 20th Annual South African Breweries (SAB) KickStart National Awards. Clement Pilusa (26), owner of Pilusa and Mabotja Farming and Projects won a R500 000 business ...

ANC Youth League Deputy President Desmond Moela has called upon the newly returned Premier David Mabuza to deal harshly with MECs and top government officials who did as they pleased when the premier was off sick. During his welcome gathering ...

A member of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) accused of illegally selling plots in Mpumalanga has been released on R1 000 bail. Edwin Mshika, from Mataffin near Mbombela, was arrested by the Nelspruit Commercial Branch unit on Friday. He was ...

Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza has congratulated Karabo Mogane for winning Idols SA 2015. Mabuza said Mogane did the province proud when he took the number one spot at Carnival City in Johannesburg on Sunday night. “A very humble and yet ...

The Mpumalanga Department of Education’s nearly R500 million irregular expenditure has been attributed to failure to follow rules when allocating tenders for the province’s school feeding scheme and construction projects. The department’s 2014/15 Annual Report showed that it accumulated R162 ...

With mosquito season well underway, Mpumalanga’s health department has said that malaria rates are finally decreasing, after a worrying rise in previous years. Department spokesperson Christopher Nobela said only 179 local cases of malaria were recorded from April 1 to ...

The Auditor General (AG) has revealed that the Mpumalanga provincial government departments have spent more than R2 billion in irregular expenditure. The AG audit outcomes for the 2014/15 financial year which ended in March 2015 were presented to Members of ...

Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza’s lawyer Ian Small-Smith has admitted paying money for Jan Venter’s legal fees in his cases against his former employer, Dr Mathews Phosa. Small-Smith’s startling admission follows Ziwaphi’s expose in the previous edition which published copies of ...

Once they were unemployed, but now they are crafters who are already receiving orders from local and international markets. The 32 crafters, from Matsulu in Mpumalanga, are benefiting from a R500 000 training grant from the Department of Rural Development ...

The residents of Marite Trust in Mpumalanga can’t wait to switch from their analogue platform to digital terrestrial television (DTT). The residents, who live between Bushbuckridge and Hazyview, learned about DTT when communications minister Faith Muthambi recently visited their area ...