The recent outbreak of the Listeriosis virus has claimed the lives of eleven (11) people in the province. This was announced by the MEC of health, Gillion Mashego during his policy and budget speech at the provincial legislature on Tuesday. ...

WATCH VIDEO Every patient’s wish when he or she gets to hospital is to be healed and to improve their longevity. After all, the dictionary describes a hospital as an institution providing medical and surgical treatment and nursing care for sick or injured people. ...

The community of Newscom is threatening a massive strike should the Mbombela Local Municipality not take care of an illegal dump site where starving children are eating rotten food every day. “I always have to chase away children who enter ...

The community who lives around the Youth Centre area in Matsulu outside Mbombela has had to walk a long distance from their village to fetch water near graveyards. They say as a result they feel they have been forgotten. This ...

Twenty two years since democracy, more than 70% of the residents in Mpumalanga province’s capital city, Mbombela, still have no access to proper toilets, and the municipality has no plans to deal with the problem. Mbombela local municipality’s spokesperson, Joseph Ngala ...

Twenty two years since democracy, more than 70% of the residents in Mpumalanga province’s capital city, Mbombela, still have no access to proper toilets, and the municipality has no plans to deal with the problem. Mbombela local municipality’s spokesperson, Joseph Ngala ...

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 ...

Ten more aspiring doctors from Mpumalanga have jetted-off to Cuba to join the list of students who studied their medicine at the Caribbean country. Provincial Department of Health spokesman Dumisane Malamule said 90 more students from the province are expected ...

The Govan Mbeki local municipality in Mpumalanga needs to raise more than R1 billion within the next 10 years to address sewage spills and water contamination around their towns and outlying townships. The Secunda-based municipality is one of three local ...

In their report, which was released on March 11, 2014, the South African Human Rights Commission found that nearly half of Mpumalanga’s four million-strong population has insufficient access to sanitation. Only 43.8% use flushing toilets while 1.4% of the population ...