Eskom CEO, Brian Molefe often visited the Gupta home at Saxonwold. This was confirmed by one of the Gupta brothers, Atul, during an interview with former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela. According to the State of Capture report which was released ...
Read More »Mpumalanga ANC attacks Mthembu for ‘NEC failure’ comments
MBOMBELA – ANC chief whip, Jackson Mthembu, has come under flak from his province following his strong criticism of his party’s national executive committee (NEC) over the weekend. The ANC Mpumalanga provincial executive committee has joined other party structures such ...
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Read More »Renowned painter (80) gets another award
World renowned Mpumalanga artist Esther Mahlangu has won the prestigious Ministers Award at the National Lilizela Awards, for her contemporary artwork which has taken the Ndebele culture to the global stage. The awards were hosted by Top Billing presenter Bonang ...
Read More »Opposition parties slam PSC corruption report
Scepticism and criticism greeted the annual Public Service Commission (PSC) report in the provincial legislature on Wednesday, 12 October. A slew of recommendations and comments were prompted by the revelation that more than R 22 million lay still unaccounted for ...
Read More »Premier gags Gordhan
Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza has prevented a journalist from asking the Minister of Finance questions regarding court cases involving the minister, during a media briefing at Mbombela on Tuesday, 18 October. Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan had agreed that the journalist, Ngwako ...
Read More »Charges against Gordhan are a swing and miss
On 11 October 2016, the National Prosecuting Authority issued a summons and formally charged Oupa Magashula, Ivan Pillay and Pravin Gordhan with a number of offences. Surprisingly, there was no mention of the South African Revenue Service (Sars) ‘Rogue Unit’ which was ...
Read More »DA’s U-turn on blue lights
The Democratic Alliance (DA) – led City of Tshwane municipality says it will not remove the blue lights from the official vehicle used by the executive mayor of the capital because it is expensive to do so. This is despite ...
Read More »Mpumalanga splurges R3m on cars for Legislature speaker
Mpumalanga province has splurged almost R3 million on two luxury German SUV cars for the legislature speaker, Thandi Shongwe, a mere 14 months apart. According to documents seen by Ziwaphi, soon after the 2014 national and provincial elections, then secretary ...
Read More »VIDEO: Police tortured me, Jimmy Mohlala’s widow
Her husband, the late speaker of Mbombela Local Municipality, Jimmy Mohlala was killed on 4 January 2009 for exposing the corruption linked to the construction of the Mbombela Stadium in preparation for the FIFA 2010 World Cup. After his burial ...
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