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HOD mum over security clearance

Mpumalanga provincial government’s head of treasury has failed to answer media questions whether she has a security clearance or not. This follows the emergence of allegations that the head of department for provincial treasury, Nombedesho Nkamba, does not have security ...

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ANC’s cash man mum on R2m tender in wife’s dept

Mpumalanga’s overgenerous ANC regional deputy chairman Siphiwe Nathaniel Mashile has refused to comment on a R2 million tender he received from the same provincial department where his wife is an official. Mashile, of the Ehlanzeni regional ANC structure, made headlines ...

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Mathews Phosa denies spy claims against Mabuza

Former ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa has denied having a vendetta against Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza or circulating a document alleging that Mabuza was an apartheid spy. African Eye News Service spoke to Phosa following an urgent press conference held by ...

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ANC money man says giving dancers cash is culture

Mpumalanga ANC deputy regional secretary in Ehlanzeni Nathaniel Mashile, has defended a video (SEE VIDEO BELOW) in which he is shown dishing out R200 notes at controversial business Kenny Kunene’s party in Johannesburg, Gauteng. The video went viral over the ...

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DA blasts R10.8m government “restaurant”

Despite Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza banning lavish spending two months after taking office in 2009, the legislature spent a whopping R10.8 million on catering alone between April 2013 and March this year. The expense, recorded in the 2013/14 Annual Report, was ...

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AFCON 2013 scandal – city manager fired

Ziwaphi’s exposé of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) scandal claimed its first casualty with the decision by the Mbombela municipality to dismiss the capital city’s manager, Xolani Mzobe for his role in the scandal. Last year, Ziwaphi exposed the ...

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Ex-COO gets a backdoor job

Both the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency (MTPA) and the Department of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism have failed to explain the processes followed in the controversial appointment of the agency’s former chief operations officer (COO), Edward Thwala. Thwala’s five-year ...

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ANC disowns its youth leader’s stunt

The ANC in Mpumalanga has distanced itself from pictures circulating on social networks depicting ANC Youth League provincial chairman Desmond Moela flanked by semi-naked women in branded underwear. The pictures, which resemble an American hip hop CD cover, show the ...

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Calls for PSC, Hawks to investigate “fake” qualifications

The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Mpumalanga will ask the Public Service Commission to investigate how provincial public works, roads and transport MEC Dikeledi Mahlangu overturned the dismissal of an employee who was found guilty of falsifying his qualifications and misusing ...

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Premier denies “dirty tricks”

Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza allegedly formed a “dirty tricks” task team and promised its members R3 million and government jobs if they quashed allegations that he was behind political assassinations in the province. Mabuza, through his spokesman, admitted to being ...

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