Provincial leaders of the South African Communist Party (SACP) have accused the shareholders of a top furniture shop in Mpumalanga’s capital city of being racist. This follows information that the shareholders of the Bakos Brothers luxury furniture shop gave the ...
Read More »“Don’t lie to voters,” forum warns ANC
The Forum 4 Service Delivery (F4SD) has accused the governing African National Congress (ANC) in Mpumalanga of lying to the voters ahead of the local government elections next month.The F4SD, an organisation which represents some of the independent councilors who ...
Read More »Mbombela stadium corruption case collapses
Kaizer Chiefs manager, Bobby Motaung, and five co-accuseds are now free men after the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) declined to prosecute them. This means that all fraud and corruption charges in the R1.2 billion 2010 Mbombela world cup soccer stadium ...
Read More »Independent councillors will get no municipal budgets – ANC leader
An African National Congress (DA) leader in Mpumalanga has admitted to saying no budgets will be allocated to municipal wards that are won by independent candidate councillors. The ANC leader, Majaheni Nyalunga, who is also a serving councillor in Mbombela’s ...
Read More »Mandela memorial ghost haunts SA deputy minister
The ghost of Nelson Mandela’s two memorial events that the Mpumalanga provincial government paid for but failed to take place has come back to haunt South African deputy minister for rural development and land reform Candith Mashego-Dlamini. On March 20, ...
Read More »Don’t let corruption, state capture, recolonise Africa – Phosa
Former African National Congress treasurer-general, Dr Mathews Phosa, has warned Africa against re-colonising itself through corruption, nepotism and state capture. Phosa made the appeal in his acceptance speech after being named the recipient of the 6th African Achievers Awards (AAA) ...
Read More »Premier’s office at pains to produce R3 million Mandela video
Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a R3 million video that Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza’s office paid for using taxpayer’s money as part of the province’s R70 million memorial services for late former President Nelson Mandela. According to information that Ziwaphi ...
Read More »Mabulu is an amoeba – ANCYL
The African National Youth Congress League (ANCYL) in Mpumalanga has dismissed artist Ayanda Mabulu as “an amoeba who does not know where he is going.” The league was responding to Mabula’s latest paintings which depict President Jacob Zuma performing sexual ...
Read More »Malema a dying man – ANCYL leader
Julius Malema is a dying man, says African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) Deputy President Desmond Moela. Moela, who was addressing more than 500 young people who attended his political lecture recently. The event was held in Masoyi near Hazyview, ...
Read More »Widows want new probe into political killings
Two of Mpumalanga’s “political widows” who feel let down by the decision of the minister of police to exclude the killing of their husbands from the investigation into political killings in the country, now want a new probe into the ...
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