A report into corruption in Mpumalanga’s Nkomazi municipality, covering a region near the Mozambique border, has recommended disciplinary action against five senior officials. The report was commissioned after allegations of wrongdoing were made in July this year.
A three-year-old White River girl was locked in a cage while her grandparents allegedly sexually assaulted her and failed to provide for even her most basic needs, Mpumalanga police said on Wednesday.
An estimated 31% of Nelpruit’s population of 600 000 is infected with HIV/Aids. Now the city has another problem: a dramatic increase in child rape caused by the myth that sex with a virgin cures HIV.
Mpumalanga’s hardline health MEC Sibongile Manana may have finally met her match. The defiant former nurse has endured a string of sordid corruption scandals and last week stunned commentators by surviving an open revolt by African National Congress legislators who branded her department a national disgrace.
The Democratic Alliance has called for the removal of Mpumalanga health MEC Sibongile Manana following an announcement on Thursday that her department had been placed under curatorship.
The 30-year deal spearheaded by Britain’s BiWater and signed in Mpumalanga’s capital Nelspruit in 1999 was supposed to rapidly expand basic water services into the region’s impoverished villages without placing a financial burden on the taxpayer.
A man is in isolation in the Nelspruit Medi-Clinic with symptoms of malaria or possibly the feared Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars).
The number of sites distributing nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant mothers in Mpumalanga would increase to 55 by early next year, premier Ndaweni Mahlangu announced on Friday.
The man arrested in connection with the murder of a British tourist earlier this week was expected to appear in court on Monday, police said on Friday.
The remaining two men wanted in connection with the rape of a British tourist in Mpumalanga on Saturday were arrested following a shootout on Tuesday morning. Police confirmed the arrests and said the four men would appear in court ”very soon”.
Four journalists employed by a regional news agency in Mpumalanga, had been assaulted and threatened without the police taking any action to protect them, the Media Institute of Southern Africa reports.
An official sod-turning ceremony on Wednesday marked the start of construction of a pipeline to pump natural gas from Mozambique to South Africa.
Dismissed medical superintendent of the Rob Ferreira Provincial Hospital in Nelspruit, Dr Thys von Mollendorff will be taking the Mpumalanga Health Department to the Labour Court.
A British woman was shot dead and her husband wounded during an attack at a hotel in Pilgrims Rest on Tuesday night, Mpumalanga police said on Wednesday
A young British tourist was repeatedly raped after she and her South African friend were hijacked on the Sabie-Lydenburg road on Saturday afternoon.
