A R500-million project intended to help emerging black farmers is on the brink of collapse.
President Jacob Zuma handed over 85 new tractors to the Masibuyele Emasimini (back to the fields) project in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal in June 2010 to encourage small-scale farming.
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This follows an incident where 80% of the students were allegedly hospitalised because of food poisoning.
The students of Mpumalanga College of Nursing are on strike, demanding that the department of health appoint a new food service provider for the campus, Mpumalanga News reports
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A police officer has described the trauma that he and other officers experienced when they discovered remains believed to be those of Gabisile Shabani‚ a 13-year-old albino girl who was murdered‚ allegedly as part of a muti ritual.
The premises in Emalahleni in Mpumalanga belonged to a traditional healer‚ who was arrested last week.
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JOHANNESBURG – Yet another Gupta-linked mine has failed to pay the salaries of its employees.
The mine in question is the Koornfontein Coal Mine in Mpumalanga.
This follows the failure of the controversial family’s Optimum Coal Mine to pay its workers their salaries this month which led to mineworkers downing tools since Wednesday.
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JOHANNESBURG – Optimum Coal Mine workers said that they do not know how they are going to get by this weekend after their employer failed to pay them yesterday.
For the past two days, the employees have been demonstrating outside the mine in Mpumalanga demanding for their salaries to be paid.
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A 73-year-old man died and his wife was extremely traumatised after the couple was attacked on their farm in Charl Cilliers in Mpumalanga on Friday night. Brigadier Leonard Hlathi, Police Spokesperson, confirmed the incident. He identified the couple as Johannes Cornelius (73) and Ilse Jakoba Meyer (69). According to Hlathi the incident took place at approximately 22:30. He..
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A 51-year-old farmer from Mpumalanga has been taken into custody after he stabbed his attacker who later died on Friday. The farmer whose name will not be released until he appears in court said that he was driving between Heidel Valley and Rocky Drift when a young man threw a rock at the vehicle. The..
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An elderly husband and wife were assaulted and robbed on their farm in Houtboshoek in the early hours of Monday morning. According to Bossies Community Justice’s (BCJ) Albert Gryvenstein, three suspects, one of which was armed, committed the crime. ”At 05:30 the suspects bent a burglar bar of a window in the study to get..
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Former South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng has told congregants at a church in Mpumalanga that no one has changed the SABC like he has. Motsoeneng was speaking at Bishop Dununu Ministries in Witbank as part of the youth month service. This is his first public appearance since he was dismissed from the..
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The education of thousands of Mpumalanga schoolchildren has ground to a near halt and exams have been postponed because of a teachers’ go-slow. For the past three weeks, teachers in the province have been coming to work for only two hours a day. Schools open at 8am and close at 10am. The protest is over..
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