A Mpumalanga municipality has rejected the resignation of a senior clerk who is accused of stealing R1.3m that was meant to be paid to Eskom.

“We have let down our father [late deputy president David Mabuza] and disappointed him with this matter. He kept his family life private. He would not have done things this way,” says Lindeni Mabuza.

David Mabuza’s daughter Tamara Silinda has successfully halted the distribution of her father’s R44.7m pension fund administered by Alexforbes after an urgent court bid.

The family of a six-year-old Mpumalanga girl who was murdered in 2022 and her body mutilated say they are being denied justice as the start of their daughter's trial has been postponed three times in a space of two weeks.

Mpumalanga premier Mandla Ndlovu has sacked his education MEC Cathy Dlamini and economic development and tourism MEC Makhosazane Masilela.

Mluleki Nkosi, the man accused of killing his sister and burying her in a shallow grave at their Mpumalanga home, has told the Kabokweni magistrate's court that he will represent himself.

Thousands of pupils in Mpumalanga who rely on the government's scholar transport to get to school were left stranded after service providers stopped working due to non-payment.

A second suspect arrested in connection with a Mpumalanga tavern shooting in which eight people died has a previous conviction for violence.

Frustration is mounting on parents of learners heading to grade 1 and grade 8 in Mpumalanga as more than 7,000 learners are yet to be placed.

A suspected illegal miner who was one of more than 100 men rescued from an abandoned mine in Sabie, Mpumalanga has claimed "kidnappers" plied him with alcohol and promised him a job, only to take him to a disused mine the next day to force him at gunpoint to go underground.