Thembisile Yende (48), a traffic officer, narrowly escaped a five-year prison term when her sentence was wholly suspended at the Ermelo Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, December 9. Yende was arrested in 2022 in Ermelo after the Hawks Middelburg based Serious Corruption Investigation team responded to motorists’ complains in Ermelo about…
MBOMBELA- Rob Ferreira Hospital has achieved a significant surgical milestone. This is after surgeons successfully removed a Wilms’ tumour on a child with thrombus extending from the left renal vein into the IVC, followed by IVC venotomy. The child had a kidney cancer called Wilms which was operated and removed.…
A 48-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing his wife (43) on the evening of Tuesday, December 2 in Ntunda near Tonga. According to a report, police were conducting routine patrols in the area when they were alerted by community members about a domestic violence incident occurring at a nearby…
ALKMAAR – With the festive season upon us, patients are advised by the provincial Department Of Health to collect medication earlier. The above was stated by MEC for Health, Sasekani Manzini during the launch of the 2025 Festive Season Contigency Plan on Tuesday morning on the N4. This was to…
Five passengers lost their lives on the R33 between Mkhondo and Amsterdam on the afternoon of Monday, December 1. Preliminary reports indicate that the driver of the bus lost control leading to the bus overturning. Six passengers were seriously injured while 20 other occupants escaped with slight injuries including the…
Mbombela’s very own Hip-Hop sensation, Prince Nhlakanipho Khoza, known as Don Pressure, is making waves in the local music scene. The star has been nominated for Best Gospel Hip-Hop Artist of the Year at the 12th Mpumalanga Gospel Music Awards (MGOMA), and it’s no surprise, considering his latest achievements and…
Three people died following a crash involving two bakkies on the N4 near Middelburg Dam on Friday morning. According to reports, the crash happened at about 11h30 when driver of the bakkie that was coming from the direction of Mbombela allegedly lost control of the vehicle and went on the…
A 71 year-old woman, Elina Magagule and her co-accused, Pleasure Ngobeni (35) were sentenced by the Nelspruit Regional Court for murder this week. The sentence follows the arrest of three people accused of assaulting a woman who had confronted the three accused for allegedly stealing her cattle in Acornhoek in…
MBOMBELA – A stern warning was directed to both traffic officials and motorists with regard to taking bribes. This was during a Roll Call meeting hosted by the Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison in collaboration with the Department of Transport on Thursday November 20 at Mbombela Stadium. The…
The Mpumalanga Specialised Commercial Crimes Court sitting in Middelburg sentenced former attorney, Mantladi Jo-Anne Mmela to 10 years’ direct imprisonment for the theft of over R4.1 million from an attorney’s trust account. Mmela was convicted on four counts of theft committed between June 2019 and March 2022 while practising as…