Mandla Khoza

2 months ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Mandla Khoza |Ihsaan Haffejee

Lily mine has been closed since 2016 following a structural collapse that led to three miners – Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule and Solomon Nyerenda – being trapped. The business rescue practitioner overseeing the financial affairs of Lilly mine in Mpumalanga has rejected claims made by the mine's owners, Vantage Goldfields, that they have secured funding to reopen the operations.

Jan 16, 2025 | sowetanlive.co.za | Nandi Ntini |Mahlohonolo Magadla |Mandla Khoza |Antonio Muchave

A queue snakes outside the department of education’s district office in Benoni, Ekurhuleni, for placement of pupils on Thursday. As the first week of the 2025 academic year wraps up,  thousands of children across the country remain without school placements, as parents scramble to find available spaces. The crisis, driven by late registrations and parents rejecting allocated schools, has left education departments racing against time to clear a growing backlog of unplaced pupils.

Jan 16, 2025 | sowetanlive.co.za | Mandla Khoza

Lubisi, 43, was arrested in Nelspruit on Tuesday for the murder of eight people at Lavisa Lifestyle tavern at Pienaar outside Mbombela last Saturday. A second suspect, who was arrested in connection with a Mpumalanga tavern shooting in which eight people were killed, has a previous conviction.

Jan 15, 2025 | sowetanlive.co.za | Mandla Khoza

The eight people who were killed at a tavern in Pienaar in Mpumalanga were shot as they got out of the two vehicles they arrived in, according to the provincial police. There were 10 people travelling in two cars when the incident happened on Saturday morning. Five died at the scene, with two of them found inside one of the cars. Three died later in hospital. One person has been discharged and the other is still in hospital. Two people have since been arrested.

Jan 14, 2025 | sowetanlive.co.za | Mandla Khoza

The school is situated in Ermelo at the Msukaligwa local municipality in the Gert Sibande region, where Dube was born. The Mpumalanga provincial government is set to open and hand over the Lucky Dube School for Performing Arts when schools reopen on Wednesday after it was built in honour of the late reggae music legend. The school is situated in Ermelo at the Msukaligwa local municipality in the Gert Sibande region, where Dube was born.