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The department of water and sanitation has issued a dam safety directive to “address serious and ongoing safety risks” at My Own Dam — publicly known as Senteeko Dam — in Mpumalanga. Photo: DWS

Water department slaps Senteeko Dam owner with directive over dam that is at imminent risk of failure

Without urgent remedial action, ‘further deterioration is likely to continue’

The department of water and sanitation has issued a dam safety directive to “address serious and ongoing safety risks” at My Own Dam — publicly known as Senteeko Dam — in Mpumalanga. Photo: DWS

Authorities race to avert Barberton dam disaster

Residents have been urged to evacuate downstream of Senteeko Dam in Mpumalanga

In the black void of missing bodies

We cannot allow the mathematics of racial capital stop us from bearing ethical witness to the death of the marginalised majority

Missing: The husband of Pretty Nkambule, Christopher Mazibuko, and his children at their home in Barberton in 2016. The bodies of Nkambule and two other mineworkers still have to be recovered from Lily Mine. (Felix Dlangamandla/Gallo Images/Beeld)

Lily Mine families turn to Parliament

A four-year wait to retrieve three bodies trapped in a container underground could be over if a buyer for the mine is found

Should you believe the hype about the “foreign threat” to healthcare? (GCIS)

D-Day looms for Lily and Barbrook mines

The mines face provisional liquidation and 900 jobs will be lost – unless the IDC grants a loan

Five bodies found at Barberton mine

Pan African Resources has confirmed that the bodies of five men have been found in an underground section of the Consort gold mine in Barberton.

Stolen baby found dead and buried

A newborn baby stolen from the maternity ward in Barberton Hospital in Nelspruit has been found dead, police said on Tuesday.

Ray Phiri in accident, wife killed

Former Stimela lead vocalist Ray Phiri was involved in a car accident that led to the death of a woman passenger — identified as his wife — on Tuesday night, Mpumalanga police…