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Fifty-nine learners in Giyani were taken to hospital when they fell ill after eating food provided under their primary school’s nutrition programme as well as snacks. (Limpopo Health Department)

59 learners in Giyani taken to hospital after eating food at school

The pupils fell ill after consuming a meal provided under the school’s nutrition programme and snacks

Former Limpopo premier Stan Mathabatha. Photo: Marketing and Comms, University of Limpopo

Giyani water debacle ‘not all our fault’

Limpopo premier Stan Mathabatha made the claim during an elections debate hosted by the University of Limpopo and the Mail & Guardian

Work from Noria Mabasa’s exhibition Shaping Dreams at the Nirox Sculpture Park. (Supplied by Lucky Lekalakala)

Sculptor is shaping dreams

The work of 84-year-old artist Noria Mabasa explores traditions, mythology and spirituality

The site where Tshiamo Hleza died

Construction sites are a ‘death trap’

Four children died at Pretoria sites in just two weeks, but companies deny they’re to blame

Cascading dam capture: In areas where the taps have run dry, such as QwaQwa people spend hours collecting water transported there by trucks. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Water theft: Thirty years of looting

New research details how the department was broken, profiting a select few and leaving a third of South Africa’s population without clean water

Drowning: It had rained in dry northern Limpopo and children were playing in water in an open trench dug as part of the Giyani Bulk Water Project. The trench has since been covered. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Billions spent, and a boy has died, but Giyani’s taps are still dry

It has been five years since a bulk water supply project was started in the Limpopo Bushveld but people still don’t have water

Editorial: Corruption in politics and business kills people (Photo Archive)

Editorial: Corruption in politics and business kills people

‘​When people are corrupt, other people die. This is not how politicians and companies like to talk’

Former water affairs official Sifiso Mkhize.

Another scandal hits water affairs

A former senior official is being investigated by the Hawks for a suspect R64-million tender

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SIU wont relent as Lepelle Northern Water pushback against corruption probe

The SIU is investigating a water project in Giyani which was cost between R1.2-million and R1.4-million to drill a borehole

Under Nomvula Mokonyane’s nearly four years at the department, things got much worse.

Past failures don’t bode well for Mokonyane tenure

Minister takes over a crucial department, despite leading the water department into crisis

People in Giyani, Limpopo, must find water where they can. Under former minister Nomvula Mokonyane, a water project to supply 55 villages was stopped because of corruption. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Mboweni targets water crisis

The finance minister has vowed to tackle rampant corruption and municipal dysfunction

Michael Cohen as sentenced to three years in prison in December, after admitting to having paid hush money during the 2016 election to two women who said they had had affairs with Donald Trump. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

Giyani municipal CFO fired over suspected involvement in VBS saga

​The Giyani municipality has confirmed that its CFO was fired following his alleged involvement in the VBS Mutual Bank debacle

The entrance to Papa Penny’s house boasts a giant statue of the maverick musician

Papa Penny the populist for premier?

Celebrity politics rears its bouffant head as the flamboyant musician eyes the top job in Limpopo

Dele Alli: “We don’t want to just compete with these teams – we want to beat them. I’m happy to get two goals

Education department to track down culprit behind leaked maths paper

Pictures of a section of the paper were sent to a pupil from Giyani High School last Sunday, a day before the maths paper two exam was to be written.

Specialised law enforcement agencies such as the Hawks are invaluable in the fight against serious organised crime and corruption.

Hawks, SAPS launch probe into leaked maths exam paper

Basic education spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga said pupils at a few schools in Giyani, Limpopo had access to the maths paper before it was written.

Plans to install working pipes in Giyani have not yet come to come to fruition and many residents have no choice but to bath and wash their clothes in canals.

Giyani: The thirst that won’t be quenched

Despite hundreds of millions of rands being spent over a decade, the people of this Limpopo town do not have a regular supply of water.

Sundowns beat hapless Dynamos

Red cards and penalties punctuated a night of drama as Sundowns scored a resounding 4-0 victory over a hapless Dynamos in a Premier Soccer League match at the Giyani Stadium on…

Mbeki launches public works programme

South Africa has to overcome the colonial and apartheid legacy of unskilled and jobless workers to create a workforce for the reconstruction and development of the country,…