Two tornadoes struck Mpumalanga on New Year’s Day, causing property damage near Middelburg and Carolina but no loss of life, SAWS reports.
Police in Delmas arrested a man after finding R17.4 million worth of illicit cigarettes hidden in water tanks on a truck in Sundra, Mpumalanga.
Five people lost their lives and dozens were injured in a serious bus accident on the R33, between eMkhondo and Amsterdam, on Monday afternoon, 1 December.
The Mpumalanga police continue a massive manhunt for five men who escaped from custody at the Lydenburg police station on Saturday, 29 November.
Two months after a similar ordeal, 70-year-old Carolina farmer Rolé Uys was again brutally attacked this past weekend, scalded with boiling water and left for dead.