Environmental rights organisations are fighting to prevent coal mining in a strategic water source area near Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga. The Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) recently argued ...

Here are five small towns worth escaping to… Nestled against the Drakensberg foothills, Wakkerstroom is a paradise for birdwatchers with over 370 bird species, many of them rare. This small town ...

JOHANNESBURG – Vodacom has partnered with BPG Langfontein, a farming business that employs the majority of the people living in Wakkerstroom. As a result of this partnership, Vodacom moved all ...

Controversial plans to mine in the environmentally sensitive Wakkerstroom area have been scrapped. But questions remain about whether the mining company involved, Delta — key members of which ...

Residents of Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga have called for a R13m water pipeline project to be halted, saying it will put their water supply at risk. Speaking via the Wakkerstroom Interest Group (WIG), ...

Update: Since the publication of this article in 2009, the Mail & Guardian was informed on February 5 2015 that Delta Mining Company had abandoned its prospecting right in Wakkerstroom.

Beeld reported that well-known Wakkerstroom flower grower Brenda Carter, 80, suffered a stroke during the attack and was now unable to talk, as well as being paralysed on the right side of her face.

Durban - A 34 year-old man from Wakkerstroom, on the border between KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, has been charged with murder after the lifeless body of an SAPS administrative clerk was found in ...