Speaking at a public meeting in the town of Carolina in South Africa's Mpumalanga province, Mr Motsoaledi said the large number of young girls who were HIV-positive "destroyed my soul".

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Hilton Botha was removed as chief investigating officer Thursday after the prosecuting authority of Mpumalanga province, in early February, reinstated an attempted murder charge against him for a 2011 incident.

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The Mpumalanga Parks Board, which manages state-owned reserves in Mpumalanga province, home to most of South Africa's wildlife, has just sold a lease to develop some of its best reserves to the Dolphin Group, a Dubai company, in a deal which also did not go out to tender and was indeed originally kept secret.

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Researchers say the practice is rife especially in Mpumalanga, a province near Mozambique and Swaziland.

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Nelspruit in the province of Mpumalanga near the Kruger National Park, the central city of Bloemfontein and Rustenberg, near the famed Sun City resort.

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The task of alleviating poverty in Mpumalanga would challenge the most able of local governments, a luxury the province has long lacked.

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