Koena Mashale is a Reporter at SowetanLive and a corps member at Report4theWorld. She focuses on a range of themes including education, climate change, and government politics, with particular emphasis on public education, water management, and transportation policy. Her work has been featured in prominent publications such as Business Day, HeraldLIVE, Sowetan, BusinessLIVE, and the Sunday Times.
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Koena Mashale's coverage predominantly revolves around South African government and politics, with a focus on infrastructure, crime, and electricity issues. She also delves into societal topics such as culture, society, family relationships, and youth engagement.
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Eskom agrees to support City Power after talks on the metro's growing electricity debt
Power utility to monitor city's revenue collection, billing systems
By: Koena Mashale
Nearly R1bn worth of drugs destined for South African streets were intercepted at the Beitbridge border post when travelling from Malawi on Wednesday.
uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party chief whip Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi has been arrested after allegedly forcing party employees to hand over chunks of their salaries under the guise of paying the party president's legal fees.
By: Koena Mashale
Illegal structures built around the Marble Towers building must be removed from municipal land and properly approved by the city before they can operate again, the Johannesburg high court has ruled.
Sixteen killed and 79 injured in blaze at girls’ boarding college in early hours of morning
In The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin, what appears to be a story about a polygamous man quickly reveals itself as something else entirely. A layered exploration of the women behind him and the secrets they carry in a deeply patriarchal Nigerian household.
A department of public works anti-corruption investigation says senior officials may have engineered an artificial crisis to push through a R70m lease deal to accomodate employees from the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) in Pretoria.
Tshwane reducing outsourced tanker use, while Emfuleni continues to rely on tankers
The city has been on a clean-up campaign to take control of hijacked buildings and demolish illegal structures, and still faces the mammoth task of reclaiming a further nearly 500 hijacked and illegally occupied buildings.
