More than a year after a multimillion-rand sports facility, intended to serve Vhembe’s western villages, was due for completion, it remains unfinished. One of the reasons given is a lack of water to irrigate the grass soccer pitch. It is unclear when the project will be completed or if additional funds will be needed for what appears to be a bottomless pit.

The highly anticipated Miss Resilience Thohoyandou pageant is now open for registrations, accepting entries from 25 October to 15 December 2024.

Residents of Mavhunga and the surrounding areas are demanding accountability after the contractor in charge of rehabilitating a 3.7-kilometre stretch of the D3669 road, leading from Mavhunga to Phadzima, allegedly abandoned the project.

Parents of learners at Maledza Primary School in Malamulele have been asking the Limpopo Department of Education since 2004 to fix their crumbling school. Now they are threatening to shut the school down in protest.

A sod-turning ceremony marking the start of construction of the Thavhani Retail Park was held on Wednesday, 23 October. The new complex is located in the Thavhani City Precinct, near Builders Market in Muledane, just outside Thohoyandou.

The ongoing legal dispute between Alliance Fuel and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) has taken a new turn, with the battle returningto the magistrate’s court where everything began. Alliance Fuel is seeking to overturn the original search warrant that allowed SARS to raid its Louis Trichardt depot in July.

Children from Khubvi Primary School went on the rampage last Thursday, breaking into shops owned by foreign nationals and grabbing packets of chips, which they then spread out on the street and destroyed.