Ná die omstredenheid wat die 2014-2018 waardasierol vir die Makhado munisipaliteit gekenmerk het, sou mens verwag dat daar met meer omsigtigheid te werk gegaan word met die opstel van ‘n nuwe rol. Dit blyk egter dat daar soortgelyks baie vrae en min antwoorde oor die 2018-2023 waardasierol is.

In the African tradition, the dead are treated with utmost respect and dignity and the places where they are buried is regarded as very sacred.

The time of sitting in cosy offices, while people are suffering outside, is over. So says Thulamela mayor Cllr Mushoni Tshifhango, as he joined field workers in filling potholes.

A convicted double murderer is planning to sue the State for compensation, claiming that he was wrongfully incarcerated for an extra five years on top of his original 20-year life sentence.

A call was made for the community to continue giving support to the grief-stricken family of the 8-year-old girl who died mysteriously while on a school trip in Durban.

Residents of Matsila, one of the most development-orientated rural communities in the area, held a consultative meeting with their leaders on Sunday.

The Stopthespot Youth Organisation will host its first annual event with the theme of “StOpThEsPoT of ABUSE” at the University of Venda on 9 August.

Mr Roy Saunders was one of many Louis Trichardt pensioners who had a nasty surprise when he tried to draw his pension on Saturday.  

It seems more and more likely that the plug will be pulled on the embattled VBS Mutual Bank. Whether the municipalities that invested millions in the bank will ever get their money back is also doubtful. For the ones who allegedly looted the bank there may be some further bad news – the tax collector is lurking, and he may become their worst nightmare.

In what is believed to be part of the ongoing taxi related violence in the country, a 65-year-old taxi owner was gunned down in cold blood just as he entered his home at Thohoyandou Block F on Wednesday morning.

A Grade 11 learner at Mbanyela High School in Maphaphila village near Malamulele, Maanda Mavhuthu, has recently started the Mavhuthu Sisterhood Programme, aimed at empowering women to be better sisters to raped and emotionally and spiritually weak young women.

Scam artists regularly target Louis Trichardt with very similar scenarios, and while those who have heard about these rip-off artists before might see it coming, the latest potential victims would like to share their modus operandi with those who haven’t.

A 41-year-old SACM (South African Custodial Management) officer from the Kutama Sinthumule Correctional Centre appeared in the Louis Trichardt magistrates court on 27 June on charges of illegal possession of a firearm and rape.

A Louis Trichardt-based team member of the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), Wendy Collinson, was the recipient of a “Science Oscar”. She received the TW Kambule-NSTF Award for the best Emerging Researcher during the recent National Science and Technology (NSTF) awards.

Mr Petros Lebese Mangani (41), a patient at the Tshwane Rehab Centre, is urgently in search of his family at Ha Tshilungoma.