PPC Kremetart Fietsrywedren 2014.

Musiek gebruik in die video:

The Time To Run (Finale) (Dexter Britain) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

The Time To Run (Dexter Britain) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

New Years Eve (instrumental) (Silence Is Sexy) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Leave Well Enough Alone (Instrumental) (Dexter Britain) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

So Far So Close (Jahzzar) / CC BY-SA 4.0

Hanging On (Valley Lodge) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

An hour was all it took for a blazing hot fire to reduce a wholesale business to rubble. The raging fire that destroyed the CheckOut store in Makhado (Louis Trichardt) on Sunday, broke out at around 12:00, causing mayhem not only for local firefighters, but also for business owners.

Die jaarlikse Conway Rugbydag op 8 Maart 2014, het groot skare gelok tydens die bulletjierugby wedstryde. O/6, O/7 en O/8 spanne van Laerskool Louis Trichardt, Messina, Duiwelskloof en Braambos het teen mekaar meegeding en het vir vele aksie gesorg.

Music used in the video:

Melody (BoxCat Games) / CC BY 3.0

Rhythm (BoxCat Games) / CC BY 3.0

Who can forget the heart wrenching video footage of the little rhino calf that was weeping at the lifeless carcass of his mother. The calf, named Pemba, was moved to the Rhino Orphanage in Limpopo. The Zoutpansberger newspaper had the opportunity to visit Pemba and spent a lazy afternoon in his delightful company.

Music used in this video:

Telling Stories (Dexter Britain) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Shooting Star (Dexter Britain) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Music used in the video: Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain

An intoxicated would-be thief broke into a liquor store in the early hours of Sunday morning. After a short rampage around the store, the man fell asleep and was discovered later by the store's employees.

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The alleged assault on an ambassador of the Special Olympics in Vhembe, international athlete Rofhiwa Manwadu, has ignited widespread uproar and outcry all over the country. Protesters took to the streets of Thohoyandou to highlight the plight of the disabled.

The Zoutpansberger had the opportunity to view a post mortem on the rhino cow that was recently killed by poachers at the Nwanedi Nature Reserve. A .458 bullet was removed and will aid the investigation through ballistic analysis.

*Not for sensitive viewers*

More than 150 Grade 12 pupils, who are busy writing their mid-year examinations, were left stranded when they found that the classes they were to write in were being demolished.

A mysterious fire gutted a shopping complex in Thohoyandou, causing millions of rand in damages.

A month-old rhino calf was found close by his mother's carcass after she was brutally killed by poachers this week. Both her horns were hacked off. This brings the total number of rhino's killed for their horns to 428 for this year, according to statistics. *Video may upset sensitive viewers*

The Soutpansberg was once gain abuzz with cyclists from all over South Africa converging on Makhado (Louis Trichardt) to take part in the annual PPC Kremetart cycle race.

Music used in the video:

Ages (Silence Is Sexy) / CC BY-NC 3.0

Rain Begins To Fall (Silence Is Sexy) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Highlights (Silence Is Sexy) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Vhaingameli Vho Mpomokeni Joseph Mushiane of Tshimbupfe Schiel Farm, founder and senior member of the Zion Apostolic Old Mission Church was buried on Sunday, 2 June 2013.

Tshima award winner for the best Tshivenda Gospel Artist Lufuno Dagada has once more shown who is the real boss in local gospel circles at the launch of his new album.

A community meeting at Tshivhazwaulu Primary School held between the community and the local ward councillor ended abruptly when the councillor marched out of the meeting after a demand from the community that the councillor withdraw people that she had allegedly hired without following procedure.

A community's search for two missing boys, which started by the combing of nearby bushes and progressed to a house-to-house search, ended in tears when the boys were found dead. The two boys, Nhleketo Mashimbyi and Rifuwo Hlungwani, both aged 3 were found in an unused pit toilet, dug in one of the yards, not far from their homes.

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If the determination to participate in sport, more especially soccer, displayed by the elderly in Vhembe is anything to go by, a new elderly soccer league could be in the offing in the area. This became evident when hundreds of the elderly, some with their walking sticks, filled the Mutoti sports ground to watch 13 teams from different parts of the district play each other for no prizes at all, but for the love of the sport.

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Dr Nanga Lidovho, a legal advisor for the University of Venda who died in a motorcycle accident, was buried in the Shayandima cemetery. More than 40 motor bikers from all over Limpopo and Mpumalanga also came to pay their last respects to their fallen friend and led the procession from his home to the local Lutheran Church.

Music used in the video:
Action Line by DANI PE NET
Battle by Jahzzar
Calling (Instrumental) by Dexter Britain

Dié opspraakwekkende moord het egter Woensdagmiddag ‘n dramatiese wending geneem toe die Staat hul saak teen die egpaar teruggetrek het, nadat dit aan die lig gekom het dat die man wat hulle van medepligtigheid aan die moord beskuldig het, gelieg het.

Police have found the dead body of the victim whose hand was discovered in the refrigerator of a house in Eltivillas on Friday (5 April 2013). The body, dumped in a dense bush in Makhado (Louis Trichardt), had to be airlifted out.

The situation at Tshilungoma village outside Thohoyandou in Limpopo province, is still tense after the body of a missing child was found at a nearby rivulet. Some of her body parts were allegedly missing.

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Blouberg Natuurreservaat het op 9 Maart 2013 die nuwe vlughok vir hul reeds bekende aasvoël-rehabilitasieprojek bekend gestel. In die videogreep vertel Gerd Botha, die hoof ontwerper van die hok, van die rehabilitasieprogram.

Thousands of chickens suffocated in an enclosed coop at a local chicken farm over the past weekend when the farm’s back-up generator failed to engage after a power outage.

Workers from a community farm near Levubu, went on strike on Thursday, 28 February 2013, after not receiving any payment for three months.

'n Tamaai luislang wat in die Hanglip-bosbouplantasie buite Makhado (Louis Trichardt) opgemerk is, het inwoners aan die praat. Die meneer van 'n slang, van meer as drie meter, het asof dood tussen 'n fietspaadjie en 'n stroompie gelê en sy laaste maal verteer.

Heavy flooding in the Limpopo Province the past week, caused several fatalities, washed houses away and caused bridges to collapse. On Sunday disaster relief operations were suspended at night and resumed on Monday morning. Residents stood atop rooftops and mountains to escape the currents. Here is a collection of video clips and photographs from readers across the Makhado (Louis Trichardt), Musina, Levubu, Vivo, Pontdrift, Weipe and Tshipise areas.

Music used in the video: Rain Begins To Fall (Silence Is Sexy) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Strange lights in the night sky over Makhado (Louis Trichardt) last Friday evening had many wondering what they were, but as with all of these “paranormal” sightings, explanations varied, with no conclusive answer. (Video supplied)

A man was killed during a scuffle with two Makhado police constables at the railway crossing in Grobler street, Makhado (Louis Trichardt) on 25 July 2012. Captain Sadiki from the Makhado police gives an account of the incident at the scene of the shooting.

The Makhado and Vhembe District Municipality held an open meeting on Wednesday, 18 July 2012, to discuss Makhado's (Louis Trichardt) continuing water supply crisis.

Following a shootout between police members and suspected cash-in-transit robbers, lt col Ledwaba recaps the events that took place on a quiet road near Vuwani on Monday 28 May 2012. Read the full story in the Zoutpansberger and Limpopo Mirror newspapers this week.