It was business as usual for the teams affiliated to the National First Division last weekend. The Thohoyandou outfit, Black Leopards FC, suffered their first defeat. They were narrowly beaten 0-1 by the newly promoted Uthongathi FC at the Princess Magogo Stadium in Durban.

The Louis Trichardt Cricket Club made up for their loss a week ago against Giyani, when they beat the Univen side by 83 runs on Sunday morning.

Although they have managed to win only one of the three league matches they have played to date, Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila FC (TTM) are still optimistic that they will achieve their set goals at the end of the season.

The Makhado Police are currently searching for five suspects who have fled following a high-speed car chase.

Die Makhado Polisie is tans op soek na vyf verdagtes wat op die vlug geslaan het.

The case involging the harvesting and selling of human body parts from buried corpses took a dramatic turn when the police arrested five suspects. This was described as a major blow to human parts merchants.

Small entrepreneurs and micro enterprises around the Musina and Blouberg municipalities will possibly benefit from the launch of the second De Beers business incubator.

More than 20 000 music enthusiasts from various parts of the country converged at Nandoni Royal Gardens outside Thohoyandou last weekend for the annual Phalaphala FM Royal Heritage Festival.

Following a four-month long search, police have managed to locate and arrest a suspect in connection with the murder of Ms Portia Rasilavi (35).

The 26-year-old Ndivhuwo Mavhetha, who was known as the gang leader of Ma-Dickies in the Makhado area, was recently sentenced to an effective 26-year jail term in the Thohoyandou Local Division of the Limpopo High Court.

“Ek daag hulle uit ... as hulle die stene het ... om eerder hulle hande uit hulle moue te steek en my te kom vra om vir hulle werk uit te deel.”

The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Limpopo has written to the MEC for Transport, Ms Nandi Ndalane, to establish a formal enquiry after another traffic officer was knocked down fatally by a vehicle over the weekend in Musina.