Hopes were high in Eltivillas in Makhado (Louis Trichardt) last year in May. After all, on the eve of the election, they had a visit from none other than the Limpopo premier, and many promises were made to secure a vote in favour of the ruling party. “We haven’t seen any real change yet. We are very disappointed,” said Mr Dave Patel.

People who received cash vouchers from the government for having been forcibly removed from their ancestral land should be protected against crooks, said the Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Mr Lechesa Tsenoli.

All they wanted was service delivery, but when they visited Thulamela Municipality's offices, they were threatened with arrest.

Kosbare water gaan verlore weens lekke op die pypleiding na Makhado (Louis Trichardt).

Elisa Shonisani (49), a mother of five, who stayed alone, met her untimely and vicious death at Maraxwe outside Thohoyandou, probably in the early hours of last Saturday.

Die Zoutpansberger het bietjie gaan kyk hoe die demografiese landskap, inkomsteskale en arbeidsmark, met spesifieke verwysing na die Makhado en Musina munisipale areas, sedert die vorige sensus in 2001 verander het.

A hotel manager became desperate when four months passed and he still sat with a crow’s nest of cables and a faulty telephone line. The result was that clients could not use their credit cards because the card machines were not working.

The community of Ha-Magau convened to discuss the issue of an illegal march which happened in front of the house of Ward 23's councillor, Selinah Mamatsiari, on 14 October.

The eight men believed to be responsible for the spate of safe-bombings, as well as various other daring robberies in Makhado (Louis Trichardt), will appear in court again on 26 November.

Two Beit Bridge men, who fatally struck a local security guard as they stole chickens at a local fowl coup, have each been sentenced to an effective 20 years in jail.

The High Court in Pretoria ordered the Vhembe District Municipality (VDM) to forward the test results of the new boreholes in Makhado (Louis Trichardt) to AfriForum's attorneys. The new boreholes play a crucial part in the eventual restoring of a constant water supply to the town.

The Musina SAPS's crime prevention unit arrested seven suspects who are alleged to be involved in a syndicate of maguma-guma (con men) who steal money and other people's belongings under false pretences.