Three suspected poachers from Beit Bridge were shot and seriously injured, while three others escaped unhurt during a shoot-out with game rangers at the Bubi Conservancy outside Beit Bridge, police have said.

There was drama in Dulibadzimu suburb in Beit Bridge on Sunday, when a local man who had tried to steal a four-year-old toddler was stripped naked before he was beaten by an angry mob.

The Chairpersons Association (CA) has requested the local business fraternity not to change any stationery, business cards or letterheads with regard to the name change of the town of Louis Trichardt until all legal processes have been followed.

It was a small victory but a victory nonetheless for the Louis Trichardt SPCA when they helped secure a conviction against a man charged with cruelty against animals.

The lifeless body of a man was found in the early morning hours on Monday in a street at Ha-Makhakhi Block D2 at Mpheni in the Elim area. Not far away from him lay a bottle of beer, and only a small puddle of blood indicated that something was wrong.

Die polisie se haas om ’n skuldige vas te trek wat in 2005 die standbeeld van Makhado geverf het, het ’n lastige nadraai vir die Minister van Veiligheid en Sekuriteit, asook die plaaslike stasiebevelvoerder. Hulle is Dinsdag beveel om skadevergoeding van R70 000 te betaal aan mnr. Dieter Venter, wat kort na die voorval gearresteer is.

An argument over the custody of a four-year-old child between a fighting couple ended tragically, when the man went berserk, killing his wife and a six-month-old baby.

More than 1 200 out of 1 841 Zimbabweans deported from South Africa through Beit Bridge Border Post for failing to regularise their stay in the country during the documentation exercise, had reportedly trooped back illegally.

It is no joke: the popular Mafenya Brothers have been charged with common robbery.

Residents of Laat Lente and Herfsakker in Louis Trichardt’s woes with chronic water shortages promise to be a thing of the past by the end of November.

The dispute between ratepayers and the Makhado Municipality took an interesting turn, with a renewed promise by the municipality at a meeting last week.

The South African Bill of Rights teaches people to tolerate each other in cases of diversity and differences in terms of religion, culture and language. In Louis Trichardt, this came to a test when eight members from an unknown religion walked the streets preaching the gospel that sounded bizarre to those who gave them an ear.