The Levubu police made a breakthrough when they arrested three suspects who had allegedly stabbed and killed Mashudu Madzebu (24) of Muhovhoya Village in the Tshakhuma area on Easter Friday.

The Easter holidays are days of celebration and happiness, but for the Madzebu family of Muhovhoya –Tshakhuma outside Louis Trichardt, happiness turned into sadness and mourning.

The former chairperson of the ANC Youth League in Limpopo, Lehlogonolo Masoga, says the league has been turned into a tender committee by its president, Julius Malema, whom he accuses of hi-jacking the Limpopo Provincial conference.

Phathutshedzo Mbedzi, a Grade 12 learner who has been behind bars since May last year for fatally stabbing a classmate at the Jack Lavhengwa Secondary School, briefly appeared in the Thohoyandou High Court, facing a murder charge last Monday.

The Vhembe office of the South African Football Association (Safa) decided to dissolve the executive committee of the Makhado Local Football Association on Monday. This follows months of quarrels, boycotts and a blatant refusal by teams playing under the Makhado LFA banner to accept the body´s financial statements.

Three needy schools from the Makhado municipal area have handed over a memorandum to the Department of Education in Polokwane last Tuesday (30th), asking that libraries be set up at these learning institutions.

The government announced on Thursday last week that it was redeploying members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to patrol the highly porous borders with neighbours Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

The National Local Farmers Development Forum recently engaged local farmers in the Makhado municipal area in an agricultural dialogue session, with the aim of dealing with the challenges facing local farmers in the area. The dialogue session was held at the Louis Trichardt Show Grounds last Wednesday.

Elijar Mushiana has come a long way from being a village photographer to a bureau chief heading the photographic section of a national paper in Polokwane.

A mathematics expert at the University of Venda called on institutions of higher learning not to abandon the energy approach method when dealing with problems in mathematics.

The future looks bleak for a matriculant who did not write her final examinations in 2005 after she had fallen ill from a strange skin disease.

“The Department of Roads and Transport in Limpopo has introduced the Computerised Learner´s Licence Test systems to eliminate the fraudulent issuance of learner´s licences, at a cost of R20,8 Million at Lephalale, Tzaneen, Polokwane, Marble Hall and Makhado, ” said the MEC for Roads and Transport in Limpopo, Ms Pinky Kekana, when tabling her R3,237 billion departmental expenditure budget for 2010/11 in Polokwane last Thursday.