Hundreds of residents from around Thulamela came in their numbers to witness the official opening of the new Thohoyandou Traffic Station.

Stray elephants from Kruger National Park have descended on the neighbouring Tshikwalakwala irrigation scheme outside Beit Bridge, where they continue to destroy the fence, canals and crops, Mirror has established.

A well-known figure in Cosatu circles, Ms Patronella Sewela Ndou (35), was laid to rest at the Madombidzha graveyard outside Louis Trichardt on Saturday.

Limpopo Premier Cassel Mathale rejected the recent police circular which forces people to give statements in English only when opening case at a police station.

The search for the panga man who had attacked and killed a Grade 12 pupil of Kutama High was still continuing at the time of going to press. The incident took place at Kutama-Muduluni last Friday.

Unlike previous years, this year’s Makhado municipal show, according to the residents, was a complete disaster.

Although the neighbours tried to assist, they could not save the Mulatedzi family’s only house from being destroyed in a fire.

The partly decomposed body of an old lady hung motionless from the branch of the Munombelo tree. A pair of running shoes lay innocently next to the body. A container of snuff (khambana ya fola) and a waist towel rested peacefully on a small branch just next to the body.

Mnr. Jan Viljoen, voorsitter van TLU SA Noord, het die afgelope week sy dankbaarheid uitgespreek vir die reën wat oor dele van die streek begin val het. Tog gaan talle gebiede steeds gebuk onder ernstige droogtetoestande.

Die Makhado Munisipaliteit het hierdie week ‘n ernstige waarskuwing gerig aan inwoners om onder geen omstandighede te poog om self elektriese herstelwerk of koppelings te doen nie, tensy hulle ‘n geregistreerde elektrisiën is.

Absolutely no evidence could be found this week of the large number of official documents from the Makhado Municipality’s licensing department that were dumped at the municipal dumping site a fortnight ago.

Ten spyte van haar nagmerrie ondervinding sowat drie weke gelede, waarin sy haar eggenoot aan die dood moes afstaan, sterk Lanie Kruger van Louis Trichardt goed aan.