The South African government has ordered the closure of the Musina detention centre used for holding Zimbabwean illegal immigrants arrested in the country without proper documentation. The recently appointed South African Minister of Home Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, said that the centre violated human rights, because of the squalid conditions people were living under. She said since Zimbabweans no longer required visas to visit South Africa, the centre served no purpose.

The University of Venda’s student leader, Sylvester Motadi, is being accused by the ANCYL of taking a bribe from the company that was given the tender to organise the annual Fresher’s Ball. Motadi, however, described it as dirty politics stemming from people who are jealous of all that Azasco had thus far achieved on the campus.

Vice-chancellors from all over South Africa and neighbouring countries were present to witness the inauguration of Prof Peter Amunga Mbati as the 4th vice-chancellor of the University of Venda last Friday.

South Africa and Zimbabwe have agreed to reopen the Old Limpopo Bridge linking the two countries and implement the one-stop border post concept as a matter of urgency, in a bid to ease congestion at the busiest inland port of entry in sub-Saharan Africa ahead of the 2010 Fifa World Cup.

The lives of thousands of rural Mutale learners could soon change for the better. This is after the Department of Agriculture in Mutale, in partnership with an NGO, Save the Children UK, handed over hundreds of water pipes for drip irrigation to impoverished schools in the area on Friday.

Ndivhuwo Screamer Mamathuba (52), a dedicated, disciplined and intellectual revolutionary, was laid to rest last Saturday at Tshitereke village.

The Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform, Gugile Nkwinti, his Deputy, Dr Joe Phaahla, and the Limpopo Premier, Cassel Mathale, launched the National Comprehensive Rural Development Programme at the Muyexe village outside Giyani in Limpopo two weeks ago.

If Black Leopards fail to acquire the services of a man to guide the team within the next two weeks, the team will be without a coach when they resume their training sessions.

The tiny court room D at Thohoyandou Magistrate’s Court could not accommodate the more than 200 people who came to witness the bail application by a 31-year-old woman who allegedly took part in killing her cousin’s wife by injecting her with poison, allegedly because she was also in love with her cousin.

Klein Reinhardt Smit is by die huis! Na 17 dae in die waakeenheid slaap die klein leukemie pasiëntjie in sy eie bed op Bandolierkop.

Black Leopards will be without two of their key players, Jabulani Maluleke and Thabo Mongalo, when the activities of the new season start in two months’ time. The duo has joined the Absa Premiership League champions, Supersport United.

A heavy fine was imposed on one of the Limpopo-based National First Division League clubs, Dynamos Football Club, by the Premier Soccer League’s disciplinary committee during its meeting which was held at the league’s offices last Friday evening.