People converged in large numbers to pay a last tribute to the late Cllr Benson Maphanga of Musina Municipality. The official funeral took place at MTD Stadium on Sunday.

As part of the National Imbizo week, the newly appointed Minister of Public Service and Administration in South Africa, Mr Richard Baloyi, and his entourage embarked on an imbizo at an event that was held at Tiyani Ha-Magoro village in the Hlanganani area on Monday.

Twenty-five outstanding individuals who worked tirelessly to improve the lives of others and themselves were honoured during Azwi Development Agency’s Seventh Ceremonial Investiture 2008 during a glittering function held at the Mphephu suite of the Khoroni Casino Hotel.

A 61-year-old Beitbridge man, charged with bestiality, left the people in the local magistrate’s court in stitches when he said he decided to be intimate with the donkey as punishment for grazing in his field

South Africa has pledged to assist Zimbabwe in dealing with the cholera crisis, which has since spilled over into the neighbouring border town of Musina.

The opening of science and computer laboratories and administration blocks at two rural schools heralded a new dawn for poor rural learners whose dreams of making it in the technological world could now be realized, thanks to Absa, Kagiso Trust and the provincial department of education.

Stoei en die Coetzee-gesin in Louis Trichardt is al amper sinonieme. Tydens Limpopo Stoei se jaarlikse prysuitdeling het drie Coetzees erekleure ontvang.

South Africa responded in a remarkably swift, professional way to the outbreak of cholera in neighbouring Zimbabwe and along the Limpopo border.

Residents of Louis Trichardt, Levubu and Thohoyandou, as well as the surrounding areas, will now have to take a detour if they want to travel the road between Louis Trichardt and Thohoyandou via Levubu, after the collapse of the bridge over the Lutanandwa River.

A security guard was wounded during a daring day light robbery along the Louis Trichardt/Madombidzha Road about 4km from town on Monday. A group of four heavily armed robbers made off with an undisclosed amount of money.

Rdl. Glory Mashaba het hierdie week skriftelik haar bedanking as burgemeester van die Makhado Munisipaliteit, met effek vanaf 1 Desember, by die munisipale Raad ingedien.

Seven people died and several were injured in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a taxi early on Friday morning north of Louis Trichardt.