Die moontlikheid dat die nuwe ontwikkeling wat beoog word, aangrensend tot Eltivillas en waarvoor die Makhado Munisipaliteit onlangs meer as 150 erwe opgeveil het, ´n gesondheidsramp is wat wag om te gebeur, is groot. Hierdie nuwe woongebied grens direk aan ´n vleiland waarin duisende liters rou riool vir die afgelope paar jaar invloei.

In spite of protests lodged by the Soutpansberg Ratepayers Association (SBRA), the Makhado Municipality proceeded with its auctioning off of more than 150 stands adjacent to the current Eltivillas extension. Questions about the municipality´s ability to supply the necessary infrastructure and services have not been addressed.

Lede van die polisie het ´n vermeende rower na ´n wilde jaagtog op die N1 in hegtenis geneem. Verskeie skote is in die proses geskiet en een van die voertuig se insittendes is noodlottig getref.

Slegs drie dae na ´n botsing met ´n koedoe op die Vivo-pad die lewe geneem het van die 20-jarige Loutrisha Pillay, is nog ´n bekende jong inwoner, die 21-jarige Stephen Goosen, dood na ´n botsing met ´n rondloper bees op die lugmagbasis-pad.

A young girl was sentenced in the regional court in Louis Trichardt on April 30 after being convicted of murdering her newborn child. The girl was 15 years old at the time of the crime.

During the past week, representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) urgently discussed contingency plans with relevant stakeholders in the north of the Limpopo Province involved in giving care to fleeing Zimbabwean citizens, which include pregnant women and a growing number of unaccompanied Zimbabwean children in Musina and Louis Trichardt.

Mathule Masters were crowned the 2008 Ibvabiko champions during a soccer tournament at the Lwamondo School grounds last Friday.

The sports officer of Thulamela Municipality, Mr Ronald Makhadi, said the newly launched sporting facility at Tshisahulu was a major boost to the municipality.

A 26-year-old Zimbabwean woman in Beit Bridge was arrested for allegedly killing her newborn baby, before throwing it into sewage pipe in Dulibadzimu suburb in the border town.

The Reformed Churches of Classis Limpopo gathered at the venue of the Reformed Church of Louis Trichardt on Tuesday. A special feature of this gathering was the fact that theological student Peter Ndou from Mutale was examined and declared fit for calling in the Reformed Churches.

When results are poor at the end of the year, teachers are to blame, and when things go well, they are not mentioned, but only pupils shine in the spotlight.

The two Zimbabwean men who allegedly tried to rob a 33-year-old Polokwane resident along the Beit Bridge-Bulawayo road on Good Friday, appeared in court last Monday.