Rhulani Nkuna, a blind student who managed to complete her studies against all odds, was the toast of the diploma ceremony of the Mass Computer Training Institute´s ceremony.

The absence of witnesses in the murder case involving a councillor´s wife and three other accused delayed the formal bail application of the accused for the third time.

Thousands of mourners converged at the Mukula grounds to witness the final send-off of a mother and her three children who were killed by her husband during an incident that left the community in a state of shock. The funeral service resembled political funerals with people from all walks of life and all corners of life attending.

The water crisis continues to deepen in most of the villages in the Vhembe Municipal area.

The residents of Luvhalani Extension 3 in the Dzanani area expressed their concerns after a river in the village claimed the life of yet another victim on Saturday, March 29.

A vehicle of the Makhado Municipality hit and killed a five-year-old girl at Tshikota Township, two kilometers west of Louis Trichardt, last Sunday.

There was pandemonium and chaos when a scaffold with its load of bricks, mortar and builders came crashing down at a construction site. Eight construction workers narrowly escaped death when a wall and scaffolding collapsed on them.

Reuse bome en boomlanings wat vir dekades lank reeds bekende landmerke is langs die bergpad noord van Louis Trichardt, se dae is getel.

Inconsistencies in the Makhado council´s way of dealing with important matters continue to raise questions amongst residents of Louis Trichardt and other stakeholders. The latest questions have arisen around Council´s decision to continue with the auctioning off of more than 150 erven in Eltivillas.

If all goes according to plan, there should be light at the end of the tunnel for town residents in terms of the perpetual water and sewage crisis. The current system is being attended to by a firm appointed by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF).

Eskom released its load shedding schedules for the three northern provinces of South Africa, namely Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Gauteng.

In what many might see as a breakthrough in terms of raising awareness within the Makhado Municipality about the appalling state of the town´s infrastructure, a media release was issued this week in which a number of burning issues are acknowledged by the municipal spokesperson, Mr Louis Bobodi.