The Mavambe Primary School, outside Malamulele, caught the attention of the judges in the Woolworths Trust Eduplant Programme. The rural school, through their Perma Culture Project, won the Best Junior Landcare Trophy and a cash prize of R5 000.

The Department of Labour´s Thohoyandou Regional Office bade farewell to three long-serving employees who have reached retirement age.

The national president of the National Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu), Noluthando Sibiya, visited the families of ritual murder victims in Vhembe last week.

"Help me before I die! What wrong have I done to deserve all this? My life has been turned into a nightmare and if I don't get urgent assistance, something bad will happen to me in the near future."

The newly elected provincial chairperson of the youth wing of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), the Pan Africanist Youth Congress (PAYCO), Eugine Khoza, said this week that the PAC youth are concerned about the ANC´s ´discrimination´ with regard to the renaming of towns, cities, streets and institutions in the country.

The chairperson of the Limpopo Youth Commission, Rodgers Tshivhase, dismissed allegations that the Youth Commission and its members are only visible during and towards the celebration of Youth Month.

Hundreds of onlookers gathered in shock as members of the emergency services, police and traffic officers were going through their paces at the scene of an accident at the Matatshe T-junction, outside Thohoyandou, on Wednesday morning.

A 23-year-old Zimbabwean illegal immigrant was allegedly shot dead by an SANDF member at a farm near the Musina border town last week, police have said.

One of the three suspects implicated in the alleged ritual murder of Joyce Nyadzani Muedi (44) of Hamutsha-Khwekhwe, appeared on a separate charge of rape at the Sibasa Regional Court on Tuesday.

"The three of us were sleeping, when four Shona-speaking men broke into the room, holding pangas. They started beating us with stones and demanded money. They hit my hand with a brick, but I escaped through the window and ran for my life.’’

Intelligent? Above average? Genius? All these words fail to describe the abilities of Lot Magosha (21) of Nzhelele-Mamuhohi, the top student who scooped five awards during the recent graduation ceremony of the University of Venda.

Half of the Zimbabwean illegal immigrants, mostly women, who are deported from South Africa through the Beitbridge border post are shunning humanitarian assistance offered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reception and support centre in the border town as they opt to cross back into South Africa illegally.