Mvelaphanda Community Skills Development Centre received a cheque of R100 000 from African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) during an event held at the training centre at Tshisaulu last Thursday.

The department of Agriculture in Musina, Vhembe district, honoured one of their longest serving officials, Ferdinand Musetha, who will be retiring the end of this month.

The Nkuri Concrete Project has been awarded a Jet Community Award for the Swaziland, Mpumalanga and the Limpopo region.

There is a need to establish good relationships between traditional leaders, politicians and all progressive community structures, for the sake of good governance, said a prominent Limpopo traditional leader, Vhamusanda Vho-Mafenya Mphaphuli of Malavuwe.

Although some community members still regard selling rough salt as child’s play, it has been the sole source of income for Dina Mathebula of Giyani, who has been unemployed for many years.

Those who still believe that blindness is a stumbling block to success have a lesson to learn from Frans Mokwala (33).

A promising youngster could find herself between a rock and a hard place if she does not get assistance urgently to further her studies.

Residents of Dzanani came out in large numbers to protest against poor service delivery by the Makhado Municipality to their township last Wednesday, but before they could march past Absa bank, the protesters were immediately stopped by the Makhado police.

A resident of Homu 14A settlement, Mr Mighty Hlungwane (19), appeared in the Giyani Magistrate’s Court last Monday on a charge of murder. The case is related to an incident that took place in the area last Saturday night at about 23:00.

Zimbabwean police have arrested one of the two suspects who allegedly raped a 41-year-old South African woman on a visit to that country on August 20.

A 20-year-old South African citizen was robbed at gunpoint of his vehicle, a Toyota Sprinter, with a remote controlled radio and a cell phone, valued at R80 300, and R350 in cash by three unknown suspects near Beitbridge town on Saturday evening.

The Thohoyandou High Court has finally sentenced six young men who broke the record for spending time in prison cells while awaiting trial.