The response of the provincial spokesperson of the Department of Health and Welfare, Mr Phuthi Seloba, to the representatives of the Phadzima Pension Committee, who were blaming the department for delaying the opening of the two completed toilets built for old-age grant beneficiaries, was received with mixed feelings by the programme director of the Thohoyandou Victim Empowerment Trust.

The Department of Education in Limpopo is investigating to find out if there was any sinister motive when a primary school teacher gave pupils an assignment to describe how a person is killed for ritual murder purposes.

The remains of a freedom fighter, who was secretly buried by the apartheid government 22 years ago, were given a dignified reburial at Mukula Village, north of Thohoyandou, on Saturday.

Oom Willie Jacobs, beminde oud-inwoner van die dorp en ook een van die oudste manlike inwoners van Ons Tuiste, is verlede week ter ruste gelê.

Pioneer figure and much loved family man Mr Andrew Tokalon passed away at his home at the age of 81 years on Monday, September 25. He would have celebrated his 82nd birthday on November 22.

A well-known staff member from Solly’s Discount World, the 36-year-old Mr Abel Baloyi, died on Monday, September 25, after a vehicle accident on the road between Makhado (Louis Trichardt) and Elim.

Verkeer in Songozwistraat is verlede Woensdag, 20 September, erg ontwrig deur ‘n massa ontstoke betogers.

‘n Bedrogspul het mnr. Fanie Burger, ‘n besigheidsman van Thohoyandou, die afgelope week byna duisende rande gekos, nadat geld kamstig verkeerdelik in sy rekening inbetaal is as deel van die veelbesproke deposito-slenter.

Net oor die 80% van die Zoutpansberger se lesers is steeds Afrikaanssprekend en die meeste hiervan is vroue.

A 34-year-old woman, Florence Rina Muavha, was found guilty of stealing from her employer in the Makhado (Louis Trichardt) magistrate’s court on Thursday, September 21.

Dit gaan nie goed met die man wat op 18 September na bewering probeer het om koperkabel te steel vanaf ‘n Eskom-netwerk op die plaas Boschfarm op die Witvlagpad nie.

Drie mans wat daarvan beskuldig word dat hulle verantwoordelik was vir die aanval op ‘n 75-jarige boer van Morobeng (Soekmekaar), mnr. Bekka Penning, het Dinsdag, 22 September, in die hof op Makhado (Louis Trichardt) verskyn.