A kind of “green light patrol” for property rates and taxes may just be needed to prevent the implementation of excessive property rates as provided by the new Municipal Property Rates Act.

The champ-of-champs match between Simunye XI and Tshino Mighty Comrades that was played at the Tshino grounds on Sunday ended in chaos. The score was 2-2 when the referee, Mr Phineas Rambau, blew the final whistle.

In memory of the spirit of June 16, 1976, the Limpopo Legislature commemorated the 30th Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by hosting a Youth Parliament at Shingwedzi Multi Purpose Centre in Malamulele on Friday.

When Lemana College was established by the Swiss Mission on January 8, 1906, there were only seven students who enrolled that academic year. Among them was the late Bernard Mbhalati Pandeka. Last Thursday, the institution celebrated its centenary in style.

Hard work, perseverance, dedication and effective time management have paid off for a young Limpopo community builder, who is the best overall youth development officer in the province.

The Premier of the Limpopo Province, Mr Sello Moloto, says there is no use in investing in the province if the investments do not benefit the local community.

Bemused villagers watched in amazement as the bleeding driver of a blue Toyota bakkie lay in the middle of the Thohoyandou-Tshilamba road at Makonde village on Sunday afternoon.

The MEC for Health and Social Development, Mr Seaparo Sekoati, said that, unlike the youth of 1976 who had apartheid as their enemy, the youth of today have poverty and HIV/Aids as their main targets.

It is painful to learn that there are people who are still tragic victims of poverty even after 12 years of democracy in our country.

What started as a small pimple has turned out into big lumps that have completely disfigured the face of a 34-year-old woman. For the past six years, Maria Hlungwani of Mkhomi village near Malamulele has never enjoyed a night’s peaceful sleep, because of the terrible pain from the lumps on her face.

Kragonderbrekings die afgelope naweek het sommige inwoners onkant betrap. Kennisgewing van die beoogde kragonderbrekings is nie aan alle inwoners deurgegee nie en baie het gewonder wat aan die gang is.

‘n Tekort aan verskeie groentesoorte is op hande, weens ernstige rypskade wat die afgelope paar weke oor groot dele van die Bosveld voorgekom het. Die area word normaalweg as die “Kosmandjie van die Noorde” beskou en verskaf groente op tye wanneer ander gebiede nie kan produseer nie.