Die Onafhanklike Klagte Direktoraat (OKD) het die week meer lig gewerp op die geheimsinnige omstandighede wat gelei het tot die skietdood van ‘n Zimbabwiese man in polisieaanhouding by die SAPD op Makhado (Louis Trichardt).

Limpopo’s MEC for Sports, Arts and Culture, Mr Joe Maswanganyi said it was inspiring to see adults dedicating themselves to the war against illiteracy, poverty and unemployment. He was a keynote speaker during the Department of Education – Vhembe District Municipality’s Abet Awards ceremony at the Thohoyandou Town Hall on Thursday last week.

“The outbreak of rabies in Limpopo has already claimed twenty-six people,” said the provincial health promotion manager, Mr Elias Mugari, during the vaccination of pets at Vhurivhuri Village in the Vhembe District on Friday.

Three prominent figures of the apartheid government were honored during the Dimbanyika meritorious awards held in the Thohoyandou parliamentary chambers on Saturday.

Two young men, Langanani Calvin Lishidzha (21) and Tshifhiwa Ernest Tshikota (18), both from Tshikuwi village, were sentenced to 39 years in jail for housebreaking, theft, rape and murder. The case was finalized in the Venda High Court last Wednesday.

Lufuno Mulaudzi (22) and Ntakadzeni Vincent Mulambanzhe (26) from Dzwerani village will spend two and 20 years in jail for assault and murder respectively.

The South African Students Organisation (Sasco) in the Limpopo Province openly opposed Pres Thabo Mbeki’s statement that the next South African president should be a woman.

The Speaker of the Limpopo Legislature, Dr Tshenuwani Farisani, described Eddie Siala (52), a leader of the 1976 student uprising, as an exceptional hero who paid a supreme sacrifice for freedom of the oppressed masses of South Africa.

Traditional leaders should respect the law, then traditional values and practices such as circumcision ceremonies and initiation schools will be respected by the government.

Two Home Affairs Immigrations Officers from South Africa and a Zimbabwean, who were arrested at Beitbridge Post for allegedly attempting to smuggle 100 pieces of ivory ornaments and 412 boxes of Zimbabwean cigarettes, valued at R30 000, have been sentenced to an effective eight months imprisonment in Zimbabwe.

A brave man who does not even have any formal training in diving, was presented with a special award by the Vhembe District Municipality, for saving the lives of 10 villagers who nearly drowned. Madala Mundalamo (46) saved the lives of nine school kids and a man who were trapped at Bevula River, near Malamulele, during the heavy rains on 14 February.

Although he was found in the possession of a human testicle, penis, tongue and lips when the police arrived at his home in October 2005, ritual murder suspect Albert Phosha (54) of Tshidzini Village on Thursday appeared in the Thohoyandou Magistrate’s Court reapplying for bail.