Eskom, the local electricity giant, donated food parcels, furniture and a filing cabinet to the Zwoitwa Home-Based Care Centre at Tshitereke Village last Wednesday.

The Consumer Affairs Office in Thohoyandou is baffled by the escalation of illegal micro-lenders that lure pensioners at pensioner pay points.

A 74-year-old granny is angry with the Department of Health and Social Development because she has not received her old-age grant since August last year. Tshinakaho Mushidzhi of Khubvi Village, north of Thohoyandou, says she has done everything to have her grant reinstated, without success.

Ms Maria Mudzugu (60) of Muledane lost her old Venda ID book in June 1996. She has been trying to apply for a bar-coded ID from the Department of Home Affairs for the past ten years, but she hasn’t received it yet.

The police are investigating a murder and have also opened an inquest docket, following the death of a 48-year-old man, Louis Silinda, and his wife, Maria Maluleke (45). The tragic incident took place at the Tsuvukani Trust settlement in the Mhlala area on Monday afternoon.

Samuel Dennis Hlungwane (41) from Phalaborwa will spend the next 39 years behind bars for 26 counts of theft from motor vehicles.

The Premier of Limpopo Province, Mr Sello Moloto, said the government is seriously concerned about the escalating number of unresolved ritual murder cases in the Vhembe District.

Four orphans of the Maginya family from Mukula-Phindula, north of Thohoyandou, were shocked when they went to enquire about their mother’s death certificate at Makwarela Home Affairs, only to be told that the system showed that their mother was still alive.

A new clue which gives evidence that the Dzimauli suspected ritual murder victim, Phophi Munyai (72), was indeed murdered, unfolded during the weekend.

Plaaslike hardloop-, stap- en fietsry-entoesiaste het vir die eerste keer die geleentheid om aan ‘n tweekampbyeenkoms deel te neem.

Die gemeenskap van Makhado (Louis Trichardt) is vandeesweek in rou oor ‘n dinamiese en kreatiewe sakevrou en moeder, mevrou Magda Botha, wat verlede Donderdag in ‘n veelvuldige botsing tussen vier voertuie op die N1 suid van Polokwane dood is.

Die Soutpansberg Dorpswag funksioneer in noue samewerking met die Sektor Misdaadforum, alhoewel die dorpswag en die forum onafhanklik van mekaar staan.