Die gewilde skoolhoof van Laerskool Levubu, mnr. Nico Botes, is verlede Vrydag op Thohoyandou oorlede. Hy het in ‘n handelsbank aan ‘n massiewe hartaanval beswyk. Die begrafnis was Woensdag op Levubu.

Kinders slaap by hul ouers in die kamer. ‘n Gemeenskap gaan gebuk onder spanning en vrees. “Is dit wat ons vir kinders wil hê?” is ‘n vraag wat telkens deurgeslaan het tydens verlede week se massavergadering teen geweldsmisdaad.

Besorgde inwoners het verlede Donderdag die dorp se grootste saal volgepak tydens die massavergadering in verband met die geweldsmisdaad in Louis Trichardt.

Dit gaan heelwat beter met mev. Petro van den Berg en sy sal dalk nog voor die naweek uitgeplaas kan word na ‘n gewone saal in die hospitaal.

Retired officers and current senior members of the South African Police Service in the province were honoured with medals by their provincial commissioner, NC Sengani, at the Lesley Manyathela Stadium in Musina last Wednesday.

In a developmental movement for nation building, six traditional leaders and their subjects jointly celebrated Easter by holding a crime awareness event on Friday. The traditional leaders also shared ideas on good governance, poverty alleviation projects and nation building initiatives.

A retired principal and hard-working traditional leader who has done much to develop a small rural village will be honoured by his community next week.

A R5-million community job-creation deal between the Mulenzhe Development Trust (MDT), Thulamela Municipality and Unitrans Motors was sealed last Thursday morning at Thulamela Municpality’s board room.

A funeral nearly turned to chaos when mourners rejected the decomposed body of a deceased villager from the funeral undertaker on Friday. After a lengthy war of words, the body of Thinavhuyo Mugomba (76) of Makonde village, north of Thohoyandou, was finally laid to rest.

Black Leopards will not participate in the next stage of the Absa Cup KO Competition. They were booted out of the lucrative competition by Kaizer Chiefs, who beat them 0-1 at a packed FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday evening.

The unexpected resignation of Limpopo MEC for Public Works, Mr Thaba Mufamadi, was received with shock this week by the Young Communist League, the ANC Youth League and various other government alliance structures, but welcomed by provincial opposition leader Michael Holford (Democratic Alliance).

The Nekuvule family, whose child was viciously stoned to death by a gang of 14 young men at Ha-Matsa on the evening of October 28, last year, is now outraged, after the Thohoyandou High Court this month let the gang off the hook on the murder charge.