“If I had one wish, it would be to see all the children in Makhado attending school, to see all school kids being removed from the streets and being well cared for,” the Mayor, Cllr Glory Mashaba, said in an interview on Friday before her inauguration.

The outgoing mayor of the Makhado Municipality, Mr Sariel Rhulani Nkuzana, bade farewell to the senior management of the Makhado Municipality on Monday.

The Makhado Morals movement was officially launched last Saturday at the local show grounds by the provincial MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture, Mr Joe Maswanganyi.

Learners and teachers at various schools were dumbfounded when the Musina Municipality presented them with a variety of sporting equipment purchased through a R175 000 donation from the National Lottery.

The newly elected mayor of the Musina local municipality, Cllr Mahlodi Caroline Mahasela, was official installed as the first female mayor of Musina on Monday night. The event took place at the civic centre of Musina.

Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, Limpopo MEC for Education, officiated at the sixth annual Aggrey Klaaste maths, science and technology educator of the year provincial awards, which was won by Mbilwi high teacher Mrs Sankaran Banu.

The University of Venda (Univen) held a cultural reception dinner to welcome 13 members of the American Council on Education (ACE) Fellowship shortly after their arrival on Tuesday night.

Limpopo’s MEC for Arts, Sports and Culture, Mr Joe Maswanganyi advised artists to refrain from using drugs and use their bodily strength and power when performing.

It has been a difficult and winding road of success for a poor little rural boy who defied all the odds to rise despite the scourge of poverty. Lucas Manyuha leads one of the poorest municipalities in the country, but he has succeeded in putting the little municipality on the map, despite limited resources.

The Makhado Municipality’s new Council have been announced. Of the 73 seats in Council, 37 are Ward seats and 36 are PR (Proportional Representative) seats.

Die skielike heengaan van ‘n bekende inwoner, mnr. Willie Kern, op Sondagmiddag, 19 Maart, laat ‘n groot leemte in die gemeenskap.

Die polisie by die Beitbrug-grenspos het drie mans in hegtenis geneem op ‘n aanklag van omkopery en nog een in verband met die smokkel van Zimbabwiese sigarette met ‘n waarde van R2,5 miljoen.