MAKONDE – Top South African gospel star, Solly Moholo, paid a surprise visit to the families of ritual murder victims, the late Maanda Sendedza and the survivor, Nyelisani Sidimela, on Wednesday last week. As a sympathic gesture, both families were presented with R2 500 each.

Six men, aged between 23 and 42, have been detained for allegedly hijacking a Volkswagen Golf in Makhado last Thursday evening.

It will cost more than R360 000 for the ritual murder survivor’s lips to be replaced with reconstructive surgery. Nyelisani Sidimela’s lips were brutally removed for ritual murder purposes and she was discovered lying helplessly next to her deceased lover, Maanda Sendedza, whose private parts and tongue were removed in October.

More than 100 vehicles and almost 300 keen tourists have already made use of the Giriyondo Tourist Access Facility between the Kruger National Park and Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park, even although it only opened two weeks ago.

The Executive Director of the Kruger National Park (KNP), Dr Bandile Mkhize, has come out strongly against tourists, staff members, delivery vehicles and other officials who disobey the rules and regulations of the park, vowing that law enforcement officers would come down harshly on those who choose to break the rules during this festive season.

Die TLU-SA Veiligheid het verskeie advies-opsies vir wapeneienaars wat moedeloos vasgevang word in frustrerende situasies weens die administratiewe sleur en ander probleme wat deur die nuwe wapenwetgewing meegebring word.

‘n Man wat ‘n motorkaping en gewapende roof by die polisie aangemeld het, het vandeesweek in die plaaslike landdroshof verskyn op ‘n aanklag van meineed. Nog klagtes van motordiefstal of alternatiewelik die gebruik van ‘n voertuig sonder die eienaar se toestemming is teen hom hangende.

A 24-year-old male narrowly escaped death last weekend when a complete stranger opened fire on him with a pistol.

Dit is ironies dat Kersfeestyd, wat veronderstel is om ‘n tyd van vrede en vreugde te wees, sedert 1994 vir baie mense in ‘n tyd van hartseer en pyn verander het, sê mnr. Dries Joubert, voorsitter van die TLU-SA Noord.

Ondanks vrese wat verlede week landswyd ontstaan het dat ‘n ernstige brandstoftekort binnekort ‘n realiteit kan wees, lyk dit nie asof die dorp ernstige probleme tydens die feesseisoen gaan hê nie. Slegs enkele gevalle van brandstoftekorte is aangemeld.

Die N1-tolpad oor die Soutpansberg gaan vir etlike maande gesluit word.

Die erge verkeersopeenhopings by die Beitbrug-grenspos tussen Suid-Afrika en Zimbabwe duur steeds voort.