Journalists and communication and community liaison officers from Limpopo and Mpumalanga converged at the Oasis Lodge, Mokopane, to attend a three-day Access To Information Workshop last week.

He is unemployed, disabled and destitute. His troubles became worse when he went to collect his monthly disability grant four months ago. Officials at the pay point told him that his money had been stopped and since then, he has not received anything from the state.

Three men, aged between 21 and 35, will appear in the Bolobedu Magistrates’ Court today, Friday, October 7, on charges of murder and armed robbery.

A 25-year-old suspect appeared in the Sibasa Regional Court on Tuesday on a charge of attempted murder. It is alleged that he attempted to kill a police inspector on Christmas Day, 2004, at Shayandima.

The police in the Mopani area are investigating two murder cases, following two separate incidents that took place in the area over the past weekend.

Eighteen people were seriously injured when a Mabirimisa Bus, carrying members of the Apostolic Faith Mission Church, crashed into a stationary taxi along the Dzanani-Siloam road last Sunday afternoon.

In the wake of yet another controversy about police inefficiency, the Makhado SAPS are reported to have ignored a tip-off from members of the community on Monday morning about the possibility of an armed robbery to take place in town.

A terrible disease has forced a frail 71-year-old granny to be a prisoner in her own mud hut. For the past 10 years, Ms Phophi Mmbengeni’s life has been spent in her hut because she cannot walk or use her arms.

Two residents of Dopeni Village, Noria Ramabulana (54) and her son, Lutendo Ramabulana (23) and Mbulaheni Bethuel Magadagela (54) of Mandala village were found guilty of murder by the Venda High Court last Thursday. The trio had murdered Mr Wilson Makhado Ramabulana (76) of Dopeni village during the night of April 11 this year.

The passing away of a very colourful and well-known resident of Levubu and Louis Trichardt, from 1945 until 1986, Jimmy Fuller, will be deeply felt by his many acquaintances here and elsewhere.

“Alle vuurwapenlisensies en permitte wat ingevolge die Wapen en Ammunisie Wet van 1969 (Wet 75 van 1969) uitgereik is en geldig was tot onmiddellik voor die datum van inwerkingtrede van die nuwe Vuurwapen Beheer Wet (Wet 60 van 2000) moet binne die voorgeskrewe tydperk hernu word,” lui ‘n verklaring wat vandeesweek deur die kantoor van die Area Kommissaris van die Vhembe Area in Thohoyandou uitgereik is.

Die polisie het weer die afgelope week inwoners gewaarsku teen talle geldmaak-slenters wat in die dorp bedryf word.