The Makhado Municipality, at its ordinary meeting held on February 3, appointed Ms Faith Muthambi as Council’s new Municipal Manager.

Die omstredenheid rondom die regering se grondhervormingsbeleid is Saterdag (5de) weer op die spits gedryf, dié keer deur die ANC en hul bondgenote tydens ‘n protesoptog.

The founder and senior pastor of the Divine Cross Church, Past Fhatuwani Rantsana (45), was honoured by his flock during a glittering ceremony at the church premises on Sunday.

His life has been turned into misery since he developed big lumps on his nose and right eye. People look at him in disbelief wherever he goes because his face is totally disfigured. He now breathes through his mouth as his nose is blocked and there are big balls of red flesh in the nostrils.

Fhatuwani Nengovhela (39) boarded a train from Germiston to Venda on December 22, last year, to attend his grandmother’s funeral and never arrived. Since then, his family has never heard anything from him.

A well-known local boxer, Mpho “Silverfox” Tshiambara, is an angry man. The reasons for his anger is that his former promoter, Mr Rob McLeod, is allegedly tarnishing his name by telling the people that he relies on muti when he is in the boxing ring.

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

A former Venda Minister of Finance, Chief Etienne Nesengani, who died on January 12, was laid to rest in the royal cemetery at Ha-Mangilasi Village last Saturday.

Former WBU champion, Phillip “Time Bomb” Ndou, wants to return to the ring, should his brain cyst vanish.

A woman and three of her children are the main suspects in the gruesome murder of a local secondary school teacher. The mutilated body of the 47-year-old Mr Abel Siphuma of the Luvhivhini Secondary School at Maebane in the Kutama area was found at about 10:00 in a bag in the field on Monday.

A large number of recently appointed temporary teachers in Limpopo had to wait for their salaries this week, due to administrative hitches at the offices of the Department of Education.

The Limpopo Department of Health has come under fire from the Democratic Alliance, over the fact that many clinics in the province are evidently without basic medicines and vaccines.