A resident of Phaphazela Village, Sylvia Ntlemo (24), will spend the next five years behind bars. Her theft and abduction case was finalised in the Malamulele Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

An estimated 100 000 jobs are to be created by the Bee Foundation's project launched by the Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Ms Rejoice Mabudafhasi, at Makonde Village near Thohoyandou, last Saturday.

International calls that appear on the Telkom statement of Mr Khorombi Muthambi of Thohoyandou Black J on May 12, 2004, are causing confusion for the family.

The Community of Dididi outside Thohoyandou is still baffled by the mysterious disappearance and death of an 89-year-old pensioner, Mr George Mutavhatsindi Ratsibi, who was found in the nearby bush last September.

Pupils from the historically disadvantaged communities within the Makhado Municipal area who are travelling about 30km per day in order to an get education, no longer have to do so.

The Chairpersons Association (CA) expressed its appreciation of a very neutral budget in a letter to the mayor of Makhado, Cllr Rhulani Nkuzana.

Louis Trichardt was turned into a carnival town last weekend when over 1 500 cyclists and twice that number of supporters and family descended on it.

An American company this week announced its intention to proceed with a contained release field trial of genetically modified cotton cultivars in the Limpopo Valley.

Stage 1 of the Kremetart One-Day Stage Race started on a high note for the Microsoft team when Jeremy Maartens attacked 500m from the R500 Mountain View mountain prime, only 9km into the 53km- long stage to go 200 meters clear of the bunch and lead the 1 200 participants over the Mountain.

A local Samaritan, who is building a clinic in the rural area of Malonga near Giyani, pledged that the structure will be completed at the end of July this year.

The Tshilidzini Special School, which is situated in the village of Shayandima, received a welcome visit by an American medical team during the past week.

The quality of workmanship of the contractors who built RDP toilets at Dindela in the Tshimbupfe area was placed under the spotlight this week, when numerous people called the offices of Mirror, complaining about the toilets.