HLANEKI - The Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy, Mrs Suzan Shabangu, officially switched on the electricity at Hlaneki Village in the area of the Greater Giyani Municipality on Thursday.

MAKHADO (LOUIS TRICHARDT) – 'n Memorandum is tydens verlede Donderdag se protesaksies deur mnr. Charles Pieterse namens die gemeenskap aan die LUR van Vervoer, dr. T. Farisani oorhandig.

THOHOYANDOU - The Thulamela Municipality said the group of cleaners who recently went on strike is giving the municipality a bad name.

MAKHADO – The Makhado Municipality claims that recipients of incomplete RDP houses in Tshikota will have roofs over their heads by the end of June this year.

DZUMERI – As part of the pre-1994 election promises of the ANC, a pensioner of Dzumeri, Mrs Nyanisi Manganyi, received a brand new RDP house from the MEC for Local Government and Housing, Mr Joe Maswanganyi, during a function at Dzumeri last Thursday.

MAKHADO (LOUIS TRICHARDT) – Three tourist accommodation establishments in the area reached the finals of the 2004 AA Travel Guides Accommodation Awards programme.

The three establishments are Inn on Louis Trichardt, Lesheba Wilderness and the Makhado Municipal Caravan Park.

MAKHADO (LOUIS TRICHARDT) – The Democratic Alliance this week strongly condemned the conduct of certain senior police officials during the community's protest action against government's continued refusal to acknowledge the issue of heavy vehicle traffic, across the mountain on April 1.

MAKHADO (LOUIS TRICHARDT) – Die optrede van 'n polisiebeampte om 'n verslaggewer openlik met geweld te dreig tydens verlede week se protesoptog, is wyd veroordeel.

MPHEPHU (DZANANI) – Five heavily armed men got away with an undisclosed amount of money during yet another cash-in-transit heist here.

MAKHADO (LOUIS TRICHARDT) - Die visevoorsitter van die Soutpansberg Distriks Landbou-unie, mnr. Gideon Meiring, het die afgelope week meer lig gewerp op die omstandighede wat gely het tot die gemeenskap se protesoptrede van 1 April.

THOHOYANDOU – The official launching of the book, Building on the indigenous – an African perspective, was launched in the Sports Hall of the University of Venda on Monday evening.

MAKHADO – "I admit, it is another example of unnecessary deaths, said the MEC for Transport, Dr Tshenuwani Farisani, after receiving a memorandum from a local attorney, Mr Charles Pieterse on behalf of an angry community of Makhado.