Prof Mbulelo Mzamane, one of South Africa's distinguished scholars and Vice-Chancellor of Fort-Hare, has joined the University of Venda for Science and Technology as a visiting Professor and Acting Director in the Eskia Mphahlele Institute of African Studies.

After more than 240 hours of toiling and unwavering hope, the community of Ngudza is still searching for the body of David Maselesele, a 13-year-old boy, who was snatched by a crocodile while he was busy fishing with his elder brother and cousin more than two weeks ago.

The Department of Agriculture in Limpopo has expressed its heartfelt condolences to the families of five officials who lost their lives in a head-on collusion, involving two trucks.

Disgruntled inhabitants of various communities in Musina are to stage a protest march against a growing list of unresolved problems, seriously affecting their quality of life.

Police in Giyani have arrested five men and charged them with the theft of computers from the Giyani Technical College. The incident took place on the premises of the Giyani Technical College on Sunday morning at about 02:00.

On Sunday, February 23 two unknown men tried to rob a Spaza shop at a house in Matswale. Less than an hour later, a bakkie was stolen in the centre of the town; fortunately the car was recovered a few hours later.

In an attempt to educate the community about the alarming incidents of rape in its jurisdiction, the Thohoyandou Police Station will hold a workshop in the station commissioner's office on March 4.

The police were, at the time of going to press, still searching for a man who shot and killed a bus driver, Mr Matlala Wilson Lambani (48) of Masakona Village. The incident took place at Mashishimale village on Sunday night at about 23:45.

Drivers who are trying to comply with the Department of Transport's deadline of February 28 for the conversion of licences to credit card format (CCF), are upset by the treatment and service (or lack thereof) that they experience at the Makhado Municipal offices.

About thirty members of the Hlanganani Concerned Group disrupted a speech of the Mayor of the Makhado Municipality, Cllr Brighton Tlakula, during a road show at the Bungeni Stadium last Sunday.

During his state-of-the province speech in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature, Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi said there had been an unprecedented increase in direct investments in the province during the past two years, mainly from the mining sector, which had become a major driving force in the local economy.

Council will continue paying for cellphones of councillors, despite the fact that they were this week warned by their own financial department that these payments are in fact illegal.