Residents will be happy to hear that the Transnet Phelophepa Health Care Train is in town again. It will be at the Louis Trichardt railway station from 25 to 29 June and again from 2 to 6 July.

The police in Limpopo’s relentless efforts in eradicating the existence of illegal explosives paid dividends on Thursday evening with the arrest of seven suspects en route to Gauteng.

The drum majorette group from Madombidzha Junior Primary School scooped the first prize in the provincial drum majorette competition held in Polokwane on 9 June.

The community of Mvelaphanda in Thohoyandou have made their intentions clear that, should the police in the Vuwani cluster not arrest exposed suspects, the community will take the law into their own hands.

A Dzwerani family outside Thohoyandou is living in fear and suspect food poisoning at their home.

In March, a learner at Mutsha Primary School outside Thohoyandou was electrocuted while playing at the school premises. The death of Vhuthuhawe Madala (6) sent shockwaves through the community and became a wakeup call that all was not well at local schools.

Capital expenditure of the Makhado Municipality is expected to be in excess of R183 million in the next 12 months, with most of the money going towards extending and maintaining the electrical infrastructure. Council also wants to finish several other projects, however, in the next financial year.

The 80-year-old Dr Muthuphei Rufus Ndou published his third book, Gospel and Culture with respect to the Vhavenda from 1863-1928  - A Missiological Perspective, early this year.

Chief Livhuwani Matsila of Matsila outside Vuwani, who recently received a rare invite from Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini to come and share his integrated community development experience with the king, said he was so humbled to meet the king and that he had learnt a lot from the monarch as well.

A young mother and her two children, aged two and four, found themselves the victims of extreme verbal abuse by one of Louis Trichardt’s many “mental patients” freely roaming the street. To make matters worse, the mother received no relief from the Makhado SAPS when she called upon them to assist her.