The ANC has cancelled its planned 109th birthday bash, which was due to be held in Limpopo in January. This comes after the party’s top six officials received a briefing from health minister Zweli Mkhize on the Covid-19 second wave of…
BY IAVAN PIJOOS The family of Limpopo lodge owner Arthur “West” Mathewson, killed by a lion this week, are saddened but find comfort in knowing he died “while living his dream of being in nature and with his lions that were so close to…
Limpopo reported its first Covid-19 infection on Monday. The department of health said the person was a 29-year-old man who had travelled to France and the Netherlands. A total of 62 people across the country have tested positive for the…
Storm damage from November last year has still not been repaired One toilet for 659 learners and classrooms with 50 learners. This is the situation at Mahumani Secondary School in Giyani municipality, Limpopo, reports GroundUp. There were…
An elderly woman from Limpopo says she was raped by an unknown man who broke into her house on Sunday morning. Brig Motlafela Mojapelo, provincial spokesperson, said police in Maake, outside Tzaneen, had launched a manhunt to for the…
A 51-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly shot his wife and son in the casualty ward of St Rita’s Hospital in Limpopo. Police spokesperson Brig Motlafela Mojapelo said the shooting happened in the early hours of Monday morning.…
After losing her father in 2017, Tshilidza Manwadu decided to work harder to accomplish her dream of becoming a medical doctor. “Before then I wasn’t doing really well academically, but the moment he died I told myself I was going to work…
A newly tarred R10.5m road has an electricity pole stuck right in the middle of it. Sowetan reported that the tarring of the road in Lebowakgomo, Limpopo, started in May and was scheduled to be completed and operating by October 22. There…
Fed-up villagers demand that a 48km stretch of the R61 be tarred Hundreds of pupils in Ngqeleni – and their parents – have boycotted school since Tuesday. Last Tuesday, disgruntled parents started blockading a service road where it joins…
Three suspected rhino poachers have been arrested in Ohrigstad, Limpopo. Police received a tip-off that the trio were on their way to poach rhinos in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga. Police spokesperson Col Moatshe Ngoepe said on Tuesday that a…
Police are searching for two men who allegedly raped two school girls while they were walking home from school in Vuwani, Limpopo. Police spokesperson Col Moatshe Ngoepe said three girls, aged between 16 and 18, were confronted by the…
A gunman shot and killed two men in Mokopane, Limpopo, on Tuesday. “The victims were apparently seated in a vehicle when the gunman approached and, at point blank, immediately started firing shots at them. They both died at the scene. The…
An unlicensed teenager who allegedly collided with nine pupils while driving a bakkie near a school, killing one of them, will appear in court with his father in Limpopo on Thursday. The 18-year-old grade 12 pupil from Mohlatlego Machaba…
A three-year-old toddler was mauled to death by dogs on Saturday evening near Mokopane in Limpopo. The toddler was attacked when her mother, 36, took her along to a tavern in Mahwelereng Zone 1 at around 10pm. “Upon arrival at the tavern,…
Limpopo police are still on the hunt for six prisoners who escaped the Letsitele police cells outside Tzaneen on Saturday. Just less than two weeks ago, the Johannesburg High Court saw the escape of two murder-charged detainees. Here are…
