Residents who have to renew their vehicle or driving licenses are no closer to knowing when they will be able to do so as the Makhado Municipality’s licencing department remains shut.

The Limpopo police have arrested a 30-year-old suspect on a charge of money laundering during an intelligence driven operation that was jointly conducted by members of the police and SANDF along the Malaladrift road in the Musina policing area on 21 May.

Two young residents of Louis Trichardt will soon have to go and explain in court why they fed their pet dog so much alcohol that it suffered repeated seizures overnight, leading to potential brain damage.

Die Soutpansberg het die afgelope naweek met groot hartseer verneem van die dood van die baie bekende oom Frikkie Knoetze (87) van Louis Trichardt. Hy is Saterdag, 16 Mei, na ‘n kort maar moeilike siekbed aan hartversaking oorlede.

If somebody were to tell you in January that, by May this year, everybody in South Africa would be wearing a facemask, you would have probably said that person was crazy. Yet, few could predict the absolute chaos that the Covid-19 pandemic would release on the world, and South Africa was not spared.

A well-known prosecutor in the Thohoyandou Magistrate’s Court, Mr Ratshilumela Leonard Makhado (48), found himself on the wrong side of the law when he made some headlines by appearing in court on Monday, facing two counts of corruption and defeating the ends of justice.

Die land se ekonomie is tans vasgevang in ‘n web van grendeltydregulasies, en ook die eiendomsmark kry tans baie swaar.

Word grootmense soos kinders hanteer? Dien die grendeltydperk enige verdere doel? Of is dit ‘n goeie ding om tuis te bly? Die Zoutpansberger het ‘n paar van sy lesers hieroor gepols.

Is the planned Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone (SEZ) a mere “speculative bubble”, is it a “nightmarish scam” or will it eventually succeed in providing jobs to more than 20 800 people? The bigger question is whether the region has the water resources to sustain such ambitious plans.