For the Zoutpansberger’s 15^th photo treasure hunt, we decided to cast the net a little wider over the region’s rich cultural heritage. The correct answer to the photo clue given was that of Louis Trichardt’s oldest Muslim mosque, the Louis Trichardt Town Masjid in Kruger Street. The mosque has its origins with the first Muslim families who moved into the Zoutpansberg in the late 1800s, around the same time as the establishment of the town of Louis Trichardt in 1899.

Dat Louis Trichardt se inwoners baie oplettend is, is duidelik, want almal wat ingeskryf het, het die leidraad vir die koerant se dertiende “skattejag” kompetisie reg geïdentifiseer. Die leidraad in die foto was een van die gewels by die Zoutpansberg Privaathospitaal. Baie geluk aan Chené Buys, wie se naam as wenner getrek is. Sy wen ons R300 prysgeld.

Die gelukkige wenner van die Zoutpansberger se 12de skattejag-kompetisie was past. Jan Wilkins. Die korrekte antwoord waarna gesoek is, was die klok by Laerskool Louis Trichardt.

Sekerlik een van die kenmerkendste geboue in Louis Trichardt is die ou Barclays Bank wat later jare die plaaslike FNB-tak sou huisves op die hoek van Songozwi- en Kroghstraat. Dié gebou is ‘n integrale deel van die bankwese op Louis Trichardt se geskiedenis wat meer as 100 jaar terug dateer en ook die korrekte antwoord was op die Zoutpansberger se tiende “skattejag” kompetisie.

Ons Tuiste Ouetehuis op Louis Trichardt is voorwaar vir die Soutpansberg ‘n aanwins en bied al vir meer as vyf dekades ‘n vriendelike en veilige tuiste vir die streek se oues van dae. Ons Tuiste is ook die antwoord waarna die Zoutpansberger gesoek het in ons agtste fotoraai-kompetisie wat Maandag gesluit het.

If you guessed that the answer to the clue in the Zoutpansberger’s photo “treasure hunt” competition that closed on Monday is the Freemasons’ Lodge in Munnik Street, Louis Trichardt, you would have been right. But there can only be one winner and for the second consecutive time the name of Cherise Hamman was drawn as the winner!

“Ons kan nie meer staatmaak op Eskom om krag te lewer nie; ons moet dit nou maar self doen.”

In a town such as Louis Trichardt, what you buy is often not as important as whom you buy it from. You do not drive to a store to buy a product, only to be treated like a number. Residents prefer to shop at the place where everybody knows your name (to quote a popular theme song). A shop where the owner and staff treat you as a valued customer and friend.