Raluswielo Secondary School’s matric results show what strong support and partnerships can achieve. In 2024 the school in Sibasa had a low senior‑exam pass rate of 28.6%. But in 2025 that figure jumped to 79.5%.

Two major water projects in Musina were handed over to contractors last Wednesday. Funded by the Water Services Infrastructure Grant (WSIG), the projects aim to improve water supply for Musina town and its surrounding townships.

The badly decomposed body discovered near Popallin Ranch on 20 January is believed to be that of missing Mr Nelson Ndou (72) from Sigonde in the Musina district.

A thief who had just stripped a music system and other parts from a parked car earned the wrath of angry community members when he decided to take a nap in the vehicle’s boot. He was beaten severely before police arrived to save him.

Hopes of finding Thohoyandou Technical High School deputy headmaster Mr Humbulani Nepfumbada (63) alive suffered a major setback this week following the discovery of a decomposed body in the Vuwani area, which police now suspect may be his.

Some ANC members in the Vhembe region have recommended that Khuthalani Curtis (KC) Mathoma, who claimed to have been nominated to serve on the ANC Limpopo Provincial Executive Committee (PEC), be temporarily suspended.

A 17-year-old learner from Ozias Davhana Secondary School drowned on Monday, 26 January, after going for a swim in a water-filled construction pit left by illegal soil miners. The incident occurred at about 17:30, nearly two kilometres from the school, at Elim, Mpheni Section, along the Beja gravel road.

The Rivoni School for the Blind achieved an impressive 100% pass rate in the 2025 senior exams for Grade 12 learners, despite very limited resources and poor facilities.

Colonel Tshivhidzo Nemaitoni has been appointed as Makhado police’s new station commissioner. He officially took over on 2 January, replacing Colonel Bez Bezuidenhout, who retired at the end of last year.

Joy turned to heartbreak on 15 January for the family of 10-year-old Mpho Mabudu, a Grade 5 learner from Midoroni, when she died on the day she was celebrating her birthday. Mpho was playing on a heap of stones with friends when she slipped and was struck by a rolling stone, which caused fatal injuries.

Community members, family and church members gathered in large numbers to pay tribute to Patricia “Patty” Tshidada (51), laid to rest at Tshiozwi Cemetery on Saturday, 17 January. Tshidada, the sister of Judge Thogomelani Tshidada, passed away at Siloam Hospital on 10 January after a short illness.

The family of a man shot dead by Makhado police in Louis Trichardt on Friday morning, 16 January, is demanding answers about the circumstances surrounding his death. The deceased has been identified as 41-year-old Godfrey “Godfather” Semenya.

Heavy rains have left a family from Tshimbupfe Ha-Mutheiwana village near Vuwani helpless after a side wall of their three-roomed house collapsed, leaving them trapped in unsafe living conditions.