The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of Musina Local Municipality were discussed in detail during a three-day municipal strategic-planning session that took place at Musina last week.

It seems as if there is a small glimmer of hope for the struggling waterless residents of the Makhado Local Municipality.

Tsedzuluso Netshimbupfe and Lufuno Mbau are entrepreneurs with a dream. Through their knowledge of agricultural science and modern technology, they aim to fight unemployment through innovation and rural farming development.

The circuit manager of Mutshundudi, Ms Homani Muhanganei, has urged learners in her circuit to take education seriously by working hard throughout the year, so that they may be counted among the best when the matric results are released.

“No work before our demands are met!” said the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) in the Vhembe region after the postponement of a mass meeting scheduled to be held on Monday (this week) in the Vhembe District council chamber.

The vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Venda (Univen), Dr Bernard Nthambeleni, commended first-entering students for choosing Univen as their preferred institution of higher learning.

Pres Cyril Ramaphosa will launch the ANC’s election manifesto in Vhembe this Saturday.

The Limpopo Gambling Board has promised to act swiftly against illegal gambling outlets operating in the Vhembe District.

A young man suffering from depression caused a big scare at Tshisahulu-Siawoadza village outside Thohoyandou the past weekend. Friends and family members believed that he had drowned and even police divers were called in to help find the body.

Several senior members of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) in the Vhembe District Municipality (VDM) have been in hiding, fearing for their lives after the recent assassination of several of their leaders.