Hoe gemaak as onwettige besetters op jou grond plak? Die burgerregte-organisasie AfriForum het weens die groot hoeveelheid navrae landwyd, onlangs 'n dokument opgestel wat wenke aan gemeenskappe gee oor optrede teen onwettige besetters van hul grond.

LEPHALALE - Residents of MaMojela Park are fed-up with the lack of services to the informal settlement situated just outside Lephalale. The land, which belongs to the department of Public Works, houses more than 2000 people and the settlement is growing fast due to its proximity to town. Residents live in make-shift tin houses with no electricity.

LEPHALALE - Sporadic protests this week at the Medupi power station site outside Lephalale could be an indication of what lies ahead for contractors at the site. The site was once again evacuated on Monday when protesters started throwing stones. Work resumed later that day.

More than a thousand people marched to Anglo American’s offices in Johannesburg CBD on Tuesday to protest the building of a coal-fired power station and coal mine just outside Lephalale.

Students at the Lephalale FET showed their backing for Julius Malema’s new political party when they participated in a poll by their student representative council this week. Students had to choose a party which they thought would bring change to their lives and the country as a whole, mainly on challenges that the youth are facing such as education and unemployment.

Over the past few months Northern News received several letters from organisations such as the ANC youth league, the South African National civic Organisation (SANCO) and the Lephalale Business Forum, calling for the resignation of Lephalale Mayor, Jack Maeko and municipal manager, Bob Naidoo.

Daar is voorgedra, gesing, gedans en geredeneer hierdie week by Laer- skool Ellisras se jaarlikse Kunstefees. Skole wat deelgeneem het was Laerskool Ellisras, Sedibeng, Lephalale Primary, Laerskool Bosveld Primary, Hardekool Akademie, Skuinskloof Laerskool en Diteko Primary. Die fees wat Woensdag klaargemaak het was weereens ‘n groot sukses en ‘n skouspel van Lephalale skoliere se talent. Die onderskeie skole het met die fees die geleentheid gehad om onder andere met hulle revue groepe, spreekkore en kulturele dansgroepe te spog. Daar was ook inskrywings in die beelde kunste, poësie en skryfkuns. Laerskool Ellisras se trompoppies het ook gesorg vir ‘n prag vertoning.

Die leerders van Hardekool Akademie in Lephalale het onlangs aan die Streek se kultuurfees in Modimolle deelgeneem en uitstekend gevaar.

Wildtelers, Johan and Elriza Koen van Koedoes Ruhe in Marken, het saam met Vleissentraal afslaer, Neil Swart, geskiedenis gemaak toe ‘n nyalabul tydens hul eerste produksieveiling by Oljaco se krale in Vaalwater teen R1,65 miljoen verkoop is.

The Limpopo Rehab Centre (LRC), a new facility that hopes to address the escalating rate of drug dependency and abuse in Mokopane and the rest of the province was launched at the Mokopane Lodge, on Friday.

On Monday morning the the local SPCA was called in to assist the Mokopane traffic department in chasing back cattle that went astray over the weekend. “The traffic department gave us a call to assist them when they found the cattle causing chaos in the streets,” said Hetta Willemse from the SPCA. Twenty-eight of the thirty cattle that broke out of their encampment were found and returned to their rightful owner. Two were still missing at the time of going to print. - Botshelo Letlabola

Last Thursday, the Voortrekker Hospital hosted a mental health campaign to create awareness and help fight the stigma attached to mental health patients. “People look at mental health patients as if they are carrying a disease that can be passed on by them looking at- or even touching you,” said Masaba Tjikana, a nurse at the hospital.

Police arrested 11 people over the weekend in Lephalale’s Marapong township after they received a tip-off that suspicious TVs, laptops, remote controls and cell phones were hidden in a house in extension 4.

Die eienaar van dié bakkie het Woensdagoggend teen ‘n verkeersmotor gebots nadat hy nie behoorlik sy draai kon kry nie. Die ongeluk het op die hoek van Thabo Mbeki- en Geyserstraat voor Hoërskool Piet Potgieter plaasgevind en die verkeersmanne en Polisie was blitsig op die toneel. Die straat is dadelik afgesper om die nodige afmetings en verklarings te neem. Gelukkig is niemand beseer nie. Na verneem word het die bestuurder van die bakkie nie ‘n bestuurslisensie nie en is hy aangekla vir roekelose en nalatige bestuur.

Inwoners van Thorny Shade Lodge wat net buite Lephalale op die Thabazimbi pad geleë is, is Saterdagoggend deur vyf gewapende mans aangerand en beroof.