LIMPOPO – Altogether six suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing of lions in Limpopo. Several lions has been killed in the past year with the most recent being the death of three male lions at the Letaba River Lodge earlier this month and the death of a lion on Tuesday, 31 January, at Ingogo Safari Game Lodge near Alldays. ​

LEPHALALE – Lawyers acting on behalf of Antonio Xavier Freitas (55) filed an urgent bail application last Friday to have their client released from police custody in Lephalale, after he was arrested on charges relating to the illegal slaughter of seven rhinos on his farm in the Steenbokpan area. He was released on R250 000 bail on Tuesday and will appear in the Lephalale Magistrates court again on 2 March.​

LEPHALALE - ‘n 55-Jarige sakeman verskyn vandag in die Lephalale Landdros hof nadat hy op sy plaas in die Steenbokpan area gearresteer is vir onwettige renoster jag. Die Lephalale se SAPS bedreigde spesie eenheid het saam het die departement van omgewingsake, SANParke en die Heritage Protection Group (HPG) die man Vrydag op sy plaas aangekeer.​

MOKOPANE – A group of 15 recovering Nyaope drug users received certificates last Friday at the Mogalakwena Municipality Chambers after they participated in a three months treatment programme under the caring eye of the Drug Addict and Convicted Criminals Restoration Organisation (DAAC) who hopes to establish a rehabilitation centre in Mokopane soon.​

MOKOPANE – Die VF Plus se Limpopo leier, Marcelle Maritz, het die onderskeie opposisie partye in Mokopane genader om te verhoed dat die Mogalakwena Stadsraad na bewering R100-miljoen onreëlmatig by VBS Mutual belê.​

MOKOPANE - Two male suspects, aged 30 and 35, were arrested this afternoon (24 January) after a business man (41) was allegedly robbed of R40 000 amount of cash outside ABSA bank in Thabo Mbeki Street. Police are hunting for at least two more suspects connected to the incident. This follows several armed robberies in December targeting business people either banking or withdrawing money in Mokopane.

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MOKOPANE - Die Nyl Aksiegroep en Sylvania Platinum stamp alweer koppe oor dié maatskappy se planne om die ou Grass Valley myn naby Mokopane te heropen. Die departement van minerale hulpbronne het Sylvania se omgewingsaansoek in Desember goedgekeur, maar die Nyl Aksiegroep sê nou in sy appél teen hierdie goedkeuring dat die aansoek onvolledig is en dat mynaktiwiteite nie toegelaat mag word nie.

MOKOPANE – Sonja du Toit van The Green House het besluit 2017 is die jaar waarin sy ‘n verskil in haar gemeenskap gaan maak. Sy het verlede week met haar Groente Projek (Veggie Project) by Trinitas Huis Ontwikkelings Akademie afgeskop en hoop dat dit die eerste van vele skole is wat kinders sal leer om hul eie groente te plant.​

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ROEDTAN - Boere in die Roedtan/Immerpan sit met hul hande in hul hare nadat 'n gruispad in November verspoel het en daar nou 'n enorme sloot van bykans 15m oor die pad gaap. Die pad is onbegaanbaar en boere moet ompaaie ry en brandstofkostes aangaan om toegang tot hul eie plase te kry.

MOKOPANE - Four heavily armed suspects were arrested after a police constable wounded in the left leg in a shoot out in Giliad on 17 January. Two AK47-rifles, three pistols and several rounds of ammunition were confiscated after a man hunt that had police chasing the suspects through Giliad, Mahwelereng and Masodi in the early ours of Tuesday morning.

LEPHALALE - Several suspects were arrested for stealing tyres off vehicles after the Community Policing Forum (CPF) in Modimille and Lephalale worked with the Heritage Protection Group (a group of specialist reservists assisting the police in rural crime) and the Modimolle police to apprehend them.

MOKOPANE – “Ry liewer daardie paar kilometer vêrder en wees veilig as om onwettig jou rommel in ‘n area te strooi wat gevaarlik kan wees,” het Wyk 32 se Raadslid Yolande Coetzee op Facebook gemaan nadat sy verlede week met gewapende rowers te doen gekry het op die Uitkyk-pad. ​

LEPHALALE – Binne die eerste twee weke van 2017 het Marius Koekemoer van Reptile Rescue al 54 slange in die Lephalale-omgewing gevang. Dit sluit uiters giftige slange soos boomslange, swart mamba’s, Mozambiekse spoegkobras, wipneuskobras en pofadders sowel as luislange en bruin huisslange in.