You, Huisgenoot en Drum se besturende redakteur, Elizma Roets, het verlede week al die pad van Kaapstad af gereis om Laerskool Krugerpark se ster-juffrou, Flora Mashishi, se prys aan haar te kom oorhandig. Mashishi is die wenner van You/Huisgenoot se Kopskuif Onnies kompetisie.

Sowat 4000 hektaar het sedert verlede Vrydag in een van die ergste brande in baie jare in die Steenbokpan-omgewing afgebrand. Sonder enige hulp van die plaaslike brandweer, wat skynbaar sonder voertuie was, het boere van uit die Steenbokpan- en Soutpan-omgewing vure sedert Vrydagoggend beveg.

Die nuwe MediClinic in Lephalale is sedert die naweek ten volle operasioneel en volgens hospitaal bestuurder, Andries Engelbrecht, gaan dit baie goed. Stap jy deur die hospitaal voel ‘n mens sommer trots om deel te wees van ‘n gemeenskap met so ‘n eersteklas mediese fasiliteit. Die eerste operasie in die die nuwe teate

When Masia Andrew Mushathama from Mokopane was left blind after being mugged in 2004, he decided to not let it slow him down. He completed his studies at the University of Venda in Human Resources Management and decided that his condition would not hold him back. He has realised his dream by becoming a published author.

“The waste management by-laws say that land owners are responsible for cleaning their own land,” says waste management division head, Joshua Hlapa at the Lephalale Municipality.

When it comes to financial management, Limpopo is rated worst in the consolidated 2012-13 Auditor-General’s report released last week. According to Jacques Smalle, Provincial Leader for the DA, departments at national and other provinces showed a small improvement. Only Limpopo’s departments regressed. “The unauthorised expenditure increased from R175 million in 2011/12 to R324 million in 2012-13. National Treasury’s administration of five Limpopo departments clearly has not improved the situation. A concern for the DA is that the worst performers are those departments which are at the coalface of service deli-very: Health, Education and Public Works,” Smalle said in a statement last week. The report shows that irregular expenditure is at R2 billion. Overall fruitless and wasteful expenditure has gone up by 192% from the preceding year to R356 million. “The people of Limpopo suffer as a result. We are waiting for government to implement the change we need. But if government continually wastes money, the changes will never come. The people of Limpopo cannot continue to be hapless victims of this mismanagement,” he added.

Wat is dan nou lekkerder as somertyd in die Bosveld? Met heerlike reënbuie en warm sonskyndae is die Bosveld hierdie tyd van die jaar op sy mooiste. Maar somertyd is ook slangtyd. Vra maar vir Marius Koekemoer van Reptile Rescue in Lephalale. Marius en sy span het sedert die begin van November meer as 30 oproepe ontvang om slange in die Lephalale omgewing te verwyder.

Marken Primary recently held their prize giving ceremony evening to honour the achievements of learners during 2013. Guest speaker at the event was Dr. Jacobs Tapala who finished his Grade 7 year at Marken Primary in 1998. Tapala went on finish his Matric at Waterberg High School and completed his Medical studies at the University of Stellenbosch. He works at Witpoort Hospital.

Laerskool Unitas in Swartwater het onlangs hul leiers vir 2014 aangewys en hul presteerders vereer. Die skool is trots op elke leerder.

She describes herself as a sister, friend, companion and most importantly someone who gives her all to whatever she sets her mind to. Phumzile Moyo (25), a hospitality student whose star is shining bright in the academic arena, was named the highest achieving student on the whole Waterberg FET campus with an A-aggregate for two years running.

Bravo Jeug, ‘n organisasie wat skole in Lephalale bystaan met berading vir leerders, het in 2004 die lig gesien toe ‘n onderwyseres by Hoërskool Ellisras geskok was oor wat sommige leerders op hulle banke skryf. Sy het besef dat daar 'n groot behoefte na jeugwerk en berading by skole bestaan. Die hulp van Ds Jaco Strydom, wat Echo Youth in Pretoria begin het, is ingeroep en saam met ander belangstellendes is Bid Regtig Altyd vir Ons (Bravo) begin. Vandag bestaan die span uit Petro van der Walt (maatskaplike werker), Jolene Shepherd (jeugwerker), Helga Uys (opvoedkundige sielkundige), Annemie Kruger (sielkundige en traumatoloog) en Lucille du Toit (gemeenskap maatskaplike werker). Aan die stuur van Bravo is n bestuurspan bestaande uit vrywilligers wat almal ander professionele beroepe beoefen maar vrywillig tyd afstaan vir Bravo. Bravo Jeug bedien tans twee Laerskole en 'n Hoërskool deur middel van een-tot-een berading vir kinders wat getraumatiseer is of maatskaplike probleme het. As 'n nie-winsgewende organisasie maak die span staat op skenkings van die gemeenskap. Om Bravo Jeug in staat te stel om voor te gaan met berading in skole, het die instansie dringend geld nodig. Dit is na aanleiding hiervan dat die 1000 R100de vir Bravo projek onlangs die lig gesien het. Instansies en individue word gevra om R100de te skenk om te kyk of daar 1000 honderd rande ingesamel kan word. Noordelike Nuus beoog om van tyd tot tyd ‘n grafiek te publiseer om te wys hoe die projek vorder. R100de kan inbetaal word by Nedbank, rekeningnaam: BRAVO Youth, takkode: 144547, Rekening nommer: 1445095157. Gebruik die woorde R100de projek as verwysing. Vir inligting oor die projek en oor Bravo Jeug skakel Petro van der Walt by 083 321 2673 of stuur ‘n epos aan vanderwaltpetro@yahoo.com. Besoek ook www.bravo.org.za.

Die Potgietersrus Dienssentrum vir Bejaardes is deesdae ‘n besige kuierplek vir die dorp se bejaardes. Sosiale interaksie vorm ‘n groot deel van die Dienssentrum se aktiwiteite en verlede Vrydag het die lede weer bymekaargekom vir ‘n heerlike braai saam met dienssentrum bestuurder, Estelle Hartzenberg, en haar personeel. Die bejaardes het heerlik saam gekuier en ook die plaaslike boereorkes wat kom musiek maak het geniet. Enige iemand wat wil aansluit kan die Dienssentrum skakel by 015 491 5747 of hul webwerf vir inligting besoek by dienssentrumbejaardes.co.za (sonder die www).

When Lincoln Mohlaka had to give up his studies in Metallurgy at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007, he thought his future was doomed and for months he was shattered. Fast forward to 2013 and Mohlaka (26) is now a certified artisan boilermaker by trade currently working at the Medupi Power Station in Lephalale, the fourth largest coal-fire power station in the world which is still under construction.

Met die reuse spronge in tegnologie, en veral die internet, het ‘n nuwe wêreld van geleenthede vir ons oopgegaan, nie net vir volwassenes nie, maar vir kinders ook. Kinders het vandag deur hulle selfone, tablette en rekenaars toegang tot enige denkbare inligting of visuele beelde. Dit is egter hierdie vrye toegang wat kenners bekommerd het.

According to research by Professor Nonhlanhla Khumalo, Head of Dermatology at the University of Cape Town, men who prefer a clean-shaven hair cut known as “Chiskop” in the black community are at a greater risk of coming into contact with HIV.