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PUTTING PEDAL TO THE METAL
Thabazimbi – Thabazimbi now boast with its very own Thabazimbi Cycling Club (TCC). The club had their first 8km sprint on Wednesday 13 January
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Police recover hijacked courier van
Northam – A courier van transporting cellphones, was travelling from Rustenburg to Northam when it was hijacked by armed robbers on Monday 18 January.
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Elné sterk aan na slangpik
Thabazimbi – Die Erasmus-gesin se lewens is tot stilstand geruk na hul dogter Elné Erasmus deur ‘n Mosambiekse spoegkobra gepik is op Maandag 11 Januarie.
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Helicopter crash into Crocodile River
Brits – Hartbeespoort Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) responded to a distress call after a helicopter crashed near Brits on Sunday morning, 10 January.
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Sssnake shot & saved!
Regorogile/ Thabazimbi – Local snake catcher Charles Jansen van Vuuren rushed to the scene after receiving a call from Thabazimbi Crisis Control Centre about a snake in Regorogile, on Wednesday 23 December.
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Burnt remains of man discovered in ditch
Bela-Bela – A manhunt was launched for the killers of a man whose remains were found dumped in a ditch near Bela-Bela. Police have gathered that the victim was murdered before his body was burned. “The decomposing remains were discovered by a herdsman on Sunday 10 January along the R101 road next to the railway crossing – already in a state of decomposition,” said police spokesperson lieutenant colonel Mamphaswa Seabi.
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Limpopo road accident stats
Limpopo – Data from traffic stations in the Limpopo province shows that from 1 December 2020 to 4 January 2021, a total of 297 road accidents involving 407 vehicles occurred.
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More than 2,000 arrests in 8 days
Limpopo – Police in Limpopo arrested 2,015 suspects for various offences during an eight-day clampdown conducted from Monday 28 December 2020 to Monday 4 January 2021.
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HFM making their mark!
Thabazimbi – Did you know that 1,058,699 Grade 12 learners wrote their exams in 2020? Across the country more than 45,000 markers have started grading the 14 million scripts at the 181 marking centres across the country.
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Vehicle ploughs through graves
Northam – The Thabazimbi Local Municipality (TLM) is appealing to community members who buried their loved ones at Northam cemetery to verify if their tombstones are amongst those damaged on Saturday 12 December.
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CRIME STATS
Limpopo – Contact crimes and cases of malicious damage to property in the Limpopo province increased during the second quarter of the 2020/2021 financial year, according to the provincial crime statistics released on Thursday 10 December.
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OUR LETTERS TO Santa
Thabazimbi – Platinum Bushvelder’s employees are in awe with the beautiful and heartfelt letters to Santa, the children in our community entrusted us with. Thanks to generous donations from the business community and Len Lombard of Platinum Publishers, several children received an early Christmas gift.
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