Nearly R20-million changed hands at Limpopo Tourism and Parks Boards’ first game auction at the weekend, according to a statement issued on Monday. The ”catalogue auction” in Polokwane, on Saturday, saw the sale of 3 600 head of antelope from 15 of Limpopo’s 17 provincial parks, raking in R19,5-million.
Tourism has long been viewed as one of the holy grails of job creation in South Africa, which is burdened by an unemployment rate of more than 30%. Certain parts of the country have become firm favourites with local and international visitors. Now the lesser-known province of Limpopo is also hoping to take its place at the table.
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The Democratic Alliance announced on Thursday that it has signed up two small regional parties in Limpopo province — the Ximoko Party and the Dabalorivhuwa Patriotic Front — for its coalition, which already includes the Inkatha Freedom Party. Both parties have a strong rural base in the province.
South Africans should do more to care for mentally disabled children in society said former president Nelson Mandela at his brithday.
Two Limpopo men arrested for allegedly dealing in ”magic mushrooms” were released on R1 000 bail each in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court this week.
Scores of African National Congress supporters converged on the University of the North stadium in Mankweng outside Polokwane on Saturday morning to pay their last respects to the late ANC MP Peter Mokaba.
The National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) has laid a charge against the owner of six lion cubs being used in a documentary film because of the conditions under which the lions, all cubs, are being kept at Polokwane in Limpopo.
A mob stoned and burned to death a 54-year-old woman and her 24-year-old daughter whom they accused of practising witchcraft, Limpopo Province police said on Friday.
The Limpopo provincial government had by Friday closed down a total of eight illegal initiation schools after a boy from the Mokgolobotho village initiation school died last weekend.
The Mail&Guardian newspaper came under attack at the funeral of African National Congress MP Peter Mokaba on Saturday, with the ANC Youth League calling for a boycott.