Articles for Bernard Chiguvare

Villagers live next to a platinum mine, but have no jobs

Residents of Limpopo’s Barok Ba Nkwana and Atok villages demand government speak to the mine on their behalf

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News | 12 September 2024

Only nine of 55 villages get water from controversial multi-billion rand project

Deputy President Paul Mashatile promises that by November a dozen more villages would get tap water via the Giyani Water Project

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News | 9 September 2024

There are 90 learners to a class in this Limpopo school

Such classes are uncontrollable, says a teacher

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News | 4 September 2024

Makhado Municipality finally complies with court order to appoint top official

Unions welcome appointment of Godfrey Raliphada to Chief Financial Officer

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Brief | 26 July 2024

Farmers fear loss of land to Motsepe Foundation citrus project

Phalaborwa farming associations sound the alarm

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Feature | 22 July 2024

Displaced Limpopo farmers battle to make a living

Farmers had been working communal land near Phalaborwa since 2014

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News | 13 June 2024

Villagers stuck while government probes diversion of water from Giyani dam

Deputy water minister says investigation is still going on

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Brief | 27 May 2024

Louis Trichardt residents forced to live among pools of sewage

Tired of continual backups into their pipes due to blocked sewer lines, some residents have reverted to pit toilets

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News | 27 May 2024

“No electricity, no vote”, shout angry Limpopo villagers

Xinkuwani village has never had electricity

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Brief | 2 May 2024

Limpopo villagers force minister to turn around

Giyani protesters block Senzo Mchunu’s access to water project

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News | 23 April 2024

Traders accuse border officers of beating them and burning their stalls

Lawyers for Human Rights accuse authorities of violating human rights

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News | 12 April 2024

Abandoned by government, Limpopo villagers plan to sink their own borehole

Only one public borehole is working for 11 villages in Nthabalala

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News | 10 April 2024

Nurses and patients have to bring their own water to this Limpopo clinic

Nthabalala clinic near Elim has not had running water since mid-2022, according to residents

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Brief | 27 March 2024

Police whisk water minister Mchunu away from angry crowd in Musina

Residents were demanding a lasting and immediate solution to the area’s water crisis

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Brief | 18 March 2024

How to spend 12 years building a police station

Minister Sihle Zikalala has promised the Vuwani police station will be completed in 2025. Work on it started in 2012.

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News | 15 March 2024