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Back to school facing some hurdles in Limpopo – The Citizen

Alex Japho Matlala For the past three weeks, Limpopo has been hard-hit by floods due to the tropical storm Eloise, which swept parts of the country. Picture: iStock There has been a rocky start to schools opening this week in Limpopo after pupils from several communities could not access their schools on Monday and on Tuesday due to flooding, collapsed classrooms and shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE). MEC for basic education in Limpopo, Polley Boshielo spent the better part of past two days visiting schools in the Capricorn, Vhembe and Mopani regions. For the past three weeks, Limpopo has been hard-hit by floods due to the tropical storm Eloise, which swept parts of the country. Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State, Northern Cape and Gauteng have been hard-hit, according.

Free State farm attack and Limpopo stock theft again show sad state of rural security

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Police at a stock theft scene. An added task on the shoulders of soldiers deployed to protect South Africa’s land borders is apprehension and return of stolen livestock as well as handing suspects to police for further investigation. This is in addition to the primary Operation Corona tasking of ensuring South African sovereignty as far as illegal incursions across all its borders are concerned. The livestock theft issue has found its way to Limpopo with three suspects arrested in Mookgopong and Roedtan this week. The arrests are the first outcome of a province-wide investigation into stock theft. The investigation, according to Democratic Alliance (DA) provincial council member Jacques Smalle, is a collaborative one with police and private security companies pooling resources.

Truck Drivers Relive Beitbridge Border Nightmare

TimesLIVE Truck drive Farai Chauraya was stuck at the Beitbridge border for a week from December 20 to December 27 trying to get from SA into Zimbabwe. Chauraya, who is now in Zambia, said that in his seven years as a truck driver he had never seen such chaos at Beitbridge. “I was stuck in my truck for days, not able to leave for fear of losing my place in the queue. The controlling of the queues was not good things kept changing. At one stage the queue moved 200m a day if we were lucky,” he said. Some trucks were allowed to bypass the queue and violence started erupting as people became hot and frustrated.