“Dit is met groot hartseer dat ek afskeid neem van Triegies. Ek het my werk baie geniet - dit was my passie. Ek gaan onderwys verskriklik mis.” Só sê Sarita Botha, wat aftree ná ‘n onderwysloopbaan van 34 jaar, met 33 daarvan by Hoërskool Louis Trichardt.

Die vakhoof vir Afrikaans by Hoërskool Louis Trichardt, Annet de Klerk, tree af. “Hoërskool Louis Trichardt was vir my ‘n veilige hawe waar ek wonderlike mense ontmoet het wat regtig omgee. ‘n Mens kan nie weggaan sonder dat daar diep spore in jou hart deur personeel, administratiewe personeel en kinders getrap is nie,” sê Annet.

Familie en vriende het die afgelope week swaar afskeid geneem van ‘n oud-inwoner van Louis Trichardt, Herman “Harry” Pretorius, wat op Maandag, 27 November, in die ouderdom van 64 jaar oorlede is. Hy en sy familie was ook vir net meer as ‘n dekade bekende gesigte op Levubu gewees.

Despite some delays caused by heavy rains last Wednesday, construction work on Stubbs Street remains on track. Workers are persisting to achieve the complete rebuild of Stubbs Street between Krogh and Anderson Street by or before 15 December.

The Makhado Municipality will not have a permanent chief financial officer (CFO) this year. The appointment will have to wait until next year, when the Limpopo High Court’s Polokwane division is expected to make a ruling in the case between the municipality and its acting CFO, Godfrey Raliphada.

Last week, the Zoutpansberger was contacted by 80-year-old Louis Trichardt resident Schalk Grobbelaar, seeking assistance in solving a photo mystery.

Kersfees is liggietyd, en in Louis Trichardt doen niemand dit waarskynlik beter as Alida en Eddie Liversage nie. Jaarliks omskep hulle hul huis en tuin in ‘n kleurespel van liggies, met mense wat van heinde en verre kom om dit te sien.

On the odd occasion, stories do have a happy ending. This is the case with a Madombidzha-based hawker, Ms Langanani Julian Mamburu, who lost R4,000 when she tried to send money to her daughter by using Checkers’ money- transfer services.