Rudzani Tshivhase

Nov 4, 2024 | allafrica.com | Rudzani Tshivhase

Two children who drowned in an open pit toilet and two elderly residents killed by falling debris were buried at the weekend after a heavy storm in Limpopo. Eighty-six-year-old Limpopo pensioner Eva Seloane of Ga-Maleka village in the Lepelle Nkumpi local municipality in Capricorn District died after bricks fell on her head while she was trying to run from her collapsing house.

Nov 3, 2024 | dailymaverick.co.za | Rudzani Tshivhase

Eighty-six-year-old Limpopo pensioner Eva Seloane of Ga-Maleka village in the Lepelle Nkumpi local municipality in Capricorn District died after bricks fell on her head while she was trying to run from her collapsing house. Seloane is among four people who died during the devastating storm last Monday, which also affected Sekhukhune, Mopane and Vhembe districts. Only one Limpopo district, Waterberg, was not affected.

Aug 2, 2024 | dailymaverick.co.za | Rudzani Tshivhase

PROMISES, PROMISES Roads, water and jobs are among the priorities for Limpopo Premier Phophi Ramathuba, who addressed the first sitting of the Seventh Limpopo Legislature in Polokwane on Friday, 2 August 2024. But there was no mention of the VPS elephant in the room. Limpopo Premier Phophi Ramathuba has instructed her government to find a budget to procure “yellow fleet” earth-moving equipment to construct and maintain roads.

Jul 25, 2024 | dailymaverick.co.za | Rudzani Tshivhase

AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY Desperate VBS depositors who lost most of their cash believe the institution can be revived. But the Reserve Bank has made it clear that they will have to reapply for a banking licence. Six years after VBS Mutual Bank was placed under curatorship, aggrieved depositors and minority shareholders are still fighting to get their money back and believe that reviving VBS, with a commercial banking licence rather than as a mutual bank, might be the answer.

Jul 20, 2024 | dailymaverick.co.za | Neesa Moodley |Lerato Mutsila |Rudzani Tshivhase |Queenin Masuabi

AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY If true, a detailed affidavit by the former chairperson of VBS Mutual Bank tells a tale of astonishingly brazen theft, fraud and bribery. A money trail that leads to senior bank management, high-ranking politicians in three different political parties, municipal officials and auditors was laid bare in the shocking affidavit made by former VBS Mutual Bank chairperson Tshifhiwa Matodzi.