ANCVL Limpopo

22/09/2026

We have grazed the occasion to officially open the TT Cholo Fire Station today in the presence of his younger brother Ephraim Cholo and the extended family members of Veteran Dr. TTCholo.

We honoured a man who attempted to come into the country three times during the difficult days. For his troubles, the first time around he spent over two years in a Botswana prison, after betrayal by a Maswara man. Served his time and went to the Soviet Union where he was trained and prepared to enter the country by sea in a ship called the Aventura. When the voyage was aborted before getting to Mombasa, Kenya, he was next on a flight to Eswatini where he landed at Matsapa airport. He crossed the border into Mpumalanga. As had happened in Botswana the person who was supposed to meet him and two other comrades never showed up. They get a lift from a truck carrying tarred wooden poles and sit on the logs. They get to Mkhondo/former Piet Retief covered in lack tar and they manage to wash under a tap. They take a train to Jozi and stay underground until the coast is clear and he takes a train to Polokwane. All the while a mpimpi is watching. A few weeks later he is captured by heavily armed SAP members with the help of the rascal who was monitoring him. He is transferred to a Pretoria prison where he is stripped naked, tied to the roof of a prison cell - in the fashion of a slaughtered goat - and beaten up. This unbreakable guerrilla was charged and sent to Robben Island where he was held until release on the eve of freedom. Served the ANC in Limpopo province until retirement. He eventually received the well deserved Seaparankwe award not a moment too soon.
Tough as nails, he lived to be 100 years! He will be 101 years in October this year - next month.
They don’t make many like that. This steel was tempered in the crucible of struggle. Maatla!

20/09/2026

Cde Maite Nkoana-Mashabane at Ngoako Ramathlodi Sports Complex in Seshego, to deliver a message of support on behalf of the ANC Veterans League at the ANCWL Robing Ceremony and launch of the Dikeledi Magadzi Brigade to be addressed by ANCWL Secretary-General Cde Nokuthula Nqaba.

19/09/2026

Limpopo Premier Dr Phophi Ramathuba says the province is once again aiming to surpass the R120 billion investment target at the upcoming 2026 Limpopo Investment Conference.

Ramathuba spoke during the media launch of the conference in Mookgophong on Friday.

She said this year’s conference, set for next month, will place a sharper focus on implementation, moving beyond investment pledges to ensure projects are executed and deliver tangible economic impact.

“We are moving beyond the celebration of commitments towards the acceleration of bankable projects, capital mobilisation, industrial development and inclusive economic participation,” she said.

Ramathuba said the province’s investment strategy is anchored on three priorities: mineral beneficiation and green energy, agricultural modernisation and agro-processing, and the development of Special Economic Zones and broader economic infrastructure.

The premier added that these were aimed at advancing industrialisation, expanding investment, creating jobs and positioning Limpopo within regional and global value chains.

“Limpopo’s mineral resources provide a foundation for industrial development but our ambition must extend beyond the extraction and export of raw materials. We must promote value addition, strengthen local supply chains and attract investment into industries that create greater economic value within the province,” she said.

-Implementation concerns-

The province has, however, only utilised R71 billion of the R452 billion in investment commitments secured over the past five years, translating to just 15% implementation.

Delays in licensing, environmental impact assessments and water-use approvals are among some of the things that have slowed major projects, including the Musina-Makhado and Fetakgomo Tubatse Special Economic Zones.

Limpopo Economic Development Agency Group CEO, Jason Ngobeni, explained that large-scale investments, particularly in mining and SEZ development, often take up to five years to materialise due to regulatory and operational complexities.

Despite the slow pace, more than 23,000 jobs have been created across sectors.

“I think what we are seized with is to truncate that five-year period. We bring it to about two or three years to ensure that all those hindrances, all those things that are making it difficult for a pledge to be implemented are dealt with, whether it’s about licensing, EIA or anything that government can do, we will do it,” he said.

-SEZ progress on track-

Ngobeni said work is being fast-tracked on the Musina-Makhado and Fetakgomo Tubatse Special Economic Zones to prepare them for investors.

He said the two SEZs are key industrial projects expected to create jobs and help address high unemployment in the province.

Ngobeni said an agreement has been signed with Zimbabwe to secure bulk water supply for the Musina-Makhado SEZ.

“Now that enables us to start bulk services construction in Musina-Makhado. We have started with the water supply, we have started with water reticulation there, the sewer, we are also doing roads, we are levelling the area as well,” he added.

19/09/2026

Today, I am attending the inaugural memorial lecture of the gentle giant of all times, the Dr Francis Hlahla. He was my family doctor and took care of my grandmother, my mother and my aunt and always gave them royal treatments through home visits.

17/09/2026

16/09/2026

Comrades and Compatriots, the disease that is killing our movement is not the enemy outside — it is factional politics inside.

Factional politics has no school. It has no classroom. It does not train people — it parachutes them.

A comrade is lifted from nowhere to somewhere, not because he is ready, but because he is loyal to a faction. He has never chaired a branch meeting, never written a political report, never been corrected by the masses — but tomorrow he is a leader.

That is not deployment. That is abortion of a cadre.

Paul taught us in 1 Corinthians 13:11:

"When I was a child, I thought like a child, I spoke like a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things."

There are stages in life, and there are stages in struggle.

• As a child in the movement, you must learn to listen.
• As a youth, you must learn to work.
• As an adult, you must learn to lead AND to be led.

You cannot skip childhood and claim adulthood. If you do, you will be an old person who still thinks like a child — arrogant, factional, unable to take criticism, personalising every political issue.

Comrades, let us be honest: To carry a red card does not make you a Communist.

You say you are a Communist because you joined the Party. But where is your communist practice?

• Do you live communally, or do you live for yourself?
• Do you serve the people when there is no position?
• Do the workers and the poor trust you in the street, not just in the conference hall?

A Communist is not recruited. A Communist emerges.

In the old days, the Party observed you. The community observed you. How do you treat your family? How do you treat a general worker? Do you pay your debts? Do you do the boring work without a title? Only then did the Party say: "This one can be one of us."

Today there is no observation. No probation. No political school. People walk into an office and walk out as "Communists." That is not Leninism. That is careerism wearing a red T-shirt.

So I ask: How do you know you are right to be a Communist?

You know when:
1. You can be criticised without shouting "faction!"
2. You can do mass work without expecting a salary.
3. You can lose a position and still remain in the branch.

The chair is not yours. The title is not yours. Isihlalo seso sihlalo — wena ungumhlali nje okwethutyana.

The Party is bigger than your faction. The people are bigger than the Party.

If we do not rebuild the SCHOOL of cadres, we will continue to produce leaders who have titles but have no politics, who have positions but have no people.

We must return to training. We must return to observation. We must return to the masses.

08/09/2026

[PICTURES] ANC Special Provincial Working Committee meeting is underway at Frans Mohlala House in Polokwane this morning, chaired by the Provincial Chairperson Comrade Dr Phophi Ramathuba.

03/09/2026

We attended an auspicious event for purposes of profiling Makgabeng Heritage Site & Geopark to be recognized by UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites. The overall coordinator was Dr. Tlou Setumu representing Makgabeng Heritage Site and Geopark.

Molapi Soviet Lekganyane presented an epistemological lecture centred around us as Africans to know who we are and our roots of origin. The event was blessed by the speakers and representatives from the Robben Island Museum, Universities of Pretoria, Wits and Limpopo.