Two siblings, Ms Sarah Mbedzi (97) and Mr David Mashige (73), were left heartbroken and destitute when their five-room house was reduced to ashes after a mysterious fire some four years ago.

Mangalani Mudau, also known as The Diamond Voice, is a young man who has made a name for himself in the community-radio fraternity.

Two young sisters, artists from Dopeni known as Masana and Phathu, have been nominated in the Independent National Gospel Music Awards (INGOMA) for 2018.

Speaker after speaker described the late Gogo Vho-Tshinakaho “Muguta” Ramantswana as “a unifying factor to the Tshisundzungwane clan and the community at large”.

Hospitals are places where people seek comfort, hope, and healing when they are sick – but this becomes an ironic tragedy when their physical pain is compounded by mental anguish because of the bad treatment some apparently get from unsympathetic medical professionals.

Several efforts to get updates on the proposed pay-outs to beneficiaries of the former Venda Pension Fund have been unsuccessful. Even an appeal to readers to find out if they have any news has generated no results. It seems everyone is in the dark and those who know, do not care to talk about the matter.

A few (un)lucky individuals were carefully selected to be jailed at the Louis Trichardt SPCA on Saturday, 21 July, as part of the organisation’s annual Jailed & Bailed fundraiser.

Traditional leader NW Masiagwala writes:

Perhaps one of the most down-to-earth of the three partners at Coxwell, Steyn, Vise & Naudé Inc, is Johan Steyn. He became a partner in 1980, but has been a practicing lawyer since 1976.

The deputy military ombudswoman, Adv Rendani Patience Marivate, was buried after a ceremony in the Waterval Community Hall on Saturday. A memorial service for her took place at the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Elim on Friday.

After being crowned the overall champions of the Safa Vhembe Regional Association, the management of Tshakhuma RO Nandilani FC felt the necessity to report the team’s achievement to the residents of Tshakhuma Mutsindoni village, where the club is based.

The law is not always about stern faces and people clashing with the authorities. Every now and then it has a “lighter” side, although the humour is not always appreciated at that specific moment. André Naudé, well-known partner at Coxwell, Steyn, Vise & Naudé Inc, can recall a few of these more uncomfortable episodes.