A historic meeting between the SABC board, local cultural organisations and traditional leaders in Thohoyandou last Wednesday ended in controversy when the organisers presented the acting chief operations officer of the national broadcaster, Mr Hlaudi Motsoeneng, with a wife, a cow and a calf. He was even invited to select his wife from among a number of Tshivenda maidens during the event.

DDP Valuers has asked the High Court to either re-award the tender for the compilation of Makhado’s 2014 to 2018 valuation roll to them, or to refer it back to the Makhado Municipality to be reconsidered.

The gruesome discovery of the mutilated body of a 33-three year-old woman at Mutshenzheni, Tshitavha, has sent shockwaves through the communities in the area.

The Zoutpansberger’s decision to dig a little deeper into the company appointed to compile the Makhado Municipality’s 2014 to 2018 valuation roll has literally opened up the proverbial can of worms.

Young Fortune Khumalo (15), one of the country’s best-known ritual-murder survivors, is becoming a big boy. In 2007 he made headlines when he survived the sharp blades of ritual murderers who had cut off his private parts.

In Vhembe, a shocking and disrespectful tendency is brewing, whereby angry people vent their anger on gravesites and sometimes go to the extent of vandalizing them.

Openness and transparency are apparently not high on the Makhado Municipality’s list of priorities when it comes to the current chaotic state of the municipal valuation roll process.

Court spectators could hear the clanking of chains long before the 24-year-old Given Mpofu appeared in the Louis Trichardt District Court on Tuesday.

Die Soutpansberg Belastingbetalersvereniging (SBBV) gaan die Makhado munisipale bestuurder se hulp inroep by die komitee wat oor die waardasierol moet vergader.

Bush Pie 3, the much-publicised Tshivenda porn movie which was scheduled to be launched on Youth Day, has been postponed indefinitely.

Die Soutpansberg Belastingbetalersvereniging is besig om munisipale rekeningprobleme te ondersoek en vra die gemeenskap om probleme met rekeninge, veral met betrekking tot sogenaamde “aanpassings” op die rekenings, onder hul aandag te bring.

Madodonga Primary School turned into a playground of activities when a team of nine students from the USA visited the school to participate in environmental education games with the pupils. The event took place last Monday.