Benny's Care Soccer Academy was crowned as the new provincial champion of the Milo U/13 Soccer Development Tournament, after they managed to beat Nwasoroni Primary 6-4 at Modimole on Saturday. The winners had to be determined by means of a penalty shoot-out, after the teams played to a 2-all draw.

The much-awaited final of the PIB MTG and Black Leopards KO Competition will be staged at the Makonde Stadium on Sunday.

Black Leopards' top goal scorer, Rodney Ramagalela, and two of his team-mates, Raymond Monama and Tiyani Mabunda, are most likely to be in the Mamelodi Sundowns stable when the activities for the new season start in two months' time.

The preparations for the 2013 Golden Games in Vhembe started in all the local municipalities last week.

A last-minute goal by Emelda Khosa was good enough to secure Phaphazela Real Hexagon a place in the final of the PIB MTG and Black Leopards KO Competition. They narrowly beat Mulindathavha Ocean Swallows 1-0 in the semifinal at Makonde on Sunday.

Ms Leigh Bristow, the founder of the Sumbandila Scholarship and Ridgeway College in Makhado (Louis Trichardt), will be taking part in the Cash & Rocket Tour which starts in Barcelona on Thursday, 13 June.

This year, the mountain bike race of the PPC Kremetart Cycling Race on Sunday was hosted as a cross-country Olympic event.

Het die Sondag-koerant ‘n verskuilde motief gehad met hul smeerveldtog twee weke gelede in die dorp, en het die feit dat hierdie poniekoerant ‘n paar maande gelede skerp deur die Zoutpansberger gekritiseer is oor hul beriggewing, dalk bygedra tot hul persoonlike aanval op plaaslike besigheidslui?

Vhaingameli Vho Mpomokeni Joseph Mushiane of Tshimbupfe Schiel Farm was buried on Sunday. Mushiane (88) was a founder and senior member of the Zion Apostolic Old Mission Church and was the father of renowned photographer Elijar Mushiane, who is Sowetan's photographic chief in Limpopo and a former Limpopo Mirror correspondent.

For the new financial year the Makhado Municipality has budgeted for a deficit of R29.5m. The budgeted revenue in the operational budget for 2013/14 is R692 549 000 and the budgeted expenditure is R722 069 000, leaving a shortfall of R29 520 000.

Residents of Makhado (Louis Trichardt) and surrounds can look forward to a brand new way of reporting their water and sewerage problems to the Vhembe District Municipality (VDM) and AfriForum.

The case against the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) officer accused of poaching in the Kruger National Park has been postponed yet again.