Everything came to a standstill for almost a week at the Sinthumule/Kutama maximum prison, as warders had gathered at the main entrance since last Wednesday to Monday this week.

Een van die dorp se bekendste egpare, oom Johan en tannie Virgi Venter, verlaat Louis Trichardt en gaan nou in Newcastle in Kwazulu-Natal woon.

A war of words has erupted between the Thohoyandou police and a Thohoyandou-based security company.

Over the course of a year, Build It employee Itani Dormonic Mufamadi (37) stole building materials totaling R40 000 from his employer. The stolen merchandise included cement, bricks and paint.

Community members of Madombidzha village are at loggerheads with a traditional leader who allegedly erected stands at an old graveyard site in exchange for money.

A 24-year-old pastor from Tshapfutshe village outside Beit Bridge was jailed on Friday for an effective 10 years, for raping a 19-year-old member of his congregation.

Dr. Paul Prinsloo, bekende tandarts en skrywer oor die Soutpansberg en sy mense, is Saterdag, 5 Junie oorlede aan ‘n hartaanval. Hy was 78 jaar oud. Paul het ‘n intense belangstelling in die Soutpansberg se mense gehad. Hy het etlike boeke oor die Soutpansberg die lig laat sien.

“Daardie gevoel kan mens vir niemand beskryf nie,” het ‘n hoogs verligte mnr. Jan Smit (60) van Louis Trichardt Dinsdag gesê, nadat hy ‘n gewapende motorkaping oorleef het.

Vuwani police spokesperson WO Elijar Malatjie has hailed the two life sentences for convicted 21-year-old Tshifhiwa Leroy Ravele of Lwamondo Tshitavha village as a victory for police fighting the rape and abuse of women and children.

In the dusty soil of the Venda region grows a familiar tree that bears the fruit for an unfamiliar product.

Die Soutpansberg se eie opkomende krieketsensasie, Leon Olwage, is in meer as een opsig besig om vir homself naam te maak in Britse krieketgeledere.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Louis Trichardt has called the mayor of Makhado Municipality, Cllr Mavhungu Luruli, a dictator.