Famous gospel music artist Rev Tshivhangwaho Patrick Ndou has come out of the fold and spoken out against piracy, which he says is destroying the music industry.

Criminals will soon have nowhere to operate in the rural town of Thohoyandou in Limpopo.

A defenceless gogo was mercilessly butchered to death at Ha Mutsha-Tshidivhani outside Louis Trichardt on Thursday evening, only a few days after the Vhembe community was shocked when an enraged policeman allegedly shot and killed his wife and held his son captive at Tshififi.

The 39-year-old Zimbabwean, Brighton Chipere of the Nedbank Athletics club, won the annual Land of Legend Marathon which took place in Thohoyandou on Saturday. The race started at the Thohoyandou stadium and ended at the Mphephu resort.

Scores of Zimbabwean travellers using the newly introduced temporary travel documents (TTDs) were left stranded at Beit Bridge border post on Friday after they were turned away by the South African Home Affairs officials.

The Waterval police arrested a 31-year-old police constable who allegedly shot and killed his 33-year-old relative at Nwaxinyamani village outside Waterval last Tuesday. The man briefly appeared before the Waterval Magistrate´s court last Tuesday, facing a charge of murder.

Vho Thovhele Midiyavhathu Kennedy Tshivhase hailed the signing on of a memorandum of understanding between his royal council and the University of Venda as a milestone that will bring massive investment in his area and the province.

The Levubu SAPS are looking for two young men who allegedly raped a 62-year-old woman on Sunday at a farm in the Levubu area.

Famous Vhembe soccer legend, teacher and community leader Marcus Malume has received an award from Thasululo Ministries for his contributions to the community.

There was high drama at the Beit Bridge border post last Friday, when a South African hearse driver dumped a dead body at the Port Health Section, after he had been told to take the corpse back for embalming.

The deputy-vice-chancellor: academic of the University of Venda, Prof Xikombiso Mbhenyane, led by example when she scooped the Best Overall researcher award and pocketed more than R15 000 in cash prizes during the Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Research for 2009.

Ms Esther Hlungwane of Shirley village in the Waterval area asked Mirror for assistance after a government employee, who was allowed to stay in her RDP house by a councillor after his house burned down in 2007, has refused to give her house back.