People in their hundreds converged at the Ramabulana family of Shayandima last Friday, to pay their last respects to a man described by all as a fearless revolutionary.

One of the country’s top gender activists and a female traditional leader, Hosi Lwandlamuni Nwamitwa II, has vowed to continue fighting for the rights of women.

Two police officers in Beit Bridge, who severely assaulted three suspected commercial sex workers, resulting in one of them having a miscarriage, were each sentenced to an effective one year in jail.

Angry learners of Ozias Davhana Secondary school of Mpheni village outside Elim took to the streets last Friday, protesting against the Department of Education´s decision that grade 10 learners who had been promoted to grade 11 must return to grade 10.

There was drama at Tshivhilidulu outside Siloam when the body that was to be buried was brought home minus its tongue.

The Makhado Municipality has welcomed a new Director of Technical Services in the person of Mr Thivho Ralulimi.

The Musina Municipality has turned to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) for assistance, due to the current low cash flow experienced by the municipality.

The South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) is officially investigating the contentious road signs erected along the N1 in Louis Trichardt.

The Democratic Alliance in Louis Trichardt has made known the shocking laboratory reports of drinking water samples taken in and around the town this week.

The Makhado Municipality has sent the Zoutpansberger two reports on possible borehole contamination and the test results of water samples taken in December last year.

Inwoners van Louis Trichardt het op ‘n skokkende gesig afgekom in die munisipale begraafplaas toe hulle besoek afgelê het by geliefdes se grafte die afgelope Sondag.

“Dis baie harde werk, maar die verlange is erger as die werk,” sê Jan van Graan oor sy jongste ysige dienstyd in Antarktika. Hy was nou al twee keer daar.