The message is loud and clear: they have had enough of the violence and abuse against innocent women and children at their villages. They cannot just sit down and fold their arms as if nothing is happening around them and they decided to do something to make their people aware of the dangers and the impact of abuse on the community.

“This is the hand of God at work,” were the words of Mr Nthambeleni Munyai of Thohoyandou P East, after a further donation of R5 000 towards rebuilding his house was presented to him by a well-known Thohoyandou businessman.

More than 60 New Limpopo Bridge (NLB) employees have downed tools in protest over the unhygienic conditions at Beit Bridge border post, amid fears of contracting the deadly cholera epidemic, Mirror has established.

A self-confessed woman abuser, Mr Takalani Madiba, caused a stir when he publicly admitted to having abused his wife over a period.

Seven unclaimed bodies of cholera victims, kept at Beit Bridge District Hospital mortuary, were given a pauper’s burial.

Well-known Limpopo motivational speaker, academic and entrepreneur Ms Humbelani Netshandama urged rural women in Limpopo to stand up and to empower themselves through community and self-help projects in order to break the cycle of poverty, ease unemployment and stop them from having to beg from their partners.

Prof Mbulaheni Nelson Musehane, Centre Manager of the Tshivenda Language Research and Development Centre at the University of Venda, is one of the highly honoured researchers by the University of Venda and the American Biographical Institute.

A wife, who is suspected of not being able to withstand the pain of sharing her husband with another woman, has found herself on the wrong side of the law and is today behind bars, after allegedly plotting the woman’s murder and that of an 18-month-old baby, in order to have the husband to herself.

Ek is so geskok in die optredes en gedrag van gesiene, gereelde en gerespekteerde kerkgangers, dat ek nie ander kan as om dit in alle beskeidenheid aan te spreek nie.

Met kransaasvoëls wat as ‘n bedreigde spesie gelys word, staan die personeel van die Blouberg Natuurreservaat aan die voorpunt van die bewaring van hierdie voëlsoort. Die broeikolonie op die Blouberg word jaarliks gemonitor en met ‘n gemiddeld van tussen 500 en 600 neste wat tydens die broeiseisoen getel word, is hierdie kolonie een van die grootste, indien nie dié grootste nie, in die land.

Top leerder Rudolph Boshoff, wat tot Januarie vanjaar ‘n leerling van Hoërskool Louis Trichardt was, is steeds aan die presteer. Hy is onlangs aangewys as Verskilmaker vir 2009 in die Tshwane Interskole Leierskapkompetisie, ‘n jaarlikse projek wat streef vir die identifisering en ontwikkeling van toekomstige leiers.

Hennie Theron, sekerlik een van die Soutpansberg-gemeenskap se bekender figure, is Maandagaand (8ste) in die Flora Kliniek in Roodepoort oorlede na ‘n lang stryd teen bloedkanker. Hy was 66 jaar oud.