Tears of emotion flowed down the cheeks of offenders and their victims when they came face to face in a ceremony organized for offenders to meet their victims and ask forgiveness.

The dedicated employees of the Department of Health and Social Development at the Louis Trichardt Memorial Hospital were honoured with certificates and trophies in recognition of their hard work at the excellence awards ceremony that was held at the hospital premises of Louis Trichardt Town last Friday.

It never stops raining for the Thulamela municipality... Several decisions the municipality made seemed to have gone wrong.

A frustrated woman committed suicide by setting herself alight last week. Speculation is now rife that she chose death by burning rather than being humiliated and abused by a family member again …

Muraga Hotspurs Football Club are now parading in new colours. This follows the decision by the managing director of a local bus company, Omega Line Coaches, Mr PU Mathivha, to renew their sponsorship with the club.

The South African arts fraternity and art lovers around the world have been plunged into deep mourning, following the tragic death of a well-known artist of international fame, Stanley “Macoloured” Makhado. He was killed in a freak accident last Wednesday.

Makhado (58) of Tshakhuma met his tragic end when, while he was cutting wood to carve, a tree fell on him and he suffered fatal injuries.

The Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, Ms Lindiwe Hendricks, visited Louis Trichardt last Thursday as part of the departmental enforcement and compliance blitz campaign in order to curb the spiraling of unlawful water usage.

Three more people have died of cholera in the Musina Hospital, taking the death toll to six, with the number of cases of infection having risen to 399, amid reports that at Beit Bridge Hospital the situation had subsided.

In what could be seen as massive support for Thovhele Toni Mphephu, thousands of his subjects turned up at the Mphephu Secondary School to celebrate the ten years of his rule with him.

Well-known teacher and traditional leader Freddie Shikundu will spend Christmas behind bars, after his bail application was turned down in the Malamulele Magistrate’s Court last Friday.

The auditor general, Mr Terence Nombembe, urged the Limpopo government to work extra hard to improve its administrative system, if it hopes to receive a clean financial audit report.

It’s been a week now that the Makhado Municipality has been without a mayor, after the former mayor of Makhado Munici-pality, Glory Mashaba, resigned last Wednesday.