The mayor of Mutale Municipality, Cllr Lucas Manyuha, urged all farmers in his municipality to produce more food for the local market, in order to curb the rocketing prices of food.

Hundreds of mourners from Muraga and the surrounding villages converged at the Mavhulavhula family homestead at Muraga village outside Thohoyandou to pay their last respects to the dead Mavhulavhula couple.

A young man, who has been bedridden for the past three years, has made a passionate plea to this paper and its readers to help him overcome a rare skin disease that has left him a shadow of his former self.

The bail application by alleged killer soldier Meshack Kharivhe (38) of Mukula outside Thohoyandou took a dramatic turn at the Thohoyandou Magistrate’s Court last week.

Vhamusanda Vho Mavhina Mahwasane of Muledane outside Thohoyandou urged his subjects to stick to their roots and to uphold their culture.

The Thohoyandou community is fed-up with crime. They made this known when they beat a young man unconscious, who, in his drunken stupor, grabbed a phone from a young girl during the weekend. The incident happened at Thohoyandou Block F.

Manaledzi High demolished Eric Louw High 8-2 in their Coca Cola Fortune Inter-Secondary Cup match, which was played at Benny’s Care Stadium on Saturday.

One of the oldest athletic clubs in the province, Tshakhuma Athletics Club, which has been struggling for years without a sponsorship, recently found a new home.

Black Leopards successfully defended their Limpopo Soccer Challenge title, when they beat Mamelodi Sundowns 6-5 on penalties in the final at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane on Sunday.

Mrs Paullette Robert, a donor from Switzerland, visited the Hlanganani Society for the Care of the Aged, a non-governmental organisation based at Waterval, on Saturday last week to inspect the progress on the centre that she built for abandoned children, orphans, the elderly and people affected with HIV/Aids.

Children from Musina have done what many adults have failed to do in their lives. This became evident when 28 displaced kids from Zimbabwe received clothes, blankets and food from their South African peers in Musina.

A 47-year-old South African citizen from KwaZulu Natal, claiming to be “a messenger of God, sent to deliver a special message to Zimbabwean president Mr Robert Mugabe”, was fined for illegally entering Zimbabwe through the Beit Bridge border post without any travel documents.