Good service delivery is dead! Long live good service delivery! At least, in the minds of those who can still remember what good service delivery entails. This was the message driven home by the Soutpansberg Ratepayers Association at the mock funeral held on Friday, July 11, when a number of “mourners” joined the procession to the parking lot of a chain store in Louis Trichardt.

‘n Dag later en julle kind kon dood gewees het … Dit was die boodskap wat medici vir die jong Wasserman-egpaar van Louis Trichardt gehad het, nadat hul sestien-maande-oue seuntjie verlede Donderdag inderhaas ‘n hartoperasie moes ondergaan.

Makhitha Yellow Birds have every reason to celebrate. They are the champions for the Vhembe District Mayoral Challenge after beating Khumbe Poultry Farm 6-5 in the final that was staged at the Tshifulanani Stadium on Saturday.

More than 200 vulnerable and displaced children, some of them from Zimbabwe, enjoyed a dignified meal for the first time, during the launch of a feeding point at Musina on Monday morning.

At a time when a number of initiates are injured and even killed at initiation schools throughout the country, a well-known traditional surgeon has emerged to claim that he has a solution to curb all the deaths.

The residents of Ravele, Ramantsha, Gogobole and Tshiozwi are still struggling without electricity, after thugs stole the cables in 2005.

The Department of Roads and Transport in Vhembe successfully held the Best Driver of the Year Competition at an event that was held at the Makhado Municipality’s testing ground in Louis Trichardt a fortnight ago.

The three South African journalits working for British television channel SkyNews, who were jailed last month for six months after being found in possession of broadcasting equipment, have been deported.

While trying to burn grass as a way of cleaning her stand, a resident of Mahatlani Village in the Hlanganani area left two families stranded, after their houses caught fire.

Ntambudzeni Netshifhefhe and his friend, Avhatondwi Madzivhandila, will always regret the day they were in the vicinity of a bank in Thohoyandou.

Police Inspector Freddy Mashamba (43), who allegedly brutally killed his estranged wife at the Makhado Police Station in Louis Trichardt in May this year, briefly appeared in the Louis Trichardt Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday for a bail application.

The long wait for her missing and loving husband only brought more misery for a woman and her family as all they got was a partly decomposed and half-burnt body.

This is the unfolding of the sad tale of events of the Mukwevho family of Khwekhwe-Ha Mutsha outside Thohoyandou, whose family member, Mulalo Mukwevho (41), has been missing for the past month. He was later found murdered in the dense bushes at a local orchard, not far from his house.