David Ndlovhu (18) van Mutonga en Salatiera Madzine (34) van Mosambiek het Vrydag, 31 Augustus, in die landdroshof op Louis Trichardt op klagte van onwettige jag by die plaas Boskoppies naby die Ben Lavin Natuurreservaat.

Anthony James Peniston (29) van Alldays, wat daarvan aangekla word dat hy onwettig jagluiperds gevang en aangehou het sonder ‘n permit, se saak het Dinsdag, 28 Augustus, weer voor die hof op Louis Trichardt gedien.

Daar is 12 volkere wat binne 12 maande die Bybel in hul eie taal gaan hê omdat twee mense bereid is om hul gemaksone prys te gee en hul gawes vir ander beskikbaar te stel.

Now here is a story that almost did not make the news.

Despite his initial electrocution and being able to drag his badly burned body some 80m through the bushes to find help, he still died about eight hours later.

News of yet another cold-blooded and senseless murder and attempted murder of two of the town’s well-known businessmen sent shock waves through the whole of the Louis Trichardt community on Wednesday afternoon. It followed another murder on the Rondebosch smallholding less than 12 hours before.

A famous soccer personality and Orlando Pirates die-hard fan, Thivhulawi Samuel Gidi (43), was laid to rest at Makonde graveyard on Thursday last week. ‘Langalizwe’, as Gidi was affectionately known, died peacefully at his home after a long illness. Gidi’s wishes were granted when his coffin was carried by soccer players, as he requested before he died.

Inspectors from the Department of Health and traffic officers seized a huge quantity of food that was not fit for human consumption from Indian businessmen on Wednesday last week.

The executive mayor of Vhembe District Municipality, Cllr Philemon Mdaka, said South Africans cannot compete with the rest of the world if the majority of its people are still illiterate.

A swift response by alert fire fighters from the Musina Fire Station saved the lives of desperate family members in Beitbridge town in Zimbabwe after their house caught fire on Sunday evening at Dulibadzimu suburb.

Villagers living along the Madimbo Corridor in the Chitulipasi area of Beitbridge, along the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe, are appealing to their government to negotiate with the South African government so that they can be compensated for their 100 cattle which were allegedly shot recently by members of the South African National Defence Force.

An 18-year-old South African man was arrested in the Gwanda area in Zimbabwe for allegedly illegally possessing 25 rounds of live ammunition, believed to have been taken into that country through the Beitbridge border post.