Do you know that old, discarded compact discs (CDs) can be brought back to life through creativity? Ask Dzulani Sidogi (19) of Tshitereke village, outside Thohoyandou, who has made a world cup model, prominently using the old CD’s.

An unemployed man took everyone by surprise when he suddenly created a job opportunity for himself. Joseph Netshakhuma (49) of Nzhelele, Dopeni, near Tshikombani, collects stones from the local mountain with a wheelbarrow and crushes them with a hammer to manufacture concrete.

Intellectually impaired patients could not stop smiling after a prominent Limpopo businesswoman handed them a cheque of R20 000 on Tuesday.

In an effort to introduce female learners to experience the working environment, Tipfuxeni Communiy Counseling Centre last Thursday brought four students from two local secondary schools to the Mirror offices as part of the Take A Girl Child To A Workplace campaign.

The 2007 Zwashu Indigenous and Cultural Dance Organization competitions kicked off with a mighty sound at Khakhu Secondary School on Saturday.

Several readers reacted during the past weeks to some of the news reports published in our paper.

"Our organization was touched by the media reports concerning the Thinandavha and Baloyi orphans and we decided to come down to Limpopo and see for ourselves. Unfortunately we have seen more people who are really starving here," said the chairperson of the Johannesburg-based Children and Family Support Development Project, Nomalizwe Tshabalala.

A cloud of mourning hanged in the atmosphere at Makonde graveyard, when one of the most experienced custodians of indigenous knowledge systems, and prominent herbalist, was buried on Saturday.

Murder, car hijacking, rape and robbery will now be history, as the dense bushes that used to be a hiding place for criminals were finally cleared up in a joint venture by members of the Vuwani South African Police Services and the dedicated community of Lwamondo last Thursday.

"Thulamela Municipality is not an island. Its economy is an integrated part of the whole country. As such, our Integrated Development and Economic Development Programmes should run in the unison with those of the rest of the country and should be linked to the effects of the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiatives for South Africa (ASGISA) and Project Consolidate. This will ensure that the fruits of growth are shared in such a way that poverty comes as close as possible to being totally eliminated, and that the severe inequalities that still plaque our country are further reduced."

"Look what the heartless thieves did to me!" said the angry famous traditional healer, Peter Baloyi (44), while pointing at the blood-stained ground at Shadani-Lungane, near Makonde.

On 28 July, 2001, Mavis Tshivhenga (32) of Dopeni, in the Nzhelele area, gave birth a to a bright, bubbly and healthy baby girl, Dembe, whose future looked very bright. But today, the five-year-old girl has been reduced into a bedridden prisoner who cannot even move her hand to her mouth.