"Government’s exclusive one-sided upliftment and empowerment policies constitute serious disempowerment and infringement on the basic human rights and dignity of the group against whom this one-sided empowerment is aimed. The particular disempowerment is the direct result of legislation and corporate decisions by which one group is being empowered at the expense of our members who are being wronged. They are being targeted as a group to carry the blame and to be the cause of their own disempowerment."

Racial conflict is often one of the main triggers for fights amongst learners at school, which is then often blown out of proportion by the media. The tragic events involving Stephan van der Merwe’s death three weeks ago reflect the opposite.

Die grootskaalse vrektes van vis in ‘n dam onderkant die munisipale uitvalwerke in Makhado (Louis Trichardt) is veroorsaak deur ‘n chemiese insekdoder in die water.

"That no one was killed in this horror crash is a real-life miracle."

A rural boy from Dzimauli outside Thohoyandou flew to the United Kingdom last week. A master’s student in the School of Postgraduate and Integrated Studies at the University of Venda, Elias Ramarumo, is one of 15 South African beneficiaries of the Abe Bailey Travel Bursary for 2006.

Limpopo Police in Polokwane are following several leads in an attempt to arrest the suspects who are responsible for the vandalization of the house of the Speaker of Limpopo Legislature, Dr Tshenuwani Farisani, and also threatening him.

A 36-year-old man from Gauteng was arrested in Musina on Wednesday morning, after he was found in possession of counterfeit money worth R12 200, police said.

Police in Musina have opened an attempted murder case, after a 24-year-old Zimbabwean illegal immigrant was shot and seriously injured by an unknown suspect next to a bar lounge in Musina town, police said.

The second suspect accused of raping a 41-year-old South African woman on a visit in Zimbabwe on August 20, was sentenced to an effective 15 years in jail on Wednesday.

Mrs Joyce Sendedza, the mother of ritual murder victim Maanda Sendedza, says she will not rest until all the people who were involved in the brutal murder of her son are arrested and successfully prosecuted.

The death of five children who died in a burning hut has sent the shock waves countrywide. The incident took place at the Nyakelani village in the Letsitele area last Saturday night.

A 40 year-old Zimbabwean man, who pretended to be a policeman and conned a South African out of Z$1 million (about R3 300) after promising to sell the complainant’s car on his behalf in Beitbridge, was sentenced to an effective nine months in jail on Wednesday.