Many people say they will never touch clay because it makes them dirty, but to Suzan Tshitaudze (47) of Ha-Rabali in Nzhelele, clay is a true friend which provides her with food and comfort.

Mutale police have made what they believe to be a major breakthrough by arresting four people who were delivering Zimbabwean cigarettes worth more than half a million rand.

Two residents of Letsitele Township, Wilson Moila (36) and Gilbert Ramatladi (29), will spend the next 15 years behind the bars. Their armed robbery case was finalized in the Tzaneen Regional Court on Monday.

Zimbabwean Police have arrested the second suspect who allegedly raped a 41-year-old South African woman on a visit in that country on 20 August.

Like hundreds of youths who have been unemployed before the People Housing Process (PHP) commenced in Nancefield in the Musina Local Municipality, Mavis Mvula is reaping the fruits of the estimated R5 million project, that will culminate in the building of 150 government-funded houses.

What started off as a romantic rendezvous turned tragic when a South African haulage truck driver mysteriously died soon after being intimate with a woman believed to be a commercial sex worker in Beitbridge town in Zimbabwe.

"We were on the back of a delivery truck with a bull which was tied with rope around its legs. Suddenly, the rope came loose and the bull became aggressive. I jumped from the moving truck and fell on the tarred road, but I was not injured. Khuriso also jumped, but unfortunately, he was crushed to death by an oncoming vehicle. Vutivi also jumped, but he was so injured that he died on the way to the Malamulele Hospital."

She was a dedicated single parent who worked hard to support her six children, the youngest being two years old. One Thursday, she went to work and never came back …

The Vuwani Magistrate’s Court has postponed the controversial public violence case of more than 90 residents of Ha-Mashau Tshirando to December 8, this year.

‘n Nuwe intrekker in Makhado (Louis Trichardt) het ‘n onaangename verwelkoming gehad toe misdadigers meer as R6 000 se skade aan haar motor aangerig het … en dit alles net om R400 se luidsprekers uit haar motor te steel.

Baie mense in die gemeenskap vra steeds hoe dit met hul goue atletiekdogter, Marli Knoetze, gaan.

n Voormalige lid van die ontbinde Soutpansberg Kommando het Dinsdag, 24 Oktober, in die streekhof op Makhado (Louis Trichardt) verskyn op klagte dat hy versuim het om sy R1-aanvalgeweer waarmee hy destyds uitgereik is, terug te handig aan die Staat.