By Wednesday this week, Mrs Maryanne Meintjies was still frantically searching for her husband, Peter, who disappeared last week.

A community development expert of the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) visited the site of the major safety upgrading construction at the Verwoerd Tunnels on the N1 north this week to investigate persistent rumours about the discovery of human remains and archaeological artefacts at the excavation works.

Lucas Nonyana of the Liberty Life Athletics Club left his opponents eating dust, when he won the Two Countries Marathon from Zimbabwe to South Africa on Saturday.

Voices of the North and the Drakensburg Choristers will represent Limpopo in the national finals of the Old Mutual/Telkom National Choir Festival at the Nelson Mandela Metro University in Port Elizabeth on December 9 and 10.

An event to celebrate the construction progress at the Hubyeni Shopping Centre, a project which is already off the ground, was staged by Kerr Developments Limpopo on site at Elim last Thursday.

Selling mukusule (dried vegetables) can be a major source of income if one has proper planning and good business skills. This is according to Ms Selinah Mathelemusa (58) of Tshisele village, near Thohoyandou, who had found solace in selling mukusule for the past 24 years.

The news of his death sent shockwaves through the community he served so well throughout his life.

Women’s organisations in Vhembe say women and children continue to be vulnerable victims of domestic violence and other brutal, related activities.

Mr Erick Mamushiana (33) of Dumasi Village has never seen his father since he was born in 1972. He wants community members to help him trace his father, who worked as a labourer during the construction of the Punda Maria Road in 1972.

The Thohoyandou High Court nearly turned into a protest field when hundreds of angry demonstrators bayed for the blood of four traditional healers and a bishop of the Holiness Apostolic Church, who appeared there briefly on Monday. They are implicated in two ritual murder cases.

The bereaved family of the latest victim of a suspected ritual murder is accusing the Levubu SAPS of dragging their feet in closing the net on two prime suspects, who they allege have killed their breadwinner.

Ndwamato Chester Muravha, a 24-year-old shoplifter, was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment by the Makhado (Louis Trichardt) magistrate’s court last week.