As the Makhado municipality and the Vhembe district Municipality have been struggling to make progress in the provision of free basic water at Ha-Magau and other areas within the district, members of the Portfolio Committee on Water Affairs and Forestry visited several water-scarce areas in the district and listened to the lack of quality of life of residents.

Former Miss Black Leopards 2001, Aluwani Ramawa, is the new face at Muvhango, the Venda drama on SABC2.

Ms Maemu Alidzulwi wants Mirror to assist her to fix her incorrect ID, which was issued in 1998. Maemu, who stays at Khubvi village, says she has tried everything to have her problem solved but her plea always falls on deaf ears. Her ID says she was born in 1949, whereas she indicates that her correct year of birth is 1947.

Mrs Reinett Morobeni (33) of Ka-Nwaxinyamani gave birth to triplets in the Elim Hospital on July 26 this year.

The search for the two gunmen who shot and killed a well-known businessman was still on at the time of going to press. The incident during which Mr Khumbuya Jerry Chauke (50) was brutally killed took place at Majosi village in the Hlanganani area on Sunday night at about 22:00.

Melvin Moses Nyundu (24) of the Marite Trust Farm in the Calcata area will spend the next 15 years behind bars. His murder case was finalized in the Mkhuhlu Regional Court last Friday.

As August is regarded as Women's Month, the nursing staff of Elim hospital held an event last Friday to commemorate the historical 1956 women's march. The gathering took place at the hospital church.

An emotional joint funeral was held last Saturday for the mother and her two young children who were discovered brutally murdered and burnt in their two-roomed house at Tshedza Village a fortnight ago.

Even the dead are not allowed to rest in peace in the leadership dispute between the Thulamela municipality mayor, Chief Thivhulawi Makumbane, and petty-headman Luambo Morris Nekhwevha.

The Vhembe District Municipality was reduced into a demonstration battlefield on Tuesday when angry members of the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) engaged in a demonstration to demand better pay.

The police in the Mopani area have arrested a 34-year-old man and his girlfriend, following the death of a one-year-old girl, whose decomposed body was found in the bushes at Bolobedu settlement on Sunday afternoon.

The 234 learners of Gondeni Primary School suddenly found themselves victims of hunger and negligence, after heartless thugs set the administration block of their school on fire, causing damage amounting to about R100 000. All their food for their daily feeding scheme was destroyed.