The CEO of the 2010 World Cup Soccer Bid Committee, Mr. Danny Jordan, said the 2010 World Cup will be a huge commercial success for all South Africans.

The mupane tree (Mupani in Tshivenda) is one of the economically, socially and ecologically important tree species to villagers all over southern Africa where it occurs. The mupane is found in Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Malawi and the Mpumalanga and Limpopo Provinces in South Africa.

“The Provincial Department of Health and Social Development might be having adequate resources to render services to the sick or injured persons even in the deep rural areas, but its failure to implement strategic plans to channel services effectively seems to be creating unnecessary deaths at Tiyani and the surrounding villages,” said Mr Eric Chauke, secretary of the local Sanco branch.

The municipal manager of the Makhado Municipality, Ms Faith Muthambi, escaped death on Monday evening when her Mercedes Benz crashed into a police van about 5km from the Tshakhuma market.

“For how long must we brood in silence while our beloved community members are dying like animals? We are tired of these ritual murders and this is the time to stand up and say no to these senseless killings. The community of Makonde will not rest until the killers of this promising soccer star are brought to book in a court of law. This is a man-made death and we will fight on because there is no one who has a license to kill other human beings…”

Vir gesoute plaaslike hengelaar Tienie Viljoen en sy geselskap was dit die naweek ‘n ware fees van die grotes, toe hulle knewel karps by die Doorndraaidam uitgetrek het.

Michelle van Niekerk, a former student of Louis Trichardt High School and sought-after sport scientist and cricketer, is currently the only woman in the country qualified in her particular study field.

Dit lyk asof die belastingimplikasies by die verkoop van grond as gevolg van ‘n restitusie eis darem nie so ‘n donker prentjie vorm nie.

‘n Noodlottige ongeluk op die N1, sowat 15km uit op die pad na Polokwane, het Maandagaand die lewe geëis van mnr. Pieter Du Preez (49).

Optrede teen onwettige visvangste is die afgelope weke na die Spiesdam uitgebrei en aandag word gegee aan klagtes wat ook ontvang is van gereelde grootskeepse onwettige vangste by die Albasinidam.

Bouwerk begin eersdaags aan uitbreidings wat die bestaande Zoutpansberg Kliniek sal omskep in ‘n volwaardige 20-bed hospitaal met operasieteater.

The mayor of Makhado Municipality, Cllr Rhulani Nkuzana, lashed out against the “racist innuendos of people who have not transformed” and called them “barbarians who should rot in prison or in hell, where they belong.”