The gift of life seems to be a hard and narrow path for the sickly and unemployed Ndalammbi Makhale (54) of Tshivhilwi village, northeast of Thohoyandou, and his family.

The curatorial team of The Kebble Art Awards have completed the preliminary selection of finalists for the exhibition to take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in February.

The police in the Mopani Area are investigating a case of culpable homicide following the death of seven people in a car accident. The horrific accident took place along the Phalaborwa-Gravellote road last Saturday afternoon at about 17:30.

An argument that erupted after a drinking spree at the Philiyamavu Bar Lounge last Saturday, led a 27-year-old man to the Thohoyandou police holding cells after he had allegedly stabbed another man.

This is not a Hollywood movie, it is real! A 22-year-old student from Tshaulu village sleeps on the roof of his one-roomed mud house, because he claims there are people who are after his life. He puts rocks on either side to make sure that he does not fall off the roof when he is in deep sleep.

A 46-year-old man was arrested by the Thohoyandou SAPS last Friday on allegations of raping his stepdaughter(20) at Muladae-Vhatukanani at about 20:00.

Die Soutpansberg Akkedis Mountain Bike Challenge op Saterdag, 8 Oktober, vergelyk met die beste bergfietswedrenne in die land.

Mount Fuji Motors se Loslitdag “ontvoerings” en “in hegtenisnemings” het ‘n welkome skenking van R1 500 aan “losprysgeld” besorg vir ‘n buitengewone projek in die plaaslike Kutama/Sinthumule Maksimum Sekuriteit Gevangenis.

Zimbabwean cigarettes, valued at more than R900 000, together with two vehicles were confiscated when police arrested a 35-year-old male on a farm here on allegation of smuggling.

Nasate van ‘n Duitse sendeling het emosionele oomblikke beleef toe hulle vir die eerste keer hul oupa se graf besigtig het op Erfenisdag, 24 September.

“The difficult task of building a new, peaceful, democratic order for all citizens in South Africa, requires a firm commitment to reconciliation and national unity, to transcend the divisions and strife of the past. There is a need for understanding, but not for vengeance; a need for reparation, but not for retaliation; a need for ubuntu but not for victimization. Much of the unjust consequences of the past could not ever be fully reversed. It might be necessary in crucial areas to close the book on that past.”

Die teenwoordigheid van plakkershutte in die dorp is ‘n realiteit en so het inwoners mnr. Pierre van den Heever en Helena Klopper, dit ook agtergekom toe hul buurman begin het om plakkershutte in sy agterplaas te laat oprig.