The Makhado Municipality issued a statement on Wednesday with regard to the controversial name change case which served in front of the Pretoria High Court last week.

Judgment was reserved in the High Court case to set aside the change of the town’s name of Louis Trichardt to Makhado.

A woman with a big heart, Angelina Matambila, has been taking care of three orphans of the Muavha family since their parents passed away in 2003. She left behind her sickly, unemployed husband and five kids at Mavhuwa, to stay with the orphans, because the orphans had no one to look after them.

Education and traditional leadership were merged when the Zimbabwean Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Dr Stan Mudenge, paid a courtesy visit to Thovhele Kennedy Tshivhase at Mukumbani Royal Palace on Sunday afternoon.

While the police were still searching for the hijackers who seized the car of Mr Aifheli Gabara at Nkuzana settlements a fortnight ago, Gabara’s own investigations led him to recover his vehicle. It was dumped in the street at Ha-Nkuzana village on Friday.

The gift of life is now a heavy burden for sickly Mmbofheni Mbedzi (58) of Makonde-Purasini. Since his two mud huts were swept away during the 2000 floods, Mmbofheni has been staying alone in a tiny makeshift structure made of discarded wood, grass and old plastics.

The liberation of women in South Africa seems to be causing uncertainty in their husbands, said Ms Fiona Nicholson, programme director of the Thohoyandou Victim Empowerment Programme. She was a speaker during the Women’s Day celebration held in Thohoyandou’s indoor sports centre last Tuesday.

The tombstone of the late Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates striker, Lesley “ Slow Poison” Manyathela, will be unveiled on September 24 in his home town, Musina.

When Eric Johannes Ngobeni (28) of Nyagelani village in the Letsitele area had sexual intercourse with his lover during the night of Friday, January 2005, little did he know that his action would lead him to prison.

The cruelty of death robbed the South African academic fraternity of a valuable asset when one of the distinctive educational pioneers, Masotsha Ramunenyiwa Seremane Mathivha (59) died last Sunday. He was laid to rest at Tshimboni, his family graveyard, in Maungani village on Saturday.

What started as a romantic excursion between a 37-year-old teacher and his lover in the Tshiozwi grazing camp on August 8, ended with the Tshilwavhusiku SAPS’s opening a murder case.

Two pupils of Paradise Maname Combined School were killed in a freak accident outside Makhado last Friday (August 11).