Local police have opened a case of kidnapping and rape after a 50-year-old woman was kidnapped and raped on Friday, June 24.

Johann en Melinda du Plessis, ook bekend as Johann Koerant en Ma Melinda, groet na twintig en ‘n half jaar die streek en vertrek na die Weskaap met ‘n geruste hart, deels omdat hulle breinkind, die Zoutpansberger, in die “kinders” se goeie hande is.

A Ghanaian, Nii Armah Sowah from the University of Colorado at Boulder in the US, has shared and exchanged his African cultural information through music with various local cultural groups within the Makhado and Thulamela Municipalities.

Mr Sello Moloto was elected unopposed as provincial chairperson of the African National Congress at the party's fifth annual conference, held at the University of Limpopo at Turfloop last weekend.

More than 400 educators of the Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) programme within the Mopani district took to the streets of Giyani on Tuesday, protesting against alleged exploitation by the Department of Education.

Fraser McNeil, a 27-year-old Scottish student from Glasgow, wishes he could stay in Venda for the rest of his life.

Emotions ran high when mourners bid farewell to their Chief, the late Hosi Phineas Phahlela Hlungwani Madonsi, who was laid to rest at Madonsi Village last Friday.

They thought they were fooling the law but their plans for transporting 85 arms of dagga from Gauteng to Venda were foiled by the wisdom of the Thohoyandou police who swiftly acted on a tip-off to stop their move.

Who ever thought that a former rural barefoot poor blind kid would end up being a respected university graduate? Despite his blindness, Azwidohwi Ramagoma (37) of Tshitavha-Sambandou village, north of Thohoyandou, has proved that disability has never been a stumbling block to academic success.

Four children of the Phaduli family in Tshilulu, near Khubvi, have lived a life of misery, pain and suffering since their single mother, Joyce, died of suspected food poisoning last month.

South African men have to think twice because the saying that a woman’s place is in the kitchen, was clearly defied by Mmbudzeni Mugomeli (26) of Lwamondo-Khumbe village, outside Thohoyandou.

Fifteen boys have been admitted to the Tshilidzini Hospital after they were circumcised at a public clinic at Tshakhuma village on Sunday.