“All hell has broken loose down here.” These were the troublesome words of a senior police detective while attending the scene of one of four violent farm attacks in the area in just over a week.

Black Leopards regard their draw against Silver Stars in the Coca-Cola Cup KO competition as a blessing.

Pfano Vele (5) of Matangari village outside Thohoyandou, who was born on 15 March 1999, could no longer get her R170 monthly child support grant from the government over the past six months because she shares a name and surname with another Pfano Vele, a boy aged 6 of Lufule, about 60 km away from her home.

The members of Tamisani Rural Poultry Project, which is situated in the Tswinga area near Thohoyandou, were excited when the Minister of Labour, Membathisi Mdladlana, visited the project on Tuesday.

Black Leopards are still restless about the complaint they had lodged with the league regarding their unfair treatment by a match official in their Castle Premiership League match against Orlando Pirates that was played at the Thohoyandou Stadium early last month. Leopards were beaten 2-3.

A reformed criminal from the rural village of Tshakhuma near Thohoyandou is an icon of all South African prisoners and the local community by proving that there is still life, courage and hope after serving a long prison sentence.

The province set another record during the past month. According to reports, the Thohoyandou prison, or Matatshe as it is called, is the most overcrowded prison in South Africa.

Three thousand seasonal and permanent workers on tea estates in the Vhembe district will lose their jobs if Sapekoe closes down its tea operations.

A well-known detective at Makhado, Detective Inspector Mbhazima Daniel Mthombeni (39), was found murdered next to the Capricorn Plaza along the N1 road to Pietersburg on Wednesday.

In a historic move, the South African sports fraternity received a big boost, when the first group of 54 Sports Coaching and Management course graduates received their certificates from the Centre of Biokinetics, Recreation and Sports Science of the University of Venda for Science and Technology (Univen) on Friday.

A community-based church that has a reputation of caring for the poor and the disabled in Limpopo, Divine Cross Church of God, celebrated its 10th anniversary at Makonde village outside Thohoyandou on Saturday.

The very clear connection between alcohol and crime and the alarming increase in the abuse of alcohol and other drugs amongst school children, figured prominently during a Crime Prevention Summit two weeks ago.