When the late Mr Samuel Chauke cut the throat of his wife before hanging himself from a nearby tree at Bungeni Village in October 2001, he left his five children devastated by poverty. Today, with the aid of the Makhado Municipality, the children own a four-roomed house.

Since 27 houses of 10 families of Tshitangani Village were guttered by fire last October, life has been sour for the villagers, as there is no food or shelter.

The organizers of the Kremetart One-day Stage Race, the P&L Hardware Cycling Club, have been approached by Dave Bellairs, the chairman of the Pick ‘n Pay Cape Argus Cycle Tour, with a view of having the Kremetart as one of their qualifying and seeding events.

A R6,1 million road upgrading project is under investigation to determine why the road “failed” only one month after being opened.

The incident in which a crazed Soweto high school teacher ran amok and shot three of his colleagues dead and injured four learners in July 1999, prompted Mphalaleni Secondary School, at Matangari Village, outside Thohoyandou, to come up with a safety plan to curb violence at the school.

Mr Thomas Mudau (40), of Mianzwi Village near Thohoyandou, remained jobless for seven years and had given up his dream of raising his two kids effectively. Today he can put some food on the table and educate his kids through the sales of his sculptures.

The peaceful little village of Muhuyu, outside Thohoyandou, is reeling with shock because a prominent educator and community builder, Mr Khathutshelo Nkhumeleni (34), has been receiving death threats from unknown people for the past two weeks.

The far northern region of the old Transvaal – now Limpopo Province – was relatively unscathed by the first year or so of the Anglo Boer War. Ironically, this relatively unknown and unimportant part of the province, the Zoutpansberg, saw events that involved many - if not most – of the British Empire’s forces in a series of skirmishes (or blatant murders) that left a legacy of accusations levelled against Britain by Australia.

A novel concept in tourism – an adventure expedition in vintage cars – brought two groups of 150 people altogether in 55 cars to the Soutpansberg region during recent weeks.

DJ Burger, ‘n standerd 9-leerling van die CVO-skool Zoutpansberg, kan beslis beskou word as een van die streek se mees belowende gholfspelers.

Businessmen experienced the sudden increase of 83% on their basic electricity charges as unfair and irregular.

Well-known and well-loved teacher Mrs Emily Boyd (64) passed away on Tuesday after two years of illness.