Na ‘n moedige stryd teen bloedkanker, is klein Stephan du Plessis op Saterdag, 7 Augustus, oorlede.

Een van die pioniers van die streek, die 75-jarige mnr. Simon Miller, is op Saterdag, 7 Augustus in sy slaap oorlede.

The MEC for Finance and Economic Development in Limpopo, Mr Thavhadziawa Mufamadi, addressed students of the University of Venda on the challenges facing the South African economy at the Univen Senate Chambers last Thursday.

A well-known football referees’ instructor, Mr Samuel Maduwa, (38) is still nursing the wounds he allegedly sustained from members of the South African Police Services.

Inmates at the Makhado Correctional Services, who used education as the only means to change their presence circumstances, celebrated their graduation ceremony held at the prison on Tuesday.

It seems as if the mayor of the Makhado Municipality, Clr RS Nkuzana has had a change of heart. Before, he indicated that disciplinary proceedings were to be instituted against the suspended municipal manager, Mr Rueben Rambado. At this point, however, it appears that these measures will have to “wait until the disciplinary process is complete.”

The battle over the pension of the former Venda homeland employees, the Daba Lo Rivhuwa Patriotic Front and the government is still far from over.

The well-known former headmaster of Maebane Primary School and sports promotion officer, Mr Denga Gededzha, was laid to rest at the Tshiozwi cemetery on Saturday.

The popular Zimbabwean Tshingondo musician, Jonah Moyo (48), is in Venda to celebrate South Africa’s ten years of democracy.

The coach of Black Leopards, Mr Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba, is blaming his strikers for their 1-1 draw against Bloemfontein Celtic in their opening Castle Premiership League match at the Seisa Ramabodu Stadium in Bloemfontein on Sunday.

The plight of the six orphans of the Thobo family of Matangari village, whose touching story was published by Mirror two weeks ago, was relieved when the Highways International Church held a free-will offering service for the orphans on Sunday.

The police in the Mopani area have, until Monday this week, arrested 53 suspects during Operation Yeka, which started last Tuesday.