Louis Trichardt-born plus-size model Wanga Ramuhuyu is ready to conquer the modelling industry.

The GladAfrica Foundation and the University of Venda (Univen) launched a four-year partnership to research epilepsy to assess the prevalence of epilepsy in rural communities of Limpopo and Mpumalanga and to develop response mechanisms.

The once beautiful border town of Musina is falling apart, and one only has to take a drive through it to realise this.

Thousands of drivers, taxi owners, friends and concerned members of the community converged at the Louis Trichardt graveyard to pay their last respects to a slain taxi boss.

Leeus het ‘n stokkie gesteek voor avonturier Dave van Graan van Louis Trichardt se planne om man-alleen deur die uiters dorre Kaokoveld in die noorde van Namibië te stap – ‘n afstand van sowat 800 km.

The conflict within the Ravele Communal Property Association (CPA) seems to be far from resolved. The CPA’s annual general meeting, scheduled to take place on 8 February, was disrupted and had to be postponed again.

Matodzi Annah Magwala, who has been the interim headwoman at Gogobole since 2008, was told by the Polokwane High Court last week to relinquish her position as traditional leader. She may no longer perform any of the customary functions, such as the granting of occupational rights, and she may not receive any gifts as headwoman.

The police closed some taxi ranks in Musina earlier this week and threatened to close down more routes, should the feud between two rival taxi associations not be resolved. This is the latest development in the fight between the Beit Bridge Taxi Association (BTA) and the LTT Musina Taxi Association.

Wild- en veeboere, en veral veilingshuise, het Maandag ‘n sug van verligting geslaak nadat die minister van landbou en grondsake, me. Thoko Didiza, die algehele nasionale verbod op die hou van wild- en veeveilings opgehef het.

Eskom announced that Stage 2 load shedding will continue in Vhembe until Sunday, 23 February. The schedule for the weekend is as follows:

Hundreds of people from all corners of Vuwani gathered at the Tshino Mighty Sports Grounds a fortnight ago to witness the installation of a new senior traditional leader for the Nesengani tribe, Thovhele Ndivheni Nesengani.

Thovhele Vho-Mutheiwana Joseph Mugivhi was inaugurated as the new leader of the Mugivhi tribe at the Ha-Mutsha Sports Grounds last Friday. His installation as traditional leader follows a long battle that had even found its way through the courts.

Die hartseer verdrinking van die 13-jarige Enock Mpianzi van Parktown Boys by die Nyati Bush and River Break Lodge in die Noordwes Provinsie op 15 Januarie tydens ‘n oriënteringskamp vir Graad 8-leerlinge het skokgolwe deur die land gestuur. Dit het ook die vraag laat ontstaan oor hoe veilig kinders werklik is wanneer hulle op skoolkampe na sulke oorde gaan.

Residents of Gogobole and surrounding areas of Sinthumule went on the rampage and barricaded the main road from the villages to Louis Trichardt on Wednesday.

With the beginning of the mukumbi/marula/vukanyi season, the rural village of Malamangwa-Tshamutavha near Ha-Matsika outside Thohoyandou organised and celebrated the so-called muhwedzo wa u luma mukumbi (tasting of the first fruit) or ku luma vukanyi ceremony last Saturday.