Mr Aaron Thidiela is one of the local football legends whose history remains undocumented. Hans Coetzee, as he was known in his heydays, said he started to play football in the streets of Vhufuli village at the age of 10.

The internationally acclaimed artist Percy Mukwevho, also known as Percy the Postman, reflected after the scourge of the coronavirus in the world.

While the teams affiliated to the Absa Premiership Division are waiting for the league to make an announcement regarding the date on which the league activities will resume after the national lockdown, the Multichoice Diski Challenge League (MDC) teams are faced with a completely different situation. The league has decided to cancel all the MDC’s remaining fixtures.

Black Leopards’ future as an affiliate of the Absa Premiership League might be hanging in the balance now, but they have something to be proud of. The team’s skipper, Thabo Matlaba, recently got a callup to be part of the national team, Bafana Bafana, in their next two African Cup of Nations qualifying matches.

With President Cyril Ramaphosa declaring the COVID-19 pandemic a national disaster, South Africa has basically gone into total lockdown, with a ban being put on all public gatherings of more than a 100 people. This resulted in schools’ being forced to close earlier for the first-term holiday and major sporting events being postponed, such as the Premier Soccer League and Super Rugby tournaments.

Initially, the assumption had been that W.P. van Breda had died in the First World War.

They flew to Cape Town last Friday where they lost 0-1 to Cape Town City at the Cape Town Stadium and now Black Leopards will face another Western Cape side, Stellenbosch FC, in their Absa Premiership League match at the Thohoyandou Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Mudimeli Secondary School rewarded its best-performing pupils for the 2019 academic year during a ceremony that was held at the school's grounds on Friday.

“I lost my eyesight at the age of 12, but that did not stop my dream of studying law at any recognised university in South Africa,” says Tiyane Mbendzani, one of the top 2019 matric performers. Mbendzani matriculated from the Rivoni School for the Blind near Elim and his excellent marks placed him in the top 30 performers in the province.

A little more than 100 years ago, on 3 September 1919, the doors of Standard Bank’s branch opened in Louis Trichardt. Although it was not the first bank in town, it was the first fully commercial bank to explore business opportunities north of the then Pietersburg.

A Grade 6 learner, Dembe Gangazhe from the deep rural Nyahanelani Primary School in Mukula village outside Thohoyandou, is an “instant heroine” at her school and the community at large after she won the national Spelling Bee competition in the Tshivenda category.

A Tshakhuma-born young lady, Lusani Davhula, has teamed up with Prof Andrea Emberly (York University in Toronto, Canada) in a bid to repatriate Venda children's music back into South Africa.