“For us, the youth in the township, music has become a culture from which we cannot be separated. Our life is music, and music is our life.”

Dudley Malete, affectionately known as “Coach”, passed on to another life on 31 October 2019. He will be buried at the Tshikota Cemetery on Saturday, 9 November.

A 14-year-old boy was killed and six children injured when a mentally disturbed uncle of theirs attacked them with a panga. The incident happened last Tuesday (29 October) at Nghezimani in the Malamulele area.

“This is the type of the music that the whole world has been waiting for,” was the reaction of reggae music lover Phillip Tshililo after listening to the newly released debut album of Ras Willie (real name Wilson Dzebu) that hit the shelves last Friday.

The final of the Phalaphala FM and Radzambo Cultural Foundation’s cultural dance competition will take place at the Makhuvha Stadium on Saturday (tomorrow).

Hundreds of villagers, visitors, cultural dignitaries and traditional leaders gathered in huge tents that left a semi-circle space in the centre at Shanzha village on a scorching Saturday two weeks ago.

The 28-year-old Shadrack Hlungwani, who sat around his older brother all the time and observed him as he was hewing wood and fashioning it into amazing pieces of art, has now created a museum at his home in Kwaaimani section of Valdezia.

While the Absa Premiership League teams will be on leave this weekend, it will be business as usual for the affiliates of the GladAfrica Championship Division or the National First Division (NFD) as it was formerly known.

Up-and-coming artists in Khubvi, Makonde and other surrounding areas stand to benefit a lot from a newly opened music studio.

Mpheni Home Defenders aim to win another title when the annual James Rasimphi Summer Games final takes place tomorrow (Saturday) at the Masia grounds.

The MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture, Ms Thandi Moraka, has encouraged students at the University of Venda to do away with tribalism.

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