This weekend marks the beginning of the Premier Soccer League’s activities for the new season. Just like last season, Black Leopards will play their opening league match in front of their home crowd.

The Louis Trichardt Bowls Club is one of the few local clubs that can boast a proud history of more than 50 years.

The youths of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Vhembe recently convened at the church's Madombidzha branch for the Youth and Sunday School Convention, where they interacted on social and spiritual aspects that concern the lives of youths in the world of today.

Even though cricket has been played in the Soutpansberg for many decades, a proper field for senior players was only developed in the mid-1990s. The Louis Trichardt Cricket Club was officially formed in 1993.

Tribute was paid once more to the thousands of brave South Africans who marched towards certain death during the Battle of the Somme during the annual Delville Wood remembrance parade at the Moths’ Turbi Hills Shellhole in Louis Trichardt on Sunday.

The tennis club may very well be one of the region’s oldest sport clubs.

“The nation expects the youth of today to follow in the footsteps of the 1976 youth and become agents of change. This time around, it has to be done in the continuing struggle to achieve the goal of a better life for all our people.”

The Soutpansberg Golf Club is one of the oldest sports clubs in town, with its roots stretching back to the period after World War I. During that period, the Soutpansberg region saw an influx of British settlers and many people came from Britain to live in the Bushveld as part of a settler scheme introduced by the 1820 Settlers Foundation.

The Soutpansberg Squash Club is one of the town’s older, more established clubs and its history dates back to 1977. 

According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a total of five human rabies cases (two in Limpopo and three in the Eastern Cape) have been confirmed in South Africa since the beginning of the year. This is according to the NICD’s June communiqué.

Ms Sarina Mapharalala from Ha-Kutama Tshikwarani, a UCT final-year student, recently participated in the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) in Ireland, Dublin. The participation followed her victory as the winner of the 2018 Vice-Chancellor’s Award, where she was hailed as the institution’s ‘force of nature.’

One of South Africa's hottest musicians, Percy the Postman, will represent the country at the Primavera Festival in Barcelona, Spain.