Benny's Care Soccer Academy wants to bring the Danone Nations Cup U/12 trophy back to Vhembe when they participate in the provincial matches at Hoërskool Noorderland in Polokwane tomorrow (Saturday).

For the first time in its 28-year history, the annual Kremetart Cycle Race could not be hosted last year as a main sponsorship could not be secured.

South Africa’s first black woman to be awarded a PhD in philosophy comes from the village of Makwarela, just outside Sibasa.

Mourners from around the province and further afield gathered at the Tambani family residence on Saturday to pay their last respects to the well-known elderly community builder and ANC member, Kutama Mugagadeli Tambani (107) of Tshiozwi.

In one of the most bizarre happenings of the past year, the Tshitandani Child Care Centre in Tshikota, just outside Louis Trichardt, has closed down. The Department of Social Development (DSD) still has not issued a permit allowing the child-care centre to continue with its activities, and two weeks ago, the 20 boys in its care were moved to an overcrowded shelter in Musina.

The following article appeared on the Facebook page of the Genealogical Society of South Africa (eGGSA). Permission was granted for it to be used in the Zoutpansberger:

The acting District Manager Operations of the Department of Home Affairs in Thohoyandou, Mrs Takalani Ndadza, compared Mr Ndivhudzannyi Samson Negoma (65) to a walking encyclopaedia and a pioneer of history, who built an everlasting knowledge monument throughout his 41 years of unbroken public service.

Most of the teams affiliated to the Limpopo Stream of the ABC Motsepe League played their final league matches over the past weekend.

Like other people country-wide who paid tribute to the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ANC Women’s League in the Vhembe region, also did the same.

For a community in deep rural Limpopo, a successful and on-going partnership between the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science (Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment) of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and Schneider Electric South Africa has ensured that the Gwakwani Village has had access to basic services through sustainable interventions.

South Africa is pinning part of its medal hopes on the 20-year-old Vhavenda sprinter, Clarence Munyai, during the 2018 Commonwealth Games. The event takes place in Australia from 8-15 April.

Is she the new queen of Tshivenda Afro-Jazz music? This is the question popping up in local music lovers’ minds after Mariana Motlare released her first Afro-Jazz Tshivenda album, Nthaheleni, a fortnight ago.