The Zoutpansberger found its way to the podium three times on Friday, 22 May, as a category winner during the annual MDDA/Sanlam Awards for Local Media 2014 held at Emperor's Palace in Johannesburg. To top it off, the newspaper's news editor, Andries van Zyl, won the coveted Journalist of the Year prize.

The mining company Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) is one step closer to opening its flagship project, the Makhado Mine.

This weekend marks the beginning of the long-awaited NFD promotional play-off matches. Black Leopards will play their opening match in front of their home crowd. They will host Jomo Cosmos at the Thohoyandou Stadium on Sunday.

“The history of the traditional leaders must be written down, so that future generations can know it,” said Mr Abraham Sithole, chief director of the National Traditional House.

The crime-busting community of Maniini K-Portion, which made history in Vhembe in 2013 by introducing bicycles for street patrols at night, never tires of coming up with new ways of fighting crime.

The deputy chairperson of the ANC in Limpopo and MEC for Public Works and Infrastructure, Mr Jerry Ndou, said there was a need to arrange a “cleansing ceremony” in the Vhembe region, as cadres were always dying.

A group of clans who were dissatisfied by the lack of transparency and running of affairs in the Lemba Cultural Association (LCA) has officially formed an organisation of their own, Lemba Heritage Foundation.

A large number of people, mostly  members of the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu), Cosatu and the SACP’s Alpheus Malivha branch, are demanding the immediate removal of three top officials of the Vhembe District Municipality.

 “As we celebrate our human rights today, we should also take into account that we are commemorating a sad day in the history of our country. The good memories are that we are enjoying human rights because we have a democratic government. The sad part of it is that there are people who lost their lives, so that we could attain this freedom.”

The royal family of Tshiluvhi is going to lodge a land claim for the area that also includes the house that was once occupied by the then Venda President, Khosikhulu Vho-PR Mphephu-Ramabulana.

A resident of Tshifulanani village, Mr Rudzani Mulaudzi, is an ecstatic man. He was recently appointed a Premier Soccer League match commissioner.

Mbhokota village, near Elim, seems to be a nucleus of wood-carving craftmanship – with more and more sculptors emer­ging from this mountainous village, which was first put on the map by the late internationally acclaimed sculptor Jackson Hlungwani.