Local tour guide Sydney Fhumulani Mikosi won the coveted national Lilizela award as the best nature guide in South Africa. The seventh annual Lilizela tourism awards were held at the Sun Arena in Pretoria last Friday night.

The popular “three-card” game has been played for decades, but lately it seems to be a favourite tool used by local swindlers to con people out of hundreds of rands.

“This is South Africa. Get out and find your way.”

The Mphephu-Ramabulana royal council will challenge the recommendations of the provincial and national Houses of Traditional Leaders. These houses filed a report in the Limpopo High Court last week wherein, among others, they state that Toni Mphephu Ramabulana cannot be king of the Vhavenda.

In a shocking case of child abuse, two toddlers were left locked in a room for almost five days before social workers intervened and took them to a place of safety. Several questions are being asked, however, as to why the children were abandoned in the first place and why the authorities took so long to respond.

A family of seven in Tshilamba were nearly rendered homeless when their 11-room house was severely damaged by a fire last Friday.

The MEC for Co-operative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs (COGSTA), Mr Basikopo Makamu, urged pastors from various denominations who are members of the South African Religious Forum (SARF) to unite.

The home of an emerging businesswoman from Matanda Extension 2 in Nzhelele was extensively damaged in a fire a fortnight ago.

The Limpopo MEC for Health, Dr Phophi Ramathuba, has called on communities and councillors to actively participate in the hearings scheduled by her department to obtain input on the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill.

In what appears to be a suicide, a clerk stationed at the Waterval police station set himself alight in his house on Tuesday morning.