Lentswe, Klerksdorp - One person has died as a result of cholera and there are 12 laboratory-confirmed cases since January in South Africa. The National Department of Health released these figures this week and issued a warning for the Vaal River, the main source of water for Gauteng and North West.

Lentswe, Orkney - There are still no new leads on the execution style murders on the banks of the Schoonspruit close to Kanana of two men believed to be Zama-Zamas. Orkney Police are investigating the double murder after two unknown bodies were found close to the Schoonspruit between Orkney and Kanana on Friday morning, April 19. A pedestrian alerted the police after he saw the bodies, which were found in bags. One of the bodies was floating and the other was next to the river.

By Danie Jacobs

Lentswe, Klerksdorp - It was April 1994 and the country was getting ready for the first democratic election in its history. At the time I was a sub-editor at Western Transvaal Record as the newspaper was called then, and remember clearly the high hopes everybody in the news office had, but also the threats of right-wingers who predicted the apocalypse. South Africa was on a high as the Rainbow Nation was just around the corner. Or so we all thought…

Lentswe, Klerksdorp - The weekly high density Operation Shanela which was conducted between April 18 and 21, resulted in the arrest of 843 suspects for various crimes. “The suspects were amongst others, arrested for rape, murder, assault GBH, malicious damage to property, burglary residential and business premises, possession of drugs, theft out of / from motor vehicle and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.