Hundreds march in Free State over water shortages
Moqhaka Local Municipality in Kroonstad blames loadshedding for supply issues
Brief | 17 January 2023
Mystery: Why did a youth movement get lottery funding to build an old age home that doesn’t appear to be needed?
Five years later, the R27.5-million facility hasn’t opened
News | 12 January 2023
Many mysteries surround the death of ‘Facebook rapist’ Thabo Bester
SAPS says the outcome of DNA tests to determine the body’s identity can be expected “at any stage”, six months on from the fire.
News | 8 November 2022
More than two years since construction started, toilets remain incomplete in Free State village
The contract was terminated due to unsatisfactory progress a year ago
Brief | 3 October 2022
Protesters halt lectures at University of Free State’s Qwaqwa campus
The students are demanding that accommodation allowances from NSFAS be paid to them instead of directly to landlords
News | 29 September 2022
Three nurses arrested in Harrismith
Clinic nurse accused of stealing medication to run private clinic
News | 22 September 2022
Residents take to the streets after Harrismith without power for two weeks
Electricity restored Sunday afternoon but municipality will need millions to fix its substation properly
News | 19 September 2022
Harrismith and several towns without power for six days
Substation at Maluti-A-Phofung municipality in the Free State still down. No response from municipality to our questions.
Brief | 12 September 2022
Nurses at Free State clinic can’t treat patients when it rains
The small, dilapidated clinic serves residents of Intabazwe, near Harrismith - but it is overwhelmed and under-stocked
News | 24 August 2022