Small Free State community that built its own solar power plant
Well-known South African businessman Rob Hersov believes a diverse coalition of residents, farmers, and private entities has come up with a winning recipe to rebuild broken municipalities.
In a recent interview with BizNews's Alec...
Former cellphone tower technician gets 20 years behind bars for tampering and stealing equipment
Detectives in the Free State used fingerprint analysis to catch and convict a 43-year-old former cellphone tower technician who tampered with and stole from MTN and Vodacom infrastructure.
Sello...
Clarens has been load-shedding-free for 7 months
By collectively reducing their electricity demand during load-shedding, residents and businesses of Clarens have been completely exempt from the rotational power cuts for seven months.
Sunday newspaper Rapport has detailed how the small Free...
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela will investigate the Free State government's controversial multi-million rand website, the DA said on Monday.
The Democratic Alliance had received confirmation from the Protector's good governance and integrity office that it would investigate a complaint by...
A newly-acquired, bright-red fire engine belonging to the Ngwathe municipality in Parys, in the Free State, has disappeared, the Volksblad newspaper reported on Thursday.
Municipal officials reportedly discovered that the Toyota Land Cruiser fire-fighter was missing on Tuesday night...
The Free State ANC has denied used poor whites as puppets to attract votes in next year's elections, it was reported on Tuesday.
The Volksblad reported that more than 100 poor whites were given front row seats at the African National Congress's recent elective conference in the Free State...
Welcome to Orania, South Africa: a whites-only enclave established in 1991 during the dying years of apartheid.
The town in the sparsely populated Karoo region is inhabited only by Afrikaners.
These descendants of Dutch-speaking migrants who arrived in South Africa in 1652 with Jan van...
The SA Human Rights Commission has subpoenaed the Moqhaka local municipality over its failure to enclose toilets in Rammulotsi in the Free State.
It would appear before a commission of inquiry on Thursday.
"Should the Moqhaka local municipality fail to appear before the inquiry, the...
The homes of former Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff and former ANC provincial secretary Sibongile Besani will be auctioned to settle outstanding bank debt, it was reported on Wednesday.
Orders for the homes to be auctioned were granted by the Free State High Court in 2011 and 2012, the...
Six people accused of the murder of an elderly couple in Bethulie in the southern Free State appeared in the Bethulie Magistrate's Court on Monday.
They would be back in court on March 25, said prosecutor Anne Pretorius.
Tshepo Ramatlama, 18, Sphiwe Sakman, 18, and four minors face charges...
Anyone have pics of the floods?
Trolling through the local news sites is a waste of time. Why is it our local sites almost never have pictures? Saw one of the floods that could have been taken anywhere in Africa, during the last 20 years.