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Police in the Free State have welcomed the “deserved sentence” handed down by the Bloemfontein High Court to a 58-year-old Welkom lawyer convicted of a litany of severe sexual offences against five minor children. The stepfather, from Dagbreek in Welkom, was sentenced on Thursday, 17 October 2025, on 16 counts following a lengthy court process. […]

Farming communities in the North West and Free State provinces are facing a severe threat from organized seed theft syndicates, with recent brazen heists resulting in losses exceeding R2 million, agricultural representatives have reported. The crime wave, which coincides with the critical planting season, has seen high-value seed stolen in a series of coordinated thefts.

Mayor Dada Morero has vowed to continue a clampdown on lawlessness in Johannesburg’s inner city, asserting that his administration will not back down from enforcing municipal by-laws. The pledge comes as the city faces a looming legal challenge following a recent operation that saw the removal of illegal traders, including the shutdown of a secondhand

Exhausted and angry residents of Chiawelo, Soweto have taken a definitive stand against a local church, issuing it marching orders after more than a decade and a half of relentless noise pollution that they say is devastating their health and livelihoods. The dispute centers on the Unity Fellowship Church, led by Pastor Mpfariseni Mukhuba. Community

The Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality’s fundamental role as a water services authority is now in question, following a visit by Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation, Sello Seitlholo, who cast doubt on the municipality’s capacity to provide basic services. The Deputy Minister’s visit to assess water and sanitation infrastructure comes as many communities within

Parents and learners at Makukhanye Primary School in in Ngcobo are pleading with the Eastern Cape Department of Education to fulfill a years-old promise to build a proper school, as children are now being taught on a pavement due to severely overcrowded and dilapidated classrooms. The school’s history is one of community initiative and repeated

A major housing initiative is underway to replace more than 260 mud houses in the Free State towns of Qwaqwa and Thaba Nchu, the Department of Human Settlements has announced. The project, officially launched in Qwaqwa, will see the outdated and vulnerable mud structures eradicated and replaced with new homes constructed using Innovative Building Technologies

ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula has issued a stern warning to party members, urging them to remain focused on rebuilding the organization and not be diverted by trivial matters, as the party prepares for its crucial mid-term National General Council (NGC). The NGC, a key event on the ANC’s calendar, is scheduled to take place

A wave of violent crime has swept across South Africa over the weekend, marked by a mass shooting linked to taxi violence in Cape Town and an attack on emergency personnel in Soweto, prompting urgent calls for leadership and police reform. The weekend’s violence began in Philippi East, Cape Town, where seven people were shot

The Lesedi Local Municipality is facing a severe financial crisis, losing an estimated R16 million per month in revenue, which it attributes directly to the rise of the illicit economy and subsequent de-industrialization, officials revealed at the Lesedi Black Business Forum Symposium last week. The symposium, themed “The impact of de-industrialisation on small towns,” heard