State vehicle slams into motorcyclist group, kills 1 injures 3, Bloemfontein

State vehicle slams into motorcyclist group, kills 1 injures 3, Bloemfontein

A motorcyclist is dead and three others were seriously injured after a female driver of a Ford Ranger bakkie belonging to the Free State...
Body of teenage girl found with burn wounds in graveyard, Senekal

Body of teenage girl found with burn wounds in graveyard, Senekal

Senekal Police were called to Thambo Graveyard in Matwabeng after the body of an unknown female was found with burn wounds. On Thursday, 26 December...
Land grabs: EFF threatens to occupy farms, AfriForum on alert, Free State. Photo: Pixabay

Land grabs: EFF threatens to occupy farms, AfriForum on alert, Free...

AfriForum is ready to assist farm owners in the Free State and to protect them against illegal land grab actions after Mandisa Makesini, EFF...
Hate speech: AfriForum tackles executive mayor, Welkom. Photo: AfriForum

Hate speech: AfriForum tackles executive mayor, Welkom

AfriForum demanded on 8 April 2020, in letters to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, the Premier of the Free State, as...
Closure of Ficksburg SAPS administration offices

Closure of Ficksburg SAPS administration offices

All communities that are serviced by Ficksburg SAPS are advised that the Administration offices based at the Border Gate have been temporarily closed due...
Farm attack, man assaulted, tied up by 3 attackers, Riverside, Bloemfontein

Farm attack, man assaulted, tied up by 3 attackers, Riverside, Bloemfontein

A farm attack took place on 7 August 2020, at 15:00, in the riverside smallholdings area, near Roodewal, East of Bloemfontein, in the Free...
Eskom and 139 farms: Matjhabeng should have sold the land long ago already

Eskom and 139 farms: Matjhabeng should have sold the land long...

While the ANC and EFF are frequently blaming commercial farmers for the land issue in South Africa, it has become evident that the government...
Dewetsdorp farmer shot in neck by Police members in unmarked vehicle

Dewetsdorp farmer shot in neck by Police members in unmarked vehicle

A farmer of Dewetsdorp in the Free State, Dries van Tonder (64), was shot in the neck and admitted to the Bloemfontein Medi Clinic...
Farm attack, workers tied up, shots fired at woman, 5 arrested, Verkykerskop

Farm attack, workers tied up, shots fired at woman, 5 arrested,...

A farm attack took place on 27 November 2020, on a farm in Verkykerskop, 40 km from Harrismith, in the Free State province of...
R2 million worth of liquor recovered, 8 arrested, Riebeeckstad

R2 million worth of liquor recovered, 8 arrested, Riebeeckstad

Members of the Welkom K9 Unit arrested eight suspects aged between 22 and 57 on 20 January 2021 in Riebeeckstad, Welkom, for transportation of...
Large firearms and ammunition cache uncovered, Sasolburg. Photo: SAPS

Large firearms and ammunition cache uncovered, Sasolburg

On Sunday, 14 March 2021, information was received from Western Cape Crime Intelligence about a house in Sasolburg that is apparently storing firearms. Information was...
Wheelchair-bound man, without legs, murdered for a cellphone, Smithfield. Photo: Pixabay

Wheelchair-bound man, without legs, murdered for a cellphone, Smithfield

Greg May (69) , the owner of the 'Lazy Likkewaan' guest house in Smithfield in the Free State province of South Africa, was murdered...