A week before the elections, the toilet scandal gripping SA has thrust a small town into the national spotlight, leaving residents flustered and wary.
The ANC says Moqhaka mayor Mantebu Mokgosi had told them her husband’s company was a subcontractor in the Viljoenskroon open toilet scandal.
Somebody must take responsibility for the open toilets in the ANC’s Viljoenskroon municipality in the Free State, says ANCYL president Julius Malema.
The ANC didn’t know about 1 600 toilets which have been left without enclosures for the past eight years, secretary general Gwede Mantashe says.
A mother whose children died in a blaze while she was out drinking has been jailed for five years by the Viljoenskroon Magistrate’s Court, police said on Friday. A police spokesperson said the woman had left her three children inside a locked shack with a candle burning while she was out drinking with her boyfriend.
A 56-year-old farmer was killed and his wife seriously wounded recently when four burglars opened fire on them on their farm in the Free State.