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/ 24 September 2003
The way the government is implementing black economic empowerment seems like an exclusive club for card-carrying African National Congress members, United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa said on Wednesday. He also called for greater government intervention in South Africa’s economy.
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/ 5 September 2003
Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi will join a dispute in the Bloemfontein High Court over tax on farmland. A Free State farmer has applied for a court order to declare the levying of a 2% municipal tax on his farms as illegal.
Another possible legal suit against South African mining houses loomed on Wednesday when a British legal firm announced its representation of former gold mineworkers.
The owner of the Johannesburg club The Ranch continues his legal battle against the authorities on Friday in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein.
The proposed new religious policy for South African schools was adopted unanimously on Monday, Minister of Education Kader Asmal announced in Bloemfontein.
A lawyer for the San Council of South Africa is confident that obesity drug trials based on a Kalahari cactus will continue despite pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s withdrawal from the project.
Three right-wingers who were jailed for plotting to blow up the Vaal Dam were granted bail in the Bloemfontein Regional Court on Tuesday.
The police must follow up all information reported to them, even if it appeared silly or ludicrous, Senior Superintendent Selby Bokaba said on Friday.
Nature conservationists fear an invasion of local river systems after exotic freshwater crayfish were stolen from a Free State breeder this week.
Three rightwingers who plotted to blow up the Vaal Dam have appealed against their conviction and sentences, their attorney said on Wednesday.
Suspended prison chief Tatolo Setlai will face 20 criminal charges when his trial starts in November in the Bloemfontein Regional Court, the prosecutor said on Monday.
Free State health Member of the Executive Committee Ouma Motsumi-Tshopo tabled an Initiation School Bill in the provincial legislature on Thursday in a bid to ensure the safety and hygienic treatments of initiates.
The Bloemfontein Zoo is boasting one of only a few litters of African wild dogs ever born in captivity, after six were recently born.
They believe God created an elect group of whites to rule the peoples of the world. They also believe the Bible forbids racial ”interbreeding”.
The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Friday dismissed an appeal by a policeman who set his patrol dog on illegal immigrants in a ”training exercise.”
The expenses an American company’s subsidiary incurred in its fight against apartheid in South Africa were tax deductible, the Appeal Court ruled in Bloemfontein on Friday.
Lawyers for chemical and biological warfare expert Wouter Basson argued in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Tuesday that a re-trial for their client would probably not be fair.
The state received a severe rap on the fingers in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Monday for its bungled application for leave to appeal in the Wouter Basson case.
Black and white business in South Africa united on Friday when the presidents of the country’s four chambers of commerce signed a surprise agreement in Bloemfontein.
The final death toll of the Workers’ Day bus disaster in the eastern Free State is 51, provincial MEC for public works, roads and transport Sekhopi Malebo confirmed on Sunday.
Free State health MEC Auma Tsopo on Friday announced that nevirapine for pregnant women and rapid test kits were now available at all hospitals and health complexes in the province.
Girls as young as 13 and 14 years regularly fall pregnant at Free State schools, according to provincial legislature report tabled this week.
Five people were shot and killed when a gunman went on the rampage in Bochabela township of Mangaung, Bloemfontein on Tuesday night, southern Free State police said on Wednesday.
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/ 8 February 2003
The future of the Afrikaner was assured because he was starting to integrate with a larger, inclusive Afrikaans-speaking community in which race was playing a lesser role or none.
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/ 6 February 2003
Organised agriculture in the Free State and Northern Cape farmers said on Thursday that massive retrenchment of farmworkers could be expected over the next six months.
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/ 30 January 2003
A man accused of violently murdering a young mother on New Year’s Day 2002 may have been so drunk that, when he discovered her blood-soaked body on his double bed, he could not remember what had happened during the preceding few hours.
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/ 24 January 2003
There should be no doubt about the commitment of the Department of Correctional Services in carrying out the recommendations of the Jali Commission, Minister of Correctional Services Ben Skosana said in a report released on Thursday.
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/ 21 January 2003
The black wildebeest, which evolved around a million years ago on the central plains of southern Africa, is now under threat due to cross-breeding with its ancestral species the blue wildebeest, scientists warn.
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/ 15 January 2003
Tatolo Setlai, the Free State prison chief who played a high-profile role in revealing corruption in the Grootvlei prison outside Bloemfontein to the Jali Commission of Enquiry, was arrested on Wednesday for alleged corruption.
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/ 15 January 2003
An alleged rightwinger accused of planning to blow up the Vaal Dam testified on Tuesday in the Bloemfontein Regional Court with his Bible at hand.
Exactly 111 years since the birth of writer J.R.R. Tolkien in Bloemfontein, the Free State capital now aims to convert itself into a site of pilgrimage for the thousands of enthusiasts worldwide captivated by the fantasy world of Middle Earth.