A senior Grootvlei warder accused of masterminding a plot to make the prison ungovernable, belonged behind bars, the Jali corruption probe heard.
ANC representative Smuts Ngonyama on Friday denied that the party had had to intervene once again from national level in the affairs of its feuding Free State branch.
German fugitive Jurgen Harksen has applied to the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein for leave to appeal against an earlier ruling paving the way for his extradition to Germany.
The Jali Commission investigating corruption in the Bloemfontein’s Grootvlei prison was advised to reject the testimony of Free State Commissioner Willem Damons as a whole.
People should stop blaming and criticising government for the research it is conducting into the safety of antiretrovirals’ use in Africa, former president Nelson Mandela said on Sunday in Bloemfontein.
Free State police recovered a three-week-old baby boy on Sunday and arrested two women who allegedly kidnapped the child from her mother after posing as hospital officials.
Prisoners at the Grootvlei prison in Bloemfontein were allegedly encouraged by a warder to lie to the Jali Commission in order to discredit a video tape exposing prison corruption.
A top official at the Grootvlei Prison boasted to a prisoner that he was masterminding a plot to take charge of the facility.
A decision by the Peninsula Technikon to expel a journalism student who co-authored a Mail&Guardian article on the sex trade on campuses was set aside by the Supreme Court of Appeals on Friday.
A warder at Bloemfontein’s Grootvlei prison accused of sexually assaulting a juvenile prisoner was still in the service of the department.
Prisoners who made a secret video exposing corruption in Bloemfontein’s Grootvlei prison have threatened to withdraw their co-operation from investigators because of victimisation.
South Africa’s economy could well withstand the impact of the series of bombings that hit the country this week, says Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni.
People’s Poet Mzwakhe Mbuli had three years of an effective 13-year sentence for robbery and possession of a handgrenade set aside by the Supreme Court of Appeal.
The first donation out of the Free State business sector for the promotion of land reform was handed to the farmers’ union Free State Agriculture on Monday.
Three members of a Springfontein family were in custody on Thursday night after a woman allegedly stabbed a visiting cousin to death following an argument apparently fuelled by alcohol, police said.
The Bloemfontein High Court has granted an urgent application that four inmates of the Grootvlei prison – who exposed jail conditions by means of secretly-made video recordings – not to be moved to another prison.
Free State ANC leaders met a group of Afrikaner community leaders on Thursday in what has been likened to the watershed Dakar talks in 1987 during the apartheid era.
Bloemfontein’s Grootvlei Prison head Tatolo Setlai, who allowed inmates to make a video of alleged warder corruption, has laid a complaint against his employers following his ”temporary transfer”.
The Correctional Services ministry on Wednesday denied reports that Bloemfontein’s Grootvlei Prison head, Tatolo Setlai, who gave inmates permission to film alleged corrupt acts by warders, would be transferred.
Agri Free State farmers established their own special task force at a meeting this week to patrol the border between South Africa and Lesotho.
Judgement is expected in the near future in an application by the National Director of Public Prosecutions for leave to appeal against the acquittal of apartheid chemical and biological warfare expert Wouter Basson.
A Grootvlei prisoner, in jail for posing as a doctor, was on Friday in testimony before the Jali Commission, accused of murdering three prison hospital patients.
Lion breeder Marius Prinsloo believes he and his fellow predator breeders are doing important conservation work by boosting animal numbers through captive breeding.
Paratroopers and helicopters are to descend on several Bloemfontein suburbs from early on Friday morning as the first phase of one of the largest SA National Defence Force exercises in recent years kicks into gear.
Around 100 white Free Staters braved the spring rain on Wednesday to attend a mass meeting in Bloemfontein organised by the provincial ANC aimed at ”bridge-building” between it and the white community.
A unique fossil of an ancient Karoo crocodile was lost to science after the vehicle in which it was being transported, was stolen in Bloemfontein.
With an expected midsummer drought around the corner, rainfall during the next two to three weeks could determine the success of the next South African maize harvest
The Ba Gashai tribe, part of the bigger Ba-Phalaborwa people, may keep a valuable private game reserve across seven adjoining farms near Phalaborwa in the Limpopo Province, awarded to them as part of government’s land restitution programme
A conservation campaign promoting South Africa’s yellowfish above the exotic bass and trout has elevated the indigenous species’ popularity with anglers so much that foreigners are starting to visit the country to add yellowfish to their trophy lists.
The Jali Commission into prison corruption heard that a warder who allegedly sodomised a 20-year-old man at the Grootvlei Prison had been sexually molesting juveniles at the facility since 1985.