​The ANC faces another court battle as two Free State members have made an urgent application to have the Provincial Executive Committee dissolved.
The North West premier says government will launch a programme of reconciliation, healing and renewal after a spate of tough crises in the province.
The situation at Bloemhof is reported to be tense after pupils rampaged through the streets of Boitumelong outside the town in the North West on Thursday, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported on Friday. Pupils at Thutolore High School on Friday continued with a class boycott.