Two children were killed and hundreds of people left homeless after tornadoes ripped through Duduza, east of Jo’burg and Ficksburg in the Free State.
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/ 30 September 2011
Plans to oust Free State Premier Ace Magashule as provincial ANC chairperson took on a new twist.
The University of the Free State has inaugurated its new student representative council after its first non-political-party elections, held this week.
Students furious over rector Jonathan Jansen’s changes to student politics have staged a protest at the University of Free State.
The brutal slaying of a young man whose body was found cut up has unsettled the once quiet town. <b>Eamon Allan</b> goes home to see what happened.
The queen of talk became the queen of tears as the University of the Free State handed over a PhD, dubbing her a South African — and a Kovsie!
A month after Andries Tatane was killed in a service delivery march there, Ficksburg police used rubber bullets to break up a new protest in the town.
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.
A company co-controlled by the ANC mayor of a Free State municipality won the tender to build the toilets at the centre of a new political row.
Somebody must take responsibility for the open toilets in the ANC’s Viljoenskroon municipality in the Free State, says ANCYL president Julius Malema.
Two provincial government teams to address address service delivery problems were introduced on Friday to Meqheleng residents in Ficksburg.
Police chief Bheki Cele visited Ficksburg to offer support to the family of Andries Tatane, as the HRC received a formal complaint against the police.
The death of Andries Tatane at the hands of police officers has led South Africans to question the direction in which law-enforcement is moving.
Cheetahs captain Juan Smith will miss the rest of the Super 15 after heel surgery but he’s expected to be available for the Rugby World Cup.
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/ 25 February 2011
Government schools spend thousands photocopying test papers meant to be supplied by the department of education.
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/ 21 February 2011
The Equality Court matter between the "Reitz Four" students and the University of the Free State (UFS) workers has been settled out of court.
Free State minister of human settlements is facing the axe after his national counterpart Tokyo Sexwale clawed back R263-million.
The South African Weather Service has predicted more rain for the rest of the week in the northern provinces and central interior of the country.
The government bemoans every farm killing and would tackle the problem in every province, Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Tuesday.
Diverse campus lifestyles in the US inspire Kovsies to become ‘cohorts of change’.
Care must be taken in setting an anti-racism agenda — it must handle the difficult concerns while signalling hope, healing and restoration.
The Reitz Four on Wednesday faced a fine in court after pleading guilty to crimen injuria.
On October 1 1987 a wage dispute at the Sasol 1 petroleum refinery in Sasolburg turned ugly.
The Congress of the People in the Free State on Monday threatened to withdraw from the party’s national congress unless it was postponed.
Percy Zvomuya and <i>M&G</i> photographer Oupa Nkosi took to the streets of the Free State capital to investigate rumours of human trafficking.
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/ 24 February 2010
The Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday postponed the crimen injuria case of four former UFS students to July for trial.
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/ 23 February 2010
Five UFS workers filmed in a racist student video are not interested in restorative justice, but want criminal proceedings to continue.
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/ 26 October 2009
A court on Monday ordered the media to leave alone the accused and witnesses in the crimen injuria trial of the Reitz Four.
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/ 26 October 2009
The University of the Free State will reopen discussions on the Reitz residence video following criticism of its decision to pardon the four students.
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/ 22 October 2009
The Reitz Four have requested the director of public prosecutions to drop a charge of crimen injuria against them, it was reported on Thursday.
The chaos in the Free State Meditech software monitoring system has serious implications for the province’s already crisis-ridden response to HIV.