Wrangling in the ANC, incompetence and corruption have brought the council close to collapse
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The declaration of the Upper Wilge Protected Environment benefits nature, landowners and the broader society
Despite fighting so hard for it, South Africans don’t seem to understand how democracy works
Eskom has threatened power cuts for unpaid bills amounting to almost R3-billion, bills unpaid since 2011
The N3 highway at Van Reenen’s Pass between the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal has been closed due to heavy snowfalls, the N3 Toll Concession has said.
Countrywide snowfall has left travellers stranded and children elated while bringing hardship to people living in townships.
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/ 28 December 2009
Four people — believed to be members of one family — were killed when their six-seater airplane crashed in Harrismith in the Free State on Monday.
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/ 17 October 2005
A year after Harrismith’s impoverished Intabazwe township erupted against poor service delivery, the community has vowed they will not vote, or will vote for opposition parties, in the upcoming local government elections. They insist that promises made by the African National Congress-led council have been dishonoured.
Four air-crew members have survived a South African Air Force helicopter crash outside the Bergview Engen One-Stop in Harrismith on Friday morning, emergency services said. The helicopter crashed about 100m from the complex. ”One blade hit a car on the freeway and spun into the complex where there were about 60 kids in the playground,” a witness said.
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/ 3 September 2004
Police were mopping up streets in Intabazwe at Harrismith on Friday after three days of rioting that claimed the life of a teenager. Municipal workers helped to clear away burnt tyres, car wrecks and rocks left behind by demonstrators. The protests were sparked by what was termed poor service delivery.
A 17-year-old boy, hospitalised after police used rubber bullets to disperse a protesting crowd on the N3 near Harrismith on Monday, died in hospital on Tuesday. The teenager died from internal bleeding, a Free State police spokesperson said.
Twenty children shot in Harrismith
Twenty children were shot when police tried to disperse a group of protesters on the N3 highway outside Harrismith on Monday, Free State police said. Captain Paul Kubheka said about 4 500 children descended on the N3 highway on Monday morning to highlight concerns about service delivery in the area.
KwaZulu-Natal transport MEC S’bu Ndebele on Thursday called for an independent investigation into an accident on the Harrismith-Bergville road in which eight British tourists died. Ndebele also sent his condolences to the families bereaved by the accident, which took place at 4pm on New Year’s Eve.
Two 27-year-old men have been sentenced to two life terms of imprisonment each for an attack on a honeymooning Polish couple two years ago, police said on Friday.