Back in the Free State, a daughter rediscovers the textures of home, family and unspoken inheritances in Antjie Krog’s autobiographical novel
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/ 15 February 2009
The masses will always be part of the ANC, therefore the party would never leave the country’s people on their own, President Kgalema Motlanthe said.
Sixteen awaiting-trial prisoners have embarked on a hunger strike at a Kroonstad prison, the Department of Correctional Services said on Thursday.
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/ 24 January 2005
President Thabo Mbeki paid a surprise visit to the troubled Moqhaka municipality in the Free State on Monday. Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff told journalists the meeting was part of the president’s unannounced visits to municipalities to check on service delivery. Marshoff said the Free State was privileged to be the first visited by the president.
Critics of the judiciary should take note of the hard work being done in the country’s courts, a high court judge said during the sentencing of six convicted hijackers on Wednesday.
A highway gang was convicted in the Kroonstad Circuit Court on Thursday of 22 truck hijackings.
An awaiting trial prisoner, who escaped with four others from a Free State prison, allegedly shot dead an accomplice and wounded another as police closed in on the group in Kroonstad on Thursday.