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Mourners gather in Bloemfontein to honour struggle veteran Mosiuoa Lekota

Political leaders and mourners gather in Bloemfontein to honour Mosiuoa Lekota, remembered for fierce convictions, humility, and a lifelong commitment to ordinary South Africans

A Basotho horseman rides a horse along the road leading to the Maluti Mountains. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP)

Southern Africa’s ‘water tower’ slipping towards ecosystem collapse

Communal rangeland degradation, invasive species, environmental destruction and climate change all threaten the Maloti-Drakensberg mountain range

(Lizeka Tandwa)

Millions paid out but Bloemfontein roads give no joy

The Mangaung metro has paid R2-billion to engineering companies — R524-million to GladAfrica — but has little to show for it except congested roads and broken infrastructure

Review: Volvo XC40 is never intimidating

When you’re asked to drive 400km on a business trip, it really helps if you don’t have to do it in an old skorokoro. In this Volvo, it becomes a road trip to rival others.

With 50 more charges, Magashule gets August court date

The ANC secretary-general hints he will cling to his post after he appeared in the Bloemfontein magistrate’s court

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (David Harrison/M&G)

‘Let ANC deal with its leaders facing corruption charges,’ Ramaphosa tells parliament

The president was answering questions before parliament, where he also told the EFF to allow the courts to decide on the matter of the CR17 bank statements

Expert advice: Cheryl Cohen, co-head of the Centre for Respiratory Disease and Meningitis at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases,  addresses a media briefing on Covid-19. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)

Can you pause a pandemic? Inside the race to stop spread of Covid-19

Tracing the close contacts of people who test positive for coronavirus disease is a delicate dance. Here’s why these health workers wait for the cover of darkness to take action

Discarded plans: Last week the government mulled using Thaba Nchu as a quaratine and screening area for evacuated citizens. It has now decided to keep citizens in China. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Stay in China, government tells homesick South Africans

As ‘impisoned’ children at epicentre cry to be reunited with their parents, top official says families mustn’t be ungrateful

Up for grabs: ANC secretary general Ace Magashule (left) and Saber Industries owner Chin-Chao Chen on the Robben Island ferry together.

The secret ‘Warmonger’ at the SSA

A listening device acquired by the agency is at the centre of an alleged R600-million fraud operation

Maygen Reddy suffers from severe asthma. Her family believes it is caused by the pollution in the south region of Durban where they live. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Breath, death and data: The air in our cities is killing us

​In Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Bloemfontein and Cape Town, the air people breathe is often so dangerous that it is killing them

Four small towns in the Free State worth visiting (Photo Archive)

Four small towns in the Free State worth visiting

What do we know about the central Free State province?

EFF leader Julius Malema has rallied an enthusiastic band of backers through calls for the nationalisation of mines and the curbing of whites’ economic power.

Malema tells EFF supporters to seize white-owned land, defying court

The EFF leader appeared in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court to face charges of inciting his supporters to take over land in 2014.

(John McCann)

New life recalls ‘mad’ SA hero

Rejected by the Empire, beloved in South Africa, Hobhouse stood for justice, feminism and pacifism

Bloemfontein blues: Retracing my student days in my old university town

Ishay Govender-Ypma revisits raw and vivid memories of her coming of age in Bloemfontein.

Bloemfontein bites the dust: 7 pictures of the sandstorm

Bloemfontein in the Free State is covered in a cloud of dust as the city experiences a sandstorm. Here are seven awesome pictures.

Motsoaledi launches free HPV vaccine for schoolgirls

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has launched an HPV vaccine programme for grade four girls in all government schools.

Demolitions in the Second Avenue precinct have given way for the Second Avenue Court Yard

Rejuvenating the inner city

The neeed for revitalising CBDs is more acute in South Africa.

Transforming into an aerotropolis

The Mangaung Municipality has earmarked the airport development node as the most significant development that the administration will be undertaking.

Up for the big cycling challenge

The 13th edition of central South Africa’s biggest cycling event, the Mangaung OFM Classic, is scheduled for November 1 to 3 in Bloemfontein.

Mangaung as a sports mecca

Mangaung metro is currently on a drive to revamp and construct new sports facilities in Bloemfontein, Botshabelo and Thaba Nchu.