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On the job: Maluti-a-Phofung municipal workers attending to electricity
connections in the area. Photo: Maluti-a-Phofung Communications

Thugs cut power, demand villagers pay

Criminals are allegedly extorting residents when the FS municipality fails to cough up for work they submitted claims for but that was never done

The hole nine yards: Pothholed roads and a fallen electric pole, which took more than a month to be repaired. (Lunga Mzangwe/M&G)

No services, no jobs, as businesses flee Free State municipality

Wrangling in the ANC, incompetence and corruption have brought the council close to collapse

Proposed developments imperil the area’s threatened birds including a colony of Cape vultures, bearded vultures, cranes and secretary birds. (Carina Pienaar)

Safety net thrown over Free State grasslands

The declaration of the Upper Wilge Protected Environment benefits nature, landowners and the broader society

Harrismith’s streets are potholed, filled with refuse and illegal electricity connections are evident but more worrying are the power and water cuts. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Maluti-a-Phofung awaits court decision on Eskom cuts

Eskom has threatened power cuts for unpaid bills amounting to almost R3-billion, bills unpaid since 2011

Snowfall closes N3 at Van Reenen’s pass

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.

Snowfall brings SA to a standstill

Snowfall brings SA to a standstill

Countrywide snowfall has left travellers stranded and children elated while bringing hardship to people living in townships.

Family killed in Harrismith plane crash

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.

No change, no vote

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,…

Crashing helicopter barely misses kids’ playground

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…

Harrismith cleans up after riots

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…

Teenager dies after Harrismith protest

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…

Twenty children shot in Harrismith protest

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…

Call for probe into tourist bus crash

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…

Tourist killers sentenced to double life terms

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.