News

It is winter and time for the annual Welkom Muslim Community blanket drive. This year 450 blankets valued at R72 000 were disbursed to needy communities in and around Welkom.

On 16 June, the Safa office in Lejweleputswa, in partnership with the LM Kwebu Foundation, held an U17 football tournament in Thabong.

On 10 June Huis Agna (Unitas Hostel) hosted a boys’ talk event where boys received life skills education, health talk and motivation from stakeholders’ representatives such as the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (Sanca), the Department…

Five boxers of the Meloding Boxing Club have been included in the Free State boxing team participating in the national boxing championships to be held in Tzaneen, Limpopo, from 4 to 9 July.

On 17 May at least 31 suspected illegal miners, believed to be Basotho nationals, died in a gas explosion in a ventilation shaft of a mine in Virginia.

The rape of a 13-year-old girl has shocked the Theunissen community to its core.

The body of a man believed to have been cast net fishing illegally in Toronto Pan, Welkom, was retrieved on Saturday evening (24/06), a little more than a week after he had gone missing.

Poor service delivery and the Matjhabeng Municipality’s failure to respond to emergency situations is posing a threat to jobs in the already fragile economy, where almost 40% of residents are unemployed.

We live in a society marked by extreme inequality between the rich and the poor. The rich have better chances in life, having access to greater facilities and resources. Selfishness is a growing concern among the inhabitants of our society.

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