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Big plans for first helium plant in SA
South Africa could soon become the eighth country in the world to produce helium.
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Market braves furore
On Saturday, the Welkom Publicity Association (WPA) hosted its first flea market for 2023, attracting more than 100 exhibitors.
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Prizes on offer for golfers
The Free State Goldfields (FGF) Chamber President’s Cup will be held at the Oppenheimer Golf Club on 3 February.
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Dié kinders moet dadelik teen masels ingeënt word
Kinders tussen ses en 15 jaar oud in en om Bethlehem in die Vrystaat moet dringend teen masels ingeënt word omdat die Thabo Mofutsanyana-distrik nou die hoogste infeksiesyfer van dié siekte toon.
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Thugs blow up ATM in Goldfields
Just after midnight on Tuesday five armed men used explosives to destroy the ATM at a filling station in Constantia Road, Thabong.
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Truck driver arrested near Ventersburg for the posession of Khat
The Welkom K9 Unit seized the illegal drug Khat (Khat Edulis) valued at R280 000 after they searched a truck travelling on the N1 at Ventersburg.
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Police need help to catch the culprit
The Free State Provincial Commercial Crime Unit has issued a warrant of arrest for a foreign national known as DJ Salimax for defrauding a 59-year-old Welkom woman of R647 000 in 2021.
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Rise of electricity tariffs brings worry to SA mining industry
The above-inflation electricity tariff increases granted to Eskom, and the negative consequences for the economy and employment, has raised alarm bells in the mining industry.
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