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With the start of a new year, the Department of Basic Education has published the 2023 school calendar, which kicked off on 11 January for learners in inland schools, while coastal schools started on 18 January.

Just after midnight on Tuesday five armed men used explosives to destroy the ATM at a filling station in Constantia Road, Thabong.

The new Junior City Council of Matjhabeng is almost all Gimmies. Welkom Gimnasium’s JCC representatives include all of the top council positions. They boast with the Mayor, the deputy Mayor, the Speaker, the financial Manager, the Public Relations Officer and…

The prompt reaction of the community, police and a private security company led to the arrests of two men who had robbed a cash loan business in Odendaalsrus.

Is he in, or is he out, was the question on everyone’s lips on Wednesday (18/01) hours before the executive mayor of Matjhabeng, Thanduxolo Khalipha, was to face a vote of no confidence at a special council meeting.

The water chaos in Matjhabeng is out of control and between the high levels of loadshedding, the long periods of water shedding, and weeks of no water at all, the residents of Riebeeckstad, Hennenman, Ventersburg and Mmamahabane have had enough.

Louis Massyn, the Goldfields’ marathon celebrity, will be running his 40th Mielie Marathon on Saturday.

The discovery of the body of a baby girl determined to be between one and three months old has sent shock waves through the Bronville community.

The Free State Provincial Commercial Crime unit has issued a warrant of arrest for DJ Salimax for defrauding a 59-year-old Welkom woman of R647 000 in 2021.