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

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.

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.

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.

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 Department of Finance has announced the commencement of South Africa’s new General Laws (Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing) Amendment Act.

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.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that the global economy faces “a tough year, tougher than the year we leave behind”.

’n Seun het verdrink toe hy en sy maats in ’n watergat teen die spoorlyn tussen Thabong en Bronville, buite Welkom, geswem het.

Drie mense van Pretoria het in verband met ontvoering, statutêre verkragting en kinder­pornografie in die hof in Hennenman verskyn nadat ’n 15-jarige meisie verdwyn het.