…..A Free State couple has been arrested for murdering their seven-month-old baby daughter, police said on Tuesday. Captain Ina Scholtz said a post mortem found that boiling porridge was poured over the infant, from Batho, after the actual murder. “Both parents were arrested immediately and appeared in court.” The 28-year-old mother and 35-year-old father were [...]

  September is Heart Awareness Month, which strives to educate the general public to become aware of the importance of a healthy heart. Not only is it important to attempt to lead a healthy lifestyle with respect to eating habits and exercise, but to also be aware of symptoms that indicate possible heart disease. It [...]

……The four former University of the Free State student’s known as the “Reitz Four” were on Tuesday granted leave to appeal their sentence in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court. RC Malherbe, Johnny Roberts, Schalk van der Merwe and Danie Grobler were in July sentenced to a R20, 000 fine each, or 12 months in jail after [...]

Six men wearing balaclavas blasted open an ATM and a drop safe at a Free State petrol station, police said on Monday. They attacked and held a petrol attendant at gunpoint at 1.15am on Monday at a garage in Heidedal, Bloemfontein, police spokesman Sergeant Mmako Mophiring said. “They took an undisclosed amount of money and [...]

A Free State policeman and a suspected hitman he allegedly hired to kill his wife have been arrested in the province, police said on Monday. Investigations into the murder of Moipone Mathibela, 44, of Meloding near Virginia, led to the arrest of her husband, a police detective, police spokesman Sergeant Mmako Mophiring said. “The investigation [...]

The head of a local aid agency, Balisi Kapumba, has been kidnapped by armed men in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Monday. Kapumba, of Solidarity Action for Peace and Development (ASPD), was “kidnapped on Friday by men in uniform from his home in Goma,” the chief town in Nord-Kivu province of the DR [...]

Unknown Niger will be a totally different type of game for Bafana Bafana when they clash in a crunch 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit on Saturday night. Kick-off is at 8.30pm. After beating 1998 World champions France 2-1 in their final 2010 World Cup match played in Bloemfontein in [...]

Abortion is a subject that divides opinion in Lesotho and whether it should be legalised or not continues to generate intense debate among Basotho. Advertisements publicising backdoor abortion clinics and facilities in neighbouring South Africa where it is legalised continue to make it into our newspapers, implying the practice cannot be simply wished away. Public [...]

A Kempton Park man appeared in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Monday for allegedly cheating Free State farmers and meat sellers out of their live stock and meat worth R1 million. The case against Michael Senekal, 43, was postponed to September 6 for formal bail application. He will remain in custody. Free State Hawks spokesman, [...]

FREE STATE – An elderly Free State farmer and his wife were assaulted and robbed by three men on their return home from church. Sergeant Majang Mosupa said Dirk Odendaal, 80, and his wife Sophia, 79, of the farm Verdun, near Bethlehem, got home at noon on Sunday. “Mrs Odendaal approached the kitchen door where [...]