VENTER – Illegally harvested perlemoen (abalone) worth R12 million was found by police in three vehicles they stopped on the N1 in Ventersburg on Wednesday.

BLOEMFONTEIN – The influx of people from Lesotho into the Free State was affecting the province’s spending on government services, the provincial treasury’s chief executive said on Tuesday.

BLOEMFONTEIN – Perceptions that the University of the Free State had banned political activity on its Bloemfontein campus was not true, said rector Jonathan Jansen on Tuesday.

BLOEMFONTEIN – The Leopards named their team on Tuesday to face the Free State Cheetahs in a Currie Cup match in Potchefstroom on Saturday.

BLOEMFONTEIN – South African municipalities are being arrogant by not raising their wage offer for their employees from six percent, Cosatu in the Free State said on Monday.

BLOEMFONTEIN – A woman was killed and her son seriously injured, when the bakkie they were travelling in was hit by a truck in Bloemfontein on Sunday, Free State paramedics said.

BLOEMFONTEIN – Music lovers were spoilt for choice during the ‘Women in Jazz music festival’ when Afro jazz heavyweights Judith Sephuma, Unathi, Pj Powers (Thandeka) and Free State’s own gem, Ntshiuwa Lenono took to the stage.

BLOEMFONTEIN – Thirteen-year-old dancing prodigy, Junior Fargo is fast becoming a force to reckon with on the Free State’s social scene. Fargo won his first dance talent show when he was 10 and has never looked back. The diminutive high school learner is motivated by his love of hip-hop music and ‘crumping’ a musical dance technique that has become fashionable. Public Eye LifeStyle reporter Khahliso Santho sat down with Junior and his mother Mrs Phumeza Fargo to discuss the amazing journey they are on.

BLOEMFONTEIN – On Monday August 22, Lira Ntaha’s brother was hit and killed by a car at an intersection in the east end of Bloemofontein as he weaved in traffic in an attempt to hop onto a truck that had stopped to pick up casual workers.

LUCKHOFF – Hlathe e ne e lelekisa tsebe ho baahi ba motse wa Luckhoff seterekeng sa Xhariep, ha motlatsa letona la lefapha la thekolohelo le ntshetsopele ya setjhaba Lindiwe Ntuli, a ne a ba nehela semolao kgwebo ya bona ya dinku le dikgomo.