Bloemfontein, South Africa News

In what appears to be an attempt to mend rocky relations between the party and former president Thabo Mbeki, the ANC has sent him its "revolutionary birthday greetings" on his 71st birthday.

DESPITE deteriorating sight, Port Elizabeth's Gwen Nel is fully focused on achieving a fourth gold medal when the World Bowls Championship for blind and partially sighted bowlers takes place in Worthing, England, next month .

We don't want to kick you out of SA because this is your home too. But we want your co-operation in helping to address the issues of the past, says Esethu Hasane .

Armed only with one blanket, presenters Andre Kunz and Anna Visser braved the bitterly cold weather of 0.5A C and successfully staged OFM's very first mobile radio broadcast on a back of a trailer driven around Bloemfontein.

Esethu Hasane says he wonders why the DA are focusing on Gauteng if they want to improve the living conditions of the poor.

Schoolchildren in Nelson Mandela's home village are singing songs in his honor and others are leaving balloons and well wishes outside the hospital where he is being treated.

The ANC youth league's national task team co-ordinator, Magasela Mzobe, talks about Julius Malema's new political party.

Nelson Mandela raises a clenched fist arriving to address a rally a few days after his release from jail, Feb. 25, 1990, in the conservative Afrikaaner town of Bloemfontein, where ANC was formed 75 years ago.

Whenever people protest against poor service delivery, the leaders of that region can be blamed.

Eighteen months ago, at the ANC's centenary celebrations in Bloemfontein, party bigwigs and invited international dignitaries dined on three-course buffet meals that included meat roasts, traditional South African dishes and decadent desserts, all costing more than R1 million.

Anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress member Nelson Mandela raises clenched fist, arriving to address mass rally, a few days after his release from jail, 25 February 1990, in the conservative Afrikaaner town of Bloemfontein, where ANC was formed 75 years ago.

Brett Archibald, a surfer who got lost at sea while on a surfing expedition in the Mentawi Strait in Indonesia, speaks to News24 about his ordeal.

The suspension of a teacher and principal at a primary school in Bloemfontein following allegations of racism was welcomed by the NCSGB on Friday.

The National Hospital in Bloemfontein is without water after a pipe burst on Friday, the Free State health department said.

Pierre Korkie, pictured, was a teacher at Grey College in Bloemfontein and Yolande a preprimary teacher.

Reacting to a Johannesburg High Court application for the liquidation of the league, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said in court papers that the ANCYL had neither assets nor money to settle the R15 million in lawsuits against it.

AMONG the cream of Nelson Mandela Bay fashion talent at The Herald Bridal Fair was a new face: designer Gerhard Meiring, who aspires to create garments that make his clients feel like celebrities.

A Bloemfontein man was jailed for 21 years by the Free State High Court on Wednesday, for killing his pregnant girlfriend.

Racism is rife at schools across the Free State and requires an investigation, the SA Democratic Teachers' Union said on Wednesday.

The family of a South African couple held captive by kidnappers in Yemen are devastated by the lack of updates from the Middle Eastern country.