Month: January 2026

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Transfer of CFO Linked to Fallout from ANC’s Chaotic Conference

January 22, 2026 Step Up SA

Staff Reporter Bloemfontein – The controversial transfer of Nozipho Molikoe, Chief Financial Officer (CFO)...

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208 Families Still Using Bucket Toilets in Botshabelo – SAHRC

January 21, 2026 Step Up SA

Staff Reporter Bloemfontein – More than three decades into democracy, residents of the C-2...

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MEC Mokoena Appoints Director Barely 30 Days in Office as Acting CFO

January 19, 2026 Step Up SA 1

Staff reporter Bloemfontein — In a move that has sent shockwaves through the Free...

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WATCH | “ The sky is the limit” – Matshediso Malaba

January 19, 2026 Step Up SA

Staff Reporter Ficksburg – As the Class of 2025 matriculants enter a new terrain,...

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WATCH | “I got five distinctions” – Mafusi Khabane of Boitumelo Secondary School

January 16, 2026 Step Up SA 2

Staff reporter Ficksburg – Boitumelo Secondary School in Meqheleng has once again stamped its...

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Xhariep Oversupplied With Ambulances in the Name of the ANC

January 15, 2026 Step Up SA

Staff Reporter Bloemfontein – In what critics describe as a crude electioneering stunt that...

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ANC Disrupts Provincial Back-to-School Campaign

January 14, 2026 Step Up SA

Staff Reporter Bloemfontein – Barely a month after the Free State Provincial Government (FSPG)...

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KZN Leapfrogs Free State in 2025 Matric Results

January 12, 2026 Step Up SA

Staff Reporter Bloemfontein – The 2025 matric results confirm KwaZulu-Natal as the top-performing province,...

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Shameless FSPG Strikes Again

January 12, 2026 Step Up SA 1

Staff Reporter Bloemfontein – In what critics say is becoming routine, the Free State...

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Shannon Family To Receive Electricity After 37 years

January 9, 2026 Step Up SA

Staff Reporter Bloemfontein – A family of four living in Shannon, just outside Heidedal...