Setsoto Local News Today

Broken roads and maladministration paint a bleak picture of provicial government failure in the Free State. Communities are now taking action.

The Setsoto Local Municipality has obtained an interim order preventing any new shacks from being erected

Archbishop Petrus Menyatso has been dubbed the Messiah of Matwabeng, the township outside Senekal, a small town in the eastern Free State that falls under the Setsoto Local Municipality.

City Press | May 7

Urgent council meeting called to elect new Setsoto mayor after incumbent booted Komane Koalane was removed during a vote of no confidence a few days ago for failing to improve services during his tenure. Picture: Setsoto Local Municipality/Facebook 59 minutes ago JOHANNESBURG - Just days after the 10-year anniversary of Andries Tatanes death in Ficksburg, there were calls for an urgent council meeting to ele...

Nearly 10 years have passed since Andries Tatane was shot and killed during a service delivery protest in the small eastern Free State town of Ficksburg on 13 April 2011.  His final moments were broadcast on the evening news, to the nation’s horror. Images of the 33-year-old’s hand clutching his bloodied chest where he had been pierced by a rubber bullet are embedded in the country’s psyche as a symbol of democracy unravelling.  Family members say Tatane would be aghast to see that litt...