Tag: Jack Armour

The Free State roads budget is but a drop in the bucket of what's needed to fix the dilapidated network. And it seems that tender irregularities are to blame for ...

“Good riddance” is what Free State farmers have to say following a recent political shake-up that saw Sam Mashinini being fired as the MEC for police, roads and transport.

Fourteen years after Eskom started building its Medupi power station, it finally reached commercial operation status. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean much for farmers who are at wits’ end with load ...

Grazing land, livestock and game farms were devastated during the recent runaway wildfires in the Free State. More than 104 000ha burned down. Free State Agriculture says this warrants an ...

Free State farmers are urged to take every possible precautionary measure to avoid losing livestock and crops amidst a warning by the South African Weather Service of extremely high fire ...

Free State farmers are not only coughing up millions to fix dilapidated roads in the province, they are also paying a personal price for it. Vehicle maintenance are costing them ...

Farmers in the Free State have begun surveying the extent of damages caused by a runaway veld fire that swept through Boshof and Dealesville recently.   The tragedy struck the province ...

Farmers in the Free State are keeping their fingers crossed for another three weeks without frost so that threatened crops have sufficient time to dry. This, coupled with veld and ...

While farmers in many provinces are still suffering from soil erosion due to recent heavy rains, experts urge them to adopt regenerative agriculture practices to build healthier, more sponge-like soils. ...