Residents of Welkom demand an end to the water crisis and sewage spills that have arisen due to the town's rapid growth and failing infrastructure, impacting water.

10 Oct 2024 (South African Police Service) FREE STATE - Swift and joint action by police members has led to the arrest of three undocumented foreign nationals, in Bronville, today at 03:45.It is ...

Police in Welkom have arrested a 49-year-old Bronville man following the rape of a nine-year-old boy who was allegedly lured with money on Sunday evening. The incident occurred in Bronville ...

Bloemfontein - A man who allegedly raped a teenage boy from Bronville near Welkom was arrested on Wednesday morning, Free State police said. A local resident spotted the 24-year-old walking in a ...

Welkom - Four men were arrested in Bronville, in the Free State, on Wednesday in connection with a number of crimes near Welkom, police said. The men from Lesotho allegedly “terrorised” their ...

Welkom mayor Nkosinjani Speelman has been suspended for using a racially offensive word while addressing soldiers on the enforcing of lockdown rules in the mining town.

“We have learned that Cde Speelman has referred to coloured community members of Bronville in Welkom as ‘boesmans’ who should be subjected to skop and donner (kicking and beating).

Bronville, was my difference, it inspired breeding grounds that gave birth to my new life. ... I was born in Bronville, a coloured township outside Welkom. This is the place I call home.

Nkosinjane Speelman, the mayor of Matjhabeng Municipality in Welkom, had to apologise on Wednesday for the second time after he referred to coloured people in Bronville as "boesman".