The Dry Caledon

As dry as the veld around it — this is what the Caledon river looked like a few days ago.
Smiffie believes there are also problems about releasing water from the Welbedacht Dam into the river.

Smithfield a Guinea-Pig for Eskom – Save Power is the Aim

Eskom’s long-awaited plan to use Smithfield as a guinea-pig for an attempt to reduce household consumption of electricity is finally underway.
Eskom technicians have begun installing a special Smithfield-designed heating element into hot water geysers in the town, which are the highest consumers of electrical energy in all environments.
The development of the Dual Element System was [...]

Smithfield Project Installation Schedule

Installation of new heating elements will take place on the following dates:

Forum Nuus deur Linda Retief

Algemene vergadering
‘n Groot aantal Smithfield inwoners hou aan om die Forum wat na hulle belange omsien, te ignoreer: slegs 22 persone het die moeite gedoen om die onlangse algemene vergadering by te woon. Daar is dus nog ’n groot aantal inwoners wat gemis word. ’n Beroep op alle inwoners word gedoen om asseblief meer betrokke [...]

More Support for Forum Needed

Only 22 residents attended the second and last general meeting of the Forum earlier this month. Residents are urgently requested to become involved. It should not be too much to ask that they attend two meetings a year
According to Ounooi Badenhorst Chair of the Smithfield Residents’ Forum, an average of 30 people have paid their [...]

Seniors Hou Sportdag deur Linda Retief

Senoir burgers van die suid-Vrystaat het weer ’n sportdag in Rouxville gehou. Zastron en Reddersburg het elk ’n span gestuur en Rouxville en Smithfield kon twee spanne bymekaar maak. Dié van Smithfield het die Rondomtalies, op foto bo, en die Dag-brekers geheet en het gespog met spanwapens wat deur Sarah Hinton op lap geverf is.

10km Walkers from Smithfield by Manie Swarts

Four of the five Smithfielders who took part in the recent annual Meiring’s Poort Half Marathon, prepare to be taken to the starting line. Between 1800 and 2000 people participated, either in the half marathon or the 10km walk. Transport to the starting line was by way of large ostrich trucks. I
n the picture are [...]

Artists’ Colony B&B

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There’s Still Hope For Friends of the Museum

Smiffie has been trying to get to the bottom of what has gone wrong with arrangements to keep the local museum open.
At the moment it is being run on a very small budget which does not even allow for the garden to be maintained, let alone having the place upgraded, which was supposed to be [...]

Bokmakierie

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