Well done our Municipality!

Mohokare Municipality has bought three brand spanking new, bright red Massey Ferguson tractors – one each for Smithfield, Zastron and Rouxville. According to our sources this is the beginning of good things to come. With better equipment our municipal workers will be able to work more efficiently.

More Challenges for Municipality

No sooner has our Municipality overcome problems in one area than it is faced with others in need of urgent attention.
This time it is the effect of the recent rains. The arrival of the first of the summer rains has been widely welcomed – except by the unfortunate people living in some of the RDP [...]

A Narrow Escape

In the past, the signboard directing traffic to turn left to Aliwal North was located near Rest-a-While. It was subsequently moved, to the corner just before Biba’s. This could have indicated to drivers that they should take the next turn left, which happens to be Church St. There are also some drivers who prefer to [...]

A UFO over Smithfield?

“Kyk daar! Kyk die maan.“
“It’s not the moon. It’s moving too fast.”
It was Sunday night 18 October 2009 at Tussen Die Riviere Game Park near Bethulie. The wind was fresh but the air was clear and the sky crammed with stars. The time was 20.50. Appearing over the horizon just below the Southern Cross an [...]

China invests at Lake Gariep fish hatchery

China is to invest in a fish hatchery at Lake Gariep.
This is to be done in cooperation with the Free State Department of Agriculture. The centre is envisaged to be a fingerling supply station to rural aquaculture community projects in the Free State as well as outside the province.
It will also serve as a research [...]

Why Smithfield?

I’ve lived in Smithfield for four months now; prior to that I’d visited the town four times. Often when I’m out enjoying a glass of wine at one of the locals, I find myself being asked by an overnighter, somewhat incredulously: “Why Smithfield?”.

Police Beat

Campaign Mounted Against Marauding Dogs
A police campaign has been mounted against rampaging dogs, which have been causing havoc among sheep and even cattle on farms in the immediate vicinity of Smithfield.

Graf-onthulling op Lusthof

Op ’n sonnige Saterdag oggend het die Vriende van die Oorlogsmuseum van Bloemfontein af gery om ’n grafsteen op kommandant Hendrik Hugo, grootoom van Miemie Pretorius (haar oupa se jongste broer), se graf te onthul.
Die plan was dat party mense op Isak en Miemie se plaas, Welgegund, die laaste Hugo-familie plaas, bymekaar sou kom en [...]

Mosaïk – Werkswinkel

deur  Jeanette du Plessis

Agt baie entoesiastiese dames het onlangs die V.L.U. se werkswinkel oor mosaïkwerk by Luigis bygewoon. Dit was vir Loezytha Rossouw  van Bloemfontein baie lekker om weer in Smithfield te kom aangesien sy as laerskoolkind hier gewoon het. Haar pa, mnr Westraad, was die landdros hier. Loezytha besit die kunswinkel ‘ Emoya ‘ [...]

Forum Nuus

deur Ounooi Badenhorst
Vanaf die algemene vergadering wat gehou is op 22 September het daar nie veel plaasgevind nie. Dit is egter verblydend om te sien dat die plaaslike munisipaliteit plek-plek vuilgoed wegry en strate skoonmaak. Een van die vele stukkende mangate is herstel – net jammer die rommel en klippe is eers weke daarna [...]