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One of the bird feeders with its new white roof

The front garden of Trading Places this morning with roses being snowed in!

Althea Hofmeyr and her four rescue dogs stayed at Trading Places in Smithfield last night. This morning they woke to snow and a changed landscape. Here they are about to leave for an exciting adventure: a drive through the Free State farmlands blanketed with snow,...

We’ll keep the bikes locked up and cosy today: Bike rack tells of snow

All lined up and nowhere to go … our colourful watering can brigade will stand idle today as the snow does the work for us. Jolly watering cans wait for warmer days

It looks like a fairy story I think, the entrance to my old stone barn. The snow has stopped falling in Smithfield, but I’ll enjoy the photographs of this morning’s flurries for years to come. Magical blue gate entrance to my old stone barn

DETERMINED to avoid xenophobic attacks in its townships, the municipality of Mohokare into which Smithfield falls, has been meeting with foreign informal traders living in the area to find a way forward. Shadrack Buyeye, local economic development manager for the...

… The wonderful litema posters on the wall of the arrivals hall, Bloemfontein airport As you wait for your luggage, enjoy pictures of fantastic local artform, litema (pronounced dee teh mah), on the walls and your suitcases seem to arrive a little too soon! This is an...

The N6, between Bloemfontein and the Eastern Cape coast, closed this morning because of a strike, is now open again. Workers involved in the rebuilding of the N6 gathered at one of the stop/go points on the roadworks to stage their protest and the national road was...

We’ve had another water switch-off – ‘they’ say it’s once again because of the road works. It’s a problem for everyone – so why do I bother moaning? Because – take a look at the laundry (below). When the municipality switches the water back on after an outage it’s...