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Pigs discover baby in bag
The body of female human baby was found on the pavement in Murray Street, at about 14.45 on Thursday 7 August.
Child drowns
A 10 year-old boy drowned while swimming in water-filled excavation near the Douglas Dam.
Four children suffocate in freezer
Four young children, 3 boys aged four, and a girl aged 6, suffocated to death after being trapped in a freezer stored in an outside building of a house in Klipbou.
Water possible cause for deformity
After a front-page report of a severe sewage spill in the Klipbou and other areas in Ermelo (Highvelder 30 November) a farmer has speculated that the polluted water in the river that runs through his farm has possibly led to deformed calves being born there.
Farmer dares municipality
“I dare you that the day people on this farm receive electricity, I’ll slaughter a cow,” were the words from farmer Paul Grey to Eskom and the Msukaligwa Municipality during one of their consultative meetings to provide electricity to Uitzigt farm, now known as Kandleleni.
Sewage spills in ermelo – DA steps in
The Democratic Alliance’s spokesman for Human Settlements, Mr Bosman Grobler (MPL), visited Ermelo on Monday on a fact-finding mission to ascertain the scale of the ongoing sewage spills at various locations in the town.
New home owners discover drugs and body parts
A home owner found what looked like human body parts in Westdene near Johannesburg on Thursday, 30 October.
20 sheep crammed into car
Lothair Police arrested a 24-year-old male suspect with 20 sheep crammed into his five-seater passenger car last Tuesday.
Accident claims seven lives, injures 41
Seven people were killed and at least 41 people were injured in a head-on collision between a taxi licensed to carry 20 passengers and a sedan with five occupants on the road between Ermelo and Piet Retief on 29 December.
Miners return to danger
At least one illegal miner died when the roof of a disused coalmine north of Ermelo collapsed.
