Two veld fires have caused havoc on the roads today as poor visibility caused collisions in two separate incidents. Shortly past 16:00 this afternoon a veld fire next to the N12 highway caused twelve vehicles to pileup due to poor visibility caused by the smoke. As multiple emergency services from the surrounding area arrived at [...]
Fourteen veld fires were raging in the Free State on Thursday, the department of agriculture, forestry and fisheries said. “Five of then are rather big in size,” said departmental spokesperson Malcolm Procter. The larger fires were raging near Sasolburg, along the N1 between Kroonstad and Sasolburg, between Paul Roux and Bethlehem, north of Kestell and [...]
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