âââ OLEBOGENG MOTSE 16:00 Wed, 10 Mar 2021
The Smile Foundation is upping psychosocial support for the parents of children living with facial abnormalities, who are undergoing reconstructive surgery in different parts of the country in 2021.
The organisation has introduced a support group for parents known as âCleft Friendsâ, which aims to have mothers speak on their respective experiences caring for children with facial abnormalities and possibly help others in the process. The Smile Foundationâs Operations Executive Director, Moira Gerszt, spoke to OFM News on the added psychosocial support as 22 minors undergo reconstructive surgery at the Universitas Academic Hospital in Bloemfontein this week.
âââ 16:27 Wed, 10 Mar 2021
The University of the Free Stateâs online registration for first-year students has been extended yet again, this time to Friday 19 March 2021, as announced on the universityâs Twitter account.
The OFM News team was at the campus visitor centre on Wednesday morning to speak to a few students about the challenges on the ground.
According to Kamohelo Seleke, Deputy Secretary-General: UFS SRC, many students are frustrated using the online method as they cannot opt to physically go to campus to sort out problems. This year the UFS introduced an online-only registration process for first-year, senior, and postgraduate students. This process has allowed the university to uphold the current lockdown regulations and to keep prospective and current students and staff safe. According to the UFS, no walk-in applicants will be allowed on campus because the university has reached its admissions capacity for 2021.
âââ LUCKY NKUYANE 16:18 Wed, 10 Mar 2021
The Free State police have managed to retrieve the body of one of the teenagers who were thought to have drowned at the Liebenbergsvlei River near Bethlehem.
Police spokesperson, Motantsi Makhele, says the body of a scholar at the LT Nhlabathi Primary School, Moratehi Radebe, was found at the said river on Wednesday.
The 14-year-old Radebe and his school mate, Siphiwe Mlangeni (14) went missing on Thursday last week after school. It s alleged that Radebe and Mlangeni were with another schoolboy of their age and were walking together to the river next to the railway line, not far from their homes, to pick herbs. Mlangeni is still missing and Makhele adds that the search for him continues. A post-mortem will be conducted to determine the cause of Radebe s death.