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Biggest news stories on OFM in 2016─── MOEKETSI MOGOTSI 15:36 Tue, 03 Jan 2017
Shimla Park violence made international news after a group of protestors clashed with rugby spectators during a Varsity Cup match in February last year./Photo: Frikkie Kapp/SASPA
President Jacob Zuma paid back the money. Revolutionary student movement #FeesMustFall brought tertiary institutions to a halt for a second year running and the political landscape saw a shift in power in some metros during municipal elections.
These are just some of the memorable events after a year which produced a plethora of good, bad, inspirational, funny and sometimes unbelievable stories.
Despite the above-mentioned news which made national and international headlines, it seems as if OFM readers overwhelmingly prefer to know what happens in their own backyard.
Here are the most read news stories on ofm.co.za in 2016:
- Two killed in Jacobsdal school bus crash
- Daar's iets in die dam
- If Guptas were rich white family there would be no noise: Mantashe
- Rouxville GP killed on his farm
- Landbouskool Jacobsdal in mourning after bus crash
- Hailstorm covers Bloemfontein in white
- Farmer killed in NC
- Too much to read? Here's a quick summary of the State Capture Report
- Derduisende Bloemfonteiners die naweek sonder water
- Jonathan Jansen betuig medelye ná skoolbusongeluk
- Raad vir wintershande en -voete asook droë gebarste hakke
- Well-known Bloemfontein businessman dies in shooting incident
- Tug reaches catamaran hull believed to be Sunsail
- Ekonome waarsku nadat Barclays ontslae raak van Absa
- Farmers take safety into own hands
- Weerlig saai spoor van verwoesting in Bloemfontein
- Biker dies in NC crash
- Bakkie van vermoorde Rouxville-boer in Bloemfontein gevind
- De Aar-gesin in huis vermoor
- VIDEO: Driejarige deur Rottweiler aangeval
- Twee renosters van die Bloemfonteinse Dieretuin gestroop
- Total road closure on N3 after horrific crash
- Pasgebore baba van meer as 6kg begroet die wêreld
- Alleged former Lesotho soldier and girlfriend found with 4500 mandrax tablets
- Violence at Shimlapark in UFS
- WATCH: Cape Town officer shot at point blank range during patrol, returns fire
- Tuks campuses closed until further notice
- Nuus pas ontvang: VS-onderwys gereed vir moontlike ontwrigting
- Noordwes-melkboer met messe aangeval
- EYEWITNESS REPORT: Lightning causes havoc in Olive Hill, Bloemfontein
