Bloemfontein Woolworths Hit by Explosion:
A small explosion occurred at a Woolworths store in Preller Square, Bloemfontein, this morning.
The incident comes just a day after an explosive device detonated inside a Woolworths outlet at Menlyn Park Shopping Centre in Pretoria.
In Kruger National Park, South Africa, veteran ranger Sipho Nkosi suffered a heart attack while on solo patrol. His vehicle was found empty, and search teams began looking for him.
What the park’s remote trail cameras revealed broke the hearts of everyone who saw the footage.
An old bull elephant — known to rangers as “Mnumzane” (Zulu for “Sir”) — had found Sipho’s body. For three full days and nights, the elephant refused to leave. He stood guard, gently touching the ranger with his trunk, chasing away hyenas and jackals that came too close, and even covering parts of the body with branches and leaves.
On the third night, the elephant was still there — visibly grieving, swaying slowly beside his fallen friend. Only when the full recovery team arrived with vehicles did Mnumzane finally step back, watching solemnly as they carried Sipho away.
Park officials later confirmed that Sipho had rescued this same elephant as a calf years earlier after poachers killed his mother. The elephant had never forgotten.
One colleague who viewed the footage whispered:
“He didn’t come to say goodbye. He came to make sure no one disrespected his brother.”
Mnumzane still visits the exact spot regularly. Rangers now leave fresh water and fruit there in honor of both.
Mom worked for an American pharmaceutical company during apartheid but every year they’d have a Christmas party for all the kids, black & white. We all dressed up and could interact outside of our race as kids. Dad worked at Tembisa Municipal council, one day we were headed to my granny via his work & both he & I were arrested and kept at the Rabasotho square for hours. I was 6, they kept us there for hours in that square. I was let go later. He stayed for months in prison. I still use this memory for my work prison scenes to this day. Memory recall🤌🏾