Zebediela

Mate did not confirm whether any arrests were made or where the drugs came from.

In Lampopo, four suspects were arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb an ATM in Zebediela on Saturday.

Police launched an intelligence-driven operation after receiving a tip-off from Haateng police say the suspect's silver Toyota Starlet was intercepted along the R568 in the Faalbank area, where firearms and explosives were also found.

News from beyond our borders takes us to Nigeria, where the country's health authorities have widened a hunt for potential Ebola cases.

At that time of the year, the area is regularly swept by thunderstorms, and people ask village elders called Inyangas to sniff out those who have directed lightning bolts at people and property.

By mid-February, 12 people had been sacrificed, including a man and two women who were set alight whilst tied to a lorry in Zebediela.

Some of these named culprits ran away, but others decided to stay and take the punishment for the simple reason that if they didn't sacrifice themselves, another member of their family would be killed as a substitute.

Even more gruesome events had occurred in Laboa in November 1978, when former policeman Foucault John Kagabi was arrested with a child-severed windpipe in his pocket.