From Monday to Saturday, areas including Kensington, Hout Bay, Constantia, Kraaifontein and others, will experience power cuts because of planned maintenance on electrical infrastructure.
DIRCO said new variants have been detected in other countries with no recent links to SA. ‘It’s worth noting that the reaction to those countries is starkly different to cases in Southern Africa.’
‘Our industry has had to endure being thrust from wave to wave for the past 20 months and it simply isn’t sustainable to keep businesses open and livelihoods intact,’ said FEDHASA National Chairperson Rosemary Anderson.
The headless body of a girl, 6, was found by her uncle in Ntabamhlophe, KZN. The police announced the arrest of a suspect on Saturday.
Health Minister Joe Phaahla said ‘there might be some proposal on restricting the movement of inter-provincial travel.’
The first detection of the Omicron variant in Europe was announced on Friday. It was found in an unvaccinated young woman that returned to Belgium after a trip to Egypt recently.
The ANC lost out on the mayoral position despite having an outright majority in council yet again. The EFF’s Tebogo Babuile was elected mayor of the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality.
Hitman Mzila Mchazeni Simakahle – who is already serving a life sentence – was sentenced to double life for the murder of two taxi bosses in 2018.
An intense weather system is expected to bring widespread showers and thundershowers to the Western Cape from Friday to Saturday.
A police officer was shot and killed after a business robbery in Cape Town on Friday. Two suspects and another officer were also wounded.
“We have been very transparent with scientific information. We identified, made data public, and raised the alarm as the infections are just increasing. We did this to protect our country and the world in spite of potentially suffering massive discrimination,” said Professor Tulio de Oliveira.
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South Africa and five other African countries will be added to the UK travel red list on Friday, 26 November.
It was a bleak Black Friday for retailers in 2020 as sales fell by more than R5 billion. This year is expected to be an improvement.
Dr Tulio Oliveira said the B.1.1.529 has taken authorities by surprise and while it will take some time until its full significance is known, the variant is predicted to have enhanced transmissibility and significant immune evasion.
ABC President and the new Deputy Mayor of eThekwini Philani Mavundla offered to pay Jacob Zuma’s bills on multiple occasions in the past.
SASSA said rejected applicants that applied for reconsideration for the R350 grant should be aware that the process is delayed.
Three men are being sought by the police after robbing a corner shop in Kensington, Cape Town on Wednesday, 24 November.
South Africa recorded more than 1200 cases on Wednesday, 24 November. Gauteng was the most affected province.
The NICD and Department of Health is now including rapid antigen testing results in its COVID-19 statistics.
ActionSA’s ethics is being questioned after a journalist that covered the party in the municipal elections was appointed as a PR councillor in the Johannesburg metro.
Sinaye Siqhuma, 29, offered multiple women a lift before taking them to a secluded area where he raped them. He was sentenced for each count.
The ANC lost the positions of mayor, speaker and council whip in Mkhondo, despite having won an outright majority in the municipality.
‘One thing I want the DA to understand, our vote is not a gift to them,’ said Herman Mashaba. He said the EFF must be present in any talks between parties.
The South African Weather Service said an intense weather system will result in strong to gale force winds in the Western Cape.
