The Beaufort West Municipality has been given a disclaimed audit opinion with findings.

The health department has expressed concern about holding the local government elections, scheduled to take place in October, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Former president Jacob Zuma is expected to file an urgent application for the rescission of the Constitutional Court ruling that sentenced him to 15 months in prison for contempt.

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The media is in mourning after Covid-19 claimed the lives of three journalists.

Three men convicted of petrol bombing a bus in Limpopo causing the death of six mineworkers have been handed hefty prison sentences.

The number of Covid-19 cases in Africa is doubling every three weeks, with the Delta variant spreading to more countries, the World Health Organisation has said.

Police are investigating cases of murder and arson after a family of four were found dead in their burning home. The children were found with stab wounds, and preliminary investigations suggested there was no forced entry.

South Africa recorded 21 584 new laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 infections and 382 deaths, bringing the official death toll to 61 029 on Thursday.

Charges against three municipal officials arrested this week shed new light on how top VBS figures procured investments from two Gauteng municipalities in exchange for home loans, cars – and a year-end party.

Activists have urged the City of Cape Town to assist the many shack residents battling after the heavy rain in the region this week. In Bloekombos, near Kraaifontein, up to 80 people are homeless, with some shacks collapsing in the recent storms.

The 661-bed Livingstone Hospital in Gqeberha, the largest health facility in the Eastern Cape, which sees patients from 14 towns, is dysfunctional and fails to offer suitable health services.

A 51-year-old pastor and a 66-year-old woman appeared in the Libode Magistrate's Court on charges relating to an arranged marriage.

The South African Medical Association said it was "scandalous" that, during a third wave of the pandemic, 228 medical interns were waiting to be placed at public health facilities.

Premier Job Mokgoro said the need for tightening the regulations and possibly the imposition of a higher lockdown level were becoming more apparent to slow down the transmission of Covid-19.

Mthatha Correctional Services area commissioner John Mbalele Msimango has died, 24 days after sustaining severe burn wounds during a house fire.

A High Court judgment which declared almost all of the Level 3 and 4 lockdown regulations as unconstitutional and invalid has been dismissed by the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Data released by the South African Medical Research Council on Thursday shows that the Johnson & Johnson vaccines offers protection against severe Covid-19 infection.

This includes healthcare workers, senior citizens in [nursing] homes and communities, and staff of the Department of Basic Education," Premier Job Mokgoro said during a virtual update.

The rocks are strategically placed to force motorists to stop.