The reopened N3 thundered again early on Saturday as hundreds of trucks left Johannesburg loaded with food and other essential goods to replenish KwaZulu-Natal's looted stores.

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With police and soldiers securing the critical N3 artery, truckloads of critical medical supplies and pharamaceuticals are beginning to roll from Gauteng to KwaZulu-Natal once more.

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Rolling coverage of the riots and looting in Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal

More than 2,000 food packages and provisions are being ferried to people affected by the riots in Pietermaritzburg.

Repairing the country's thousands of damaged and vandalised automatic teller machines (ATMs)  is expected to take 'many weeks'.

A further 413 Covid-19 related deaths were reported over the past 24-hour cycle.

Aircraft from small experimental planes to commercial airlines have been ferrying tonnes of supplies to thousands of people trapped in towns across KwaZulu-Natal.

'To destroy schools, especially those with feeding schemes, is at the next level of criminality.'

Scores of Durban residents volunteered to clean up malls and businesses after damage caused by the unrest and protests in the province.

Suspended Ubuntu Wealth Management CEO Qhawe Sithole has been released on bail.

Former president Jacob Zuma’s staunch ally and former spy boss Thulani Dlomo handed himself over at the Durban Central police station on Friday afternoon, according to a SABC report.

Three rhino horn thieves have been sentenced to three years in jail after their arrest in the Eastern Cape in February.

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The country’s vaccination programme is continuing despite the violence in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, Business for SA said on Friday.

'Our private security and police were overwhelmed and fires were being started all over,' Umlazi Mega City's Hope Khumalo told President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday.

The aftermath of three days of chaos was captured by TimesLIVE when reporters took to the skies to get a better view of what the infrastructure damage looked like.

'We hope the calm we see is a sign that normality will return soon because we have to feed our families,' said a hawker who set up for business on Friday.

A study last week said people inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine — one of two already in use in SA — had antibody levels 10 times higher than those given Sinovac.

Scores of people from all over Alexandra on Friday queued for hours to get inside the Alex Mall, which was the last one standing after recent looting and destruction.

The Road Freight Association has welcomed the reopening of the N3 on Friday morning and said this would allow the industry to move essential products that could not be transported due to violence.

Police fired teargas and a water cannon at protesters in Eswatini on Friday, the head of a teachers' union said, while videos on social media showed demonstrators running away as shots rang out.

Wealthy KwaZulu-Natal residents chartered private planes and fled the province this week amid looting and fires, and ahead of impending food, medication and fuel shortages.

Gauteng has showed a decline in Covid-19 cases and might be slowly getting over the peak of the third wave, Prof Salim Abdool Karim said on Friday.

An 18-year-old physics student is set to take the place of a person who put up $28m in an auction to take part in the inaugural flight for billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company.

Vaccination sites in Nelson Mandela Bay are happy to oblige as over-35s rock up for 'walk-in' jabs moments after registration opens.