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SANDF, SAPS to guard sites where COVID-19 vaccine set to be administered
These are just some of the details revealed by the national Health Department's Dr Aquina Thulare during the African National Congress' progressive business...
Police Minister Bheki Cele said that the South African National Defence Force would be assisting police keep bathers away from the Garden Route beaches. The country returned to level three lockdown regulations, resulting in various beaches around the country closing to the public.
There are now 1,019 health workers infected with the virus, higher than last week's figures, and because many are in isolation, this means they are out of the health system and not able to work.
Two rival groups came to blows on Friday during an incident that’s allegedly linked to a dispute over taxi routes.
The Christmas Day scuffle left 12 men shot and wounded.
Early on Friday morning, a group of Mpeni men clashed with a group from the Nokhatshile village resulting in the death of the seven. Six other men were hospitalised.
With the COVID-19 infection rate surging in the hotspot, the Disaster Management Centre said the district urgently needed more hands on deck.
Authorities are calling for the army to be deployed to help keep criminals, and those found contravening lockdown regulations, in check.
It’s understood 36-year-old Eunicent Dilebo died when police and South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers responded to a mob justice incident in Chochocho Village in July.
There have been more than 20 arrests recently.
The minister came under criticism earlier this year when she allowed an ANC delegation to hitch a lift with her on an SANDF jet.
The municipality’s financial problems have brought service delivery in communities in the Vaal to its knees.
Some residents of Sebokeng in the embattled Emfuleni Local Municipality are now threatening to stay away from Wednesday’s by-elections after having to go without water for several days.
In the 135-page document compiled with a group that Mojo still refuses name, they claim that the enemy of the ANC is within the party.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula made an error in judgement when she allowed the ANC to hitch a lift to Zimbabwe.
Questions were raised last week about what happened to a comprehensive gang plan put together by a team of academics and community activists.
The DA on Monday wrote to Treasury to determine whether the Finance Minister Tito Mboweni consulted with Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula in terms of the Defence Act before she and the delegation left South Africa.
Defence force officials have told Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) that the fence was the responsibility of the Public Works Department.
In an unprecedented move, General Solly Shoke released a media statement warning SANDF members against attending meetings to discuss ANC issues.