Gauteng schools will need R45 million to fund repairs and replacements because of vandalism and looting during the COVID-19 and the violent unrest.

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and the department said that they had suffered tens of millions of rands worth of damage to property.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has outlined its expectations from the inquiry into the unrest that saw over 300 people dead and hundreds of properties damaged.

The party has held a media briefing outlining its expectations from the planned inquiry.

The committees were meeting to discuss an inquiry into the violence and looting that devastated KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.

A panel led by Justice Dikgang Moseneke recommended polls not be moved later than February.

On Thursday, Commissioner Khehla Sitole and Police Minister Bheki Cele briefed Members of Parliament (MPs) on stability in the South African Police Service (SAPS).

Police say stability within SAPS and the restructuring process in the department is affecting stability in the fight against crime.

The court found that Parliament failed to carry out its constitutional obligation to pass legislation giving effect to the removal of the Public Protector, the Auditor-General and members of commissions established.

The amount was confirmed by President Cyril Ramaphosa, who wrote to Parliament informing the legislature that he had authorised the deployment of soldiers.

The Arts and Culture Department’s Vusithemba Ndima said that the policy would not only cover South African's who died abroad but would also focus on heritage objects that were stolen from the country.

Economist Dick Forslund also said government should consider making it more permanent.

Acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni issued the warning after 20 people in the area were murdered in the area during the recent criminal rampage.

Member of Parliament (MP) Cedric Frolick said that this process must start 'immediately'. He told Eyewitness News that this followed oversight visits in areas ravaged by the violence.

Acting Health Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi and officials from the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) on Wednesday told parliamentarians that there were reports of breakthrough infections after people were inoculated with Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson vaccines.

The authority is also taking a closer look at breakthrough infections in people already vaccinated.

IEC inquiry chairperson, former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, said that it was not possible that the elections scheduled for October would be free and fair. He said that COVID-19 restrictions would not only affect political parties and their campaigning efforts but also voters.

This follows days of submissions from political parties and various organisations of whether the elections should be held or not during the COVID pandemic.