The governing party and its alliance partners the South African Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Unions held a briefing on Thursday afternoon after their meeting.

Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said public hearings would resume at the end of June.

Ekurhuleni Mayor Mzwandile Masina has dared the ANC to fire him after the party released a statement rebuking him for his comments on Twitter, in which he voiced his support for EFF leader Julius Malema on Sunday.

The president said he should have been the one to announce the overturning of the decision.

"I see a good future for SAA, and similarly, I see even a better one for Eskom."

"Having moved from a lockdown to intensive public health management is quite a shift."

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni announced Sithole’s appointment on Wednesday, who is now the first permanent CEO since Dan Matjila who resigned under a cloud in 2018.

An SANDF report said that that the Khosa's altercation with the soldiers didn’t cause his death as they merely pushed him to force him to comply with officers.

‘I can assure you after we’ve been out of level 3, I don’t see the ban on the sale of cigarettes continuing,' said Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu.

There is now scepticism and fear that allowing these religious gatherings to resume will allow the coronavirus to spread rapidly.

The former president faces charges linked to the multi-billion-rand arms deal.

Jacob Zuma’s legal team claims that Judge Achmat Jappie sent an email to the NPA asking about the expected duration of the trial and the proposed date.

Last week, the party's federal executive council resolved to hold the online congress on 31 October this year.

Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu's department has been criticised because it only managed to pay 10 people in the past two weeks.

Unemployed South Africans are desperate for the money and the Department of Social Development seems to be struggling with the distribution of the fund.

This after Glenda Gray gave an interview in which she criticised aspects of the national lockdown, saying they were unscientific.

The union raised a number of concerns including that there were inadequate guidelines on who would be managing the process of conducting screenings for pupils once they returned to class.

But with more than 22,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country, the president warned South Africans the worst was yet to come.