The department said that it had received numerous reports of vouchers being exchanged for cash, which defeated the initial purpose for these coupons.

Venetia Orgill - who feeds hundreds of homeless people in the CBD - said she knew Zandile Mafe and believed he was not capable of committing such a crime.

People who get married or change their surname at the Department of Home Affairs are advised to update their details.

The primary school pupil was abducted outside her school in November last year while she was waiting in line to be sanitised and screened. Law enforcement officials rescued her on Tuesday night from a house in Soweto.

This follows a string of vandalism incidents at the Tirelong Secondary School near Rustenburg.

She was taken in November outside her school at gunpoint, while she was waiting in line to be sanitised and screened for COVID-19.

She was taken outside the E.P. Bauman Primary School on the 17 November last year.

People were arrested for possession of illegal firearms, drunken driving, dealing in drugs, being in possession of suspected stolen vehicles and being in the country illegally.

South Africa lost a number of veteran leaders and politicians in 2021.

The city's disaster management centre said most of the affected areas are in Hammanskraal.

The riverbank was flooded following Monday’s heavy down pours across Gauteng.

The Vaal Dam supplying mostly Gauteng is at 107% capacity.

City Power said that the area would remain without electricity until technicians were able to either fix or replace a burnt cable.

His tireless work to create a democratic and just society without racial division in South Africa has made Archbishop Desmond Tutu a beacon for human rights who never shied away from speaking up for the oppressed.

As tributes continue, the commission's Chris Nissen said Tutu would have wanted the world to continue fighting the good fight.

The special pop-up channel will air on Dstv on channel 199 from Sunday evening.

The NICD says South Africa has recorded close to 15,000 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24-hour cycle.

The ActionSA leader added that people should take care of themselves. This as the country experienced a deadly start to the festive season.