In the last 24-hour cycle, officials confirmed another 1,761 infections and 43 more COVID-19-related deaths.

President Ramaphosa issued the formal rebuke to the minister after it emerged Mapisa-Nqakula allowed a senior ANC delegation to catch a lift on a South African National Defence force jet to the neighbouring country earlier this month.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has given Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula 48 hours to explain why she shared a flight with the ANC delegation.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced sweeping amendments to lockdown regulations on Saturday night, including a lift on the ban on tobacco and alcohol sales.

The Western Cape remains the country's epicentre with almost 39,000 reported infections and 1,005 COVID-19 related deaths.

Chief Electoral Officer Sy Mamobolo said South Africans are going to have to start rethinking ways of going to the polls.

The total number of cases confirmed since the virus was first detected in South Africa now stands at 1170, with the country recording its first death as a result of the virus.

The struggling power utility says despite some of its units returning to service on Friday night, they have has to accommodate the shortage of capacity and replenish reserves.

The 39-year-old opened a case of armed robbery at cape town central police station this week, claiming officers had robbed him of more than R560,000 and three cellphones.

The DA said national and provincial government was sitting on invoices worth more than R7 billion all of which were older than 30 days.

This follows a court ruling on Friday. Two Gauteng health service providers were ordered to return more than R630,000.

The minister was responding to the mugging and murder of a Ukrainian tourist on the mountain in Hout Bay last weekend.

The fire started on the Groenlandberg mountain earlier this week and was fanned by overnight winds, damaging some farm properties on Saturday morning.

Overberg fire chief Reinhardt Geldenhuys says officials waterbombed the area on Friday afternoon.

During a visit to the beach on Friday, Plato told journalists he needs to conduct a thorough investigation into what happened on Clifton fourth.

The Western Cape African National Congress (ANC) is supporting the planned sit-in on the beach to protest action by a private security company.

The airport operations centre detected a group of people trying to snatch a passenger's bag, police and airport security were then deployed to the scene.

Three train stations, Mbekweni in Paarl, Firgrove near Somerset West and Cape Town, were affected by fires on Friday.