Traffic was heavily backed up on the route near the N1 South off-ramp in Bryanston on Thursday afternoon after police closed off part of the street to attend to the crime scene.

Civil organisation Defend Our Democracy said that observing electoral processes would go a long way in maintaining the integrity of the voting system.

Mistaking it for the Children’s Memorial Institute, City Power incorrectly listed the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital as being among the facilities at risk of getting its electricity supply cut off due to non-payment.

The residents have taken to the streets over prolonged power outages that have left residents without electricity for at least 30 hours at a time.

Households and businesses have been forced to endure longer bouts of rolling power cuts as the utility struggles to keep the lights on.

The Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital has welcomed a formal correction from City Power after the power utility falsely announced that the hospital owed R47 million in electricity bills.

The funding scheme says there is an app falsely operating under its name, asking students to submit their personal information, that its teams are working hard to take down.

The rise of AI on social media has led to a 'blurred line' between what's real and what's fake and the dictionary says while the word has had a high number of searches in previous years, it saw a substantial increase in 2023.

Despite challenges with the online system in recent years, during the first few days of applications, NSFAS said that this year, things were going well.

The utility said that there had been an increase in electricity demand which could not be met due to insufficient generating capacity.

In a ruling handed down earlier this month, the Johannesburg High Court declared Brink’s appointment as city manager unconstitutional and invalid.

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has appointed Nomsa Chabeli as its new group chief executive officer (CEO) after four months of the public broadcaster being without a CEO.

The man was arrested on Friday morning and will appear on a murder charge at the Durban Magistrates Court.

The minister said with some generating units expected to return to service during the week, there would be more generating capacity, allowing for lower stages of load shedding. there will be more capacity on the power grid, which would also allow some days to have load shedding suspended.

This comes days after two bodies were recovered from the Kliprivier in Olifantsvlei. The 18- and 21-year-olds were washed away during a cleansing ceremony.

Briefing the media on Sunday, Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said: 'I want to repeat on record, we were never at Stage 8; we were on Stage 6.'

Eskom said Stage 4 will kick in from 12:00 on Sunday to 05:00 on Monday, thereafter, Stage 3 and 4 will alternate until Thursday.

The hot weather conditions were set to end this weekend, however, the weather service said Gauteng residents will have to contend with the heat for a while further.