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.

Police Minister Bheki Cele was speaking at the funeral of Officer Siphesihle Cele in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday, who was shot dead while attending to complaints of a man carrying a firearm at a tavern in Empangeni.

Despite the hot weather conditions in Johannesburg, consumers were ready to part ways with their money.

Hundreds of people are still lined up outside the Woodmead Value Mart looking to get their hands on cheap sneakers and branded clothing.

It seems Black Friday is not just for locals looking to save on things they have wanted all year, but it also brings in people from other countries, who travel to South Africa specifically for this day.