A 13.3% drop in new car sales has been recorded in February compared to the same period a year ago.

The COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access platform, also known as Covax last week delivered 600,000 units of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Ghana and 504,000 to the Ivory Coast.

Medical experts have said living under sustained COVID-19 pandemic conditions, coupled with the demands from everyday life, can lead to chronic stress and eventually, burnout.

The former state security minister was charged over allegations that he offered a bribe to former parliamentary legal advisor advocate Ntuthuzelo Vanara.

It’s understood the move comes after Advocate Johan van Aswegen learned Kilian submitted fake certification documents to back his claim that he’s a legally registered private investigator.

Zane Kilian is accused of tracing the Anti-Gang Unit member's cellphone until the day he was shot outside his Bishop Lavis home in September.

He'd been accused of allegedly offering a bribe to Eskom inquiry evidence leader Ntuthuzelo Vanara in October 2017.

His department has so far spent R69.4 million funding COVID-19 research and innovation. About 21 projects are sustained through this investment.

Through this platform, more than 32,000 health workers in South Africa had already been inoculated since the programme was launched a week ago.

Nowa Makula (32) faces six charges of murder for allegedly hacking to death his wife and her five children in Dabekweni in the Eastern Cape last November.

During a press briefing on Monday afternoon, WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus, said some rich countries are approaching manufacturers to secure more vaccines, which affects deals the health body had with Covax.

Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, a co-lead for the clinical trial, said that the vaccine rollout had boosted morale amongst health workers.

The industry body said the city has lost up to R2 billion as a result of heightened lockdown restrictions ushered in over the December holiday period.

The city’s official tourism body released a report on Friday detailing that just under 12,000 job losses were also recorded over this time as a result of tighter lockdown rules introduced on 28 December.

The National Health Department said that more than 400,000 health workers had so far registered to receive the vaccine.

Sister Zoliswa Gidi-Dyosi was in high spirits and said she did not have any side-effects after being vaccinated on Wednesday.

They were inoculated at Khayelitsha District Hospital on Wednesday.

South Africa has taken a big step in the fight against COVID-19 with a vaccination plan conceived weeks ago delivering the first inoculations at the Khayelitsha District Hospital in the Western Cape.