Residents also urged police management to deploy more resources to the area.

South Africans have been urged to register, update or verify their details ahead of the November local government elections.

The National Health Department said that 19.5% of the country's adult population had so far been fully vaccinated.

Health Minister Joe Phaahla addressed the issue on Friday while giving an update on the COVID-19 pandemic and the mass immunisation programme.

The minister was giving an update on government interventions to rein in further spread of the coronavirus as well as their targets regarding South Africa's mass COVID-19 immunisation programme.

WHO officials said that the 470 million coronavirus vaccine doses expected to arrive in Africa via the Covax mechanism by December this year were enough to vaccinate just 17% of the continent's population.

People alerted police after they spotted the bodies of the two women and a man, all with gunshot wounds, in the water on Thursday morning.

The DA believed allowing provincial governments to have more control over policing management will help to combat gender-based violence and other violent crimes.

Director of the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Doctor John Nkengasong, stressed that access to vaccines was the only way that the COVID-19 pandemic could be collectively ended.

Musicians took up positions in front of Groote Schuur Hospital's main entrance for a lunch hour outdoor concert.

Deputy State Security Minister Zizi Kodwa said that people need not be concerned over a possible repeat of the unrest that ravaged Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal in July.

The WHO's target is to have 40% of all countries' population vaccinated by the end of this year and 70% of the world's population by the middle of next year.

The three-day lekgotla will be attended by the president, his deputy, ministers, premiers and others.

The woman’s car was allegedly torched by her boyfriend - who’s been taken into custody.

Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato said that the only way to move beyond the pandemic and the national lockdown was to greatly expand the country’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

The regulator, the Health Department and other scientific bodies have been reporting on adverse events following immunisation.

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde welcomed the easing of lockdown regulations as a first step to help the economy.

Under this level, the curfew has been pushed back and is now from 11 pm until 4 am and you can also buy alcohol for off-site consumption on Fridays now.