On Friday, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan announced Takatso Consortium as a new strategic equity partner for the state-owned airline, SAA.

While no load shedding is anticipated, for now, the embattled state-owned entity said its power system was under severe strain as the shortage of generation capacity persists.

A statement by the NC education department said 180 pupils, 62 teachers, and 22 support staff at schools tested positive for the virus this past week.

According to the 'Business Times', some of the country's largest employers were looking to ramp up the numbers by opening an initial 89 workplace sites that could vaccinate 24,300 people in a day.

At the same time, 123 COVID-related fatalities have been reported in the last 24-hour cycle, bringing our death toll to 56,293.

Zozi – as she is affectionately known – became the third South African to win the title and this year, Miss Universe South Africa Natasha Joubert is hoping to become the fourth.

A list of nearly 3,000 accredited sites will be announced on Sunday night as the country prepares to rollout phase 1 b and phase 2 of the vaccination programme.

The recovery rate is at 94.5% - meaning over 1, 523,000 people had recuperated from the virus since the outbreak.

The power utility said its network was overloaded as a result of illegal electricity activities across high-density areas in the province.

The victims - a man, a woman and two children - died on the scene, while the truck driver sustained no injuries

The health department says 1,623 new cases were also picked up in the same day.

Princess Ntandoyenkosi and Princess Ntombizosuthu claim that the will in the possession of the royal family's lawyer, Jerome Ngwenya, might be fake and want its authenticity to be fully tested.

About 31 of 45 trial awaiting prisoners initially escaped from a police truck in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday.

The health department said 1,385 new cases were picked up, which brought the known caseload to over 1,574,000.

The Star reported this week that the Free State education department awarded a tender to Ramaphosa’s former company Shanduka to build schools.

Madikizela was suspended this week after it emerged that he lied about holding a B.Com degree in human resource management and a certificate in information technology.

The department also reported 1,326 new infections that were also picked up in the last 24-hour cycle, pushing our known caseload to more than 1,565,000.

The pupils were killed after a bakkie they had hitched hiked on their way back from school lost control and hit a house at Ximixoni village in Malamulele.