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.

Scores of patients are being evacuated from the facility in Johannesburg as firefighters from across the province battle the blaze which has swept through several parts of the hospital.

Spokesperson Kwara Kekana said patients were being relocated, and details about the number of patients that have so far been moved to neighbouring hospitals would be confirmed later on Saturday.

The recovery rate was at a steady 95%, which meant that over 1,488,000 people had recuperated.

Sixty emergency personnel were on the scene dousing a fire that was reignited on Friday night and has been blazing for more than 11 hours.

Gauteng has reported the most deaths, recording 11 fatalities in the latest cycle. It is followed by Mpumalanga with eight, and KZN and Free State with five deaths respectively. One death was recorded in the Eastern Cape.

The investigations come after Eskom COO Solly Tshitangano alleged that de Ruyter subverted proper supply chain policies in order to make irregular appointments which he did not support as the chief procurement officer.

The Department of Health on Saturday night said 777 new cases had also been picked in the same day pushing our known caseload to more than 1,551,00.

This comes after SAA Technical staff was not paid while Air Chefs staff have not been paid since March last year.