The Council for Geo-Science has confirmed preliminary data but is assessing what most people woke up to with the earth shaking just after 6:30 on Friday morning.

Companies have also approached the South African Human Rights Commission for clarity and guidance on the matter.

Sichelesile Dube had been waiting in a wheelchair on Monday, and her lifeless body was only discovered by her shocked mother the next day in the exact spot where had left her.

Johannesburg mother Nqobile Dube arrived to the traumatic scene of her daughter, 26-year-old Sichelesile, dead in the waiting room of a hospital on Tuesday – 24 hours after arriving - and is reaching out to anyone with loved ones at Helen Joseph Hospital to check up on them. Dube alleges that her daughter might have died due to neglect. #HelenJosephHospital #PublicHealth #NHI

A Johannesburg mother claims that staff at the Helen Joseph Hospital ignored her daughter, ending in her finding her dead in the same spot she had left her.

Unicef's head of communications Toby Fricker said they'd also be meeting with Premier Sihle Zikalala.

Government is aiming to jab up to 300,000 people per day nationally by next month and here in Gauteng, the target is 100,000 vaccinations every 24 hours in the province.

While the Commission for Gender Equality condemned the looting as criminal acts, it was outraged by the videos seen on social media where women were allegedly made to swim in liquid that appeared to be water or alcohol at a mall in Pretoria.

The trade union federation said that there were other avenues available to employers instead of going the extreme route of sacking unvaccinated employees.

Government wants to ramp up progress by administering over 100,000 jabs a day in the province over the next two months.

Government aims to increase its pace to get as many as 100,000 people jabbed per day while also planning to increase its capacity.

Premier David Makhura said that Gauteng wanted to also increase the vaccination sites, especially in the public sector to more than 500.

Health experts are warning that while the COVID-19 vaccine programme has picked up pace, we could still face a fourth wave of infections in the lead up to the Christmas holidays.

The department's Nicholas Crisp said that they were hoping that their plan to get as many as 35 million people jabbed by the end of the year would be exceeded.

South Africa, like various parts of the world, has been on lockdown since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak. Eyewitness News takes a look at the impact lockdowns have on children and their mental health now and in the future.

Experts are saying they're seeing a lot more requests for children to talk about anxiety. And government is worried the dangers this poses may become too big for us to handle.

Only a small number of cans were actually affected, but the company said that it had issued the recall in the interest of quality and food safety.

There are worries that the devastating impact that the fatal riots have had on trade, would also have far-reaching consequences if government did not play its role in restoring trust in the country's logistics system.