Colonel Jabulani Ndawonde from the Ndwedwe police station was attacked at the Bhamshela taxi rank on Monday night.

On Sunday, it will be a month since the 24-year-old plunged to her death from the 13th floor of a flat in Hangzhou, China.

Pandor has called on the international community to stop the impunity while South Africa supports the International Criminal Court in its planned investigation into the latest deadly conflict in Gaza that’s claimed the lives of close to 250 Palestinians and at least 12 Israelis.

A bus fire killed six people and left more than 50 others injured on the notorious Moloto Road in Pretoria on Friday.

On Friday night, government released the draft Firearms Control Amendment Bill. If it is signed into law, it could bar South African citizens from obtaining a gun licence for self-defence and hunting.

A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed after a security guard fired a warning shot at the mob that was attempting to loot a business.

With the aim to vaccinate five million healthcare workers by the end of next month, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said that the vaccination process would pick up soon as more sites and more vaccines became available.

At the Munsieville care centre for the aged in Krugersdorp, the elderly waited on plastic chairs in a queue, before being screened, registered and taken to the hall in preparation for their Pfizer jab taken out of a cooler box.

Earlier, Mkhize and Gauteng Premier David Makhura were at the Munsieville Care Centre for the Aged in Krugersdorp where they witnessed how some of the elderly received their first Pfizer jabs.

In Gauteng, government is hoping to vaccinate 1.3 million senior citizens, which means 36,000 people a day.

The stage two blackouts are expected to last until Tuesday night but as always, there’s no guarantee.

Fanned out across nine provinces and 87 sites, healthcare workers and those licensed to administer vaccines will start with the mammoth task which will kick off mostly at old age homes.

As the Sisonke vaccine trial nears the end, many who had already registered were still waiting to get their jabs, and there were more claims of those with access slotting in their families and friends who do not as yet qualify to get vaccinated.

The union and staff at South African Airways (SAA) have been served with Section 189 notices informing them that they were considering possibly retrenching about 1,203 employees.

In 2017, 25-year-old Kemal Zita – a Varado gang member – shot and killed a man while wounding many others, a few days later he killed another man and wounded several others again during a shooting in Westbury.

The Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto has been inoculating health care workers and its CEO, Dr Nkele Lesia, said more needs to be done to educate the public to ensure they turnout at the vaccination sites.

There was confusion and frustration from those queuing outside the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital earlier on Thursday after they were not able to get their vaccinations on Wednesday due to an influx of people at the facility.