The president was reacting to calls by some opposition parties, including the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), who said that the elections had the potential to be a COVID-19 super-spreader event if held this year.
Head office operations are currently spread between Johannesburg and Durban and stakeholders, and some government authorities want it to stay that way.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula, KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala and eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda are expected to join the president.
Cele on Wednesday addressed the media during an oversight visit in Pietermaritzburg.
Jacob Zuma has been fighting to remain on the taxpayer’s bill to pick up his personal legal costs for his corruption trial. But the SCA has agreed with an earlier High Court judgement that there was no legal basis for this.
It was the DA and the EFF who started the legal battle over the funding of Zuma's legal matters with the parties arguing that it was unlawful.
Education MEC Kwazi Mshengu has on Tuesday revealed that the Harry Gwala District director Sindi Zakuza-Njakazi masterminded the irregular appointment of the Boniwe Rehabilitation Centre in Umzinto to host a matric boot camp during the COVID-19 second wave late last year.
In December last year, Muhammed Vahed Ebrahim was found guilty of the premeditated murder of Miguel Louw.
In December, Muhammed Vahed Ebrahim was found guilty of the premeditated murder of Miguel Louw.
Lectures were expected to start on Monday but have now been moved to a later date due to an ongoing impasse between the SRC and management.
KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Kwazi Mshengu has now stepped in.
The SRC at the institution has vowed to sustain protests in a bid to force the university to clear all eligible students for registration, as well as grant funding and academic certificates to postgraduate students regardless of historical debt.
On Thursday, a small group of students staged demonstrations over registration and funding issues, which they claim have been raised since February.
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa addressed an event at the Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday to commemorate Maxeke’s 150th birthday. He used the platform to lambast indiscipline and corruption by some members of the ANC.
Frank Mdlalose succumbed to COVID-19 related complications on Sunday.
Ramaphosa said women had consistently shown that if given the opportunity, they could play an important role in the country’s development.
This comes after a move by the South African Civil Aviation Authority to downgrade the Polokwane airport to category two, which is below the minimum level required for scheduled commercial air services.
Thousands of students, many of them not wearing their face masks properly, converged on the university's Durban and Pietermaritzburg campuses on Tuesday, overwhelming security officers. They were trying to secure admission and register for the current academic year.
