Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Sunday gave a briefing on plans to return more than a 150 South Africans home and place them in quarantine.

Last week, the council was also supposed to elect a new executive mayor and the DA failed to extend the contract of the acting city manager.

Following President Cyril Rampahosa's directive, of the 201 South Africans in Wuhan, 151 want to be repatriated and 16 have opted to stay.

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said following the President's directive, of the 201 citizens in Wuhan, 151 want to be evacuated and 16 have opted to stay.

In an exclusive interview with Eyewitness News, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina revealed that the bank will hold an emergency meeting next week to look at how to further support countries on the continent.

Addressing the launch of the party’s new online membership system in Sebokeng, Magashule said the party’s NEC has decided that members can support former President Jacob Zuma.

The regulator has urged the public to return 12 brands of tinned pilchards in tomato and chili sauce manufactured by West Point Processors.

Speaker Sephiri Motanyane had to appease the opposition, which was demanding a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Tom Thabane before the budget was tabled.

Lesotho Primer Minister Tom Thabane said instead that members of parliament should praise him for leaving office, unlike some African leaders.

This was to give time to the Constitutional Court to decide whether Metsing can be charged despite a SADC agreement for temporary amnesty.

The prime minister appeared briefly in court on Monday where his lawyer asked the magistrate to refer the matter for constitutional interpretation.

Thabane's office said he left for South Africa early on Friday morning to seek emergency medical attention.

Sibolla fled Lesotho when police started questioning first lady, Maesiah Thabane, on the 2017 killing of the prime minister’s estranged wife Lipolelo.

Metsing fled to South Africa previously when Prime Minister Tom Thabane's government first made attempts to charge him.

Police were expecting Thabane to appear before the Maseru magistrates court but he did not arrive.

Tom Thabane is expected in court where he will be charged with murder, attempted murder, and malicious damage to property.

Thabane is expected to appear at the Maseru magistrates court on Friday morning where he will appear and be charged with murder.

On Wednesday, the national executive committee of Tom Thabane’s party, the ABC, gave him an ultimatum to resign by Thursday while the opposition threatened to block the budget if he did not.