The province's Finance and Economic Opportunities Department said that the fund would provide help in the form of grants to both formal and informal businesses.

'I really can't complain about the lack of political support and also the flip side of that, political interference,' Eskom chief executive officer Andre de Ruyter said.

The unit is looking into contracts signed during the coronavirus outbreak for the provision of services and goods like personal protective gear.

The party’s Daylin Mitchell said he had written to provincial Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela to give more details on just how bad the problem was.

Last Friday, a man was arrested in the Pretoria area in an operation involving the SAPS, the passenger rail agency, Telkom and Tshwane metro police officials while three men were arrested in Mpumalanga in a separate operation.

The party intends raising the issue with the chairperson of Parliament's portfolio committee on sports, arts, and culture.

It is part of an agreement struck between company and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) following a meeting on Thursday.

The bodies of three women and a man have been discovered in different parts of the city, with police calling for the public’s help in their investigations.

Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu on Thursday gave a briefing on the outcome of this week’s Cabinet meeting, and corruption appeared to have featured prominently at the gathering.

The police portfolio committee said it was concerned by what it calls the municipality's flagrant disregard for its oversight role adding it's undermining the Constitution.

One person has been arrested after olice responded to a shootout there earlier on Friday morning. The motive is not yet clear.

It says too many businesses have been decimated by COVID-19 and the lockdown.

She was last seen by her mother as she boarded a school taxi to go to school in Mitchells Plain.

A father who raped and impregnated his daughter, and two murder convicts will spend many years behind bars for their crimes after the PE High Court sentenced them on Wednesday.

BLSA’s Tebele Luthuli said in order to save the country's battered economy, government needs to get every cent it can from tax revenue.

The gist of its argument is: the ban is sinking the country's entire tobacco industry, which means jobs are at risk and tax revenue is being dealt a blow.

Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said that government would regularly evaluate the ban as it wants to limit the impact it's having on the economy and livelihoods.

That is the view of the South African Medical Association which said on Wednesday graft claims relating to medical supply tenders were unsettling and damaged the country’s ability to care for the sick.