Bonginkosi Madikizela handed in his resignation as Western Cape Transport and Public Works MEC on Wednesday after admitting to lying about his tertiary education qualifications on his CV.

The national vaccine registration portal opened for people aged 60 and older last week.

The country's fiscus loses hundreds of millions each year to sophisticated syndicates who illegally exploit the natural resource and experts said that despite ongoing busts, poaching had gotten worse in the last five years.

The lack of burial space for the Muslim community in Caledon means people are forced to bury their loved ones outside of their hometown – at great emotional and financial cost.

Three people who confessed to being behind the failed hit on defense lawyer William Booth in April 2020 were sentenced yesterday.

The lawyer was shot at outside his Higgovale home in April last year, but his attackers missed.

Police on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old man, who joins three others, including two minors, who were apprehended shortly after the attack on 66-year-old Lourens De Villiers last week.

Students have been protesting over various issues, including financial exclusion, a lack of NSFAS funding and transport allowance.

The team at UCT Libraries has confirmed that the archival and published print collections kept within the Reading Room were consumed by the flames.

ANC councillor Mthetheleli Kolela and Noxolo Tshaka appeared at the East London Magistrates' Court on Tuesday after they were arrested by the Hawks earlier in the day.

The University of Cape Town (UCT) bore the brunt of the disaster, with several buildings damaged in the blaze.

Another teenage boy was also wounded in the attack.

The Khayelitsha Regional Court handed down suspended sentences to six people arrested in the Western Cape and Gauteng in February last year.

Weather Service forecaster Henning Grobler said things were finally looking up for firefighters who had been battling fires since Sunday.

Table Mountain National Parks' fire manager, Philip Prins, said that they were hoping for better weather conditions to make firefighting efforts easier.

The blaze broke out near Rhodes Memorial on Sunday and spread to the university.

The raging fires in Cape Town gutted several structures, including the Jagger Library of the University of Cape Town. Here’s what left of the Reading Room of the library. #CapeTownFires #UCT #JaggerLibrary

The National Prosecuting Authority said Phalo Sixishe faced 170 counts of fraud, which amounted to just over R675,000.