Ntuthuko Shoba was arrested after his alleged accomplice, Muzikayise Malephane - the man who admitted to killing Pule, had implicated him.

There have also been 1,404 new infections over the past 24 hours, meaning the country's known caseload now stands at 1 517 666.

The service monitoring platform Downdetector shows that the outage was first reported just before 7.30 pm in Gauteng, Cape Town and Durban.

This means the Department of Health met its target of exhausting the first batch of 80,000 Johnson and Johnson coronavirus vaccines.

Eskom said it had dispatched technicians to fix the fault but it was not able to give an estimated time of restoration yet.

The department said 856 more infections were also picked up over the 24-hour period, taking South Africa's caseload to 1 514 815.

According to the latest data released by the Department of Health, 566 infections were also picked up over the past 24 hours.

The alliance is questioning whether allowing alcohol sales to resume as normal is wise with several public holidays coming up.

These latest fatalties, recorded overnight, have pushed our national death toll to 48,708.

The winter storm and lengthy cold snap have crippled power facilities in Texas and have caused outages, leaving about 2.3 million residents in the cold and dark for several days.

The latest deaths bring the national death toll to 48,478.

Sanef said its worried about the ethical breaches in the opinion piece, which undermines the work currently being done to rebuild trust between the media and the public.

The service has sent out an alert as a sulphur stench continued to hang over the province, warning that the elderly, children, asthmatics, and people with lung and heart disease would be vulnerable.

These latest fatalities, recorded over the past 24 hours, have pushed our national death toll to 48,313.

Frontline workers are first in line to receive the jabs, which will be transported to state hospitals under military guard once they arrive.

African National Congress (ANC) veteran Mavuso Msimang said that his party was in a difficult state and should be embarrassed that Jacob Zuma refused to show up at the state capture commission of inquiry.

If the hotel receives a guest with COVID-19 symptoms, a robot can be sent instead of actual people.

One hundred and ninety-five more people have died in South Africa after contracting the coronavirus, pushing our national death toll to 48,094.