Taxpayers have been expressing their shock on social media - with many saying a basic grasp of computer skills should be the bare minimum when it comes to a councillor's skill set.
Eskom CEO André De Ruyter said some lines that fed electricity to the power station's coal conveyer-belt were cut.
These latest fatalities have pushed the country’s death toll to a grim 89,555.
To date, 24 .3 million vaccines have been administered in the country but many people still need to go and get their second Pfizer jabs.
Seventeen people have been hurt, four of them critically in an accident on the R554 in Eikenhof.
Fifteen more people have died in the country after contracting the virus. These fatalities, recorded over the past 24 hours, take the country's known death toll to 89,504.
Sadly, five deaths were also recorded over the past 24-hour cycle, taking our official death toll to 89,489.
These fatalities - recorded over the past 24 hours - take the country's official death toll to 89,484.
Over the past 24-hour cycle, 356 tests also came back positive - it's 51 fewer infections compared to the previous day.
The latest fatalities take the country's known death toll to 89,435 since the start of the pandemic.
Over the past 24-hour reporting cycle, 245 tests also came back positive - it's more than double the previous day's tally.
City Power said on Tuesday that the current bout of Eskom's load shedding was wreaking havoc on its operations.
Criminals have broken into the Hawks' serious organised crime offices in Port Shepstone where they've stolen R200 million worth of confiscated cocaine.
These latest fatalities take our known death toll since the start of the pandemic to 89,332.
The number of completed municipalities now stands at 111 from a total of 257.
The party said that he was gunned down in a hail of bullets on Thursday morning while opening his office in Cato Ridge.
It is understood that the taxi collided with an SUV.
Over the past 24 hours, 591 more tests also came back positive, with the country's known caseload since the start of the coronavirus pandemic at over 2.9 million.
