Motorists have been warned to brace themselves for record-high increases which will see them pay about R17 for a litre of petrol. The increases come into force at midnight.

Dr Van Zyl has been battling COVID-19-related complications in hospital for weeks now.

The former president has made no secret of his disdain for the country’s judiciary; however, he took his discontent a step further in the meeting he had with the ANC leaders, including President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Premier Makhura’s spokesperson Vuyo Mhaga would not be drawn into discussing whether the provincial head will be looking into this audio recording.

As traffic volumes increase on the country’s major highways, Gauteng law enforcement officials pleaded with motorists to exercise extra caution.

Zuma also decried what he said was a difficulty in meeting with Ramaphosa but said he had no “difficulty” meeting with the officials.

This follows government’s victory at the Labour Court last year after unions challenged its decision to unilaterally withdraw from the wage agreement.

As Treasury aims to cut R300 billion from the public sector wage bill, determining the sum to offer workers this year is undoubtedly a mammoth task.

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini -Zuma said they had learnt that when there was increased movement of people, the likelihood of the spread of COVID-19 became higher.

According to the new regulations, alcohol can be sold on-site in licensed premises but off-site sales are not allowed until next Tuesday.

The Political Party Funding Act prohibits a political party member from receiving a donation other than on behalf of their political party. The act also prevents foreign governments and agencies, organs of state and state-owned enterprises from donating to political parties.

The act will regulate public and private funding of political parties represented in the national and provincial legislatures.

The quarter-on-quarter employment statistics do not paint as grim a picture as the figures for the year-on-year comparisons, which show just how deep the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among other factors has been on the labour market.

They said they planned to withdraw from working overtime from next month.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said government leaders have not been 'sleeping on the job' despite losing what he said is 'a little time'.

Two years ago, President Cyril Ramaphosa reconfigured the department, which formerly only focused on labour to include employment in its core deliverables.

Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi said that had trade union shop stewards been effective, trucking employers hiring foreign nationals at the expense of locals would have been dealt with before it became a crisis.

Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has urged the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) to make do with what it had as pressure mounted for the entity’s budget cuts to be reversed.