Domestic

Opposition parties welcome Constitutional Court’s dismissal of challenge to the Electoral Amendment Act.

Following recent intense load shedding with erratic changes in stages and a terrible outlook for the next 52 weeks, the Gauteng division of the High Court delivered a judgment on Friday pointing the finger for the current electricity crisis squarely at the ANC government.

The new established Border Management Authority of South-Africa conducted a sting operation at the Beitbridge Border post on Saturday where 443 children, traveling without guardians were denied entry into the country.

The body of a woman, estimated to be in her thirties was discovered at an open field near the Ficksburg Correctional Centre on Friday. WO Mophiring says an official from the DCS summoned police to Veldt Street after discovering the body at the corner of their facility.

Police in Ficksburg in the Free State are investigating a murder after a decomposed body was discovered inside a plastic bag, floating in a small dam at the Ficksburg Golf Club on Saturday. Spokesperson Warrant Officer Mmako Mophiring says police received a complaint from the community about a suspicious white plastic bag floating inside the dam.

Two people were killed and three others injured following a head-on collision on the N2 near Butterworth on Saturday. Provincial Traffic Spokesperson Unathi Binqose says a Toyota Corolla with four occupants travelling from Idutywa collided with a Nissan truck, travelling from the Butterworth direction.

ActionSA welcomed a 'landmark' judgment declaring that load shedding was a result of government failure and was unconstitutional.

Motorists will be able to breathe a sigh of relief after the Department of Minerals and Energy said all grades of petrol and diesel will drop in December.

Once known as a flagship school for learners with severe disabilities, the Ikhwezi Lokusa Special School in Mthatha is now a shadow of its former self. The school has been marred in controversy amid widespread allegations of neglect and abuse of the vulnerable learners at the facility.