Domestic

Three suspects appeared in a Northern Cape court for being in the possession of unpolished diamonds.

Woolworths has, with immediate effect, recalled batches of its chicken viennas with the sell by date 27 May 2023. These include the retailer’s Smoked Chicken Viennas, Cocktail Chicken Viennas, and Halaal Smoked Chicken Viennas that is says have been cross-contaminated with dairy traces.

The National Department of Transport has moved to set the record straight on the approval of an application to grant Karpowership access to the three ports for a period of 20 years.

A 45-year-old Kwazulu Natal woman and her 25-year-old daughter have been jailed for life following the conviction for the kidnapping and murder of a woman and her daughter.

The acting CEO of the embattled power utility Eskom said while the possibility of Stage 8 loadshedding being implemented this coming winter is “extremely likely” – a complete shutdown of the national electricity grid is not. Addressing a media briefing on Thursday morning, acting Eskom boss Calib Cassim did however concede that a “difficult” winter was in store for South Africans, and said the country was going into the colder months with less than 3,000 MW of power.  

The International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) has introduced substantial import duties on imported frozen potato chips from three European countries to prevent further dumping on the South African Customs Union (Sacu) market. The final duties against Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany range between 8.8% and 239% and will be effective for the next five years.

Amnesty International has slammed the Department of Basic Education after the latest Reading Literacy Study found that 80% of Grade 4’s in South Africa cannot read for meaning.

A 38-year-old man who was arrested in Gqeberha in connection with the murder of a farmer in Rouxville in the Free State, appeared in the court on Wednesday.

The Department of Health in KZN says it has no record at any of its facilities of a woman who claims to have woken up inside a Durban mortuary after being certified dead by doctors. The woman told a local publication that doctors at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital certified her death last month.