Domestic

Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen said he would be asking tough questions in Parliament about what he said was President Cyril Ramaphosa’s failed PR stunt to Ukraine and Russia.

Former Springbok flyhalf and Bulls legend, Derick Hougaard, is receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a Tshwane hospital after he fell ill a week ago.

It’s the first time in a decade the power utility and its unions have reached a wage agreement without industrial action.

Police in Mbombela are searching for suspects who damaged essential infrastructure belonging to Transnet, which resulted in fuel loss. A spokesperson for police Colonel Donald Mdhluli says the incident was reported to local security who noticed an unknown liquid spraying at a farm on Thursday.

Five suspects have been shot and killed in Mariannhill, west of Durban.

Since 1995, South Africans who gained citizenship in another country lost their South African citizenship automatically. A case brought by the Democratic Alliance challenging this has been successful in the Supreme Court of Appeal.

A man from North West accused of Tax fraud amounting to R19 million appeared in the Leeudoringstad Magistrates Court on Wednesday. Fifty-nine-year-old Jacobus Opperman and the corporate body he represents, are facing 93 charges of fraud and 29 of contravening the Tax Administration Act.

A summons has been issued for convicted wife-beater Jaco Swart who has reportedly fled to the United Kingdom (UK). Swart made national headlines a year ago when a video of him viciously assaulting his wife, Nicole, went viral on social media.

The National Assembly passed the controversial National Health Insurance Bill on Tuesday, pushing it a step closer to being signed into law.