Domestic

Short-term insurers have seen a significant increase in claims as a result of the severe power cuts across SA. Power surges cause damage to sensitive electronic equipment whenever electricity supply is restored, while car accidents increase when traffic lights and street lighting stop working. Burglaries also increase when the lights go out – and alarm systems shut down.

"I can’t afford to be an advocate who is representing the people who have been charged with a serious case and at the same time, I am a criminal that I am because of the state, the DPP, the police. All this has been hatched from the highest office. I am a problem and disturbing their plan that they have about these guys. I have been promised money and it is not me" he added.

Two Boksburg Community Correctional Services officials have been shot and killed in the Duduza location. The two officials were killed on Tuesday as they were tracing a parolee who had absconded.

An alleged hitman who police said was about to flee to Swaziland, is expected to appear in the Daveyton Magistrates Court on Wednesday in connection with the murder of Constable Ntombizodwa Masuku.

Standard Bank South Africa has withdrawn its COVID-19 vaccination policy with immediate effect.

Flight prices, particularly on the busiest domestic route between Johannesburg and Cape Town, have spiked substantially following the collapse of Comair, which accounted for as much as 40% of supply in the market. Airlines have been accused of price gouging from all quarters, but unfairly so as their pricing algorithms are based on demand.

Limpopo Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba has confirmed the province’s first confirmed case of monkeypox in Hoedspruit. The case, which was confirmed by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, brings the national total to three.

South Africa has been rocked by mass shootings at three taverns in various parts of the country in the space of a little more than 24 hours. The death toll from the cold blooded killings at taverns in Pietermartizburg, Katlehong and Soweto currently stands at 21 with a number of others injured.

South Africa has lost radio legend Kevin Savage to cancer and famed film critic Barry Ronge to illness.