Domestic

The National Prosecuting Authority says it is looking to sell the Optimum coal mine to recoup State Capture funds.

Metalworkers union, NUMSA says Eskom made a wage offer with a proposed draft agreement on Friday.

The High Court sitting in Benoni has sentenced a 41-year-old father to two life terms, and a further 83 years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to 426 charges against him.

Several Employers who illegally benefitted from the Covid-19 TERS relief fund have been voluntarily returning money to the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF). UIF Commissioner Teboho Maruping says an amount of R3.4 Billion was voluntarily returned as a result of media headlines of employers being arrested and appearing in court for Ters-related fraud.

The Department of Health has confirmed a second case of monkeypox in South Africa. It says the 32-year-old man from Cape Town has no travel history, which suggests a high possibility of local transmission.

Two suspects are due to appear in court on Monday on charges of human trafficking, after 39 people, including women and children that they allegedly trafficked, were freed by police in Belfast in Mpumalanga.

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has obtained a preservation order to freeze a luxury property owned by Vhuthanda Investment, whose sole director is former National Lotteries Commission board chairperson, Prof Alfred Nevhutanda.

Eskom has implemented Stage 4 load shedding until midnight. Spokesperson, Sikonathi Mantshantsha says this is due to the ongoing unprotected labour action by employees affiliated with the metal workers union, Numsa.

The first case of monkeypox has been identified in South Africa. This was confirmed by the Minister of the Health Joe Paahla during a post-cabinet briefing on Thursday.