Domestic

With Comair’s Kulula and British Airways aircraft out of the skies, domestic air travellers should be prepared to pay three to four times more for their flight tickets. This is as airline capacity has reportedly dropped 40% since Comair’s business rescue practitioners announced plans to liquidate the airline.

Law enforcement agencies in Kwa Zulu Natal have arrested two suspects following a botched cash-in-transit heist in Escourt.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says there is no reason for him to step down amid the investigation into the theft of money from his game farm in Limpopo.

Johannesburg’s Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital has come under fire for the suspension of a clinician who blew the whistle on the dire conditions at the facility. Dr Tim De Maayer wrote an open letter published by Daily Maverick in which he pleads with authorities to help provide quality healthcare to children at the hospital.

Fifteen people have been killed and 42 injured following a head-on collision in Tshwane.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane from the office of the Public Protector effective 9 June 2022.

The National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NATJOINTS) says it is aware of unsigned messages and posters circulating on various social media platforms calling for a national shutdown. In a statement, the NATJOINTS warned those behind these messages and reminded them that prohibiting people's freedom of movement is a criminal offence.

One person has been shot dead at the up-market Tasha's restaurant at Rosebank in Johannesburg.

South African airline Comair has failed to secure the necessary funding to pull it out of its dire financial crisis. Its business rescue practitioners say in a statement that there is no longer any reasonable prospect that the company can be rescued and that they've lodged a court application to convert the business rescue into liquidation proceedings.