Domestic

Eskom says it will suspend load shedding between 10 am and 2 pm today to allow the nation to participate in the official memorial service for King Goodwill Zwelithini

The Portfolio Committee on Social Development has heard that 67 000 Social Relief and Distress (SRD) grant payments should be subjected to investigations as they may have been paid to undeserving beneficiaries.

The arrest followed a collaborative investigation between the Provincial Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit based in Cape Town and with Home Land Security from the American Embassy.

The Department of Correctional Services says it is going to take strong action against one of its officials for allegedly having intimate relations with an inmate.

A former treasurer of the South African Bank of Athens has been sentenced to two life terms in jail for shooting his father to death in his sleep and later killing his estranged wife.

The Automobile Association of South Africa says increases to the fuel levy will contribute to the high fuel price increases at the end of March going into April.

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) has arrested four police officers from the Public Order Policing Unit in connection with the death of an innocent bystander during last week’s Wits University student protest in Braamfontein.

Eskom says Stage 2 load shedding will be extended until 5 am on Wednesday following the loss of further generation capacity and to replenish emergency generation reserves.

Gauteng police have intercepted a consignment of drugs worth millions of rand and arrested four suspects on the West Rand before it could be shipped to Australia.