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Sun, 18 Jul 2021 09:55:57 +0200
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Sun, 18 Jul 2021 09:33:00 +0200
Snow and sub-zero temperatures expected this week
Snow is expected to fall over the high lying areas of the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Drakensberg this week.

Sun, 18 Jul 2021 06:16:14 +0200
COVID-19 LIVE UPDATES | All adults in Britain offered a Covid-19 shot ahead of Monday reopening
Coronavirus live updates

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 16:51:08 +0200
Looters formed 3km queue as they stripped warehouse in ‘planned attack’
The looting of one of SA’s warehousing giants in KwaZulu-Natal this week was carefully planned and executed.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 14:53:42 +0200
Eastern Cape safety MEC calls for calm after taxi boss dies in hail of bullets
Eastern Cape community safety MEC Weziwe Tikana-Gxotiwe has urged the public not to interfere with a police investigation into the murder of a prominent taxi boss in Gqeberha.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:55:00 +0200
Rules banning fuel in containers to be amended after complaints
The minerals and energy department says a flood of complaints has forced it to review this week's ban on filling containers with petrol and diesel.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:54:11 +0200
Toddler thrown from looted, burning building has flashbacks to incident
A Durban toddler whose mother threw her from the first floor of a burning building into the arms of a group of people waiting to catch her on the ground has flashbacks to the incident.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:18:02 +0200
Looting deals body blow to health care, and flood of Covid-19 cases will follow
In a week of winding queues for food in protest-ravaged areas of KwaZulu-Natal, doctors and nurses were forced to make important decisions: join the lines or return to work hungry to treat victims of protests and Covid-19.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 11:05:56 +0200
Trucker liable for lost income after movie-set gear falls off its vehicles
A transport company has been found liable for loss of earnings after two telehandlers it was trucking from Gqeberha to Cape Town were damaged.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 10:15:53 +0200
We got a convoy: Trucks return to N3, but police and army miss the memo
The reopened N3 thundered again early on Saturday as hundreds of trucks left Johannesburg loaded with food and other essential goods to replenish KwaZulu-Natal's looted stores.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 09:37:05 +0200
Filthy messages in hundreds of foreign bottles washed up on SA beaches
Nearly half the plastic bottles littering remote SA beaches have crossed the Indian Ocean or been dumped by ships, a new study has found.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 09:31:39 +0200
‘Unprecedented co-operation’ between public and private sectors gets relief trucks rolling, says B4SA
With police and soldiers securing the critical N3 artery, truckloads of critical medical supplies and pharamaceuticals are beginning to roll from Gauteng to KwaZulu-Natal once more.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 09:21:08 +0200
TV watchdog throws out bust bridal boutique’s ‘Carte Blanche’ beef
Carte Blanche has been cleared of infringing the dignity and privacy of an online wedding boutique owner who was the subject of an exposé.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 09:20:19 +0200
COVID-19 LIVE UPDATES | Biden says Facebook, others 'killing people' by carrying Covid-19 misinformation
Coronavirus live updates

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 09:05:45 +0200
LIVE UPDATES | Rebuilding SA: Air supply for PMB as airline, taxi group and supermarket join hands
Rolling coverage of the riots and looting in Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 08:00:00 +0200
Air supply for PMB as airline, taxi group and supermarket join hands
More than 2,000 food packages and provisions are being ferried to people affected by the riots in Pietermaritzburg.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 20:19:57 +0200
Banks count the cost of 'six-day war'
Repairing the country's thousands of damaged and vandalised automatic teller machines (ATMs)  is expected to take 'many weeks'.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 20:01:25 +0200
Covid-19 cases rise by another 15,939 with 413 deaths in SA
A further 413 Covid-19 related deaths were reported over the past 24-hour cycle.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:50:42 +0200
Angels take to skies in daring KZN rescue operation
Aircraft from small experimental planes to commercial airlines have been ferrying tonnes of supplies to thousands of people trapped in towns across KwaZulu-Natal.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:13:55 +0200
Trade unions condemn looting and torching of schools in KZN
'To destroy schools, especially those with feeding schemes, is at the next level of criminality.'

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:38:57 +0200
Community pitches in to clean up Umlazi mall hit by looting
Scores of Durban residents volunteered to clean up malls and businesses after damage caused by the unrest and protests in the province.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:02:24 +0200
CEO bust at roadblock for 'looting' to explain his version of events
Suspended Ubuntu Wealth Management CEO Qhawe Sithole has been released on bail.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:37:44 +0200
Former spy boss Thulani Dlomo hands himself over to police: SABC report
Former president Jacob Zuma’s staunch ally and former spy boss Thulani Dlomo handed himself over at the Durban Central police station on Friday afternoon, according to a SABC report.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:22:17 +0200
Trio slapped with three-year jail sentences for rhino horn theft
Three rhino horn thieves have been sentenced to three years in jail after their arrest in the Eastern Cape in February.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:57:20 +0200
Steam Deck - the new portable gaming PC from Steam
There were rumours earlier this year hinting that Steam was working on some sort of portable gaming console. Little did we know it’s actually a full-blown computer running Steam OS.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:17:10 +0200
Gauteng leads way in vaccination registration despite unrest
The country’s vaccination programme is continuing despite the violence in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, Business for SA said on Friday.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:54:20 +0200
‘They were too many — thousands,’ looted mall manager tells Ramaphosa
'Our private security and police were overwhelmed and fires were being started all over,' Umlazi Mega City's Hope Khumalo told President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:36:37 +0200
WATCH | FROM THE SKY: Durban's gutted buildings, snaking queues and ongoing looting
The aftermath of three days of chaos was captured by TimesLIVE when reporters took to the skies to get a better view of what the infrastructure damage looked like.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:28:24 +0200
Durban CBD slowly rumbles back to life after resembling ‘ghost city’
'We hope the calm we see is a sign that normality will return soon because we have to feed our families,' said a hawker who set up for business on Friday.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:11:09 +0200
China offers SA 10 million Sinovac doses as doubts grow over efficacy
A study last week said people inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine — one of two already in use in SA — had antibody levels 10 times higher than those given Sinovac.



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