Tauhierah Salie

VOC The City of Cape Town says the use of heavier firefighting skylifts allowed for firefighting efforts at Parliament to continue from above on Monday night. The roof caught fire again yesterday afternoon, but the skylifts helped to contain the fire at midnight. The mayoral committee member for Safety and Security, JP Smith, said teams then worked their way through the building room by room and extinguished hotspots. Presiding officers […]

LOCAL The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) is calling upon the public both vaccinated and unvaccinated for COVID-19 to donate blood. This as blood stock at the blood bank shows a decline as a result of the holiday season. Free State SANBS spokesperson Jana Wallace says, “During the holiday period we do not have access to schools, universities and many corporates which traditionally make up a large portion of […]

LOCAL The Department of Basic Education has announced that a staggered calendar will be followed for schools opening in 2022. Pupils in the inland provinces of Gauteng, Free State, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West will be the first to go back to school on Wednesday, 12 January 2022. While learners in the coastal provinces of KwaZulu-Natal,  Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Northern Cape will return exactly a week later on […]

LOCAL South Africa’s test positivity rate declined sharply to 18.6%. This comes as just more than 3K new coronavirus infections were reported in the country in the past 24 hours. Gauteng reported the highest number of new infections followed by KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape. A further 87 Covid-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 91 312 to date. Read more below: