Новости за 03.08.2020

Gauteng remains the province with the highest number of cases

The July 2020 new passenger car market registered a substantial decline of 35.8% units compared to new cars sold in July last year.

Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis:

Patricia Pillay, CEO of the Beer Association, says the liquor industry wants to work with government to find a middle ground.

The Daily Lotto jackpot was won by one player.

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Social Development has opened criminal cases and suspended a number of high-ranking officials over the procurement of PPE as well as blankets and soup.

The Vatican, responding to a German newspaper report that former Pope Benedict XVI was seriously ill, says his condition was "not particularly worrying" and that he was overcoming a painful but not grave ailment.

National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise is considering requests from the DA and EFF to hold the executive accountable for alleged corruption relating to Covid-19.

Two trends have emerged regarding consumer debt levels in South Africa, as reflected in the latest DebtBusters' debt index for the second quarter of 2020.

After the application was denied, the Gauteng High Court judge's attorney said he would "reluctantly" have to withdraw as her attorney of record.

US astronauts who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX's new Crew Dragon, splashed down in the capsule in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after a two-month voyage.

A push by President Cyril Ramaphosa to discourage ANC leaders to allow their family members to do business with the state fell on deaf ears at a party meeting.

The lions escaped through an inner perimeter fence. It is suspected the fence had been cut open as part of a poaching attempt.

An Eastern Cape ward councillor was fired for misconduct over allegations that he had sold an RDP house to a resident and for dishing out food parcels to friends.

In a statement, the association said the government and private health sector policy makers should make procurement more effective, transparent and protected from corruption.

The Young Communist League says it is clear that ANC allied youth formations have lost its moral compass and is fast losing favour with people.

By Roli Srivastava

Former Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Mongameli Bobani has made an unexpected return to the mayoral committee.

The 60 Ceres Secondary pupils, who were quarantined at their school hostel after four tested positive, have been released after no new Covid-19 cases were reported.

The department said the application process will be online via myNSFAS portal as it had been done the previous years.

It will be mostly cloudy across some provinces, turning fine and cool, according to the South African Weather Service.

The NSPCA has turned to the courts to stop a shipment of more than 80 000 sheep from the Eastern Cape to Kuwait.

The US Justice Department announced charges on Friday in the hacking of the Twitter accounts of numerous high-profile figures.

The City of Cape Town has dealt with 260 incidents of alleged illegal land occupation between April and July's lockdown, says the Western Cape government.