During his first presidential briefing for the year on Thursday, Magwenya said the president remained seized with finding a sustainable solution to the current energy crisis. President Cyril Ramaphosa has demanded the national energy crisis committee work with more urgency and speed to implement the national energy plan as a means to end load shedding. […]
Some homes near the scene of the blast were destroyed and infrastructure was damaged. Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi said that government was working with gas tanker company, Innovative Staffing Solutions, to repair the homes damaged by the Boksburg explosion. The gas tanker exploded under a railway bridge on Christmas eve, killing 40 people and injuring […]
The NICD said more than 650 sublineages of Omicron have been identified, of which more than 200 have been detected in South Africa. There was no need for changes to South Africa’s COVID-19 public health response, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said amid concern over the new Omicron subvariant. The country’s first case […]