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Three earth tremors were recorded in Gauteng on Sunday.

Following the success of a vaccination rollout that saw Limpopo record the largest percentage of adults inoculated so far, the provincial department of health has now taken its drive to high density sites including mines, farms and shopping malls to administer jabs.

The events of Saturday, July 10, have left a permanent scar in the memory of entrepreneur Tebogo Mabye, who upon arriving home from a holiday in Zanzibar, Tanzania, returned to his coffee shop in Johannesburg that was utterly destroyed.

The City of Johannesburg says it has seen a record number of Covid-related funerals in July across its cemeteries, where burials conducted exceeded numbers ever recorded in single month.

A mix up of laboratory test results for Covid-19 cost a Gauteng woman a business trip worth R42,000 after she was stopped from travelling to Nigeria in May at the airport due to her results being old.

On July 12 while President Cyril Ramaphosa was addressing the nation on the violence and destruction that had engulfed KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, criminals were busy looting and vandalising Sam Ntuli Mall in Mngadi Section, Katlehong, in Ekurhuleni.

As the government accelerates its vaccine rollout and industries prepare for a possible return to work, a growing number of employers and employees have approached the SA Human Rights Commission to seek counsel on how resolve an impasse over those who refuse take the jab.

Close to 60 schools in Gauteng are not ready to welcome the full capacity return of primary school pupils today because they lack water supply, have insufficient space for social distancing and are plagued by electricity outages.

The Gauteng education department has moved to clarify that the vaccination report required for the 2022 online applications for prospective Grade 1 learners is not related to the Covid-19 vaccination.

“Parents who apply to schools of specialisation must ensure that they contact the school to arrange for the auditions or admission tests,” said Lesufi.

FA 100-year-old former guard at the Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp near Berlin will face trial in the autumn, 76 years after the end of the Second World War, German weekly Welt am Sonntag reported.

The grade 1 class of 2022 in Gauteng will be required to provide Covid-19 immunisation certificates to be admitted to schools. according to the province's education MEC Panyaza Lesufi.