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The NCOP has approved the intervention by the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government to place the uMkhanyakude district municipality under administration from February.

"We have seen unmitigated corruption and looting from the public purse, corruption which amounts to theft from those who are most vulnerable, looting which has so damaged the credibility of politicians that last week’s appeals to the 'have-nots' to stop looting from the 'haves' were but a cruel joke," said archbishop Thabo Makgoba.

In some good news, there were 238,020 vaccine doses administered the in the past 24 hours, the second-highest single-day number of jabs - after 257,492 on Wednesday.

The Kimberly high court has found no extraordinary circumstances to justify the release on bail of Suretha Brits, charged for the murder of her Pofadder hotelier husband.

Miss SA Shudufhadzo Musida’s childhood and bullying trauma has inspired her children’s book Shudu Finds Her Magic.

Looting was a dominant feature in the recent unrest in KZN and Gauteng – in stark contrast to what usually happens during service delivery protests in SA, according to Municipal IQ.

National Assembly speaker Thandi Modise has called for an extraordinary extended debate on the unrest, looting and destruction of property in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.

Sihle Zikalala has lauded the department of correctional services for allowing former president Jacob Zuma to attend his late brother's funeral on Thursday.

Eskom says six power pylons collapsed after a suspect was caught stealing parts of the structures.

The unrest which claimed more than 200 lives was an indictment of SA society and could have been dealt with more responsibly, ANC officials Nomvula Mokonyane and Bathabile Dlamini said in Soweto on Thursday.

A Durban furniture store is closer to recovering its now famous blue couch that was stolen when its showroom was looted a week ago.

Clicks is making arrangements to get chronic medication to customers as it reopens some stores affected by looting.