South Africa has honoured the country's first black student to graduate with a degree in engineering.ĭr Solomon Boyce Isaac Lefakane studied civil engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and was awarded a degree in 1961 - when the racist apartheid system was in operation. HOROSCOPE TODAYįree daily horoscope, celeb gossip, and lucky numbers for Monday, 10 October.University of Witwatersrand Copyright: University of Witwatersrand Stay one step ahead of the traffic by viewing our live traffic updates here. LIVE TRAFFIC UPDATES FOR CAPE TOWN, JOHANNESBURG AND DURBAN Take a look at weather forecasts for all nine provinces here. LATEST NEWS: WEATHER FORECAST, Monday 10 October Weather services have warned that the HEATWAVE conditions are expected to return TODAY and it will affect an even broader area.Īccording to, VoxWeather, weather monitoring models are indicating that the HEATWAVE conditions are expected to return on Sunday and it will affect an even broader area.Ĭlick here to read more. HEATWAVE conditions back TODAY – here is the latest It is not yet known what caused the mother to lose it completely.Ĭlick here to read more. The mother also stabbed the teenager’s eight-month-old sister and his grandmother in the attack. Police said a teenage boy, aged 13, was BRUTALLY stabbed to death by his OWN mother in Volksrust. Teenage boy BRUTALLY stabbed to death by his OWN mother The unions said that the offer must be aligned with the rising cost of living and current inflation with the annual inflation in South Africa currently at 7.6%, according to BusinessTech.Ĭlick here to read more. Satawu, along with the United National Transport Union (Untu), have already rejected an initial 1.5% offer and a revised offer of 4% and promise “to plunge Transnet into industrial action that could have serious repercussions for the economy,” reported the Sunday Times. The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) is threatening strike action on Monday, 10 October with as many as 21 000 workers expected to take part unless a new wage deal is struck with Transnet, the state owned transport and logistics group.ĪLSO READ | WOOLWORTHS TRIALS ‘BAG SHARE’ AT THESE 4 STORES IN MZANSI Mass strike action on the cards for South Africa on MONDAY The weekend paper pointed to changes made to the ministerial handbook in May 2022, which removed the R5 000 cap on municipal utilities covered by the government.Ĭlick here to read more. While the rest of the country is experiencing the worst load shedding – including hospitals, schools and other critical services – the same ministers enjoy uninterrupted power in their private residences in Pretoria, City Press reported. South Africa’s ministers and deputy ministers – who draw a salary of between R2 million and R2.5 million a year – do not have to pay for water and electricity thanks to changes to the ministerial handbook earlier this year.ĪLSO READ | MASS STRIKE ACTION ON THE CARDS FOR SOUTH AFRICA ON MONDAY FREE electricity and NO load shedding for South Africa’s ministers – report “A generating unit at each Kendal and Kusile power station was taken offline for repairs. “Since Saturday, two generation units at Kriel and a unit at Kendal, Komati, Lethabo, Majuba, and Malta power stations have returned to service. the load shedding will be used to replenish emergency generation reserves during the night to bolster generation capacity. Eskom said it would endeavour to limit load shedding to nighttime to have minimal impact on the economy and population.
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