The Gauteng Premier, David Makhura has said that the province is in the early stages of the third wave of the coronavirus.

Zweli Mkhize, the Health Minister, believes that the country is more than capable of handling the third wave of COVID-19. To speak about whether the country is actually capable of this, is Wits School of Governance Professor, Alex van den Heever and the University of KwaZulu-Natal Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation Professor Mosa Moshabela.

Recently an investigation done by the Daily Maverick has found that some bus company agents, who operate in Park Station in Johannesburg have been selling fake negative Covid-19 test results to passengers travelling to neighbouring countries.

18 prisoners are on the run as they escaped from a police truck while being transported in Pietermaritzburg. Pietermaritzburg has a task team and other reinforcements in place to hunt down the missing prisoners.

Areas of Table Mountain National Park which was closed off last week to the public due to the raging wildfire, has now been reopened and activities such as hiking and dog-walking are now allowed to resume.