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The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (Nupsaw) has called out Dr Rolene Wagner, the superintendent of the Eastern Cape Department of Health, for her “inability to do something” about staff shortages and closures of health facilities in the province.

Home Affairs has picked the first round of tour companies to participate in a new scheme to boost tourism from India and China by fast-tracking their customers’ visa applications. Tourists using the scheme are expected “within a matter of weeks”.

South Africa will start providing high frequency data on the agriculture sector’s performance after a shock third quarter contraction in the industry put the government’s growth projection in jeopardy and led the country’s biggest farm-industry lobbies to commission a probe.

Shares of SA’s second-biggest private hospital group, Life Healthcare, leapt as much as almost 9% on Monday after it said it has reached a $350 million (almost R6.5 billion) upfront payment deal for its interest in diagnostics business Life Molecular Imaging (LMI).

Firefighters have spent hundreds of hours extinguishing blazes in parts of the Western Cape, but the good news is that there were fewer fires over the last two months compared to the number that broke out over the same two-month period the previous year.

The police’s Crime Intelligence (CI) division has splurged R22.7 million of its secret funds to purchase a 24-bedroom luxury boutique hotel in Pretoria North – while some officers are holding meetings in fast-food restaurants and using their cars as offices.

As hundreds of Los Angeles residents return to find homes reduced to ashes due to a devastating wave of wildfires, many are fearful that their insurance policies may not cover the rebuild cost and that future premiums will be astronomical.

More than 1 000 children and teens across the Cape Flats were admitted to hospitals across the Western Cape between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day with 11 dying due to various incidents including suicide, drownings and the use of sharp objects to inflict injury.

Violent extremist material – such as videos, images, articles and speeches by well-known al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden – were among the items found on electronic devices belonging to a Sandton man accused of funding a terrorist organisation.

Since the 2020/21 financial year, the government has spent R1.3 billion on the VIP protection of members of the executive, Police Minister Senzo Mchunu revealed in response to a parliamentary question, at a time when VIP protectors are again under scrutiny after Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s security detail prevented a man from entering his own house this week.