SA’s energy problems were a product of apartheid and government was not to blame for the current blackouts, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
During a mediation, the students explained that they did not mean to cause harm by their actions and apologised unconditionally.
Embattled SABC chairperson Ellen Tshabalala has been excluded from the new Transnet board, it emerged on Thursday.
EFF leader Julius Malema says he does not want to start a personality cult by having settlements named after him.
NPA spokesperson Nathi Mncube says the authority is now in the hands of the Supreme Court of Appeal to set a date for the Oscar Pistorius appeal.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has fired Vice-President Joice Mujuru, less than a week after he hinted he would do so.
The DA’s parliamentary leader also said that government should follow a "World Cup approach" to completing the Medupi and Kusile power stations.
The body of Pierre Korkie, who was killed during a US rescue operation, returned to South Africa this morning.
The power utility said they apologised for the power cuts, but blackouts would continue until three of its generators are fixed.
The Reserve Bank’s Quarterly Bulletin shows real economic growth in the third quarter would have been 3.1% were it not for the metals sector strike.