Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has announced that embattled state-owned entity Eskom will receive R254bn in debt relief. Tax incentives to encourage investment in renewable energy were also announced when Godongwana delivered the 2023 budget speech in the National Assembly in Cape Town on Wednesday.

A KwaZulu-Natal mayor is in hot water after an audio clip in which he demands to be consulted on hiring, distribution of contracts and makes sexual explicit comments to a female official surfaced.

Abaqulusi mayor Mncedisi Maphisa is heard banging tables — in what seems to be a meeting with senior officials — lamenting the employment of people without his involvement and tender contracts that are allegedly awarded without his knowledge.

The new electricity minister will report directly to President Cyril Ramaphosa and cabinet, and will only be tasked with dealing with the load-shedding crisis.

The governing party hopes to end load-shedding by the end of 2023 and has taken the step of appointing a minister of electricity. The move was announced by the president in the state of the nation address.

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said the party's national executive committee supports the decision to appoint the new minister.

Eskom has implemented stage 6 load-shedding indefinitely.

The president had also announced that neighbouring countries are being approached to assist with the supply of electricity.

The City of Tshwane's council speaker Murunwa Makwarela held a media briefing on Tuesday regarding the resignation of mayor Randall Williams last week. Makwarela said the processes to elect a new mayor would start soon.

Airbnb host Que Dlamini trended after cancelling a booking on the day of the guest's check-in because she got a better offer.

The video left social media users fuming at the weekend. In the video she said a customer refused to be refunded for a booking made a week before and wanted to check-in.

The host cancelled the booking after receiving a better offer from another customer.

She told TimeLIVE the video was taken out of context and has negatively affected her business.

Director and attorney at Dubazana Attorneys Ntabiseng Dubazana explained the legalities involved in cancelling a guest's booking and steps the guest can take.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has denied a state funeral for slain hip-hop artist Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes, the office of Gauteng Premier, Panyaza Lesufi, said on Thursday.

The parliamentary committee conducting an inquiry into suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office and her legal counsel fought over the resumption of proceedings.

Mkhwebane’s legal team, led by advocate Dali Mpofu, was unhappy about the inquiry resuming as it has not been paid by the public protector's office. It was also unhappy about witness Bianca Mvuyana not making an affidavit. Mpofu asked Mvuyana if she had opted not to make an affidavit as communicated to the legal team and she denied not wanting to make an affidavit.

A shouting match ensued between Mpofu, chairperson Qubudile Dyantyi and some MPs.

The family of the rapper who was assassinated on Friday night extended support to AKA’s friends who were with him during his last moments.

His father Tony Forbes appealed to the public to stop making dangerous statements.

EFF leader Julius Malema has made scathing claims, saying police leadership is working with iinkabi (hit men) and claimed this has been confirmed.

He lambasted police leadership and President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Malema said what happened to rapper AKA, who was fatally shot in Durban on Friday night, will never be known because police are in cahoots with criminal syndicates. 

“May AKA’s soul haunt all those who’ve made it difficult for him to live long,” he said.

Rapper AKA, real name Kiernan Forbes, has died.

TshisaLIVE confirmed that the 35-year-old rapper was shot dead outside a popular restaurant on Florida Rd in Durban.

Police confirmed that a 35-year-old male and his bodyguard had been shot dead on Friday.

KwaZulu-Natal police say two armed suspects shot rapper "AKA" and another man as they were walking towards their vehicle from a restaurant on Florida Road in Morningside, Durban. The two were declared dead on the scene, said Col Robert Netshiunda.