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One mother is waiting to hear if her 18-year-old son has made it after the building site he and 74 others were working on collapsed on Monday.

Seventy-five construction employees were on site when the multi-storey apartment complex collapsed on Monday.

Eskom said the metro began defaulting on its payments last October, with its debt now sitting at a whopping R1.73 billion.

Since the Political Party Funding Act was signed into law in April 2021, parties are required to declare any donations over R100,000. Eyewitness News breaks down where some parties get their cash.

Bongo told Eyewitness News he was at peace with Monday’s Supreme Court of Appeal ruling overturning the decision of former Judge President John Hlophe, who discharged the State’s case against him in 2021 over lack of evidence.

The death toll is expected rise while rescue workers and paramedics attend to the scene.

In its written submissions to the Constitutional Court on Monday, the council argued that the Electoral Court afforded the Parole Board, rather than only the president, powers to undo all consequences of a court’s determination of a conviction and sentence.

Shell’s pending departure from South Africa essentially means the sale of its downstream assets of the almost 600 service stations or forecourts it operates in the country.

Last week, the Mail and Guardian newspaper reported ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula was in hot water, with members accusing him of altering the final approved lists.

The commission released the first part of its report on Sunday, following its work into the blaze that killed 77 people last year.