A team from the Kouga municipality in the Eastern Cape has had no luck in locating a mysterious object from the sky, believed to be a meteorite that struck near the Patensie area on Sunday night.

“We have given up on the search for now. We were quite a large team and we couldn’t find anything,” municipal spokesperson Mfundo Sobele told News24 on Monday afternoon.

“We asked local residents who told us about seeing something in the sky, but its exact location could not be determined.”

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Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma’s comment that the ANC comes before the country is irresponsible, the Economic Freedom Fighters said on Sunday.

“The idea that ANC is above or comes first before South Africa is testimony that we are heading for dictatorship and the death of multiparty democracy because it means they are prepared to become one party state,” EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said in a statement.

“This is the language of dictators who think they hold monopoly of wisdom and are indispensable.”

He said the EFF believed that the country came first and urged South Africans to “reject” the ANC.

Speaking at the African National Congress KwaZulu-Natal conference on Saturday, Zuma said he believed his party came before the country.

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The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal said the outcomes of the 8^th Provincial Conference should not be used to mirror future ANC conferences.

“The ANC in KZN held its own conference [at the weekend] and this is not about the 2017 conference as reported in the media.

“The outcome of this conference is about what we will be doing for this province. We will discuss issues pertaining to future conferences at an appropriate time,” said newly elected provincial chairperson Sihle Zikalala while delivering his closing remarks at the conference on Sunday.

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Thabo Nkala, accused of being part of a gang that brutally attacked two couples at Rhodes Park in Kensington, is expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

The 24-year-old faces charges of murder, rape and attempted murder.

Just over three weeks ago, a gang of 12 men attacked two couples who had gone to the park after a church service in central Johannesburg.

They accosted the couples, beat the two men before stripping them and tying their hands and feet with their clothes before throwing them in the lake where they drowned.

One of the women was raped while the other escaped without any physical harm.

A manhunt is still on for the rest of the attackers.

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Johannesburg – An almost week-long heatwave is expected over parts of the country, with some maximum temperatures expected to hit 40 degrees Celsius on Monday.

The heatwave comes as large parts of the country are experiencing devastating drought conditions.

The SA Weather Service said in its daily forecast that a heatwave with “persistently high temperatures” is expected over Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and the eastern part of the North West until Thursday.

Skukuza in Mpumalanga and Musina in Limpopo were expected to hit 40 on Monday. Lephalale in Limpopo was forecast to hit 39, Vryburg in the North West has maximum of 38, while Pretoria was forecast to hit a maximum of 37.

Extremely high fire danger conditions were also expected in parts of Limpopo.

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Johannesburg – More than a hundred students and workers are expected to appear in the Brixton Magistrate’s Court on Monday after being arrested while protesting outside the University of Johannesburg’s Kingsway campus.

The arrests came after they allegedly contravened a court order prohibiting protesters from gathering within 500 metres of the campus on Friday as exams started for the university’s 42 000 students.

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Cape Town – The embattled MTN announced on Monday that its CEO Sifiso Dabengwa has resigned. MTN, which has been in the spotlight after Nigeria slapped it with a massive $5.2bn (R71bn) fine for not registering SIM card holders, announced that Dabengwa has resigned with immediate effect and that Phuthuma Nhleko has been appointed as executive chairperson in a temporary capacity.

“Due to the most unfortunate prevailing circumstances occurring at MTN Nigeria, I, in the interest of the Company and its shareholders, have tendered my resignation with immediate effect,” Dabengwa said in a statement.

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