The Springboks are likely to be without wing Sbu Nkosi for Saturday's end of year Test against Wales.

The Electoral Commission's announcement that 3.5 million South Africans had cast their ballots by noon on election day is indicative of low voter turn out. This is according to News24 elections analyst Dawie Scholtz.

After a relatively slow start, voting picked up in parts of Limpopo as the morning progressed, with leaders of various political parties embarking on last minute attempts to woo voters.

News24 will introduce a "game-changing" Elections Forecaster on Monday which will enable readers and voters to access the most up-to-date, mathematically accurate, and methodologically sound results forecasts available in South Africa.

As South Africans head to the polls in their numbers to cast their votes in the municipal elections, several disgruntled Soweto residents have refused to vote and some have decided to hold a service delivery protest instead.

A Newzroom Afrika journalist has been arrested while covering the municipal elections in Soweto.

Rain and wind had the Disaster Management Centre checking tent rope anchors at some voting stations in the Cape metro.

American Airlines said it cancelled 1,058 flights on Sunday - more than 20% of the carrier's scheduled flights for that day.

An explosion has been reported at the Denel plant - the same plant where eight people died in an explosion in 2018.