For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.

Making headlines: Load-shedding escalates to Stage 4 until Friday; Sihle Zikalala says Country’s Constitution requires smooth democratic handover; And, OR Tambo’s secret spy ‘pen gun’ to be auctioned

Load-shedding escalates to Stage 4 until Friday

Eskom has announced Stage 4 load-shedding until Friday morning.

This follows a "major incident" in Zambia that affected power supply from Cahora Bassa, the power utility said.

Stage 2 load-shedding will continue until Saturday.

Total breakdowns amount to 14 874MW and planned maintenance is at 5 579MW of capacity.

Sihle Zikalala says Country’s Constitution requires smooth democratic handover

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala emphasised that until processes on co-government by different political parties have been completed and new councils are sworn in, all currently constituted structures remain in place.

Zikalala was briefing the media on recent developments in the province, saying the country’s Constitution does not allow for a vacuum and requires a smooth democratic handover from one administration to the next.

He said since last Monday’s elections a few unpleasant scenes were noted, in which certain people were seen toyi-toying and “demanding keys” to certain buildings and others engaging in other forms of provocation.

He said all these were accompanied by insults hurled at municipal officials who, he stressed, are public servants and not politicians.

Zikalala explained that the province has 20 local municipalities and 1 metro that must be co-governed by different political parties, adding that it is not known yet which of the 10 districts will fall in this category.

And, OR Tambo’s secret spy ‘pen gun’ to be auctioned

Former African National Congress President Oliver Tambo’s spy ‘pen gun’, believed to have been gifted to him by the East Germans, has been tokenized into a Non-Fungible Token and will be auctioned.

The spy ‘pen gun’ was meant to help protect Tambo from any would-be assassins, during the mid 1980s.

A live NFT auction will take place in Cape Town on November 11.

An NFT is a unique and non-interchangeable unit of data stored on a digital ledger.

Blockchain company Virtual Nation Builders has tokenized the spy pen NFT and its uniqueness has been independently certified with a crypto asset number.

The spy pen gun NFT is a digital photorealistic image of the actual spy pen gun which is stored at the Lilliesleaf Museum archives and is not accessible to viewings by the public.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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