COSATU says it fired its general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi for gross misconduct following his failure to perform his duties including boycotting the Central Exectutive Committee meetings.

**The DA's spokesperson on Public Enterprises, Natasha Mazzone, says she welcomes the resignation of Eskom chairperson, Zola Tsotsi, but urgent questions need to be answered in Parliament.

**A possible paramedics strike is looming in KwaZulu Natal. This after reports surfaced today of ambulance workers not reporting for duty.

**More than four-thousand-800 patients are still waiting for surgery at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto. SUDISHA