Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa says all professional non-contact sport can resume, however, without spectators under Level 3 of the nationwide lockdown. Addressing the media in Pretoria on Saturday, Mthethwa says all professional athletes who participate in contact and non-contact sport can start training from Monday. The Minister[…]
Home Affairs Deputy Minister Njabulo Nzuza was hijacked at gunpoint on Thursday, police spokesperson Brigadier Vish Naidoo has said in a statement. The deputy minister was hijacked at approximately 16:25 by two gunmen. According to Naidoo, Nzuza was driving from a shopping centre in Midrand when he was followed and[…]
The South African government on Thursday said learners who commute daily across borders to attend school in South Africa will be allowed to commute during the level 3 of the lockdown which begins on 1 June. “As you may be aware, the South African borders are still closed for travel[…]
South Africa’s National Treasury said it had met with the Black Business Council over concerns that a R200 billion loan guarantee scheme is not benefitting small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs). Last month President Cyril Ramaphosa said the National Treasury, the South African Reserve Bank and commercial banks had jointly[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Thursday and Friday hold pitch sessions in preparation for the inaugural Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium of South Africa set for June 23, his office said. In a statement, the Presidency said the pitch sessions would allow sponsors to present infrastructure projects before an audience of[…]
While Premier Alan Winde welcomed the news that the Western Cape will be moving to lockdown level 3, he stressed that “we must all change our behaviour to keep safe and to save lives”. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday evening that the entire country will move to Alert Level[…]
As the country prepares to move to level 3 lockdown next week, President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday warned that things were about to get worse. The president addressed the nation confirming that more sectors of the economy would reopen as the country eased restrictions. But with more than 22,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in[…]
The food distribution process remains the one intervention during lockdown that highlighted systemic and systematic challenges in local government. This article does not question the rationale behind the provision of food parcels to those who needed food the most during the lockdown – this was a proactive response from government[…]
The National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) on Saturday approved international travel for South Africans working and studying abroad. The country’s borders were closed with all international flights halted in an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19. But in a statement on Saturday, the Department of Home Affairs said South Africans[…]
Police Minister Bheki Cele on Friday briefed the media on the crime statistics since the implementation of the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. In March, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a state of disaster, confining South Africans to their homes as local transmissions of COVID-19 began to[…]
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