The South African government will begin consultations on a proposal to ease lockdown restrictions in most of the country to level 3 by the end of the month, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday. However, it envisions that parts of the country with a high concentration of Covid-19 infections will[…]
An “anxious driver” arose suspicion at a roadblock between the Eastern and Western Cape, leading to the discovery of illicit cigarettes worth R200 000 hidden beneath a layer of pineapples. According to police spokesperson Captain Malcolm Pojie, a Ford bakkie with a load of pineapples approached the roadblock at the[…]
The Cuban brigade of medical experts brought in to help South Africa in the ongoing gruelling fight against Covid-19 on Thursday said it had completed mandatory quarantine and would now be heading to different provinces for deployment. “We have successfully completed, in both Cuba and South Africa, the strict periods[…]
The National Commissioner of Correctional Services, Arthur Fraser, has conducted an inspection of COVID-19 isolation and quarantine sites in Estcourt in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. Fraser’s visit is part of supporting all prisons to ensure that standard operating procedures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are in place. The department has[…]
Ocean View was established in 1968 as a township for coloured people who had been forcibly removed from so-called ‘white areas’ by the apartheid government under the Group Areas Act. Ocean View is home to a tight-knit community that has been rocked by sporadic incidents of gang violence. But with[…]
South African cricketer Faf Du Plessis and his wife Imari have rallied followers on social media site Instagram to make donations and help a non-profit organisation based in Lavender Hill feed thousands of people in the impoverished Cape Town area. As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across the Western Cape, which[…]
Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize on Thursday has said he is concerned by the high number of Covid-19 cases in the Western Cape, saying the government would have to adopt measures to deal more strongly with “cluster outbreaks” of infections in the province. Mkhize on Thursday announced that the number[…]
The Department of Correctional Services says it has recorded three new Covid-19 cases, bringing the number to 172. In a statement on Thursday, department spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo said recoveries were sitting at 85 after 24 officials from the Western Cape had recovered. The Eastern Cape continues to have the highest[…]
The number of people infected with the COVID-19 virus who travelled from the Western Cape to the Eastern Cape during the seven-day grace period for travel between provinces now stands at 80. Travellers between the provinces were tested during the week at the Tstitsikamma and Aberdeen border lines. Spokesperson for[…]
Statistics show that the official number of coronavirus cases in the South African prison system is fairly low, however the system has been warned of a looming disaster should infections begin to spread among the incarcerated. According to figures provided by spokesperson for the Correctional Services Department Singabakho Nxumalo, the[…]
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