South Africa’s employment and labour minister Thulas Nxesi has called on employers registered with the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) to apply for Covid-19 benefits on behalf of their employees. The fund gives short-term relief to South African workers when they become unemployed or are unable to work because of maternity,[…]
With four new deaths since its last tally, South Africa’s death toll now sits at 58, and with an increase of 142 new infections the latest confirmed Covid-19 cases is 3,300 the health department has said in its publication of figures for the virus spread across the country. But with[…]
The South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) said on Tuesday it had been receiving a higher number of calls from people under stress since the start of a five week national lockdown to April 30 enforced by the government to try and reduce new transmissions of Covid-19. In a[…]
Wesbank, home to one the most impoverished communities on the Cape Flats has found the national lockdown period nothing less than dehumanizing. On one hand residents are forced to endure endless days and nights of ever-growing food deprivation and on the other, they are subjected to acts of police brutality[…]
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets across large cities in Brazil, snarling traffic as they denounced pandemic lockdown measures opposed by President Jair Bolsonaro. Protesters in trucks, cars and motorcycles, some wrapping in the country’s green and yellow flags, honked horns in the streets of Rio de Janeiro,[…]
The SA Muslim Covid-19 response task team (SAMTT) on Saturday called on government to make a once-off special coronavirus (Covid-19) grant available to all social support grant recipients. The Muslim community of South Africa – represented by numerous theological, civil society, and community organisations – had to date spent a[…]
The Democratic Alliance has urged the basic education department to work closely with the South African Police Service (SAPS) to ensure maximum police visibility at schools during the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown. This followed Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s confirmation that 397 schools had been vandalised across the country since the[…]
Cape Town mayor Dan Plato has thanked the city’s Bangladeshi community for a donation of non-perishable food worth R450,000 for Cape Town’s needy communities. “I think this is a wonderful display of the warm community spirit that we have here in Cape Town,” he said in a statement issued on[…]
When the beating began on March 25, Parvathi* tried the usual things first, but things were different under the nation-wide coronavirus lockdown. As her husband began beating her, she would run out into the narrow lanes of the slum she lives in to call for help from her neighbours, a[…]
Alcohol traders will have to wait until the end of the nationwide lockdown to resume trade like most other businesses, the office of the state attorney has said in response to the Gauteng Liquor Forum. The state attorney, acting for President Cyril Ramaphosa, emphasised on Friday that the sale of[…]
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