African National Congress (ANC) President, Cyril Ramaphosa, has written a letter to all party members in which he calls for an immediate end to corruption in the party’s ranks. He has called for the implementation of the resolutions adopted during the ANC’s 54th National Congress. Ramaphosa also said the ruling[…]
There is just a day left before the one month extension of the Declaration of the National State of Disaster comes to an end. It’s almost five months since the coronavirus was declared a national disaster on March 15. The coronavirus, a global pandemic has seen South Africa declaring a[…]
Dear Fellow South African, Yesterday (Sunday 9 August 2020), the country celebrated Women’s Day. This occasion marks the anniversary of the day in 1956 when 20 000 women marched to the Union Buildings – a great sea of womankind speaking many languages, from different places and of all races. They[…]
The alcohol industry has welcomed the call by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) for government to start preparing for the lifting of the ban on the sale of alcohol. The decision recognises that there was no immediate severe pressure on hospital beds set aside for the treatment of[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa says compared to other countries South Africa’s infections are still under control and manageable. Ramaphosa has urged South Africans not to panic and be alarmed by the rising number of coronavirus infections in the country. He was speaking during the virtual Presidential Imbizo on the COVID-19 pandemic[…]
South Africa’s official unemployment rate added one percentage point to a record 30.1 percent of the labour force in the first quarter of this year compared with the fourth quarter of 2019, the national statistics agency said on Wednesday. In its quarter labour force survey, Statistics South Africa said the[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to visit Cape Town on Friday to assess the Western Cape’s provincial response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Western Cape currently accounts for nearly two-thirds of infections nationally. President Ramaphosa will be accompanied by Western Cape Premier Alan Winde on his inspection of COVID-19 facilities[…]
The Democratic Alliance (DA) Interim Leader, John Steenhuisen has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to update the nation on the continued lockdown of the country relating to COVID-19. Steenhuisen says it has been more than two weeks since Ramaphosa last addressed the nation on the issue, when he announced that[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has shed light on what the country’s new reality will look like when the lockdown continues beyond the end of April, albeit in another format. South Africans entered the lockdown at midnight on 26 March to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was expected to[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to address the nation again on Thursday on government’s plans to gradually lift the The lockdown in its current format is expected to end next week Thursday. On Tuesday evening, Ramaphosa announced COVID-19 social relief measures amounting to R50 billion over the next six months.[…]
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