Government is expected to announce details of how millions of unemployed South Africans can claim the special relief grant announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress will benefit individuals, who are currently unemployed and do not receive any other form of social grant or UIF payment.[…]
In what is surely the government’s most ambitious social spending effort in the democratic era, potentially reaching the pockets of millions of impoverished and vulnerable South Africans, President Cyril Ramaphosa outlined a massive R500 billion social and economic spending plan on Tuesday to buffer some of the effects of the[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has informed Parliament he had authorised the deployment of an additional 73 180 members of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) to assist the police in battling the spread of Covid-19. In a letter to the Joint Standing Committee on Defence – which was tweeted by DA[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his capacity as chairperson of the African Union (AU), has appointed former finance minister Trevor Manuel, among others, to garner international support to address the economic challenges that Africa faces because of Covid-19. In a statement on Sunday, Ramaphosa announced the special envoy of the AU[…]
While it is too early to draw definitive conclusions over the coronavirus outbreak that hit our shores, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday the evidence showed the lockdown is working to slow its spread. Ramaphosa announced a two-week extension to the nationwide lockdown, which was due to end on 16[…]
The DA is in sharp disagreement with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to extend the country’s lockdown. Other political parties mostly welcomed the decision announced on Thursday night. Ramaphosa said the lockdown, which was due to end 16 April would now be in effect until 30 April. The intervention came into[…]
South Africans will soon know if the national lockdown is working. On Tuesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the government would soon receive a scientific assessment on whether the national lockdown, which ends next week, had worked. This amid uncertainty about the trajectory of the coronavirus pandemic and an economic meltdown[…]
Minister of Communications Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams is in hot water after it was revealed that she had violated the lockdown by visiting former deputy minister Mduduzi Manana. Manana posted an Instagram photo of Ndabeni-Abrahams having lunch at his home over the weekend. President Cyril Ramaphosa has summoned the minister to explain[…]
The Children’s Institute has written to President Cyril Ramaphosa to appeal for the increase of the Child Support Grant (CSG) by R500 for six months to protect children and families during the nationwide lockdown. The NGO said in a statement that this would mitigate the impact of the lockdown on[…]
The most effective way for countries like South Africa to contain the spread of the Covid-19 is for the population to remain at home and physically isolated from each other for several weeks, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday. Ramaphosa made the comments in a weekly newletter on the fourth[…]
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