As the world come to grips with the Covid-19 pandemic and its adverse effects, many families in low-income households have noticed a steep price hike on everyday grocery items even while many have faced retrenchment packages or been unfairly dismissed. Programme Coordinator at the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity Group,[…]
Government may be winning court cases seeking to challenge their response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but they are losing public buy-in. This is according to Professor Thuli Madonsela who said government was creating a situation where the people were fighting to evade the government instead of fighting to combat the[…]
Trains are back on their rails at the Cape Town railway station where the first batch of locomotives moved to and from Retreat to Cape Town station for essential travel on Wednesday morning during the three day COVID-19 trial run. Acting regional manager Raymond Maseko said it is a historically[…]
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[…]
For many hoteliers in the hospitality industry, the coronavirus pandemic has brought the business to its knees. Despite this, the Peninsula All-suite Hotel in Sea Point has gone above and beyond to do what they can to ensure destitute learners at St Pauls primary school in Scotcheskloof are fed every[…]
More than three months into a nationwide lockdown and the month of July has been littered with crime scenes and the memorials of women and children across South Africa. As news of violent crime slowly begins to dominate coronavirus headlines, reports indicate another tragic set of statistics: an increasing number[…]
Amid ongoing grief around the COVID-19 pandemic and the negative impact it has had on the lives of South Africans, the most vulnerable Mitchells Plain residents had their hope in humanity restored, when the Bangladeshi Business Forum (BBF) gifted 2 100 food parcels to the most destitute communities in the[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s address to the nation on Wednesday evening has received mixed reactions from different political parties in the country. Some have agreed with his approach to further ease alert level 3 lockdown regulations which will see restaurants re-open, alongside beauty places and salons. Others say this easing of[…]
India has reported a total of 297,535 coronavirus infections, surpassing the United Kingdom to become the fourth worst-affected country in the world, behind only the United States, Brazil and Russia. The number of infections increased by 10,956 on Friday from the previous day, and the death toll reached 8,498, India’s[…]
Gang violence has re-surged over the Cape flats following the move from alert level 4 to alert level 3 of the hard lockdown put in place by the state to curb the spread of coronavirus in the country. However, there are speculations that the spike can be attributed to the[…]
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