Raw sewage causing a stink for south Durban families: Durban – WHILE a Lamontville family can finally breathe easily after contending with sewage flowing into their property for a week, a Merebank family are still awaiting action from the eThekwini Municipality. They have had sewage flowing into their property since April from a manhole nearby. Pensioner Rose Ngutyana, who lives with her children and grandchildren in Lamontville, was happy to reclaim her property from the stench of…
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MTN wants to recognise your Everyday Hero: Over the past few months South Africans have been inspired by the unrelenting and fearless work of those facing the worst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, from the healthcare and essential workers doing dangerous but crucial work every day, to the journalists bringing us the news from frontlines of this issue. But there are also the unsung…
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Families forced to postpone funerals after 9 bodies stored in morgue with body of Covid-19 patient: The families of nine people, who died in Mpumalanga, have to wait before they can bury their loved ones after the body of a person who had died of Covid-19 was mistakenly stored in the same mortuary at KwaMhlanga Hospital. ……
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Restaurant industry wants clarity from govt on delay in opening up sector: The Restaurants Association of South Africa has sent the tourism ministry a lawyer’s letter asking for clarity on when the regulations will be made public. ……
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Active COVID-19 cases in Gauteng overtaking recoveries – provincial Health Dept: Gauteng has seen a steep spike in infections since the easing of lockdown regulations, and authorities were calling on communities to change their behaviour. ……
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Mabuza sounds loadshedding warning as power demand rises: South Africans might have become…
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Assaulted farmworker dies seeking justice two years after tractor allegedly rammed home: Cape Town – Herbertsdale farmworker Hilton Levendal has died before seeing justice done. The Cape Times had reported how a farmer allegedly attempted to demolish his home by driving a tractor into it, with the case taking more than two years to be heard….
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‘Litigation looms’ if Durban Metro billing system problems persist: Durban – The stability of eThekwini Municipality’s Revenue Management System (RMS) remained uncertain, the city’s Audit Committee report has warned. In its assessment of the first and second quarters of the 2019/20 financial year, the committee said it has not been possible for the city to determine water losses for the period under review. During Wednesday’s virtual Exco meeting,…
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Battle to fill quarantine facilities as Cape residents want to ‘stay in their own homes’: Cape Town – While the Western Cape Government has made quarantine and isolation facilities available for resident to use to help curb the spread of Covid-19, according to Premier Alan Winde there is a struggle to occupy these facilities as residents want to stay in their own homes. During his weekly digicon, Winde featured Transport and Public Works MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela, and Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo to provide an update on these facilities in the province. The premier said that provincial public works department, has as of 24 June, brought 3 760 isolation and quarantine facility beds online. He added that they will soon have 4…
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‘Emotionally drained’ nurses devoted to saving lives as Covid-19 cases spike: Cape Town – As South Africa fast approaches its Covid-19 peak, with a record 5 688 new cases confirmed in a single day this week, two Groote Schuur hospital nurses on the front lines remained resolute and committed to saving lives. Verna Collins and Judith Parenzee – stationed in the C27 Respiratory ICU, which is now used as a Covid-19 ICU – work 12-hour shifts and because of staff shortages, sometimes work on their days off. “We get here about 6.30am, leave at about 7.30pm at night. Normally we’ll work a Monday, Tuesday, then have Wednesday and…
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