Strandfontein ratepayers open case against City for violating lockdown rules at shelter: Cape Town – The Strandfontein Ratepayers Association yesterday opened a criminal case against City manager Lungelo Mbandazayo and the Cape Town City Council for violating lockdown regulations. By setting up an “overcrowded” camp for the homeless at the Strandfontein complex, the City manager and the council violated regulation 11D of the lockdown regulations, said association chairperson…
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Coronavirus: 4 more Kingsway Hospital staff test positive, bringing total to 10: Four more staff members at the Netcare Kingsway Hospital in Amanzimtoti, south of Durban, test positive for Covid-19 after exposure at the hospital was traced to a patient. ……
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COVID-19 challenges loom as Parliament seeks to play catch-up: Even though members of Parliament have been ordered to get back to work and show up virtually to actively exercise oversight, deputy Speaker Lechesa Tsenoli acknowledges the bulk of their work will be urgent and COVID-19 related. ……
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Political parties react to Ramaphosa’s refusal to lift alcohol ban: On Friday, the president announced that the ban would remain in place for the remainder of the extended nationwide lockdown. ……
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At least 4 people arrested in drug raids across WC: On Friday, officers seized liquid cocaine and tik valued at around R3 million at a Table View home. ……
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7 more COVID-19 cases confirmed at Netcare’s St Augustine’s Hospital: This means there are now 83 reported cases of COVID-19 at Netcare facilities in the metro. ……
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COVID-19 socio-economic recovery plan top of agenda at Cabinet meeting: It’s day 25 of the national lockdown and there are concerns that the president could once again extend the home confinement period as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to rise. ……
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Several foreigners arrested for illegally operating a factory in Durban during lockdown: Durban – Several foreign nationals have been arrested for illegally operating a factory in Tongaat in KwaZulu-Natal, and in separate incidents other people were also arrested for contravening the coronavirus (Covid-19) regulations and large amounts of liquor were confiscated, the South African Police Service (SAPS) said on Sunday. “A large group of foreign nationals were arrested for residing on and operating a factory in Tongaat, north of Durban,” SAPS national spokesman Brigadier Vish Naidoo said in a statement. On Thursday, April 16, a complaint about the operation on Walter Reid Road in Tongaat was received and attended to by SAPS officers. On arrival,…
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‘When I heard about the accident, I prayed that my mother was not involved’: Cape Town – When 1-year-old twins Shaney and Shantey hear the sound of an idling truck outside their one-room backyard shack in Touws River they become hopeful, thinking it is the return of their mother and seasonal farmworker Geraldine Lotriet. They do not know yet that their 36-year-old mother will never return home. She was among six farmworkers killed when a truck carrying about 30 of her colleagues was involved in a collision with another truck on April 7, with more than 18 workers being injured. The deceased were buried over the weekend. Described as hard-working, Lotriet only recently became a seasonal worker in De Doorns, according to her 21-year-old son, Terence. Her wish was to…
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‘It’s the absolute least we can do’: Call for govt to increase child grants by …: A group of academics and civil society formations believe that their call for the government to increase child grants by R500 for a period of six months is “the absolute least we can do”, given the way the economy is suffering due to Covid-19. ……
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