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The Covid-19 realities of frontline staff in SA retail stores and their coffee shops: A growing number of retail stores have been forced to temporarily close after frontline staff tested positive for Covid-19. This has led to questions around these store’s pay policies, access to the …
More stranded South Africans fly home, Soweto taxi rank pilots new hygiene measures and police force hit hard by Coronavirus: Things changed overnight in South Africa on 15 March when the national state of disaster was declared — and it won’t be the last time it does. Daily Maverick’s Daily Digest will provide the essential …
The story of an Mfecane mega-drought is written in the trees: Hundreds of thousands of people – possibly even a million or more – across southern Africa died from starvation and war during the ‘crushing’, the Difaqane or Mfecane, of 1816-17. One of the main …
Maersk delivers refrigerated containers from Middle East to South Africa: To offset the scarcity of reefer containers in South Africa ahead of this citrus season and to support the nation’s agricultural sector, Maersk has brought 1,800 empty refrigerated 40-foot containers …
Correctional Services Department conducts inspection of COVID-19 isolation, quarantine sites in KZN: The National Commissioner of Correctional Services , Arthur Fraser , has conducted an inspection of COVID-19 isolation and quarantine sites in Estcourt in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
Watch: “Don’t Lose Hope,” Zweli Mkhize Tells SA Health Workers As Coronavirus Spreads In The Country: South African Health Minister Doctor Zweli Mkhize has dedicated International Nurses Day to the healthcare workers fighting COVID-19 and the nurses in South Africa who paid the ultimate price for it.
Mkhize salutes nurses who died of Covid-19 in International Nurses Day speech: Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Tuesday dedicated this year’s International Nurses Day to the health practitioners who died in the ongoing arduous battle against the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). “As …
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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: Durban plays host to Africa’s greatest horse race – the Durban July, held annually on the first Saturday in July at Greyville Racecourse. While the first official horse race took place there in 1844, the first Durban July – then called the Durban Turf Club Handicap – was run in 1897. It’s been run every year since then and now attracts over 50,000 visitors to Durban over ‘July Weekend’.
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