Month: April 2020
Government and Politics
Schools to reopen in June
Owing to the increase of Covid-19 infection cases, education in South Africa is set to restart in June, according to Ministers of Education. The resumption of the restructured 2020 academic programme will be guided by science, they emphasized. Dr. Blade Nzimande, the Minister of Higher Education and Training said that the tertiary tier of education […]
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Government and Politics
Full Speech: Government’s Gradual Lockdown, Stage 4
SA President Cyril Ramaphosa Statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa on South Africa’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Union Buildings, Tshwane 23 April 2020 – 12:00am My Fellow South Africans, It has been exactly seven weeks since the first case of the coronavirus was confirmed in our country. Since then, all our lives have changed in […]
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Science and Health
Lifting Lockdown Uncertainty Intensifies, Covid-19 Cases and Deaths Increase
SANDF members patrol a hostel in Alexandra, a township in Johannesburg – FT South Africa must brace itself for the brutal menace of SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) pandemic creeping silently across the country, experts warn. As of Wednesday April 22, 2020, the total number of cases for Covid-19 have increased to 3, 635 from 3, 465. A […]
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Government and Politics
Full Speech: R500bn Socio-economic Relief
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA ON FURTHER ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MEASURES IN RESPONSE THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC 21 APRIL 2020 My Fellow South Africans, It is 25 days since South Africa began a nation-wide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus. It has demanded of you great fortitude and endurance. It has caused you much […]
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Science and Health
Coronavirus contagion still rising
Updated April 21, 2020 | 19:20 With no end in sight, the incline on the number of Covid-19 infections in South Africa is continuing its upward trajectory unperturbed. The Department of Health (DoH) confirmed 165 new cases today taking the total from 3, 300 to 3, 465 with 126, 937 tests conducted so far. As […]
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Technology
Matric rewrite postponed
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) deferred the May 4 to June 26, 2020 grade 12 (matric) supplementary examinations due to the on-going coronavirus pandemic stranglehold. The Director-General of Basic Education Mr. Mathanzima Mweli cited Covid-19 “disruption to the schooling…” as the cause for the postponement. DBE statement on April 18 stated that: “This is […]
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Government and Politics
World rallies to plug the WHO financial hole US left
Image above – Left to right: Dr. Tedros Adhamon Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General receiving US$5m from Ambassador Vaqif Sadiqov, Azerbaijan’s representative to UN, on March 13, 2020 to support WHO’s efforts to combat Covid-19. “When we are divided, the virus exploits the cracks between us” – Dr. Ghebreyesus Updated April 19, 2020 | […]
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Science and Health
Wearing a Mask Curbs the Spread of Covid-19
In her work of art, “Groping In The Dark”, Honoria Groves writes: “Some people are still groping in the dark, Stumbling along all alone, Refusing the hands stretched out to help. Ignoring the lamp offered to them.” If you had asked anyone a few months ago about the general public wearing masks when they venture […]
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Science and Health
SA Covid-19 Lockdown Reloaded
As the obliterating coronavirus sweeps the world by a devastating storm, citizens are enduring a prolonged depressing wave last visited on earth in 1918. It is recorded in the anals of history that the terminal “Spanish flu pandemic” over a century ago claimed “at least 50 million” innocent lives worldwide, the Center for Disease Control […]
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St. Augustine’s Hospital partially closed as 48 staff members test positive
On Tuesday, April 2020, South Africa recorded the death of the 13th person due to the stranglehold of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. Health Minister, Dr. Zweli Mkhize announced in a media briefing that out of the 66 people who tested positive for Covid-19, “about 48” were staff members at St. Augustine’s Hospital in Durban. The […]
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