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The purpose of the visit is to ensure the provincial human settlements department is back on track with regard to the delivery of houses, and in meeting its 2021/2022 targets.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
The recognition of King Ahlangene Vulikhaya Sigcawu was meant to quell tension, but squabbles continue as some oppose his right to the throne.
The Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape says it can't pay its employees for four months.
Chinese investors have been wise to the opportunities presented by Port St Johns for the past few years, as the 'new coastal city' prepares for an overhaul.
As the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases in SA reach 866 127, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced further restrictions, including the closure of some beaches over the festive season.
Chairperson of the national health oversight committee Dr Sbongiseni Dhlomo and Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba said in a statement this week that they were barred entry to Life St Mary's Hospital in Mthatha where they visited to investigate the allegations.
Dhlomo said: \"It is quite surprising as we had informed identified health facilities, including Life St Mary's Hospital in Mthatha, of the committees' intended oversight visit in the Eastern Cape.
His spokesperson Mvusiwekhaya Sicwetsha said: \"In response to the allegations made by the people of the province about bad treatment of healthcare workers and patients by Mthatha Private Hospital, Life St Mary's and Life Beacon Bay private hospitals, Eastern Cape province, Mr Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane has tasked the Health MEC, Sindiswa Gomba to submit a report about these allegations.\"
\"The decision by Life St Mary's hospital in Mthatha to deny access to the hospital premises to the members of the Health Portfolio Committee from national Parliament, Health MEC, Sindiswa Gomba who were on the oversight visit to the hospital to investigate the same allegations, will also be included in the report.
Additionally, these discussions have cleared up misunderstandings around official government visits at Life St Mary's Hospital and outlined our stringent PPE protocols for staff, doctors and patients as well as our Healthcare Workers Exposure Policy which are aligned to NICD guidelines.
South Africa has recorded 216 Covid-19-related deaths, taking the toll to 24 907.
Hospitals in the Eastern Cape's poorest regions have limited resources to treat critically ill Covid-19 patients.
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said the department should have planned better to avoid the frantic scramble for services.
\"It is alleged the suspect made an 11-year-old child undress and entered him in a toilet that was full of human faeces. The child was allegedly tied with a rope on the upper body and lowered into the toilet pit by other learners in an effort to retrieve a cellphone that fell into the pit latrine.\"
South Africa's Covid-19 recovery rate has reached 90% as the country recorded 2 649 new cases and 547 confirmed deaths.
Police Minister Bheki Cele says a few cops have been linked to extortion cases in the Western Cape.
The Peddie herdsman accused of luring two young sisters to the bushes by promising to buy them sweets to celebrate one of their birthday on 3 March, before allegedly raping and killing them, was found dead on Monday.
It’s Tuesday 15 December 2020, and this is TheSouthAfrican.com Daily News Wrap - with the latest news you really need to know.
Winter is coming for the Western Cape, which means extra vigilance for floods and fires.
What a terrible way to start 2021. A multi-car pile-up in the Western Cape has killed eight people, and the N1 crash caused major traffic issues on Friday.
Gobo Fango was born in the Eastern Cape Colony in what is now South Africa around 1855, just before the beginning of the eighth of the nine Xhosa Wars (Cape Frontier Wars) against British and Boer settlers. Fango was a member of the Gcaleka tribe, a sub-group of the Xhosa peoples. These frontier wars brought poverty and privation to the Xhosa people forcing his starving mother to abandon him at the age of three, leaving him in the crotch of a tree where he was found by the sons of Henry and Ruth Talbot, English-speaking settlers on the Cape Frontier. They claimed him and raised him as an indentured servant. Two years later, in 1857, the Talbot family was baptized by Latter Day Saint (LDS) missionaries. Shortly afterwards the Talbots sold their belongings and made preparations for the migration to Utah Territory. On February 20, 1861, they boarded the ship Race Horse, bound for Boston, Massachusetts and from there took a train to Chicago, Illinois. Arriving in Chicago on the eve of the Civil War, abolitionists accused the Talbots of bringing a slave across the free states, forcing them to hide the six-year-old under a passenger’s skirts until the search ended.
The Talbot family continued west through Iowa and to Florence, Nebraska Territory and outfitted wagons for their remaining trek to Utah. They arrived in Salt Lake City on September 13, 1861 and eventually settled in Kaysville, Utah, where Fango worked as a farm laborer for the Talbots. Because he slept in a shed, his feet were frozen, forcing him to walk with a limp for the rest of his life.
When Fango was a teenager, the Talbots sold him to the Lewis Whitesides family even though he was officially freed at the age of seven when the U.S. Congress abolished slavery and indentured servitude in all U.S. territories including Utah. Fango was sold again (illegally) to Ruth Whitesides Hunter and brought to Grantsville where he helped with the family’s sheep herding. By the early 1880s he had settled in the Goose Creek Valley in Idaho Territory. By
A warm to hot Thursday is expected across the country, according to the South African Weather Service, with isolated showers expected once again.
[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has recorded over 20 000 new COVID-19 cases two days in a row, the latest statistics reveal.
[DA] Failure will have a big human cost and the government will have to bear full responsibility for those lives
South African blueberry producers have sailed through the setbacks of the coronavirus pandemic, exporting punnet after punnet all year.
According to the provincial health department, nearly 1 000 vaccinations have been administered daily since 17 February.
A team tasked with securing Covid-19 vaccine doses for the Western Cape has started contacting pharmaceutical manufacturers, Premier Alan Winde has announced.
The total number of people who have died from coronavirus related deaths has escalated to 1 877.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said that in the past 24 hours, there have been a further 32 deaths in the Western Cape, 11 in the Eastern Cape, and three in KwaZulu-Natal.
\"As of today, the cumulative number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa is 92 681.
The number of recoveries is 50 326, which translates to a recovery rate of 54.3%.
About 1 293 608 tests have been completed in total, of which 33 174 new tests are reported,\" said Mkhize.
\"Today, we wish to reiterate our plea to South Africans to heed the threat of the rising numbers of Covid-19 cases identified,\" Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.
South Africa has recorded its highest single week increase in the number of deaths.
