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The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) deems the pollution at the Vaal River to be beyond acceptable standards.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
DA leader John Steenhuisen, in a scathing statement, has bashed Ramaphosa for extending the state of disaster amongst other things.
Researchers from the College of Charleston’s School of Business and Lander University’s College of Business are currently studying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on restaurant owners and operators in South Carolina.
The research aims to explore current economic situations and perceptions regarding COVID-19.
They also hope to find out if owners are able to maintain their businesses for both the short term and long term under current and future social distancing guidelines and regulations.
Restaurant owners and operators may take the short, 20-question survey before June 15, 2020.
The researchers plan to present their findings in the next 60 days.
Kataza (SK11), the much-loved chacma baboon who has been such a headache to the City of Cape Town over the last 80 days, was finally released back into his home range this morning, where he is expected to be welcomed back by his native, Slangkop troop.
AMERICA’S OTHER PLAGUE
RIP: African American, George Floyd, 46, a truck driver and security guard, died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Monday, May 25, while in police custody.
NEW YORK: You are invited to attend a Unity In The Community Discussion with NY Police Department and Inez Dickens, NYS Assemblymember from Central Harlem, on Thursday, June 4 at 6:30 pm, for a “Where Do We Go From Here” webinar to examine George Floyd’s tragic death and how to move forward responsibly.
INFO: The NYS Legislature passed the Emergency Rent Relief Act of 2020, a short term, interim rent relief program for low-income residents with rent arrears, impacted by COVID19, funded up to $100 million, which is allocated from the coronavirus relief fund to NYS from Federal CARES Act.
BUSINESS INFO: Entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs launched OUR FAIR SHARE initiative last week, a new platform to help minority-owned small businesses to access Second Round (PPP) Paycheck Protection Program, which is a part of the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security CARES Act, the $2 trillion stimulus act that Congress approved on 3/27.
Donation price points range from $250 to $2800
MEDIA MATTERS
The February 2020 launch of the long-awaited Black News Channel, a 24/7 independent TV network, targeted to African American audiences, that is minority-owned and operated.
Today’s DAILY LOTTO jackpot is estimated at R350,000! The Daily Lotto is a lottery game that guarantees a jackpot for every draw.
A review of state distribution plans reveals that officials don’t know how they’ll deal with the difficult storage and transport requirements of Pfizer’s vaccine, especially in the rural areas currently seeing a spike in infections. By Isaac Arnsdorf, Ryan Gabrielson and Caroline Chen, ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest […]
The post Most States Aren’t Ready to Distribute the Leading COVID-19 Vaccine appeared first on Afro.
The police department in the US city of Minneapolis will be dismantled and rebuilt, city councillors said late Sunday, after the death in custody of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests about racism in law enforcement.
Council Member Alondra Cano tweeted that the decision came through \"a veto-proof majority of the MPLS City Council,\" which agreed that the police department \"is not reformable and that we're going to end the current policing system.\"
A white Minneapolis police officer has been charged with murder in the May 25 death of George Floyd, after bystander video showed the officer's knee pinned on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes while he pleaded for his life and called for his mother.
Last year, a black former Minneapolis police officer was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for the fatal shooting of an unarmed white Australian woman trying to report a crime.
Bender told CNN she was looking to shift police funding toward community-based strategies, and that the city council would discuss how to replace the current police department.
The Department of Water and Sanitation says the country's dam levels, with the exception of the Western Cape, continue to drop each week.
\"To this end, the Western Cape's provincial water storage is at 41.3% this week from 40.2% last week.
\"The Cape Town Water Supply System with six dams is floating at 58.4% this week from 57.9 last week.\"
Meanwhile, although the Integrated Vaal River System (IVRS) with 14 dams continues to decline, Gauteng dam levels have slightly improved to 99.6% from last week's 98.1%.
\"The Crocodile Water Supply System with seven dams improved slightly, from 98.5% last week to 99.4% this week.\"
The DA lost several wards across the country to smaller parties, and will need to do some serious introspection after a bad day at the polls
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc’s chief of advertising integrity, who handled the company’s ad products around sensitive subjects such as politics and coronavirus misinformation, departed this week, according to an internal company post viewed by Reuters on Friday. Rob Leathern, director of product management, said earlier this month on Facebook’s internal network that he would be leaving the company on Dec. 30. His exit had not been previously reported. Facebook could not immediately be reached for comment. Leathern said in the post that he was “leaving Facebook to work on consumer privacy beyond just ads and social media,” without disclosing where he was headed. Leathern was often the public face of the company’s controversial political advertising policies. Prior to the Nov. 3 U.S. election, Facebook was heavily criticized for allowing misleading claims and conspiracy theories to spread widely on its platforms. In November, Leathern had tweeted that Facebook did not have “the technical ability in the short term to enable political ads by state or by advertiser.” Subsequently, Facebook lifted a temporary post-election ban on political ads in Georgia ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. - Reuters
Treasury stretches debt maturity to 5.7 years
Monday, June 1, 2020 0:01
By CHARLES MWANIKI
The Central Bank of Kenya building in Nairobi.
FILE PHOTO | NMG
The maturity profile of domestic debt has lengthened to 5.7 years from 4.1 years two years ago on the back of a sustained effort to issue longer-term securities, Central bank of Kenya (CBK) has announced.
CBK governor Patrick Njoroge said during a virtual briefing following the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting last week that the option of having maturing Treasury bills rolled over using medium-term bond offerings is another option that the regulator is considering as a means of lengthening the maturity profile of local debt.
Such bonds, he said, are useful for lengthening the maturity profile of domestic debt, something that the CBK and Treasury have been trying to do.
The Treasury has obtained 97.1 percent of its domestic borrowing target of Sh389.7 billion for the current fiscal year, sparing the government the need to raid the market with any urgency in the next month.
Marilyn Nieves/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) - A former Kentucky police officer facing criminal charges related to the Breonna Taylor shooting is being sued by a young woman who…
County health workers will partner with certified worker organizations to support employees who want to form councils and train them on protocols so they can help monitor compliance.
The post L.A. County Moves to Set Up Worker-Driven COVID-19 Compliance Councils appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
By CARA ANNA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Up to 200,000 refugees could pour into Sudan while fleeing the deadly conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, officials said Wednesday, while the first details are emerging of largely cut-off civilians under growing strain. Nearly 10,000 people have crossed the border, including some wounded in the fighting, and the flow is growing quickly. 'There are lots of children and women,' Al-Sir Khalid, the head of the refugee agency in Sudan's Kassala province, told The Associated Press. 'They are arriving very tired and exhausted. They are hungry and thirsty […]
The post Sudan braces for up to 200,000 fleeing Ethiopia fighting appeared first on Black News Channel.
By SEAN MURPHY and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Celebrations marking Veterans Day gave way to somber virtual gatherings Wednesday, with many of the nation’s veterans homes barring visitors to protect their residents from the surging coronavirus that has killed thousands of former members of the U.S. military. Cemeteries decorated with American […]
