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President Ramaphosa will be addressing South Africans on Monday night and he is expected to relax restrictions such as the booze and beach bans.
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
Parties must let the parliamentary administration know how many of their members will attend the sitting at Parliament in Cape Town.
Speaker of the National Assembly Thandi Modise said they are still awaiting a report on the interruption of the committee's meeting two weeks ago, which was interrupted by pornography and racial and sexual slurs directed at Modise.
EFF MP Veronica Mente asked that Parliament be temporarily moved to Pretoria because it is more central and, therefore, easier for more MPs to reach than Cape Town.
She said the EFF only has three MPs in Cape Town, and they all have \"underlying issues\".
Modise said she requested a legal opinion and wrote to the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) to enquire whether MPs will be allowed to cross provincial borders to attend the virtual sitting.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has made a lockdown address to the nation on Wednesday night - and he came equipped with a major announcement on alcohol.
[Monitor] The Ministry of health has confirmed 701 new cases of Covid-19, the highest the country has ever registered since the pandemic outbreak in March this year.
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — More than 130,000 autoworkers returned to factories across the U.S. for the first time in nearly two months Monday in one of the biggest steps yet to restart American industry, while an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus yielded encouraging results in a small and extremely early test.
At a Fiat Chrysler pickup truck assembly plant in Warren, outside Detroit, workers entered a giant white tent with a sign that read: “Let’s restart and keep each other safe.”
Detroit’s Big Three — Fiat Chrysler, General Motors and Ford — as well as Honda and Toyota all had screening procedures in place at dozens of factories that reopened from the Great Lakes states south to Tennessee and Texas and out west at Tesla’s factory near the San Francisco Bay.
Chinese President Xi Jinping defended China’s record, saying the country provided all relevant outbreak data to WHO and other countries, including the virus’s genetic sequence, “in a most timely fashion.”
But the Trump administration stepped up its attacks at the meeting, with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar accusing WHO of failing to obtain the information the world needed as the outbreak emerged.
The SIU said it will be looking at documents, contracts and allocations going as far back as 2014 at National Lotteries Commission offices.
The 22-member commission includes climate change activists, academics, politicians, representatives of labour, Eskom and other state entities.
The EFF says that liquor sales, along with schools, should not reopen until more scientific data is available to ensure they will not lead to the spread of the coronavirus.
In a statement on Thursday, the party said there was \"currently no creditable scientific data that illustrates that the easing of the lockdown regulations, even with precautionary measures such as wearing masks, washing hands and constantly using hands sanitisers will not lead to the increased spread of the [coronavirus]\".
Stemming the spread of Covid-19 would only be further hampered by schools reopening and the lifting the ban on alcohol sales, the party believes.
\"The intention to permit the sale of alcohol will only worsen the situation because, even where there is no effort to contain a pandemic, alcohol has been responsible for many health-related and social ills in society,\" EFF spokesperson Vuyani Pambo said.
The EFF has demanded that the government reconsider the \"premature, senseless and reckless re-opening\" of the economy and schools, until scientific evidence shows it is safe to do so.
Teachers are scheduled to receive their jabs during phase two of the rollout strategy, but the DA say that concerned educators need more info
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to participate in today's virtual meeting of the African Union (AU) Contact Group of the High-Level Committee on Libya.
The meeting is at the invitation of the President of the Republic of the Congo and Chairman of the AU High-Level Committee on Libya, Denis Sassou Nguesso.
The President will partake in the meeting as Chair of the AU.
The meeting will also assess progress in relation to the National Reconciliation Conference scheduled for July 2020 under the auspices of the AU.
Other Heads of State and Government who will participate in the AU Contact Group meeting include President of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune; President of Chad Idriss Déby Itno and President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
It seems Brackenfell in the Western Cape will become the next target of EFF anger, after protesters were attacked on Monday. Julius Malema was watching...
Key statistics as at May 12, data from National Institute For Communicable Diseases, NICD
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\t\tThe total number of confirmed cases = 11,350
\t\tThe total number of tests so far = 369,697
\t\tTotal death toll = 206
\t\tTotal recoveries = 4,357
\t\tMost impacted provinces = Guateng, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Kwa Zulu-Natal
May 12: US donates ventilators
\tThe U.S. government is donating “up to 1,000” ventilators to South Africa to help the country respond to COVID-19 as the Trump administration addresses criticism that it hasn’t done enough for countries in need.
“South Africa is the first country in the world to receive this state-of-the-art equipment” from the National Security Council and USAID, the U.S. Embassy said in a tweet.
The donation brings the total U.S. government financial support to South Africa’s COVID-19 response to more than $41 million, according to the statement.
Meanwhile, president Ramaphosa has had a busy last 24 hours with a phone call with President Donald Trump during which the American leader pledged support for South Africa in the fight against the virus.
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April 23: SA scores WHO praise
\tA top World Health Organization official has hailed steps taken by South Africa to curb spread of the virus despite being the second most impacted country on the countinent – only behind Egypt as of April 23.
Cyril Ramaphosa has told matric students that they 'carry the hopes of a nation' ahead of their gruelling exam schedule, which begins this week.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will be supported by a number of various ministers during the 12th BRICS Summit on Tuesday.
[Monitor] The Ministry of Health have registered 1,199 new Covid-19 infections with 12 virus deaths as the number of confirmed cases on Wednesday rose to 25,059.
Luanda — Luanda's Cassenda neighbourhood residents have breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday, after the authorities decided to lift the sanitary lockdown they were in for lingering 16 days.
Ahead of the lifting of the sanitary lockdown, the authorities tested 160 specimens linked to people suspected of having had direct contact with those infected.
As a result, Futungo de Belas neighbourhood remains under a lockdown, pending the results of 300 residents tests.
In addition to lifting the lockdown, the authorities issued tested residents with covid-19 negative result certificates.
Under sanitary lockdown is also Hoji-Ya-Henda neighbourhood, in Luanda's high density suburb of Cazenga, where 3.335 specimens were collected and a few infections detected, linked to the so-called case 31, a Guinea Conakry national with more than 75 contacts.
Somali Health Ministry on Wednesday confirmed 71 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total tally of infections to 1,573.
Fawziya Abikar, the Health Minister, said the new infections are from Jubaland in the southern region with the majority of cases 46, Banadir 17, the semi-autonomous region of Puntland which has six and Somaliland two.
Abikar said two patients succumbed to the deadly respiratory disease, bringing the total number of deaths to 61.
She said 10 people recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total number of people who have been discharged from hospitals to 188.
The increase in the number of COVID-19 cases comes at a time Somalia is also facing heavy flooding and a threat of desert locust infestation.
[African Arguments] If convicted, Ace Magashule's political career could be over. If acquitted, he could become politically indestructible.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says opposition parties are not facing facts about the hard work it will take to fix state-owned enterprises.
[GroundUp] The Hawks and the Special Investigating Unit swooped on the offices of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) and Metrofile, a document storage company, early Tuesday morning after obtaining a search and seizure order from a Pretoria magistrate on Monday.
Campaigners said determined action by several countries has shown that it is possible to end the spread of the virus.
President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation on COVID-19 outcomes on Monday. Watch the latest 'family meeting' here
