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Along with food prices and the fuel cost, it appears as though the cost of accommodation is also still on the rise.
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.
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Disbanding the ANC NEC is out of the question, says ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe.
There's big money on the line tonight! R14 million is on the line. Here are your Powerball and Powerball Plus results for Tuesday, 8 December 2020.
The Albinism Community in Zimbabwe has urged the government to avail subsidised sunscreen lotions as a means to protect members from possible cancer and related ailments.
Maxhiha said most persons with albinism in the country were prone to cancers as they cannot afford the sunscreen lotions which are currently costing between US$15 to US$20 per bottle.
\"We acknowledge that the government has been assisting the albinism community but not to the expected extent.
Ahead of the 2020 commemorations, Amnesty International has called on governments the world over to pay attention to persons with albinism whose lives are at a higher risk during the Covid-19 lockdown periods being implemented the world over.
\"Authorities must ensure that measures to respond to Covid-19 are inclusive of the specific needs of persons with albinism, including provision of sunscreen lotions, enabling access to information, increasing community policing and improving access to social protection in order to maintain their health, safety, dignity, and independence during and post the Covid-19 pandemic,\" said the organisation.
Coronavirus: The Need for Solidarity By Rev. Betty Whitted Holley, Ph.D. We, as people of God, are broken before God. We are turned in on ourselves, away from God and others. We sew discord and dis…
THREE times in the past month, 71-year-old Leonard Chizinga showed up at NewsDay offices seeking to talk to a reporter about what he described as a burning issue and was turned away each time. By Tawanda Tafirenyika Yesterday on the fourth visit, I granted him an audience to hear what it was so important that he was risking the long travel, with the risk of contracting the deadly coronavirus at his advanced age. “I am disappointed with the political leadership of this country, there is too much greed and pride at play and there is a total disregard of the people,” he said. “It is clear that we are in a bad situation: we can no longer use our own currency because of high inflation, prices are rising every day, nurses are on strike and there is hunger everywhere.” He proposed a solution. “President Emmerson Mnangagwa must bring people together; he must swallow his pride and engage MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and other opposition political parties to have a collective disposition on the way forward for the country. “The political infights we are witnessing means they are spending most of the time wrestling over State power at the expense of economic development.” He said economic fixation should take precedence over politics. His opinions, he argued, were influenced by the depressed standards of living that have become an every day staple. He lamented that he had since the era of the late former President Robert Mugabe, tried without success to bring political parties together in the interests of the majority of Zimbabweans. He said the problems afflicting the citizens centred on leadership. Mnangagwa created the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform through which a collection of small opposition parties including the smaller faction of the MDC led by Thokozani Khupe (MDC-T), but Chizinga said without the involvement of Chamisa, the dialogue meant nothing. Chamisa has refused to be part of the dialogue series, refusing to recognise the leadership of Mnangagwa after accusing him of stealing the 2018 general elections. Chizinga said, already, the political parties were in election mode at a time when they are supposed to be seized with fixing the economy. “It is pointless to go for elections without consensus because the results will be disputed. Before the 2018 elections, I warned that the elections will be disputed if there was no genuine dialogue. What is critical is for the political parties to come to the negotiating table and come to a consensus before going to elections. The President must engage Chamisa to resolve the problems the country is facing,” Chizinga said. “Frankly speaking, I am just a concerned citizen who does not belong to any political party, but motivated by the need to see all of us able to put food on the table. “I have written several letters since the time of Mugabe, urging him to prioritise the economy. “It is really sad that they spent energies on scoring political points at the expense of the economy. The talk is only about Zanu PF and MDC with most of them priding themselves for
The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 250,000 people in less than 10 months, surpassing the annual number of deaths from strokes, suicides and car crashes combined. Health experts warn of a rise in deaths in the fall and winter if the nation does not implement a more coordinated strategy and citizens fail to adopt […]
The Covid-19 period has has been one of the most challenging for businesses.
Award-winning non-profit AdoptAClassroom.org and the national off-price retailer Burlington Stores are proud to team up for the fourth consecutive year to help offset the money that teachers spend out of their own pockets each year, to provide much-needed educational materials for their students to learn and succeed. Since the partnership commenced, the campaign has funded […]
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Californians living with diabetes, a group of doctors and some African American healthcare advocates are asking the state Senate to take up -- and quickly vote on -- an “urgent” public health bill that lawmakers have put on ice. If passed, the legislation would place a $50 cap on monthly copayments insurers require diabetic patients to cover when buying their insulin treatments.
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Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are expressing relief and excitement now that the Biden transition is officially underway.
By BILL BARROW Associated Press Election Day is finally upon us. Or at least what we still call Election Day, since more than 93 million Americans have already cast ballots in an election that has been reshaped by the worst pandemic in more than a century, its economic fallout and a long-simmering reckoning with systemic racism. Here are some key questions we are considering as the final votes are cast and counted: WHAT DO AMERICANS WANT FROM A PRESIDENT? Elections are always about where Americans want to steer the country. That's especially true this year as the U.S. confronts multiple […]
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Thirty five residents and 17 staff members of a Goodwood home for the aged tested positive for Covid-19 in a massive scare that seems to be abating, manager Andre Verster said on Sunday.
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A 97-year-old resident of the Protea Home for the Aged is still in hospital but there are signs that the resident will beat the virus.
The discovery led to testing in the frail care section of the home and the diagnosis of 52 cases among residents and staff.
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Families are not allowed to leave care packages for their loved ones during the isolation period.
He said that some of the residents had to leave the facility for medical check-ups and some staff members had to use public transport.
Jodie Turner-Smith said that she labored for four days before her daughter was born at her family’s home in Los Angeles on April 21.
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Jan Christiaan Smuts brought the nation into World War II on the Allied side against Nationalist opposition, and South Africa became a charter member of the United Nations in 1945, but he refused to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Apartheid—racial separation—dominated domestic politics as the Nationalists gained power and imposed greater restrictions on Bantus (black Africans), Asians, and Coloreds (in South Africa the term meant any nonwhite person). Black voters were removed from the voter rolls in 1936. Over the next half-century, the nonwhite population of South Africa was forced out of designated white areas. The Group Areas Acts of 1950 and 1986 forced about 1.5 million Africans to move from cities to rural townships, where they lived in abject poverty under repressive laws.
South Africa declared itself a republic in 1961 and severed its ties with the Commonwealth, which strongly objected to the countrys racist policies. The white supremacist National Party, which had first come to power in 1948, would continue its rule for the next three decades.
In 1960, 70 black protesters were killed during a peaceful demonstration in Sharpesville. The African National Congress (ANC), the principal antiapartheid organization, was banned that year, and in 1964 its leader, Nelson Mandela, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Black protests against apartheid grew stronger and more violent. In 1976, an uprising in the black township of Soweto spread to other black townships and left 600 dead. Beginning in the 1960s, international opposition to apartheid intensified. The UN imposed sanctions, and many countries divested their South African holdings.
Apartheids grip on South Africa began to give way when F. W. de Klerk replaced P. W. Botha as president in 1989. De Klerk removed the ban on the ANC and released its leader, Nelson Mandela, after 27 years of imprisonment. The Inkatha Freedom Party, a black opposition group led by Mangosuthu Buthelezi, which was seen as collaborating with the apartheid system,
