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Introducing the National Arts Festival, a hybrid festival of the arts, anchored in Makhanda, accessible online and coming to you in cites across South Africa.
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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It also focused on the non-payment of invoices by state departments, service delivery during the Covid-19 lockdown and grievances brought before the organisation which investigates, monitors and evaluates how public service is administered.
Seloane added the public works and infrastructure and water and sanitation departments continued to default with 173 and 137 invoices, respectively, which were older than 30 days.
Seloane said the commission noted the government, like others across the globe, was under severe pressure because of the Covid-19 pandemic and welcomed efforts by the government to establish the Solidarity Fund which would assist with relief efforts during the crisis.
Seloane said the pandemic also challenged the behaviour of public servants, raising concerns over incidents of ill-treatment meted to citizens by law enforcement officials along with reports of maladministration, ill-treatment or lack of care of particular patients at some medical facilities and poor service delivery.
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\"The value of human dignity as well as the principle of high standards of professional ethics should at all times guide the behaviour of government officials when delivering government services.\"
Stay informed and up to date with the latest news in South Africa by reviewing the day’s major headlines on Tuesday 7 July.
Another 39 people have died of Covid-19 in the Western Cape, which has seen the death toll in the province rise to 357, Premier Alan Winde announced on Tuesday.
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However, Winde also expressed concern over possible confusion about the different levels of lockdown for \"hotspots\" from 1 June.
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Winde said that Mkhize's presentation indicated that some hotspots could remain under Level 4 when the rest of the country moves to Level 3 on 1 June.
Winde also felt that keeping certain Western Cape areas on Level 4 would further exacerbate the economic and humanitarian \"disaster\" that has resulted from the lockdown.
The province is expecting to see 200 000 jobs lost as a result of the lockdown, and supports the move to Level 3 with a targeted hotspot strategy.
A court interdict stopped the EC Education Department from implementing the R538 million contract. The tablets must still be returned.
A number of past and current pupils from St Anne's Diocesan College have recounted experiences of alleged racism and bigotry while at the school in a document released to the public.
St Anne's is one of many schools this past week that have seen current and former pupils across the country accuse schools, some teachers and fellow pupils of institutionalised racism.
In the rest of the country, students from former Model C schools in Gauteng, the Western and Eastern Cape as well as KwaZulu-Natal and others have posted their experiences of alleged racism at their schools by teachers and fellow pupils alike, News24 previously reported.
Pupils at Bishops Diocesan College staged a protest in this regard, compiling a list of demands for the school and calling on it to condemn racism.
In KZN, Durban Girls' High pupils also detailed accounts of institutionalised racism, to which the school said it would provide a Conversation Circle platform for pupils to make their voices heard, IOL reported.
South Africa has recorded 139 more Covid-19-related deaths, bringing the recorded death toll to 22 206.
Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane will lobby national government to reinstate a liquor ban under Level 3 lockdown for his province, due to fears that alcohol will harm the battle against Covid-19 infections.
Mabuyane will petition the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, to have the ban on alcohol reintroduced in his province.
Speaking to News24 on Monday, Mabuyane said the province had seen a surge in alcohol-related incidents since the country moved to Level 3.
Since the resumption of alcohol, provincial reports from 1 June until 7 June also indicated a surge in people contravening lockdown regulations, he said.
In May, Mkhize explained how provincial districts would be assigned a lockdown level, saying the government had adapted its approach to combating Covid-19 and shifted its focus to be narrower.
While the Eastern Cape government has said it is sticking to its plans to vaccinate 3.7 million people in 9 months, the national Health Department has refused to comment on the province's plans, and would not confirm if it endorses it.
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Oliver Tambo , (born October 27, 1917, Bizana, Pondoland district, Transkei [now in Eastern Cape], South Africa—died April 24, 1993, Johannesburg), president of the South African black-nationalist African National Congress (ANC) between 1967 and 1991.
South Africa recorded 744 new Covid-19 infections by Monday and 21 new Covid-19-related deaths, taking the confirmed death toll to 53 757.
The arrest followed information that the liquor store manager was selling alcohol to Eastern Cape customers in the early hours of the morning on a highway.
Image: Steve Buissinne
South African banks face the steepest earnings slump in half a century — with some posting losses — as measures to curb the coronavirus drag the economy deeper into recession and lead to a surge in bad debts.
Standard Bank Group reported its sole annual-profit decline in 2010 in the wake of the global financial crisis, while FirstRand’s earnings shrank in 2008 and 2009.
The banking industry should remain profitable if credit-loss ratios are in line with the global financial crisis, when earnings fell by around 30%, and banks continued to pay dividends, said Renier de Bruyn, an analyst at Sanlam Private Wealth.
The banking industry should remain profitable if credit-loss ratios are in line with the global financial crisis, when earnings fell by around 30%
With fairly diversified portfolios, banks could be impacted differently, De Bruyn said.
In research spanning South Africa’s five largest full-service banks, which together own 94% of the industry’s loans, stress testing by PwC, even under the worst scenarios, found the industry will remain resilient through the Covid-19 crisis.
A group of 16 pupils with Covid-19 evaded quarantine at Makaula Secondary School in KwaBhaca, where a total of 204 learners and teachers have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Eastern Cape education MEC Fundile Gade told News24 on Tuesday that the 16 learners escaped last week while the school was in the process of transporting learners to three quarantine sites.
A total of 284 pupils of the school were tested, and 204 people, including staff, were confirmed to be Covid-19 positive, said Gade.
Gade also announced that a total of 15 staff members had died of Covid-19 at Eastern Cape schools.
At the briefing, Mabuyane told journalists that 200 Eastern Cape schools are closed due to Covid-19.
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded on the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans;[9] [10] [11] on the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and on the east and northeast by Mozambique and Swaziland; and surrounds the kingdom of Lesotho.[12] South Africa is the 25th-largest country in the world by land area, and with close to 56 million people, is the worlds 24th-most populous nation. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere. About 80 percent of South Africans are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry,[5] divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different Bantu languages, nine of which have official status.[11] The remaining population consists of Africas largest communities of European (white), Asian (Indian), and multiracial (coloured) ancestry.
South Africa is a multiethnic society encompassing a wide variety of cultures, languages, and religions. Its pluralistic makeup is reflected in the constitutions recognition of 11 official languages, which is among the highest number of any country in the world.[11] Two of these languages are of European origin: Afrikaans developed from Dutch and serves as the first language of most white and coloured South Africans; English reflects the legacy of British colonialism, and is commonly used in public and commercial life, though it is fourth-ranked as a spoken first language.[11] The country is one of the few in Africa never to have had a coup détat, and regular elections have been held for almost a century. However, the vast majority of black South Africans were not enfranchised until 1994. During the 20th century, the black majority sought to recover its rights from the dominant white minority, with this struggle playing a large
During a basic education briefing on the school reopening strategy, Motshekga said that infection rates mirrored those of the communities.
One of Port Elizabeth's biggest funeral parlour services says the phone is constantly ringing as hospitals and families look for safe spaces to store the bodies of Covid-19 patients.
Vantyi said he's also been approached by some private hospitals, such as Netcare Greenacres Hospital in the city, about his storage capacity, \"because there are just so many deaths,\" he told News24.
Netcare Greenacres Hospital's hospital area general manager André Bothma, told News24 that they recently contacted all the funeral parlours in Port Elizabeth to find out what their capacity was as part of planning for the management of an increase in Covid-19 patients and related deaths.
\"Our hospital did not have a mortuary, as we arrange with one of a number of private funeral parlours to collect deceased patients from our hospitals, in consultation with their families and based on their preference of funeral parlour.
\"We have, as a precautionary measure, acquired a free-standing mortuary facility at Netcare Greenacres Hospital earlier this week, in case funeral parlours find themselves in a position where they cannot immediately accommodate deceased patients.\"
A lack of personal protective equipment, sanitiser and physical distancing have been identified at Frontier Hospital in Queenstown, staff say.
Eastern Cape — The Acting Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Service in Eastern Cape, Major General Andries Swart informs the public that the Dimbaza, New Brighton, Willowvale and Whittlesea Police Stations are now fully operational.
Motherwell, King William's Town and Bhisho Police stations were decontaminated on 21 May 2020 and are expected to open by Saturday 23 May 2020.
Decontamination at Graaff Reinet police station is underway and the station will be fully operational on Monday, 25 May 2020.
Maj General Swart expressed his gratitude to the various stakeholders who opened their doors and allowed the police to utilise their facilities as temporary police stations.
We will definitely need help in other parts of the Province should it become necessary to close other police stations due to members becoming affected by the virus.
South Africa's economic hub, Gauteng, is experiencing "a period of sustained increase" in infections, while KZN, Eastern Cape and Western Cape officially entered a second wave of infections, the SA Covid-19 Modelling Consortium says.
South Africa's most populous province, Gauteng, is now recording more Covid-19 cases every day than at any point during the Western Cape's outbreak.
On 26 June, Gauteng recorded 2 598 new cases and 2 590 on 25 June – both representing the highest increases in cases in a single day in any province.
The sudden surge in cases in Gauteng also means that the province has recorded the highest number of concurrent active cases in a day – 24 063 as of 26 June, a 1 276 jump in recoveries in a day.
The previous highest number of active cases was recorded in the Western Cape on 24 June, at a little more than 16 000 cases.
Gauteng accounted for the highest number of cases - 2 941, and the Eastern Cape reported an increase of 1 720.
As of 13 June, Gauteng has 9 897 confirmed cases of Covid-19, while the Eastern Cape has 9 250 cases.
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A total of 1 087 887 Covid-19 tests have been performed to date, with 27 462 conducted since Friday.
The minister reported a further 69 Covid-19 related deaths on Saturday evening, bringing the death toll to 1 423, which translated to a mortality rate of 2.2%.
Of the new recorded deaths, 36 were from the Western Cape, 24 from Gauteng, and nine from the Eastern Cape.
On Friday, News24 reported that the Western Cape Covid-19 death toll had topped 1 000.
Asked about a 16-month old pledge to farmers by co-founder Patrice Motsepe, his foundation says it is still talking to traditional leaders.
Another 434 people have died of illness linked to the virus.
The Queen died at the Cecilia Makhiwane hospital in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape. She is the sister of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini.
120 matric markers in the Eastern Cape have tested positive for Covid-19 in the province, before the marking started 1 600 markers withdrew from the process.
