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EFF leader Julius Malema has yet again let loose on some heavy comments. The CIC claims white people are responsible for COVID-19 in SA.
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 Eastern Cape's Covid-19 hotspots will be divided into sub-districts to better manage the fight against the pandemic through regional responses in the \"vulnerable\" province, the national Department of Health said on Sunday.
In a media statement on Sunday night, he said after completing a trip to the Western Cape, which has 65% of all national cases, the department was now turning its attention to the Eastern Cape.
\"The Eastern Cape has similar numbers to Gauteng but it has recorded the second highest mortality numbers and its proximity and interconnectedness with the Western Cape makes the province especially vulnerable.
The department also sent a team of experts to the Eastern Cape in April comprising Wayne Ramkrishna, an expert in malaria, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases as well as Dr Kerrigan McCarthy, Mzimasi Neti and Darren Muganhiri from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NCID).
As reported to President Cyril Ramaphosa last week, the Western and Eastern Cape provincial governments are collaborating closely to test essential seasonal workers who travel between the provinces.
The two countries are locked in a bitter dispute over usage of the Nile River waters, with Egypt charging that Ethiopia’s plan to fill the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will starve Egypt of its primary supply.
“Egypt has elected to bring this matter to the attention of the UN security Council after having explored and exhausted every avenue of reaching an amicable solution to an agreement on the GERD that preserves and promotes the rights and interests of the three riparian states of the Blue Nile,” said Mr Shoukry.
The 1959 agreement allocated nearly 90 per cent of the Nile waters to Egypt and Sudan, with Egypt taking 55.5 billion cubic meters annually while Sudan was allocated 18.5 billion cubic meters per year.
Egypt and Sudan are yet to sign the agreement 10 years on, over this provision, and want Article 14 (b) to read that the use “not to adversely affect the water security and current uses and rights of any other Nile Basin State”.
Ethiopia says it will take three to seven years to fill the dam reservoir with 4.9 billion cubic meters of water for generation of electricity, while Egypt says it will affect the natural flow of the Blue Nile that provides it with 87 per cent of its water and has been pushing for gradual filling of between seven and 10 years to guarantee its annual share.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said the total number of COVID-19 cases are at 553 188 as of Saturday 8 August 2020.
On Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa identified three key tests that need to be met before the cigarette ban can be lifted in South Africa.
MTN has rolled out a new feature of its Mobile Money service that will allow South African consumers to make purchases online using their MoMo wallets, doing away with the need for a credit card for Internet shopping.
“We expect the overall list of partners to grow to over 30 000 websites over the next several months,” MTN South Africa chief officer for mobile financial services Felix Kamenga said.
Even those with credit cards, who do not trust online payments due to safety concerns, can now use MoMo instead, MTN said.
Both MTN and rival Vodacom had previously launched mobile money services in South Africa – the latter using the M-Pesa brand – but the companies exited the market citing disappointing uptake.
Relaunched
MTN, which has much success with MoMo in some other markets in Africa, decided to relaunch the product in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Acting Mayor Thsonono Buyeye is \"anxiously waiting\" for the Presidency to announce stricter regulations to halt rising Covid-19 figures in the metro.
