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CAPE TOWN - The National Arts Festival held annually in Makanda, Eastern Cape will be hosting a completely virtual experience this year to mitigate the on-going Covid-19 event and travel restrictions. The call was made by CEO of the festival Monica Newton. Last week President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national ...
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JOHANNESBURG - On the 15th of March President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national state of disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act in response to the Coronavirus outbreak that has hit South Africa. This enables the government to set up emergency, rapid and effective response measures to mitigate the ...
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CAPE TOWN - For the first time since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, China reported no new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began in Wuhan. South Africa confirmed its first Covid-19 case on the 5th of March which means in two weeks the numbers have escalated to over ...
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CAPE TOWN - Coronavirus infections in South Africa have increased by 34  to 274, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced late on Sunday. Earlier President Cyril Ramaphosa was meant to address the nation on decisions and measures taken by the National Command Council to curb the pandemic but postponed his address ...
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Cape Town - Standard Bank has announced a 3-month payment holiday for small business owners in South Africa amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to Business Report, the bank will give small business owners and students a reprieve on payments until June 2020. "We understand the pressures of being a small ...
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CAPE TOWN : KwaZulu-Natal MEC for tourism, Nomusa Dube-Ncube will meet with stakeholders in the hospitality industry to ensure that measures aimed at containing the Coronavirus are being implemented. This comes after Dube-Ncube said she was concerned that there were some establishments that continue to accept travellers from some countries ...
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CAPE TOWN - President Cyril Ramaphosa will have multiple discussions with key role players managing the Coronavirus pandemic on Sunday - including the all important National Command Council. According to a statement released by the presidency, Ramaphosa will meet with representatives from the business, faith and political sectors. " The ...
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The Coronavirus pandemic has placed a much higher premium on hand sanitiser. As a result, people are scrambling to get their hands on as many bottles of sanitiser as they can. This has also led to a whole range of 'home-made' sanitisers and generic brands flooding the market. We decided ...
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CAPE TOWN - The Eastern Cape province registered its first Coronavirus infection, the Department of Health announced on Saturday. This comes as infections in South Africa reached 240. According to the Department of Health, a female who had recently travelled to Germany had tested positive for the virus  - a ...
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CAPE TOWN - Coronavirus infections in South Africa have breached the 200 mark, Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize announced on Friday. The infection rate has steadily increased since the first reported infection in KwaZulu-Natal almost two weeks ago and currently sits at 202. The majority of infections have been ...
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