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Covid-19: Open Letter to Minister Angie Motshekga

Ten suggestions for the Minister of Basic Education to assist school children and teachers during and after the lockdown

Opinion | 14 April 2020

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Covid-19: Angry taxi drivers set tyres alight outside police station in Uitenhage

Local police have impounded about 60 informal jikeleza taxis since the lockdown

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News | 14 April 2020

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Covid-19: Lockdown threatens women farm workers’ access to food

“We are going to starve” says seasonal worker in De Doorns

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Opinion | 14 April 2020

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Covid-19: Meat vendors stripped of their livelihood

“We understand the coronavirus is dangerous. But our children are hungry at home”

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News | 14 April 2020

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Covid-19: KZN nurses stranded in Western Cape

Nurses told by agencies that they can’t be booked because they are not covered should they contract coronavirus at work

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Brief | 14 April 2020

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Covid-19: Motshekga urged to restore school feeding schemes during lockdown

Concern about need to provide meals for nine million learners

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News | 13 April 2020

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Tim Noakes interview is dangerously misleading

And it contains elementary errors

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Science | 13 April 2020

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City officers shoot at Khayelitsha protesters

Conflict over how to respond to land occupation during lockdown intensifies

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News | 12 April 2020

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Activists and Cape Town law enforcement clash in Khayelitsha

Dispute over shack demolitions during Covid-19 lockdown escalates

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Brief | 11 April 2020

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Covid-19: Judge scolds union for “untenable” case against Minister of Health

“Under circumstances of national disaster, everyone is called upon, for the good of society as a whole, to co-operate in bringing the pandemic under control.”

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News | 11 April 2020

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Covid-19: Lockdown blamed for desperate Cape Town land occupation

Law enforcement officers demolish dozens of shacks

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News | 11 April 2020

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Woman allegedly shot during shack demolition

eThekwini municipality denies it is breaking eviction moratorium

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News | 10 April 2020

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Covid-19: Protest action threatened as informal traders receive “preferential” treatment

Some PE residents angry over food parcel distribution to hawkers

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Brief | 10 April 2020

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Patients turned away from PE clinic after nurse contracts Covid-19

Staff say they will return to work when they get their test results

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News | 10 April 2020

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Covid-19: Spaza shop owners under pressure to stay open after hours

Shop owners near Louis Trichardt said they will not disobey the regulations

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Brief | 10 April 2020

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Dodgy off-the-shelf companies cash in on Lottery millions

Huge grants given to Lottopreneurs with no track record

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News | 10 April 2020

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