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Lift ‘arbitrary limitations’ on sales: DA
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 8, 2020
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for stores to be permitted to sell whatever is normally in their inventories for the duration of the lockdown.
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ANC alliance at odds over tackling Covid-19 economic crisis
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 7, 2020
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s suggestion that he would be willing to go to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) for economic relief has
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News24 apologises to Gates over ‘vaccine test’ gaffe
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 7, 2020
News website News24 was forced to apologise to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation after publishing an article claiming the organisation was planning to test
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Follow the law – and leave enforcement to law enforcement
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 7, 2020
With the Covid-19 lockdown period nearing its halfway point, government’s coordinating structure for the emergency has called on the public to respect the regulations, while
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World attention on Boris
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 6, 2020
Shortly after Queen Elizabeth delivered a stirring television address on the ‘common global endeavour’ against the coronavirus, Downing Street announced that Prime Minister Boris Johnson
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Could BCG jabs save South Africans from worst virus effects?
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 6, 2020
South Africa’s long-practised Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccination programme could mean it will be far less severely affected than countries like the USA, Italy, the Netherlands
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Cele hails alcohol ban for drop in crime
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 6, 2020
The minister of police, Bheki Cele, has reported that there has been a drop in crime during the nationwide ‘lockdown’ because of the Covid-19 crisis.
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‘Iron-fisted’ treatment of coronavirus-positive doctors ‘most unsettling’
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 5, 2020
Two doctors in Limpopo were allegedly forced into quarantine at a medical facility by the Limpopo government on Thursday after testing positive for Covid-19 on
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Coronavirus ‘changes everything’ – Ramaphosa
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 5, 2020
As South Africa’s positive cases rose by 80 to 1 585, President Cyril Ramaphosa – working from home – said monitoring and healthcare efforts were focused
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Viljoen passes away
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 5, 2020
Constand Viljoen, the founding leader of the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) and former head of the South African Defence Force (SADF) has died. He was