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A taxi driver arrested for continuing to drive passengers to Eastern Cape despite testing positive for Covid-19 has been charged with attempted murder and violating the Disaster Management Act.

There was a party mood in the streets of locked-down Alexandra on Sunday afternoon as a convoy of flashy cars gave food parcels to the poor and threw thousands of Rands into the air.

Ask any woman and they will tell you that the hairdressers, nail manicurists and beauty salon owners that usually do a thriving business in the townships are an essential service. So the township beauty industry has now gone underground.

South Africa’s Covid-19 numbers on Thursday night: 7,808 cases, 153 deaths, 3,153 recoveries.

A British government report says that in Britain, black people are four times more likely to die of Covid-19 than whites.

An American police department is warning the public to watch out for an “aggressive chicken” that has “failed to engage in proper social distancing”.

Poor @tito_mboweni, free but not free. “Not so long ago, I was a free man,” he tweeted on Tuesday.

South Africa confirmed 437 new Covid-19 cases last night, making a total of 7,220. There have been 138 deaths and 2,746 patients have recovered. Worldwide...