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Easter Cape premier quarantined
Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane has decided to quarantine himself at his house after a colleague tested positive for the coronavirus.
Waste pickers fight Covid
They could be seen dragging trolleys picking up rubbish in suburban streets. But now these men and women have your safety against Covid-19 at heart.
NORTH WESTERNERS PROTEST OVER “HIJACKED FOOD PARCELS”
Starving residents near Marikana in North West took to the streets on Monday to protest about councillors diverting food parcels to their friends, relatives and political allies.
FOUL PLAY
Bitou Mayor Peter Lobese is playing with the lives of poor child footballers. In 2017 he publicly gave the local club a R50,000 display cheque. Three years later the kids haven’t yet got a cent, while the municipality has spent plenty on itself.
Biting Bitou bit by bit
In three years that Bitou's Mayor has not paid the R50,000 owed to child footballers (see FOUL PLAY), his government has spent plenty on itself
ITS RAINING RANDS
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.
BEAUTY GOES UNDERGROUND
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.
Starving foreigners queue for food
“Starvation and desperation” – that’s what Professor Nick Binedell sees in the community of 40 000 people in Mooiplaas, Pretoria. Binedell says the government relief programmes he has seen excluded foreign nationals.