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In July and August 2020, alcohol producers were granted a R5 billion temporary tax-break after sudden alcohol bans. They want similar action this time around.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
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Echoing what's become a slogan for Black Lives Matter protesters, a stocky security guard yelled 'I can't breathe' as he was tasered seven times during his arrest earlier this summer, resulting in his death. George Zapantis, a 29-year-old security guard with a history of mental illness from Queens, was killed after a five-minute struggle with police on June 21. The […]
The number of positive Covid-19 cases rose to 21 343 on Saturday evening, with 10 more deaths being reported, according to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize.
This brings the number of deaths to 407, with 10 104 recoveries.
The number of tests conducted has risen to 564 370, with 21 338 being done in the last 24 hours.
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\"We wish to express our condolences to the loved ones of the departed and thank the healthcare workers who cared for the deceased,\" Mkhize said.
The DA's Makashule Gana said the situation in hospitals had not stabilised enough to allow for the lifting of the alcohol ban.
With only 5% of the work done so far, the government has terminated the $826.7 million contract that was awarded to BK International on December 31, 2019, for the construction of the Yarrowkabra Secondary School.
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SAB say they were willing to meet the government halfway on the alcohol ban - but the government failed to consider their proposals.
BK International plans to ask the government to review its decision to terminate the $826.7 million contract with the firm for the construction of the Yarrowkabra Secondary School, failing which it will file a court challenge.
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THE story of the Zimbabwean health professionals is a heart-breaking one. Doctors and nurses have intermittently downed tools for close to a year. One can imagine the effect the strikes have had on an almost comatose health sector, where the country’s bourgeoisie leaders have little or no regard for them. It must be tough for not only health professionals, but even the parents whose children today aspire to be doctors or nurses in the prevailing environment. Tough it is for journalists even whose role is to mirror society. In this toxic environment, media workers are always accused of being unpatriotic. But patriotism is the ability to constructively criticise a bad system to right its wrongs. We believe our government should make its priorities right — health, economy, education, agriculture, corruption and remove all the toxicity among the people on the basis of politics. Instead of antagonising citizens and its opponents, President Emmerson Mnangagwa should build confidence in the majority. He’s President of all of the country’s citizens. He must be fatherly and deal with zealots in his system bent on destroying every inch of what he’s trying to build as his legacy for the country. It is time to work together and get the positive stories out there as an obligation and not by force when it is clear that government continues to further its misplaced priorities and being on the warpath with all its citizens for having a different opinion. Thus, we call on government to relook into the health crisis prevailing in the country. What is even heart-breaking is the fact that with the strike at public hospitals at major referral centres in Harare, Bulawayo and other key centres Zimbabwe becomes just one major hospital. If Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga cannot see that we are really in trouble, if anybody doubted that the country is in a “shit-hole”, we are not sure what will. The Chinese have during the past year donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to government, yet the nurses do not have anything to protect them against infection while carrying out their duties. Where has it gone? Who is responsible for its distribution? Why should it not be right for the nurses to demand the PPE given the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic? How do they give their all without PPE? In all fairness even without the donations, government should simply provide tools of the trade to the health service sector. Failure to do so is dereliction of duty of the highest order. If Zimbabwe had strong institutions like it is elsewhere then other arms of government would demand answers, and the culprit/s would be charged for a serious offence. The fact that seven staff members and 15 patients had tested positive for COVID-19 at one of Harare’s largest referral centre — Sally Mugabe Hospital maternity wing — due to lack of PPE is an indictment on the part of the Health ministry. This situation sadly mirrors what obtains across the country. We strongly condemn government for paying lip service to the health sector’s genuine
Eastern Cape Government has called for the alcohol ban to be reinstated due to a large number of incidents regarding alcohol abuse.
President Cyril Ramaphosa read the riot act to those violating rules aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus and announced new measures to enforce them as the disease nears a peak.
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EABL sets up Sh532m fund to aid bars’ Covid recovery
Thursday, June 25, 2020 0:01
By PATRICK ALUSHULA
EABL chief executive Andrew Cowan.
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East Africa Breweries Limited (EABL) #ticker:EABL has announced a Sh532 million ($5 million) recovery fund to help pubs and bars resume trade post-lockdown.
The two-year programme dubbed “Raising the Bar” is part of the Sh10.6 billion ($100 million) kitty that will be rolled out from June 1 in different markets through EABL’s parent firm, Diageo.
The regional brewer was hit by measures imposed to limit spread of coronavirus including closure of bars and nightclubs, prompting the firm to issue a profit warning for the year ending June.
EABL chief executive Andrew Cowan said the programme will help accelerate recovery of hospitality sector and curb job losses.
Many took as much as two hours to get into the city centre from suburbs that are within a mere 25km radius of the capital.
And finally, on Wednesday the lockdown was in Mnangagwa’s home city of Kwekwe.
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube announced a 50% salary review of all civil servants and a US$75 COVID-19 allowance.
“Pursuant to government’s commitment to continuously review and improve the remuneration framework for civil servants, taking into account the transitory economic challenges being currently experienced in the country, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, government makes the following announcement:
Many among the citizens celebrated, believing the regime had finally given in to re-dollarisation.
Citizens started discussing the impact of the policy on the local currency and would prices of goods slide down to reflect the reality of a working-class country that takes home a measly less than US$100 home?
Liquor is likely to be a major talking point when Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation on Sunday - as some businesses fear a second alcohol ban.
Detectives in St Ann have charged 38-year-old Peter Henry, otherwise called ‘Warrior’, of Walkerswood in the parish for murder following a mob killing. The incident happened on Monday, June 8. Henry was charged in the mob killing of 17-...
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has granted an order dissolving the current Mamelodi Amalgamated Taxi Association (Mata) executive committee, following a spate of violence, unrest and instability in the township, according to the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport.
In a statement, the department said Gauteng's MEC for Public Transport and Roads Infrastructure, Jacob Mamabolo, launched an urgent application with the court after the violence had claimed the lives of at least 19 people.
Instead, he launched the urgent application and, following the order of the court, Mamabolo appointed Hettie Groenewald as the administrator of the taxi association with immediate effect.
Mamabolo hailed the high court decision as a victory towards the restoration of order and the quelling of taxi violence in the Mamelodi area, and in Gauteng.
\"Our intervention ultimately aims at restoring order, ensuring that Mata members are allowed to appoint an executive committee, and to operate in terms of their constitution, instead of operating through the barrel of a gun,\" remarked Mamabolo.
Golf, swimming, tennis, and athletics are some of the low-risk sports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has allowed to resume.
In March this year, the government banned all sporting activities in the country as Zimbabwe grappled with containing the spread of the novel Covid-19 pandemic.
Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa in her media briefing after meeting the ad hoc Inter-ministerial Taskforce on Covid-19 Monday listed the sports that will be allowed to take place.
Venues at which low-risk sports take place must open between 8 am and 4.30 pm.
Persons competing and spectators are required to submit themselves for screening and testing for Covid-19.
The resumption of the sale of alcohol has seen Gauteng recording 18 deaths since June 1.
These statistics were presented by Community Safety MEC Faith Mazibuko at the weekly Gauteng Provincial Command Council update on Friday.
She added that about 124 people were admitted to various hospitals after sustaining injuries in brawls related to alcohol consumption.
Mazibuko said during Levels 4 and 5, they were dealing with home brewed alcohol sales and consumption, but during Level 3 they have to deal with legal alcohol.
Police are not going to negotiate with you, they are going to take you for carrying alcohol between Friday and Sunday,\" said Mazibuko.
A top medical specialist is being treated in hospital with a cracked skull after he and his family was attacked by a crowbar gang at their home.
The doctor, whom News24 is not naming to protect his family, was at home in a small gated village when the attackers struck.
It is understood two assailants used a crowbar to force their way into the home.
The doctor's wife then raised the alarm, the husband woke and came to his family's aid.
The doctor is being treated in a hospital and is understood to have a cracked skull.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Bureau of the FIFA Council yesterday suspended the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) with immediate effect due to what it termed “grave violations” of the FIFA Statutes.
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A group of sex workers in Botswana recently threatened to expose high-profile clients if their demands for better treatment by the government and local communities ...
Prices of food items rose highest in Ebonyi, Bayelsa and Edo States in Nigeria in May, the consumer price index report released on Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown.
The report revealed that on a month on month basis, food price inflation was highest in Ebonyi at 3.43 per cent, Bayelsa at 3.21 per cent and Edo at 2.74 per cent in the month.
The report said in May, food inflation on a year on year basis was highest in Abuja at 18.13 per cent, Osun at 17.40 per cent and Imo at 17.13 per cent.
According to the report, the headline consumer price index in May rose 12.4 per cent from a year earlier, compared with 12.3 per cent in April.
All items inflation
The report said In May, all items inflation on year on year basis was highest in Rivers at 14.69 per cent, Bauchi 14.91 per cent and Ebonyi, Kogi and Plateau at 13.87 per cent, while Benue 11.13 per cent, Adamawa 11.10 per cent and Kwara 10.58 per cent recorded the slowest rises in headline year on year inflation.
[Nation] Freetown -- Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio finally returned home on Saturday, three weeks after he left the country and eliciting talk about his health.
GOVERNMENT has reinstated embattled NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje with immediate effect, NewsDay can reveal. BY TATIRA ZWINOIRA The development was confirmed by a well-placed source, who asked for anonymity for fear of reprisals. “Yes, he was reinstated, effective immediately with all charges levelled against him dropped,” the source said. In May, Muchenje and seven other NetOne executives were arrested on corruption and abuse of office charges by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, but were later freed on $3 000 bail each. The arrest followed an initial suspension in March on allegations of being incompetent and refusing to provide documentation for an audit. Muchenje did not respond to repeated calls made to his mobile phone.
ZIMBABWE-FOCUSED miner, Premier African Minerals has appointed Neil Herbert as its non-executive chairman with immediate effect.
Commenting on the development, Roach said: “I am grateful that Neil Herbert has accepted this appointment and particularly at this time when our company is looking to exploit the opportunities both for cash generative assets and to add value as we anticipate granting of our EPO application at Zulu Lithium and Tantalum and through our existing and recently acquired exploration and development projects.”
Herbert was appointed a director of the company on August 28 last year.
Herbert has served as a director of several stock exchange-listed companies across the world and was previously a director of Premier between August 20 2013 and April 22 2016.
Premier is a multi-commodity mining and natural resource development company focused on southern Africa with its RHA Tungsten and Zulu Lithium projects in Zimbabwe.
Lawyers representing the restaurant industry have submitted a new proposal to government, hoping that a 'compromise' may put alcohol back on the menu.
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The alcohol ban will not defeat the drinkers of South Africa: Our old favourite is here to bail us out, and this is how to make your own pineapple beer.
