Summary of the speech made by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday 25 July 2021SA moves to LOCKDOWN LEVEL 3, with immediate effect. Curfew: 22:00 to 04:00 Social relief grant will be reinstated from August 2021 untill March 2022 – “the R350 is back”- watch out for the registration information. Gatherings: limited to 50 indoors and…
SA remains on LOCKDOWN LEVEL 4 for another 14 days with most of the same rules in place. Lockdown date: 12 July to 25 July, after which the President will speak again. Curfew: 21:00pm to 04:00am Travel: No additional restrictions were mentioned Alcohol: No alcohol sales. All Prohibited. Schools remain closed until 26 July. Restaurants…
In the US, the first two available Covid-19 vaccines were the ones from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. Both vaccines have very high “efficacy rates,” of around 95%. But the third vaccine introduced in the US, from Johnson & Johnson, has a considerably lower efficacy rate: just 66%. Look at those numbers next to each other, and…
Trade union federation Cosatu says an agreement has been reached to extend the Covid-19 Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) payments to workers and companies affected by the adjusted level 4 lockdown. This includes the liquor industry, tourism, and hospitality sectors. Business, labour, and the government agreed in principle to bring back Ters payments at the…
The National Vaccine rollout is now well under way. While most Healthcare Professionals have been vaccinated, not all Health Care Workers (HCWs) have been vaccinated. The attached Circular sets out the process for registering and verifying a broad spectrum of HCWs. Please note, employers are obliged to supply consolidated lists of frontline HCWs who do…
The circular below outlines what people who are eligible for vaccination should do if they have been infected with COVID-19, and how long after infection they should wait to be vaccinated.
Government Gazette 44772 27th June 2021 lists the adjusted Alert Level 4 Regulations.
27 Jun 2021 Fellow South Africans, Our former President Nelson Mandela once wrote: “I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. “But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills…
The Minister of Employment and Labour has published, in the Government Gazette, a new consolidated COVID-19 Direction on Occupational Health and Safety in the Workplace (Revised OHS Direction). The Revised OHS Direction replaces the Direction that was published on 1 October 2020. Click here to access a copy of the Revised OHS Direction which came…
This is the Gauteng Provincial Government Weekly Media Update released on 20th May 2021.
The impact As of 6 May, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases identified in South Africa is 1 590 370. The total number of deaths stands at 54 620 and the total number of vaccines administered is 366 101. REGISTER FORYOUR VACCINATIONhttps://vaccine.enroll.health.gov.za REGISTRATION AND YOUR MEDICAL AID Medical aids MUST communicate to their membership that they have to…
14 April 2021Johannesburg The Small Business Institute (SBI) released four additional papers this morning in the series of six aimed at the promotion and development of small business in South Africa, during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond (two were released earlier and are available here). The papers are a culmination of evidence, data from the ground…
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has published a new gazette that provides further details around South Africa’s level 1 lockdown over the Easter period. Movement of persons Every person is confined to his or her place of residence from 00h00 until 04h00 daily unless they have been granted permission as an…
Key points: Curfew remains from midnight to 4am Alert level 1 remains Beache, parks and dams will remain open Funerals limitations remain Interprovincial travel allowed Alcohol restrictions, offsite sales and consumption os prohibited this Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday Licensed shebeens and bars are allowed to open till 11pm Religious gatherings expanded: 250 people indoors…
We have included only the adjusted items (of the business section) in the Regulations, as mentioned by the President in his speech last night, for ease of reference. The following is an extraction from the gazetted adjusted Alert Level 1 regulations (Gazette 44201 of 28 February 2021) . Disaster Management Act: Regulations: Alert level 1 during Coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown…
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA ON PROGRESSIN THE NATIONAL EFFORT TO CONTAIN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC UNION BUILDINGS, TSHWANE 1 FEBRUARY 2021 Fellow South Africans, I address you this evening as we begin a new chapter in our struggle against thecoronavirus. Earlier today the Deputy President David Mabuza, Minister of Health Dr Zwelini Mkhize,Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni…
UNION BUILDINGS, TSHWANE11 JANUARY 2021 Fellow South Africans, We are now 11 days into a new year. Once again, I wish you all the very best for 2021. We enter this year with a great deal of hope – hope that we will restore our nation to health, that the new year will bring our people relief and…
A message circulating on social media has caused an uproar among South Africans, who say another hard lockdown would make life even more difficult for them. South Africans have called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to avoid another hard lockdown, amid rising cases of Covid-19. As of Sunday, the cumulative number of detected Covid-19 cases was…
HOW TO FIGHT MILD COVID ILLNESS AT HOME Dr Lauren Wise #VoicesThatCare The following interventions will depend on how… Posted by Gauteng General Practitioners Collaboration on Sunday, January 3, 2021 Visit the GGPC Facebook page
Minister Zweli Mkhize Public Briefing StatementSouth Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy 3 January 2021
3 Dec 2020 My fellow South Africans, I wish to speak to you this evening about the current state of the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa. Before doing so, I wish to express my appreciation to all South Africans who observed the five days of mourning from the 25th to the 29th of November for…
11 Nov 2020 My fellow South Africans, We have not had our national family meeting for some time. It has been many months now since the outbreak of the coronavirus in South Africa. The pandemic has caused great hardship for all our people. After such a long time of uncertainty and worry, we all wish…
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