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Covid-19: It’s time to look at the finer details of SA’s pandemic picture: The social unrest in KwaZulu-Natal in mid-July resulted in a substantial decline in testing volumes and thus case detection in the province. Differential testing patterns may also be responsible for …
Students invent device to help curb Covid-19 spread: SOUTH AFRICA- Six KwaZulu-Natal students have invented a wearable device to help curb the spread of Covid-19 in the workplace. The students, who are studying towards an information and communications …
South Africa: Gauteng and Limpopo officially exit the third wave: Gauteng and Limpopo have officially exited the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing a media briefing on Friday, Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla said Gauteng has gone down to below 5% — at 4 …
Labour tenants want more than land back: They want to be compensated for shattered dreams, material losses, cattle impounded and never returned, goats killed, homes burnt to ashes, and their dignity stripped when they were forcibly removed.
Failure to vaccinate may turn Africa into fertile ground for new Covid-19 variants, scientists warn: Africa must not be left behind in the global response to Covid-19 and vaccination rollouts, lest the continent becomes a breeding ground for new variants.
SA records 5,885 new COVID-19 cases, 281 deaths: The National Institute for Communicable Diseases says COVID-19 infections appear to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend.
COVID-19: Current wave showing signs of a sustained downward trend, says NICD: South Africa recorded 5885 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, 10 September. Unfortunately, 281 more people succumbed to the disease.
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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: Cato Manor in Durban once attracted attention from around the world because it was where rioting broke out in 1959 in protest against the city’s beerhalls and the looming prospect of mass forced removals in which the residents would be uprooted from their homes in terms of the notorious Group Areas Act, and resettled in townships. The area was granted to George Christopher Cato in 1865, perhaps as a reward for his years of community service and for the fact that, in 1854, he had become Durban’s first Mayor. The land was sub-divided in the early 1900s and leased to Indian market gardeners, many of whom were either former indentured labourers, who had come to South Africa to work on the sugar plantations, or their descendents.
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