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Two confirmed cases send citizens into a tailspin, despite health minister calling for calm and offering reassurances that Covid-19 can be contained.
Despite government’s appeals for calm in the face of the country’s first two confirmed cases of the coronavirus , South Africa is still gripped by panic, fear and hysteria.Some South Africans won’t be returning with their compatriots, citing unemployment, poor healthcare and power crises in SA among their reasons for staying put.
The pressure is on as the SABC gears up to change its presenter line-ups on some of its radio stations.An ANC Youth League national youth task team coordinator has cautioned ANC national executive committee members, who form part of the task team, from hijacking the platform that is meant to rebuild the youth league, and using it to directly contradict pronouncements made by the mother body.
As a result of that “sex slur”, a maths and accounting lecturer whose expertise is much-needed in the education sector, lost her job.The establishment of the first metro council in Mpumalanga has hit a snag, after residents in the mining town of Barberton demanded a split from the Mbombela Local Municipality.
On Tuesday, Stats SA announced that we are technically in recession because the economy contracted by 1,4% in the fourth quarter of 2019, following a contraction of 0,8% in the third quarter.Ordinarily one case should be no source of panic, but it did envelop us with gloom and anxiety, many wondering who else the first detected man could have infected.
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