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Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane cannot call for people such as ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule to step aside, while he does not practice what he preaches, says the DA.
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.
AFP
[GroundUp] For the four provinces analysed, over half the population has likely had a SARS-CoV-2 infection
The family of Viwe Dalingozi, who was doused in petrol and set alight by her boyfriend in 2018, are upset after sentencing proceedings were postponed again.
To put it simply, COVID-19 won't just disappear any time soon. Here are the neighbourhoods and sub-districts that have been branded 'virus hot-spots'.
Tributes continue to pour in for the AmaRharhabe queen in the Eastern Cape and Zulu princess, Noloyiso Sandile, who died of Covid-19.
KwaZulu-Natal has recorded the most active cases with 66 337, followed by Gauteng with 45 548, and the Western Cape with 44 252.
South Africa currently has a cumulative caseload of 1 278 303, along with 35 140 deaths and 1 030 930 recoveries.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has highlighted that cases are currently increasing in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Northern Cape - but this is not necessarily the start of a second wave of Covid-19.
Tanzanian authorities on Wednesday released on bail a popular comedian who was held for more than a week after posting a video of himself laughing at a photo of President John Magufuli.
Police summoned Idris Sultan, a former winner of the Big Brother Africa television series, on May 19 and questioned him over a possible violation of a law against \"cyberbullying\", his lawyer, Benedict Ishabakaki, told AFP on Wednesday.
Sultan was instead charged with a lesser offence related to using a SIM card registered in someone else's name, according to a charge sheet seen by AFP.
Sultan's release comes one day after activists and opposition leaders took to Twitter demanding the case against him be thrown out.
It is not the first time Sultan has run afoul of Magufuli's government.
Teachers’ unions and school governing bodies told City Press this week that progress had been made by the department of education to deliver the required safety materials for teachers.
Speaking to City Press about Thursday’s meeting, Johannes Motona, president of the Professional Educators’ Union (PEU), said Mweli had reported that teachers were more optimistic than they had been the previous week, despite still being anxious about the state of their schools’ readiness to reopen.
According to Motona, Mweli also said that provinces would fill vacancies in schools.
Basil Manuel, executive director of the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of SA, said certain issues were still cause for concern ahead of pupils’ return to school tomorrow.
She said most schools were ready and that teacher morale had improved now that the basic safety materials had been provided and the adjusted curriculum had been announced.
\"Today, we wish to reiterate our plea to South Africans to heed the threat of the rising numbers of Covid-19 cases identified,\" Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.
120 matric markers in the Eastern Cape have tested positive for Covid-19 in the province, before the marking started 1 600 markers withdrew from the process.
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa has said the findings of the Public Protector in five provinces were not surprising.
The man visited the woman and slept over. The following day, they had an argument and he allegedly shot her dead.
On April 27, in the southern city of Uyo, officers with Nigeria's Department of State Services arrested Carter, a presenter with the privately owned XL 106.9 FM radio station, when he responded to a summons issued the day before, according to Inibehe Effiong, Carter's lawyer, who spoke to CPJ by phone and messaging app, and reports by the privately owned First Reports and Premium Times news websites.
Authorities barred Carter's lawyer or family from visiting him during his month-long detention, and released him yesterday afternoon on bail, according to a Facebook post by Effiong, who told CPJ that he attempted to meet with Carter multiple times, but was denied by Department of State Services agents.
If convicted, Carter faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison for conspiracy and the same for criminal defamation, and three years' imprisonment for the allegedly false and defamatory First Reports publication, according to the charge sheet and the Akwa Ibom state criminal code, a copy of which CPJ reviewed.
Akwa Ibom State Attorney General Uwemedimo Nwoko told CPJ by phone that the prosecution had a right to appeal Carter's bond conditions, but declined to comment further on the case.
Effiong told CPJ and posted on Twitter on April 27 that the Department of State Services director of operations for Akwa Ibom state, Uchehukwu Nnatube, had called a member of his legal team and requested that Carter's phone be handed over so authorities could \"extract\" evidence, but later told CPJ that he did not hand over the phone.
Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane has written to President Cyril Ramaphosa to ask for a probe into alleged corruption worth R4.8 million in the OR Tambo District Municipality.
