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President Ramaphosa will be addressing South Africans on Monday night and he is expected to relax restrictions such as the booze and beach bans.
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
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s motion of no confidence vote hangs in the balance as the African Transformation Movement (ATM) has approached the High Court in Cape Town to compel Parliamentary Speaker Thandi Modise to conduct it via secret ballot
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a Special Official Funeral Category 1 for the late BaPedi king, Thulare Victor Thulare III, who died aged 40 last Wednesday.
In order for the motion of no confidence vote in President Cyril Ramaphosa to pass, a two-thirds majority is required
Five Masvingo family members have tested positive to COVID-19, a government official said yesterday.The new infections come at a time when complacency has been high among Zimbabweans ever since the infection rate dropped at the onset of summer. By Tatenda Chitagu Masvingo provincial COVID-19 taskforce spokesperson Rogers Irimai said the five, from Rujeko high-density suburb, were asymptomatic and self-isolating at home. “We got new cases where two parents, their two children and a minor relative tested positive for the disease. These are local infections as the parents were not in contact with any known COVID-19 positive returnee or travelled out of the city or country recently,” he said. Irimai said the COVID-19 rapid response team was busy doing contact tracing at the parents’ workplaces in the city, as well as the school where the two minors, who are in Grade 7, were going to. “Our rapid response team is busy doing contact tracing to establish who the patients have been in contact with recently. The teachers and classes at the school where the kids are going are likely to be placed under quarantine, the other kids they play with in their neighbourhood, as well as the workplaces of the parents,” he said. “Let us not be complacent, there is a second wave of COVID-19 that is hitting other countries that had relaxed lockdown measures. We are not divorced from such countries as we do not exist on an island. We are not immune from a second wave which can be more dangerous and come with a stronger strain,” Irimai said. To date, Zimbabwe has recorded 8 444 COVID-19 positive cases, 7 975 recoveries and 248 deaths. Follow Tatenda on Twitter @ProsperTatenda
Cyril Ramaphosa is preparing to address the nation, but this won't be a joyous family meeting. There are some serious matters that need to be discussed.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has described the confrontation outside Brackenfell High School in Cape Town as deeply regrettable and has called on all parties involved to act responsibly.
As there was celebration that 1,044 Jamaican nationals were being landed at the historic Falmouth Port in Trelawny after being stranded for two months at sea, tragedy was unfolding as a 10-week pregnant woman who was a worker on the Adventure of the Seas cruise ship lost her child.
Before the Adventure of the Seas could be landed at the port on Tuesday, an alarm was raised that there was a medical emergency on the ship.
The crew member fell ill on Monday evening as the ship drifted east of Jamaica.
Hours before the emergency, the ship halted forward speed about 100 miles away from Falmouth as it awaited Government approval to enter Jamaica’s maritime space.
Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday addressed the issue of whether a request for help from the ship was denied.
South Africa's police minister said on Wednesday foreign nationals from Europe are defying the country's lockdown measures by going to the beach in Western Cape.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has indirectly committed former president Jacob Zuma to cooperate with the commission of inquiry into state capture.
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Acting Mayor Thsonono Buyeye is \"anxiously waiting\" for the Presidency to announce stricter regulations to halt rising Covid-19 figures in the metro.
Parties must let the parliamentary administration know how many of their members will attend the sitting at Parliament in Cape Town.
Speaker of the National Assembly Thandi Modise said they are still awaiting a report on the interruption of the committee's meeting two weeks ago, which was interrupted by pornography and racial and sexual slurs directed at Modise.
EFF MP Veronica Mente asked that Parliament be temporarily moved to Pretoria because it is more central and, therefore, easier for more MPs to reach than Cape Town.
She said the EFF only has three MPs in Cape Town, and they all have \"underlying issues\".
Modise said she requested a legal opinion and wrote to the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) to enquire whether MPs will be allowed to cross provincial borders to attend the virtual sitting.
While Alan Winde believes Level 1 lockdown regulations are sufficient, he will ask the president to consider possible \"consequences\" for people who do not wear a mask.
ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte has told the tobacco industry to \"back off\" after a petition started circulating online this week, calling for the \"removal\" of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
Duarte voiced her protest against the \"odious attack on Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma by what is clearly a well-orchestrated and well-heeled tobacco industry\", in a voice message shared with News24.
READ | Lockdown: Dlamini-Zuma pushes for tobacco, alcohol ban to continue until Level 1
In the message, she says the industry is trying to \"make sure that we are driven into a deeper crisis during a period when we are facing a health crisis that attacks people’s respiratory organs\".
'NDZ has done more for SA than tobacco industry'
\"Well, as far as I’m concerned, this woman, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has done more for this country than the tobacco industry has or will do for any country, anywhere in the world, ever again, other than making people ill,\" Duarte says.
On Friday, News24 reported that Dlamini-Zuma had told the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) that the sale of tobacco and alcohol should continue to be banned until the country reaches Level 1 of the lockdown.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said he, like many around the world, was shocked with events that unfolded in the US capital this week.
South Africa mobilises against the pandemic and orders 20 million coronavirus vaccine doses.
