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The 49-year-old Eastern Cape principal was arrested on 15 March for the incident and is currently out on R2 500 bail
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
The total number of people who have died from coronavirus related deaths has escalated to 1 877.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said that in the past 24 hours, there have been a further 32 deaths in the Western Cape, 11 in the Eastern Cape, and three in KwaZulu-Natal.
\"As of today, the cumulative number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa is 92 681.
The number of recoveries is 50 326, which translates to a recovery rate of 54.3%.
About 1 293 608 tests have been completed in total, of which 33 174 new tests are reported,\" said Mkhize.
The Magistrate's Court in Gqeberha has sentenced a 17-year-old boy to 20 years imprisonment for two counts of rape.
Kinana said a \"police profile\" of the man reveals that he has several pending cases of rape against him - from across the country.
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Kinana said: \"The rape happened after the 17-year-old victim saw an advert on Facebook about photoshoots for young girls who wanted to work and be paid as models.
Kinana added that, through further investigation, police discovered the suspect had several Facebook accounts and was a regular traveller to many destinations all over South Africa.
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Kinana added: \"In all these different towns, the suspect was advertising to attract young girls to pitch up for the photo sessions.
Kinana added: \"Police managed to get the real identity of the suspect and, under his police profile, there were already several rape cases pending against him.\"
Medical personnel from the SANDF arrived in Gauteng to assist hospitals attend to increasing numbers of COVID-19 patients.
The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa has reached 20,125, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Friday.
The country recorded 988 cases over the past 24 hours, Mkhize said in his daily update.
Nationwide, a total of 543,032 tests have been conducted so far, with 17,599 done in the last 24 hours, said Mkhize.
South Africa is preparing to ease the lockdown from level four to level three of a five-level system by the end of May, which will allow more businesses to reopen and greater movement of people.
As South Africa is entering the winter season when flu is common, the fight against Covid-19 will become more complicated and difficult, Mkhize said, adding the country's capabilities to fight the virus will then be put to test.
The weather in your region according to the South African Weather Service:
Morning frost is expected in parts of Gauteng, otherwise it will be fine and cold, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon.
Mpumalanga will be partly cloudy in the east with morning fog over the northern escarpment and frost in places over the Highveld, otherwise fine and cold to cool.
The Northern Cape can expect morning frost in the east and south, otherwise it will be fine and cold, becoming partly cloudy in the east by the afternoon.
In the western half of the Eastern Cape, it will be cloudy along the coast where it will be cool in places at first, with isolated rain and showers, otherwise fine and cold but very cold in the north.
The eastern half of the Eastern Cape will be cloudy at first south of the Kei Mouth with isolated rain and showers, otherwise fine and cold but very cold in places over the northern interior.
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) has confirmed the dates, venues and kick-off times for the Nedbank Cup quarter-finals.
Oliver Tambo , (born October 27, 1917, Bizana, Pondoland district, Transkei [now in Eastern Cape], South Africa—died April 24, 1993, Johannesburg), president of the South African black-nationalist African National Congress (ANC) between 1967 and 1991. He spent more than 30 years in exile (1960–90).
Tambo was born in a Transkei village of subsistence farmers. He attended Anglican and Methodist mission schools and the University of Fort Hare (B.S., 1941) and later studied law. In 1944 with Nelson Mandela and others, he cofounded the ANC Youth League, which revitalized the ANC after a moribund period. After briefly teaching mathematics and science in Johannesburg, Tambo began engaging wholly in nationalist politics and legal cases, rising concurrently in the ranks of the ANC. In 1952 he joined with Mandela to establish South Africa’s first black law practice. Tambo was arrested on treason charges in 1956 but was released the following year. In 1958 he became ANC deputy president.
After the Sharpeville massacre (March 21, 1960), the ANC was essentially outlawed when it was banned by the South African government. Tambo left South Africa to help set up the organization’s foreign headquarters, eventually settling in Lusaka, Zamb. In 1965 he established an ANC guerrilla training camp in Morogoro, Tanzania. After the death of ANC president Albert Luthuli in 1967, Tambo began serving as acting president; he was officially appointed to the post in 1969. Tambo’s decisive achievement was keeping the ANC together in exile. By skillful lobbying throughout the world and attracting the most talented South African exiles (such as Thabo Mbeki), he was able to build the organization into the legitimate voice of black South Africans. Though still in exile, Tambo’s ANC provided the focus for mass politics in South Africa in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. As the tide turned against apartheid in the mid-1980s, business leaders and politicians traveled to Lusaka for negotiations with Tambo’s team, which further boosted the
Another 39 people have died of Covid-19 in the Western Cape, which has seen the death toll in the province rise to 357, Premier Alan Winde announced on Tuesday.
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However, Winde also expressed concern over possible confusion about the different levels of lockdown for \"hotspots\" from 1 June.
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Winde said that Mkhize's presentation indicated that some hotspots could remain under Level 4 when the rest of the country moves to Level 3 on 1 June.
Winde also felt that keeping certain Western Cape areas on Level 4 would further exacerbate the economic and humanitarian \"disaster\" that has resulted from the lockdown.
The province is expecting to see 200 000 jobs lost as a result of the lockdown, and supports the move to Level 3 with a targeted hotspot strategy.
South Africa has recorded 216 Covid-19-related deaths, taking the toll to 24 907.
Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has opted to disregard the more than 65,000 objections against the renaming of Port Elizabeth.
A group of 16 pupils with Covid-19 evaded quarantine at Makaula Secondary School in KwaBhaca, where a total of 204 learners and teachers have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Eastern Cape education MEC Fundile Gade told News24 on Tuesday that the 16 learners escaped last week while the school was in the process of transporting learners to three quarantine sites.
A total of 284 pupils of the school were tested, and 204 people, including staff, were confirmed to be Covid-19 positive, said Gade.
Gade also announced that a total of 15 staff members had died of Covid-19 at Eastern Cape schools.
At the briefing, Mabuyane told journalists that 200 Eastern Cape schools are closed due to Covid-19.
Prasa spokesperson Makhosini Mgitywa said their trains had been parked for 13 weeks because of the lockdown.
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Mgitywa said they will prioritise Covid-19 hygiene protocols inside trains and on platforms, and also reminded passengers to wear masks regularly.
\"No eating or drinking will be allowed inside trains to ensure passengers keep their masks on at all times,\" said Mgitywa.
Prasa has encouraged passengers, who don't feel well, to not board trains.
Passengers are encouraged to observe social distance markers inside the train, social distance markings next to the ticket office and at the platforms at all times.
[GroundUp] For the four provinces analysed, over half the population has likely had a SARS-CoV-2 infection
According to a statement on the latest Covid-19-related deaths, 52 were recorded in Gauteng, 17 in KwaZulu-Natal, 15 in the Western Cape, and 11 in the Free State.
The governing party is planning its birthday bash in line with Covid-19 restrictions on big gatherings
As of Sunday, the country recorded a total of 1 529 420 confirmed Covid-19 cases, according to a statement by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize.
The Eastern Cape government wants to conduct tests on a cow that attacked and killed a teacher.
ATLANTA (AP) — Two Atlanta police officers who were fired after video showed them using stun guns on two college students pulled from a car in traffic during a large protest against police brutality are looking to get their jobs back.
Bottoms and Shields have said they reviewed body camera footage from the May 30 incident and decided to immediately fire the officers and place three others on desk duty.
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard brought criminal charges on June 2 against Gardner, Streeter and four other officers involved in the incident.
Pilgrim and Young, who are dating, are students at different historically black colleges near downtown Atlanta.
Neither Bottoms nor the police department responded to a request for comment late Monday, the Atlanta for the college students have said their clients were caught in traffic caused by a protest over the May 25 police custody death of George Floyd in Minnesota.
The recognition of King Ahlangene Vulikhaya Sigcawu was meant to quell tension, but squabbles continue as some oppose his right to the throne.
As severe drought continues in the Eastern Cape, desperate farmers are pleading with Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane to declare the province a disaster area.
Investors who entrusted their money to Breedt approached the Eastern Cape High Court in Port Elizabeth for a relief order after numerous promises by Breedt over the past seven months to have their money paid out were allegedly not kept.
Gordon Kayser of GTA Kayser Attorneys in Pretoria acted on behalf of 300 of the 2 000-plus investors in Breedt's scheme.
After numerous attempts by various investors to convince Breedt, who in January closed his offices in Krugersdorp and then fled to Jeffreys Bay, to pay out their capital failed, an urgent anti-dissipation order was filed against Breedt.
Kayser said an investor who had lost around R7.5 million after investing it with Breedt, and who earlier also applied for an interdict against Breedt, had joined the legal action.
His court order was also granted to have further bank accounts belonging to Breedt and VS frozen.
As of 13 June, there have been 14 Covid-19 related deaths in the South African Police Service (SAPS), while a total of 1 685 police officers have tested positive for the virus.
In the Eastern Cape, 186 police officers contracted the virus, 119 in Gauteng, and 53 officers in KwaZulu-Natal.
SAPS has recorded 639 recoveries, while a total of 9 909 police officers stationed around the country tested negative.
The number of police officers with Covid-19 almost doubled since the end of May, when Cele last announced the statistics.
On 28 May, News24 reported that 841 police officers tested positive, with eight deaths.
The Eastern Cape's Covid-19 hotspots will be divided into sub-districts to better manage the fight against the pandemic through regional responses in the \"vulnerable\" province, the national Department of Health said on Sunday.
In a media statement on Sunday night, he said after completing a trip to the Western Cape, which has 65% of all national cases, the department was now turning its attention to the Eastern Cape.
\"The Eastern Cape has similar numbers to Gauteng but it has recorded the second highest mortality numbers and its proximity and interconnectedness with the Western Cape makes the province especially vulnerable.
The department also sent a team of experts to the Eastern Cape in April comprising Wayne Ramkrishna, an expert in malaria, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases as well as Dr Kerrigan McCarthy, Mzimasi Neti and Darren Muganhiri from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NCID).
As reported to President Cyril Ramaphosa last week, the Western and Eastern Cape provincial governments are collaborating closely to test essential seasonal workers who travel between the provinces.
Police in the Eastern Cape are urging graveyard visitors to be extra cautious and vigilant. At least five robberies have taken place at the Forest Hill cemetery since April.
Conditions on Wednesday will be mostly cool to warm, with isolated thundershowers expected in some parts of the country.
The crisis at some Nelson Mandela Bay hospitals has reached new lows as doctors are having to clean wards and wash bed linen, while dirt stands in hallways amid crippling staff shortages.
Nursing staff at Livingstone Hospital have told a shocking tale of overwhelmed staff and overflowing wards that are manned by just two nurses.
Most of the patients are under investigation [for Covid-19], and we don't know where we stand,\" a nurse at Livingstone Hospital said.
Nurses at Dora Ngiza Hospital went on a go-slow after patient admissions shot up as a result of Covid-19, complaining of being overwhelmed and short-staffed.
He said the department had approved the appointment of 100 general assistants and 59 professional nurses for the Covid-19 period at Livingstone hospital, he said.
The University of Fort Hare said it is prepared to defend its decision to exclude and deregister Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane in a court of law.
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate arrested a police officer on Wednesday for the attempted murder of her partner.
