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Some of the headlines in your City Press newspaper today:
Food parcel looting hits the poor
Government’s attempts to feed the poor and vulnerable during the extended lockdown are being hampered as opportunists – mainly local councillors – allegedly divert the aid to themselves and their supporters, and, in some instances, sell them on.
In some parts of the country, councillors have been accused of demanding food parcel donations from businesses – parcels which never reach the intended recipients.
Busi-Cyril battle is back on
Liquor forum wants clarity on lockdown
Lawyers for the Gauteng liquor forum have told the government that they will not pursue legal steps to stop the ban on the sale of alcohol, as long as it gets a definite answer about whether or not the lockdown will be extended.
They asked the government to indicate – if it was extended – the length of the period and, if so, whether the government was prepared to relax some of the conditions.
De Lille defends R37 million tender for flimsy fence
Lockdown extension may not be enough
Coronavirus: Gauteng plans for a big wave
Even though the number of Covid-19 coronavirus deaths in Gauteng is relatively low, this could change in the next few weeks.
Bandile Masuku, Gauteng health MEC, said the province had been fortunate because most of the patients had the resources to help themselves recover from the virus with little help from the state.
Army killing to be heard
Bacher’s emotional call to Hansie’s father
The tears flowed this week when Dr Ali Bacher made an emotional, olive-branch telephone call to Hansie Cronjé’s father, Ewie.
Bacher, the former head of Cricket SA, told City Press’ sister publication Rapport this week that the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic had forced him to do some deep introspection.
“Over the past while, I’ve been thinking about the past and about my life very hard ... and the one thing that I had to fix was my relationship with Hansie’s father, Ewie,” Bacher said.
Taxi owner’s life during lockdown
No school means no food for kids
The faces of lockdown
How communities have dealt with the lockdown highlights the disparities of SA.
In Orange Farm, misinformation and ignorance collide.
“We have been in lockdown for many years. This lockdown is not new to us,” says a man who identifies himself as Neo.
“Some people don’t have electricity and, as a result, they are running from their houses because it’s cold. They find joy outside because it’s warmer and they interact with people and they give each other hope.”
Only God knows
Dreading to think about the calamity a prolonged lockdown would bring on her family, Zanele Mbokodo said: “Only God knows.”
Deep rural village families – like Mbokodo’s in Nkomazi near Malelane – who rely on school-feeding schemes and drop-in centres for their daily meals are feeling the harshness of the lockdown
Now is the right time for SA to embrace telehealth – expert
Life unusual
In northwest Johannesburg, the dusty streets are abuzz with conversation, blaring music and the sound of laughter from children keeping themselves entertained with games including skipping and hide-and-seek.
The lockdown doesn’t seem to have taken effect in KwaJack, as residents of the area fondly call it.
Addicts struggle to cope with lockdown
He was a teenager when he took his first sip of beer, and since that fateful day Samora Mogomotsi* has never been sober.
I hallucinate and I struggle to sleep at night. I am short tempered and I think I am losing my mind.
Government’s decision
This week, he had millions of South Africans glued to their screens, collectively eating out of the palm of his hand.
After the presentation on the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic in South Africa by Salim Abdool Karim – a professor, clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist and global industry heavyweight who has for years led from the front in scientific contributions to HIV prevention and treatment – there was a palpable shift in the public’s understanding of what informed some of government’s decisions around its response.
Jiba docket vanishes
A police docket against former deputy director of public prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba has gone missing and the Hawks are looking among their own members for answers.
The matter has been referred to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate.
The Queen rendered financially unviable
Sophie sizzles on screen
Actress Sophie Ndaba has regained her spot on centre stage, thanks to her role as the twisted nurse Palesa on Mzansi Magic’s Lockdown.
Ndaba trended for two days this week on social media, with fans of her performance sharing their appreciation on Twitter and Facebook.
