UIF in South Africa Has Paid Out R11 Billion in COVID-19 Benefits

By SAPeople Staff Writer 12-05-20 15:51

The Unemployment Insurance Fund has  paid out R11 billion in benefits to over two million employees affected by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the past month. A total of 161,567 companies launched claims on behalf of their workers over the course of the last month. The funds were disbursed through the COVID-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief […]

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Giant Turbine Farm Set to Harvest West Coast Wind

By Guest Contributor 11-05-20 15:28

Appeals against plans for a huge new wind farm on the West Coast have been dismissed by environment minister Barbara Creecy, paving the way for the addition of up to 140 megawatts of renewable energy into the national grid. John Yeld reports. This is the Juno Wind Energy Facility, planned for a farm in the […]

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South Africa’s COVID-19 Cases Surpass 10,000 Mark

By SAPeople Contributor 11-05-20 12:40

South Africa’s confirmed COVID-19 cases have risen to 10 015. Regrettably, the Health Department has reported eight more COVID-19 related deaths: 3 from the Western Cape, 1 from the Eastern Cape, and 4 from Gauteng. This brings the total national deaths to 194. “We wish to express our condolences to the loved ones of the […]

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Alan Knott-Craig: Hope is a Strategy

By Guest Contributor 11-05-20 12:04

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting worried… writes Alan Knott-Craig. The Corona-virus lockdown is getting me down. It’s getting me depressed. It’s making me a bit scared. It’s not the curfew, or the lack of exercise, or too much time in a confined space with my family, or the alcohol & cigarette ban, […]

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PHOTOS: Anarchy Over Food Parcels Not Delivered in Durban, South Africa

By Kierran Allen 10-05-20 19:44

Today saw violent protests erupt in Shallcross, Durban, as food parcels were again not delivered… writes photojournalist Kierran Allen. As I have said before… people are hungry, desperate and will take drastic measures to get what they want, or – should I say – what they have been promised! Forty-five days have passed in this […]

Lieutenant General R. Maphwanya handing over hygiene parcels to female officers, after which a near 324 female enlistees line up – Doornkop, Johannesburg.

Female Soldiers Receive ‘Ladies Packs’ in Rare Show of Gratitude to SANDF

By Tom Brown 10-05-20 16:59

In gratitude to the many South African soldiers who are women – and who will be unable to celebrate Mother’s Day with their children today – a women’s veteran’s organisation handed out female hygiene parcels to over 300 female soldiers on Friday. Former Umkhonto weSizwe and SA National Defence Force (SANDF) member, Granny Seape, said […]

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Exploitation Changes Leopard Behaviour with Long-Term Genetic Costs

By Guest Contributor 01-01-21 13:38

Throughout their range leopards are in rapid decline, having disappeared from North Africa, much of the Middle East and Asia. Declines have been so severe that the species is now considered vulnerable to extinction. No comprehensive estimates of the number of leopards remaining in the wild exist. In southern Africa, 62% of leopard distribution falls […]

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ANC Caucus Condemns DA’s “Suicidal” Call for Lockdown to End

By SAPeople 09-05-20 20:39

In its virtual Caucus meeting held today, 9 May 2020, the ANC Caucus said it condemned in the strongest terms the “ill-timed and irrational” calls by the DA for the Lockdown to end. The ANC Caucus said in a statement on Saturday evening that the “levels of incitement by the DA Leader and calls for […]

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Couple Tragically Die After Drinking Home-Brew Beer in South Africa

By SAPeople 09-05-20 16:21

A couple who made up a batch of home-brew beer to get round South Africa’s alcohol-purchase ban during lockdown died in agony last weekend after drinking one bottle of the ale each. Estate agent Tony Hilliar, 54, and his fiancée Alida Fouche, 42, had run out of their own supplies of alcohol and decided to […]

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Former Eskom Engineers Offer to Work for Free

By Ted Botha 09-05-20 10:41

Eskom has received offers from a group of engineers, all former employees, who want to contribute their skills free of charge to help rebuild the organisation. Eskom said in a statement yesterday that the offers were unsolicited, and that many of the group – which one news report numbered at 60 – were former employees […]

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SA Government Starts Large Prisoner Release to Avoid Overcrowding

By SAPeople 08-05-20 21:38

Ronald Lamola, Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, said about 19,000 low-risk offenders may qualify to be released from prisons across the country, which will decrease the prison population by about 12%, reducing overcrowding. Lamola was addressing the media on Friday afternoon after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the authorisation of parole for selected categories of […]

WATCH Bananagram Challenge Turns into Tribute to Celebrate South Africa

By Jenni Baxter 08-05-20 19:35

A wonderful Bananagram challenge to keep busy during Lockdown has turned into a moving video tribute to South Africa. Professor Jean Greyling, from Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, was inspired to start his Bananagram challenge when his daughter, who owns ckreate Illustration and Photography, challenged her friends to do something creative each day, based […]

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DA Leader Says Lockdown Not COVID Now the Crisis

By Ted Botha 08-05-20 17:05

In a hard-hitting speech where he said the government’s continued, irrational and unexplained lockdown was destructive and going to devastate many more lives than were necessary, Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen said citizens were being treated like common criminals. “Much of the hardship we’re going through is unnecessary,” Steenhuisen said in an online speech today, […]

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