Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub will donate a third of his salary to the Solidarity Fund created to fight the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa.
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South Africans will have to endure at least another two weeks of the national Covid-19 lockdown. President Cyril Ramaphose announced on Thursday evening that the lockdown will be extended until the end of April.
Suspended communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has expressed profuse regret for recently breaching the country’s Covid-19 lockdown regulations. Watch her apology here.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed his communications minister, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, on “special leave” for two months for flouting national lockdown regulations.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasised the importance of social distancing after a former deputy minister shared a picture of himself and communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, and others, having a meal at his house.
Faced with the biggest challenge of any post-apartheid South African leader, President Cyril Ramaphosa has also been given a rare opportunity to push through the painful reforms the economy needs.
South Africa will roll out a mass screening programme for the coronavirus and despatch about 10 000 field workers to check up on people in their homes, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to do so.
South Africa’s largest technology and media group, Naspers, has announced it will provide R1.5-billion in emergency aid to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in the country.
South Africa’s largest online retailer, Takealot.com, will remain open during the Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa, but will only be able to supply goods deemed essential by the government to customers.
South African businesses prepared to shut down operations and supermarkets were inundated by shoppers as the country braced for a three-week lockdown.