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Boost for sports and entertainment as SA eases Covid-19 restrictions

President Cyril Ramaphosa announces the scaling back of restrictions and lifts the need to wear masks outdoors

‘Reckless’: Vaccinated travellers from some countries arriving at Heathrow won’t have to quarantine. Photo: Hollie Adams/Getty Images

South Africa says UK red list travel decision on new Covid variant is premature

The department of international relations and cooperation says the travel ban on Southern African countries seems to be rushed

From the West’s perspective the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha by the Taliban in Afghanistan could only be done by beings ‘less than human’. Photo: Aref Karimi/AFP

Insurrection envy in the land of the Taliban’nyana

The ANC’s inability to meet deadlines could have given us more municipal managers with bodybuilding certificates

A volunteers directs vehicles into Zwartkops Raceway drive-through vaccination site, in Centurion, to receive their dose of either the Pfizer or Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, on August 13, 2021. (Photo by LUCA SOLA / AFP) (Photo by LUCA SOLA/AFP via Getty Images)

Third wave ‘stubbornly persists’, young adults urged to get vaccinated

The past seven days show an 18.2% increase in new infections, compared with the previous week, says health minister

Mandatory vaccination involves, at a glance, the constitutional rights to bodily integrity, privacy, to protection against unfair discrimination and to freedom of thought, religion, conscience and opinion. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Young people can begin getting Covid-19 jabs from Friday 20 August

Previously, the government had said people aged between 18 and 35 years would be eligible to be vaccinated only from September

Although the government’s vaccination drive is already in full swing, there have been no announced plans for the vaccination of homeless people, despite the public health risk if they are left out.   (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)

Joburg’s homeless people miss out on jabs

Gauteng has ‘no plan’ to vaccinate its 10 000 displaced persons

Lifeline: People queue at the labour department’s offices in Johannesburg to apply for UIF benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

It will cost UIF up to R3.5-billion in Ters payments every week the lockdown is extended

Any further extensions of Ters payments will impede the UIF’s ability to pay normal claims for unemployment and parental leave

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Editorial: Enough. We need the vaccine

South Africans have been waiting too long and it is time for the government to deliver on its vaccine plan

Out of order: Chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng
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Mogoeng not a devil’s advocate

The Bible-thumping chief justice really does seem to believe the anti-vaxxing nonsense he preaches

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS)
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Watch it again: Ramaphosa addresses the nation

The president’s address follows a special sitting of Cabinet, which considered recommendations of the National Coronavirus Command Council

Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has made strides in embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles into its core operations, positioning itself as a leader in sustainable airport management on the African continent.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Level one loading: Almost back to normal

President Cyril Ramaphosa announces South Africa will move to level one of lockdown on September 20 after nearly six months of restrictions on movement, trade, learning and…

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South Africa goes to Covid-19 level 2 on Monday

President Ramaphosa drops most of the restrictions that have been in place for the last five months, citing ‘signs of hope’

Parents need a lens to gauge the process and a language to start engaging with schools about their experiences and perceptions to ensure their children have access to quality education.

Matrics will write exams in November

The department of basic education has announced that the class of 2020 will sit for its final examinations later than usual.

Hyenas circle: President Cyril Ramaphosa can’t snuggle under his duvet while Ace Magashule (above) feathers his kids’ beds and tries to snatch the presidential blankie for himself. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

False dawn gives Ace all the cards

The unrepentant, recalcitrant ANC secretary general thinks it’s okay for his and other wayward comrades’ kids to loot

Limits: A police officer confronts a man pleading for the release of a protester detained for breaching lockdown regulations during a demonstration in Snake Park, Soweto, against electricity cuts.  (Marco Longari/AFP)

Vigorous policing of petty crime during the pandemic suggests a Pyrrhic defeat

The ideological aims of the criminal justice system in dysfunctional societies, like South Africa, is to indirectly legitimise the inequitable economic system

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Schools to close for a month due to Covid infection surge — Ramaphosa

The academic year will extend into 2021 in a ‘deliberately cautious approach’ as president confirms South Africa has world’s fifth-highest Covid-19 infection tally

Eusebius McKaiser: Ramaphosa may want to swap title of president for mister

The president and the National Coronavirus Command Council have turned taxis into vectors of death

The panel found that, for the time being, further support should be confined to extending the social distress relief that was rolled out for the Covid-19 pandemic.

Basic income grant on the cards as Covid-19 threat intensifies

The pandemic has triggered a global economic crisis that will leave many South Africans without income security

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused pain for minibus taxi passengers and drivers. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Taxis and Covid-19: ‘The ideal doesn’t exist’

After months of complaining about the regulations imposed on the industry, taxi owners have been given a lifeline

A member of the South African Police Service (SAPS) arrest suspects after they were found in possession of alcohol, that goes against the rules of the nation wide lockdown, in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, on March 27, 2020. – South Africa came under a nationwide lockdown on March 27, 2020, joining other African countries imposing strict curfews and shutdowns in an attempt to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus across the continent. (Photo by Luca Sola / AFP) (Photo by LUCA SOLA/AFP via Getty Images)

Mask rules are not meant to ‘criminalise’ the public

Shop owners and taxi drivers can now refuse entry to people who defy mandatory mask-wearing regulations