News in South Africa 10th May: 1. Load shedding continues: Eskom said you should anticipate more power cuts this week as the increase in electricity demand is overwhelming its system, especially during peak hours. The embattled power utility implemented stage 2 load shedding Monday evening after its generation units tripped. “At the same time, a […]
News in South Africa 9th May: 1. Unemployment numbers wrong: The head of the Statistics Council, the advisory board to Statistics SA, has raised the alarm on the quality of SA’s employment statistics, saying the poor response rate must be reversed if the numbers are to be worth anything. The last Quarterly Labour Force Survey […]
News in South Africa 5th May: 1. New Covid rules for travel: South Africa has a new set of coronavirus entry rules for travellers from 5 May, after a late-night update to regulations, just hours before interim measures were due to lapse. Health minister Joe Phaahla established the new Covid-19 rules under his power to deal […]
News in South Africa 4th May: 1. Economic risks of Covid resurgence: While the Covid-19 risk has diminished in South Africa, it has not disappeared, and a resurgence of cases in recent weeks could weigh on the economy this year, say economists at Absa bank. “New Covid-19 cases are again on the rise, with the […]
News in South Africa 28th April: 1. Populations exploding: A wake-up call for SA’s ballooning cities: Their populations are exploding at rates far in excess of economic growth. Buried in the dry numbers of the latest State of South African Cities Report 2021 are some startling stats. City of Joburg’s population jumped nearly 30% between […]
News in South Africa 26th April: 1. Covid infections spiking again: South Africa appears to be heading for a fresh wave of coronavirus infections, though this one is predicted to be less deadly than previous waves. The latest Covid-19 figures report 30,086 active cases, 30 daily deaths and 1,954 new cases. But South Africans can […]
News in South Africa 20th April: 1. National state disaster extended: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says the government plans to keep its latest national state of disaster in place for a period of at least three months to assist those impacted by the heavy flooding in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of […]
News in South Africa 19th April: 1. Floods declared a national disaster: Ramaphosa announced the elevation of the KwaZulu-Natal floods to the status of a national disaster – just days after it had been formally classified as a provincial disaster. That moves responsibility for co-ordination of the response to the disaster, including high-level decisions on […]
News in South Africa 13th April: 1. Floods ravage KZN: On Monday, 11 April, more than a fifth of a metre of rain fell at Mbazwana, in north KwaZulu-Natal just about 100km south of the Mozambique border, according to preliminary data from the SA Weather Service’s observation station there. The 206.4mm of rain measured at […]
News in South Africa 12th April: 1. 2 New omicron variants: Tulio de Oliveira, who runs gene-sequencing institutions in South Africa, says that scientists in the country have discovered two new sublineages of the omicron coronavirus variant. The lineages have been named BA.4 and BA.5, he said by text message and in a series of […]
