Actor Pallance Dladla (Jabulani Zungu) leaves Isibaya
By Chris Fallen
12-04-2020
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The exodus of actors in the daily Mzansi Magic drama series, Isibaya, seems to be continuing unabated.
This comes after it emerged that another prominent actor in the show, Pallance Dladla, who plays the role of Jabulani Zungu, has dumped the show.
According to insiders, the actor has even stopped reporting for duty.
“Pallance stopped reporting for duty before the national lockdown. His role was scrapped and they are busy planning his exit. From last month, Pallance was not reporting for duty, which prompted the producers of the show to come with new ideas to cover his part,” the source said.
Isibaya publicist Karabo Maroga denied Dladla was leaving.
“Pallance requested a break to go to the US for March and April to do an acting course and explore international contacts for his acting career. He did a similar thing in 2019. This was arranged through his agent MLA,”
“There is nothing unusual around this. Actors do many things at the same time. You might recall Pallance also shot the Netflix series Shadow while doing Isibaya. We are supportive of actors building their careers and if they get a great opportunity, then we discuss with them and their agent.
“Pallance was due to return to South Africa and shoot Isibaya in early May. He then had his plans affected while in the US due to Covid-19 as we all have.”
According to insiders, the producers had briefed other cast members about Dladla’s exit from the show. “He is leaving the show. We don’t know whether the producers of the show will change their minds after the lockdown about letting Pallance go,”
Maroga also explained the situation of Siyabonga Thwala, who plays the role of Mpiyakhe Zungu. Thwala was no longer shooting with Isibaya.
“Mr Thwala lives in KZN … We stopped all cast flying from KZN to JHB as soon as the travel warnings were put in place. This affected a few scenes with Mr Thwala, which we worked around.”
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Three soldiers test positive for Covid-19, 15 awaiting results
By Chris Fallen
12-04-2020
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Three members of the SANDF have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Three members of the defence force have tested positive for the coronavirus.
This comes as hundreds of soldiers conue to enforce lockdown compliance across the country in a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19.
In a message posted on the SANDF official Facebook page on Saturday, Surgeon General of the SANDF Lt-Gen Zola Dabula said the army would take deliberate measures to curb the spread.
He revealed that from 184 suspected cases, 125 tests were conducted and three came back positive while the results of 15 were still pending.
Dabula said the military has identified isolation facilities for its members and their families.
”Allow me to use this opportunity and extend my sincere appreciation and thanks to all deployed SA National Defence Force members. The SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) is working around the clock to hinder and inhibit this fast-advancing destructive and unseen enemy,” he said.
As of Saturday afternoon, SA had recorded more than 2,000 cases of the coronavirus with 28 deaths from the respiratory disease.
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SA government plans for Covid-19 to peak in September but questions about data remain
12/04/2020
by Chris Fallen
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March was arguably the busiest month for President Cyril Ramaphosa in his tenure as head of state. Every other day, the President is putting out fires – some created unnecessarily by members of his own cabinet.
The extended five-week national lockdown has postponed South Africa’s worst-case Covid-19 scenario to September, a government projection shows.
With no lockdown, South Africa was estimated to reach its peak coronavirus infections in July. A five-week lockdown, that has paralysed the economy, is buying the government two more months to prepare for a flooding of hospitals at the end of winter.
This is according to a presentation made to Parliament’s portfolio committee on health this week by the acting director general of the department of health, Anban Pillay.
It is the most detailed official analysis yet of the current situation that has been made public since the first infection was reported at the beginning of March.
Other key findings in the presentation
In a worst-case scenario, Gauteng would see over 1.5 million Covid-19 infections at the end of winter, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with one million;
The country has less than half the number of ventilators needed to deal with peak infection. Public and private hospitals currently have a total of 3 216 ventilators, compared to the 7 000 we need, and
The country currently has 4 909 critical care hospital beds available, but the need for beds in intensive care units could exceed 14 700 at the highest level of infection.
Only “severe to critical Covid-19 patients” will be treated at hospitals, while “mild to moderately infected patients” will be accommodated at field hospitals where basic medical care will be provided.
The government’s “readiness for worst case scenario” plan was informed by research from UCT’s Modelling and Simulation Hub Africa. According to this scenario, if the lockdown was suspended this Thursday after three weeks, the peak would have hit the country around 18 August.
Pillay told MPs during a digital meeting of the committee that the health department is seeing a different trajectory in the infection rate compared to countries such as South Korea, Britain, the United States and Spain.
According to Pillay’s presentation, based on statistics prepared by Professor Tulio de Oliveira of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation & Sequencing Platform (KRISP), the gradient of the curve is flatter than some countries which have been seriously affected.
The presentation, which also covers the state of readiness of both the public and private sector, tracking and tracing strategy as well as detail about hotspots across the country, was given to MPs the day after President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday announced an extension to the lockdown until the end of April.
Although Ramaphosa said there is “sufficient evidence” to show the lockdown is working, but that it is too early to make a “definitive analysis of the progression of the disease”, he did not expand on which datasets, epidemiological modelling, or projections the government used to base its decision on to expand the lockdown.
It is known that the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), that conducts testing on behalf of government, is not close to reaching is target of 36 000 tests per day.
The president did consult widely before he announced his decision, including with opposition leaders, provincial premiers and representatives of business and labour, but he has not made public what the exact statistics or projections which informed the decision to extend the lockdown from three to five weeks are.
‘Scary’ projections
The presidency on Friday and Saturday did not respond to questions for comment.
A detailed set of questions was sent to presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko on Friday enquiring what metrics the national command council, which is co-ordinating the government’s response to the coronavirus, used to determine that the lockdown must be extended. She did not return a call or respond to a message on Saturday.
John Steenhuisen, the DA leader and leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, says the lack of data on the spread of the virus is concerning.
“There’s a complete absence of empirical data or detail about which metrics government will use to measure whether the lockdown is successful or not. They’re not playing open cards with the public.”
A senior government official privy to the decision-making process said on Saturday afternoon Ramaphosa is informed “by the best brains in the country” before he makes decisions and that extending the lockdown was based on scientific evidence put before him.
The projections which swayed Ramaphosa are “scary”, the official said, and added that government did not want to create panic.
Professor Cheryl Cohen, one of the lead epidemiologists at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) told News24 that she hopes the projections given to government will be released soon.
Martin Kingston, the executive chairperson of Rothschild & Co in South Africa, who is co-ordinating the response to Covid-19 by all business formations through Business for South Africa, said he is “satisfied” that the decision to extend the lockdown was based on “the best available scientific evidence at the time”.
“We are in constant dynamic contact with government, from the minister of health to National Treasury, the department of labour and the department of trade and industry. I am absolutely satisfied that the decision was taken with the best available scientific evidence at the time.
“But we all know, and government acknowledges it, that testing is inadequate and needs to be expanded,” he said.
The presentation made to MPs gives insight into the the healthcare system’s state of readiness:
According to the latest available information the country has less than half the number of ventilators needed to deal with peak infection. The public healthcare system currently has 1 111 operational ventilators, with 2 105 operational in the private healthcare system for a total of 3 216 ventilators. According to projections the healthcare system would need 7 000 ventilators to deal with the virus, a shortage of 3 784.
There are currently only 3 318 critical care beds available, with 2 140 of those in private hospitals; there are 2 722 high care beds in the country, with only 1 082 of those in the public sector; there is a total of 119 416 hospital beds available, across South Africa.
During peak infection in an optimistic scenario, and with one lockdown enforced, the peak need for beds in intensive care units could exceed 14 700 beds at the highest level, and 4 100 in the lowest level.
Siviwe Gwarube, the DA’s spokesperson for health, says she is concerned that although the presentation went into more detail than anything seen before, there is still a lack of data available.
“We’re trying to access data, but what we’ve got now is wholly inadequate.”
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*Current Status of Cases of COVID-19 in South Africa* rises to 2028 confirmed cases.
12-04-2020
By Chris Fallen
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Total cases: 2028
25 New cases
410 Full recoveries (Confirmed Negative)
25 Deaths
The breakdown per province of total infections is as follows:
GAUTENG 813
WESTERN CAPE 546
KWAZULU – NATAL 418
FREE STATE 94
NORTH WEST 19
MPUMALANGA 20
LIMPOPO 23
EASTERN CAPE 69
NORTHERN CAPE 16
UNALLOCATED 10
*POSITIVE CASES FROM NETCARE ST AUGUSTINE’S HOSPITAL – DURBAN, KZN*
We have received a report from KZN Health MEC, Ms Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu that KwaZulu-Natal has 11 confirmed COVID-19 cases linked to St Augustine’s Hospital, in Durban. Furthermore, 3 of the deceased patients from KZN had been admitted at the hospital.
The COVID-19 positive cases include patients, health workers and other staff members. The KZN Department of Health and Netcare management agreed that the sections of the hospital affected be closed and no new patient admissions be permitted. This is a precautionary measure to allow for a thorough identification of areas within the hospital where there may have been infection control lapses.
The areas that were exposed to positive patients are also being disinfected. At this stage more than 150 tests have been conducted within the hospital and contact tracing is underway. We have advised that more tests be done on both staff and patients in order to determine the true extent of the existence of the infection in the facility, which may call for further interventions.
As part of intensifying the contact tracing and testing process, MEC Simelane-Zulu has also requested that Netcare avails a list of its patients that were exposed to the hospital as from the beginning of March. We therefore make a public announcement that if you were a patient at St Augustine’s Hospital from 1 March 2020 to date, we request that you contact the KZN Department of Health.
We convey our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the deceased. We also thank the doctors, health workers and all staff members of this hospital for their commitment to serve even during these difficult times.
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Western Cape man, 61, dies, of Covid-19, bringing SA death toll to 25
By: Chris Fallen
12-04-2020
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The total number of tests conducted to date is 75,053.
The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in SA is now 2,028, health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Saturday night.
Mkhize disclosed that a 61-year-old man from the Western Cape had died, bringing the country’s Covid-19 related deaths to 25.
“His underlying medical conditions included diabetes, hypertension and obesity,” said the minister.
“We convey our condolences to the family of the deceased and also appreciate the health workers that treated the deceased patient.”
The total number of tests conducted to date is 75,053.
Earlier on Saturday, the military disclosed that three members of the defence force had tested positive for the coronavirus. This comes as hundreds of soldiers continue to enforce lockdown compliance across the country in a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19.
The Gauteng health department, where a majority of SA’s cases have been reported, disclosed on Saturday morning that of the 801 cases, Johannesburg had 446 patients, with Ekurhuleni at 120 and Tshwane with 90 the worst affected. Ten patients are in ICU.
On Friday, Mkhize recorded 2,003 confirmed Covid-19 cases across SA, with 24 deaths and 73,028 tests conducted. Of the more than 2,000 cases, most were in Gauteng (with three deaths), followed by Western Cape (with 6 deaths prior to Saturday), KwaZulu-Natal (with 12 deaths) and Free State (with three deaths).
On Saturday night, Mkhize expressed concern about the KwaZulu-Natal infections, saying: “KZN has a high death toll, more than 6 patients have died from one institution. We need to get into why this is so. We have now decided the hospital needs to be closed down and an investigation needs to be launched.”
Durban’s St Augustine’s Hospital has been closed indefinitely, after an outbreak at the private facility. Only one ward is open, to be used as a quarantine unit for the 48 nurses and 18 patients who have tested positive for Covid-19.
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Brother Nxewu says” Network Marketing is the future.
By Chris Fallen
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11-04-2020
As the government Extended lockdown till end of April. Most of SA Citizens will lose their jobs. The economy is going down. South Africa is facing a difficult time and it will take years to recovery from this damage.
President Cyril Ramaphosa hope and pray with South Africa, that we as the nation we flatten the curve.
President said”working together as a nation,we can beat this Coronavirus.
What will happen when most of SA Citizens lose their jobs.
What to do next?
How to survive?
Most of people are asking themselves such questions.
Don’t look no further, Brother Nxewu says that on his interview with illovuonline.news.blog
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Before even start joining it is very important to research and investigate about the business due to many scams claim to be real and legit. If you search about network marketing on Google platform they provide all informations to tell you whether that business is legit or a scam. Another easy way to see a scam is when they say invest your money and they will return profit in few days or weeks, how can you just receive profit without working? In Network marketing you work you recruit, you share business opportunity to many people to join, you build a team group of networkers to keep the business going and growing.
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‘I am not above the law’: Somizi speaks out after criminal charges opened
By Chris Fallen
10-04-2020
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Entertainer Somizi Mhlongo has said he is willing to accept the legal consequences of saying that transport minister Fikile Mbalula told him beforehand about the extension to the national lockdown.
Entertainer Somizi Mhlongo has vowed to accept the legal implications of what he called a “very bad joke”, as the fallout over his lockdown extension comments continued.
On Thursday night, just before President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the national lockdown would be extended by two weeks, Somizi revealed that very same piece of information.
The comment came on Metro FM co-host Dineo Ranaka’s Instagram Live video saying that “Fikile” told him, in reference to transport minister Fikile Mbalula. The video was filmed while their show was on the air.
The minister has since opened a criminal case against Somizi for spreading fake news, in line with the Disaster Management Act and lockdown regulations — and Mhlongo has apologised for his comment.
It’s not personal: Fikile Mbalula on Somizi charge
“We live in times when things cannot be joked about,” transport minister Fikile Mbalula said on Friday as he opened a charge against entertainer …
Taking to Instagram on Friday afternoon, Somizi again said sorry, and said that he was willing to deal with whatever came next.
“This is difficult,” he started out. “I’m not OK, but I’ll be OK.”
Later in the video he said: “Whatever legal matters or steps have been taken, I am a citizen and I’m not above the law. If I’ve gone wrong, I will respect whatever judgment or whatever verdict comes out of it. If I didn’t do wrong, because it was not intentional, it was a very bad joke, I was not even aware it was being recorded … whatever it is I need to face, I will face it, because I am not above the law.”
The entertainer added that it was a pity that Ranaka’s video was cut off when it was.
“Unfortunately the part that everyone didn’t see is when I said to her, ‘Ag, I was joking. I mean I don’t even know if there’s going to be an extension. No-one knows.’
“But the timing was bad. The timing was horrible. Because it happened exactly like I said it, which I can also question that maybe I have the gift of seeing things because they happened. But at this point I really, really made a bad joke.
“I never spoke to Fikile about anything regarding that. I never spoke to Fikile at all this week,” said Somizi.
He said the situation was “spiralling out of control”.
“Because it happened the way I said it, people don’t believe that I did not know anything about it. It was just a bad joke. Just the way I joked about Zozibini winning Miss Universe and it happened.
“The timing on this one, which is a very sensitive issue, did not sit well. Which I understand. And again I apologise. I apologise to every single person that has taken offence and that has felt we broke the rules and the law, and I hope you find it in your heart to forgive me. I’m human, I make mistakes, and I’m owning those mistakes,” Somizi said in the six-minute video.
He also apologised to “the presidency and the government and everyone else for what has happened”.
He said he felt this was a “lesson learnt”.
“Also, again, I looked at this with the spiritual eye. This situation has just put some turbulence on my flight. And is it a crash? No. I’m going to hold on to it, I’m going to own it, I’m going to be in the moment, but I won’t let it crumble me or crush me. It’s a lesson learnt.
“It’s God’s way. I’ve been through worse things in my life and I know how God and the universe operates. He’s teaching me a lesson and I’ve learnt a lesson, whatever that lesson is. I have faith that this too shall pass.
“Challenging times are just challenges, not problems. I’m going to take it one day at a time.”
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Check my phones, I didn’t tell Somizi about lockdown extension: Fikile Mbalula
By: Chris Fallen
11-04-2020
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Transport minister Fikile Mbalula.
Transport minister Fikile Mbalula has denied that he leaked news of the extension of the lockdown to media personality Somizi Mhlongo.
This comes after Mhlongo was heard on Metro FM radio host Dineo Ranaka’s Instagram Live video saying the lockdown would be extended.
A video of the conversation is currently doing the rounds on social media, and it was widely shared just a few hours before President Cyril Ramaphosa officially announced a two-week extension of the national lockdown.
SA lockdown extended by two more weeks
SA’s lockdown has been extended by two weeks.
In it, Mhlongo can be heard saying the announcement would be made on Thursday night.
“Today they are announcing … the extension, I am telling you. I was speaking to Fikile [Mbalula],” said Mhlongo.
Ranaka abruptly cuts off her live broadcast as soon as Mhlongo said it was Mbalula who he was referring to.
But in a tweet later in the evening, Mbalula denied telling Mhlongo about the extension of the lockdown.
He said that at no stage did he speak to Mhlongo about lockdown — and that “my phones can be checked or meet with him”.
“Just called him now to rectify,” tweeted Mbalula.
He later reposted a video on Mhlongo apologising for his comments.
In the video, Mhlongo goes on to explain that he did not speak to Mbalula but he was making a joke.
“I realise now that the president has announced an extension that it’s going to seem like I knew about it.
“I’m just like you, I did not know about it, I was just guessing. I think like everybody else I had a feeling that it was gonna be extended,” said Mhlongo.
He then apologised to Mbalula over his “joke”.
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South Africans Selling Beer In Cooking Oil Containers
11-04-2020
By Chris Fallen
South Africans have done it again, now selling beer in cooking oil bottles. This because of the 21 days lockdown imposed on South Africa. Citizens have to bear 21 days without liquor and cigarettes. Thus far a couple of liquor stores and taverns have been broken into – there have been several videos making rounds on social media.
No liquor sales – at all, including from grocery stores according to the lockdown regulations. South Africans are only permitted to buy basic goods.
A number of arrests have been made for contravening the lockdown regulations. On Saturday, the whole wedding party was arrested in KZN. And thus far over a thousand people have been arrested.
The cooking oil bottled beer was confiscated by the police and have more beers have been confiscated all around the country.
Day 14 of the lockdown and people are in a desperate search for alcohol. Some liquor stores have been selling in closed doors at inflated pricess
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