Kaizer Motaung and Banks Setlhodi on Sugar Ray Xulu: ‘We have lost a true giant’
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08-05-2020
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Kaizer Motaung during the Kaizer Chiefs end of season awards evening at Theatre on the Track, Kyalami on June 01, 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Kaizer Chiefs’ boss Kaizer Motaung and legendary goalkeeper Joseph ‘Banks’ Setlhodi have remembered the late AmaZulu legend Cedric “Sugar Ray” Xulu as a true gentleman of the game.
In their playing days Motaung and Setlhodi had had numerous tough encounters against SA footballing great Xulu‚ who died on Monday at the age of 80‚ and both said they they respected him for his footballing ability.
“Cedric ‘Sugar Ray’ Xulu was a gentleman‚ always polite and willing to listen. On the field of play‚ however‚ he was ruthless. Using his dribbling technique and speed‚ he would mesmerise opposing defenders‚” said Motaung in his tribute.
“Sugar Ray was left-footed‚ just like me‚ he was fast and knew how to score. He was a brilliant player‚ a true legend of the game of football‚” added Motaung.
Setlhodi also remembered Xulu as a one of the best this country has produced.
“Sugar Ray was quiet off the field‚ but on the field of play he spoke with his feet. He was quick‚ physically strong and could attack as well as defend. He was one of the best we had in the country. What a player‚” said Setlhodi.
“He had football in his genes and was really brainy. I recall one particular occasion when he came rushing across the wing.
“I liked to anticipate situations and I was moving forward to intercept a cross. However‚ he already seemed to know what I was going to do before I had decided myself and he drove the ball from outside the box straight into the corner.
“It was such a clever goal and brilliantly executed too‚” Setlhodi recounted.
Chiefs’ goalkeeping legend added that as far as he can remember Xulu never got a yellow card during his career.
“He was loved by his teammates and opponents alike‚ also because of his fair play. He would never do something malicious‚” Setlhodi said.
“We once played in the rain and Sugar Ray slipped and fouled his opponent. The referee was about to give him a yellow card when I intervened.
“I told the referee‚ ‘It was not intentional. He’s a gentle footballer. It was clearly an accident as the pitch is so slippery.’ The referee was surprised to hear my comments and decided to withdraw the yellow card. We have lost a true giant.”
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KZN MEC sickened by ‘rotten food’ delivery from popular fast-food chain
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08-05-2020
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KwaZulu-Natal MEC for social development Nonhlanhla Khoza says she ate rotten food from a fast food chain in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday.
KwaZulu-Natal social development MEC Nonhlanhla Khoza has urged people to check their fast-food orders after she says she received rotten food from a popular fast food chain.
According to Khoza she placed an order for lunch via a delivery app while in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday. While consuming the food she noticed black spots on the dough of her wrap, which she believed resembled maggots.
“I only realised towards the end of the meal that the dough was covered with black particles. I kept removing this earlier as I thought it was nothing but issues of food processing,” said the MEC. “I checked the food item to determine if it was still in good condition due to its strange taste. It was clear that I have consumed wrong food with old dough. I opted to stop eating to avoid getting sick,” she added.
Khoza said that there was a low probability of her getting sick from the food but had consulted her doctor just as a precaution.
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“Fearing that I might get sick, I decided to consult my doctor. But it’s less expected that a fast food outlet that we entrust with our lives can sell old stuff. This is really sickening,” said Khoza.
Khoza said that she would be consulting economic development MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube on laws around the selling of rotten food.
Department spokesperson Mhlaba Memela said that they did not alert the fast food chain about the food because they aren’t able to physically go into the store under lockdown rules.
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Plan to limit hiring of foreign nationals not xenophobic, says Nxesi
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08-05-2020
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Labour minister Thulas Nxesi says sectors such as agriculture, security industry, hospitality and restaurants have a preference to employ foreign nationals.
Government is planning to restrict the number of foreign nationals working in certain sectors of the economy.
In terms of an employment policy being developed by the department of employment and labour, the minister could be given the legal right to set sectoral targets or quotas for foreign nationals in some sectors.
“What could happen is that where there are areas where there is preference for foreign nationals – for instance restaurants – the minister would most probably determine that in this sector, only this percentage of foreign nationals will be allowed to work,” employment and labour director-general Thobile Lamati told MPs yesterday.
“This is not a new thing. It happens all over the world. It is part of labour market employment policies. We think that employment policy will go a long way in addressing the number of challenges we have in the labour market.”
Employment and labour minister Thulas Nxesi said it was well known that in agriculture, the private security industry, the hospitality industry, restaurants etc, employers preferred to employ foreign nationals or non-South African nationals rather than South Africans. In some cases this had to do with skills, in other cases it was a matter of exploiting cheap labour, he said.
“You can’t sit with millions of unemployed South Africans and in certain industries you just allow non-South Africans to be employed without any regulation,” the minister said in a virtual meeting of parliament’s two labour committees.
“We must introduce those quotas and stick to those quotas and be very hard to those quotas. However, in doing this it was important not to be seen to be xenophobic or violating international conventions that SA has signed. It is going to be a balancing act,” he said.
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The discussion in response to a question by DA labour spokesperson Michael Cardo took place during a briefing by Lamati on the department of employment and labour’s annual strategic plan and annual performance plan.
Cardo said the quota proposal was “mad and dangerous”.
“It would be a nasty exercise in social engineering and whenever and wherever that has been tried throughout history has had ugly consequences,” Cardo said.
The annual performance plan includes the enactment and implementation of the amendments to the Employment Equity Act which were tabled in parliament earlier this year. It provides that sectoral targets be set for employment equity.
Lamati stressed that transformation of the economy in terms of employment equity could not be put aside as the economy starts to get moving again. The same applied to the application of B-BBEE codes which were necessary because companies had failed to transform on their own.
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“I don’t think that because we find ourselves in this situation (Covid-19) the issue of transformation of the labour market and the economy should be put aside. As we phase in the economic activity, as we try to boost the productivity of the companies I don’t think the transformation agenda should be put aside…”
DA MPs questioned if it was the appropriate time for government to be setting sectoral employment equity targets when it was not known what sectors of the economy would still remain after Covid-19 and also whether B-BBEE codes were still appropriate.
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Opening of schools too soon is not permitted, warns education department
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08-05-2020
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Khayelitsha school principal returns to daycare centre to cook for hungry children
The principal of the Noluthando Day Care Centre in Khayelitsha on Monday started cooking two meals a week for the hungry children in the area.
The Department of Basic Education has warned all schools against reopening prematurely.
The department said it was aware of some independent, private and public schools that were already preparing to reopen much earlier than required.
Spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga said some schools had even received pupils ahead of the schedule announced by Minister Angie Motshekga.
“In some schools, teachers have already been reporting for duty and parents’ meetings have been held where plans were announced to have learners back in school in May. The premature reopening of schools is not permitted, as the department is still finalising coronavirus school compliance protocols.
The parents of children at a Bloemfontein school are fearful after hearing two siblings attending the school are in quarantine. The siblings from Brandwag Primary School, were quarantined after their mother, tested positive for the coronavirus.
“The uniform standards will be applicable in schools as part of the measures put in place to protect pupils and teachers, reduce infection and save the academic year.
“Regulations were published on 29 April, in terms of the Disaster Management Act which listed education services under Level 4, as permitted on a date and schedule yet to be announced to direct when schools may reopen during Level 4,” said Mhlanga.
Mhlanga said, until such date and schedules are determined, all schools including independent schools must remain closed.
Motshekga has already indicated her plan on how schools would reopen and, until a final decision is made, no school may open.
Motshekga earlier announced that office-based workers would gradually return to work from 4 May, school management teams to go back on 11 May, and teachers on 18 May.
The proposed date to start the gradual return of pupils is 1 June 2020.
Next week, Motshekga is expected to brief the National Coronavirus Command Council about her enhanced recovery plan for basic education based on inputs and feedback received thus far.
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You can be fined up to R5 000 for breaking these lockdown rules
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08-05-2020
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The only interests we’re pursuing is our people’s health, finish and klaar – Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa has rubbished claims that there is any agenda from government in the banning of tobacco products during the Covid-19 Level 4 national lockdown.
If you breach lockdown regulations, you can be fined as much as R5 000 and end up with a criminal record. Offences include being caught with liquor or spreading fake news about Covid-19.
The judiciary has issued a list of offences under the Disaster Management Act that carry admission of guilt fines of between R500 and R5 000.
Judiciary spokesperson Nathi Mncube told illovuonline the chief magistrate determined fines annually, but that there was particular interest in the latest fines, owing to lockdown regulations.
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“In terms of the Criminal Procedure Act, these fines are issued every year in agreement with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).”
Some of the offences that will result in a R5 000 fine being issued include:
Unauthorised disclosure of information in the Covid-19 tracing database;
Failure to de-identify and destroy information on Covid-19 tracing database within six weeks after the state of disaster has ended;
Making intentional misrepresentations on any person infected with Covid-19;
Publishing any statement to deceive another person about Covid-19, to deceive any person about the Covid-19 infection status of another person, or to deceive any person about any measures taken by the government to address Covid-19;
Intentionally exposing another person to Covid-19;
Executing an eviction order;
Illegal gatherings in public places;
Selling, transporting, dispensing or distributing liquor;
Selling tobacco products; and
Hindering, interfering with or obstructing law enforcement officers in the execution of their duties.
You can also be fined R3 000 for failing to close a non-essential business and R2 000 for selling non-essential goods.
Lesser amounts include R1 000 fines for a failure to confine yourself to your home and moving between provinces (outside of the grace period), as well as not adhering to the curfew of staying at home between 20:00 and 05:00 without a permit; and R500 for running, cycling, walking beyond 5km of your residence and outside the allocated hours of 06:00 and 09:00.
Illovuonline earlier reported that paying an admission of guilt fine will most likely brand you as having a previous conviction.
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The complete lockdown in SA was excessive and premature – Duduzane Zuma
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08-05-2020
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The Zuma family is back in the news and this has nothing to do with the former president’s arms deal trial which was recently postponed.
Former President Jacob Zuma and his son Duduzane Zuma are making their views known; from the outcome of the ANC’s Nasrec conference to the lockdown imposed in SA in response to the covid-19 pandemic.From the far-flung city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, Duduzane have his view on the lockdown during the second episode of Zooming with the Zumas, a YouTube series of their video call conversations.
Duduzane delivered what seemed like his own mini state of the nation address as he lambasted the country’s complete lockdown response to the covid-19 pandemic, saying it was “excessive” and “premature”.
He said South Africa’s approach to dealing with the pandemic was a “cut and paste” from what developed nations were doing despite the country being a third world country.Among others, Duduzane said poor people had nobody lobbying for them as they were not afforded a seat at the table where government was sitting with big business.
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He questioned decisions including allowing the exporting of wines and allowing iron ore mining among others which he described as not being among the country’s immediate needs right now.Not only does the younger Zuma do much of the talking as he catches up with his dad who is in Nkandla. Zuma spoke about the outcomes of the Nasrec conference in which Cyril Ramaphosa emerged as president was one where the issue of money “came to the fore”.
Zuma had backed former African Union chair and ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in her failed bid to to become ANC president. The former president described the Nasrec outcome as “unfortunate” as money had played a huge role in ensuring who got elected and that the ideology of the party was battered.
He also criticised ANC’s decision to recall him in February two years ago for no apparent reason while he still had around 18 months of his term left.On Thursday, ahead of the second episode being posted, Zuma’s eldest son Edward also stepped into spotlight after he wrote yet another of his many public letters/statements to “comrades”.
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Edward’s statement was aimed at throwing his weight behind the engagement between his father and brother.Edward had issued a stern warning that “Duduzani is yet to speak and some shall go underground” when more is revealed.Although the motive behind the episodes of the edited video-chats between father and son wasn’t yet clear, early signs seem to suggest that the exercise may be aimed at placing alternative facts in the public arena.Edward may have let the cat out of the bag about the Zuma strategy of seemingly providing alternative facts on issues that have been in the public domain.
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He said in his letter that his father and brother would be dishing up more “truths” in their upcoming zoom video chat series.Edward said others, without mentioning their names, would have to hide “as the truth and lies don’t match hence they (Zuma and Duduzane) both are proceeding with the series as is so let’s just come to terms with that maqabane (comrades) ngoba (because) we want to know everything, both parties are however aware that their discussions have nothing to do with the organisation they belong to hence they cannot be gagged and micro managed for selfish and personal reasons and agendas filled with individual ambitions.”
Edward added: “Mudala ubaba u Zuma manje akenimuyeke akhulume into ayifunayo umhlaba usamuvumela maqabane naye Kade esho vele ukuthi uzokhuluma izinto ezizothusa abantu nani nathi khuluma Msholozi manje seninenkinga futhi mesekwenza lokho kwahleni bakwethu hawu (Zuma is old, allow him to say what he wants to say when time allows, comrades.
He has been saying he will reveal stuff that will shock people, and toy said he should speak but now you have a problem when he does that).”
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Astronomers find black hole just 1,000 light years from Earth
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08-05-2020
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In a major achievement, astronomers have succeeded in discovering a black hole just 1,000 light years from Earth. The black hole was found in a system called HR 6819, in the constellation Telescopium.
When watched through a telescope, the system looks like a single bright star, but the light emitted previously from the system revealed there to be two stars present.
Astronomers claim that after detailed analysis of the data they located another body within the system: a black hole with a mass over four times that of our sun, and just 1,000 light years from Earth.
“We realised that one could not describe what we saw with just two stars,” Dietrich Baade, an emeritus astronomer at European Southern Observatory (ESO) and a co-author of the study, was quoted as saying by Guardian.
“One of the stars is moving periodically, with a period of 40 days. And the only way to understand that period and the very large [velocity] of 60km per second with a mass five times that of the sun was to infer that there is another very massive body which, however, is not visible,” he added.
A black hole is an object which is formed from the gravitational collapse of a massive star.
Baade added that the upshot is a “hierarchical triple system”, which he explained by reference to the smartphone of child.
“On the one branch of the mobile you have two stars hanging, one of which is not visible, which is black – that is the black hole. And these two objects are orbiting each other,” he said. “And the other branch of the mobile you have one star which is much farther away from the other two.”
The black hole is unusual. “The hallmark of this black hole is that it is truly black,” he said. “Almost all the other black holes that we know are in the Milky Way – and there are only two dozen of them – shine very brightly in X-rays. This star is not so massive that it loses a lot of gas and therefore the black hole is starving and that makes it so dark.”
According to Baade not many similar black holes had been found in the past and they called for more scrutiny. “It may also be the first ever [black hole of this kind],” he said.
Baade added that HR 6819 and its stars can be seen by the naked eye. “If you want to see it really overhead, you need to be at the southern tip of South America,” he said.
The findings in the study were published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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Why New Contact Tracing Apps Have A Critical WhatsApp-Sized Problem
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08-05-2020
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Almost everyone reading this will own a smartphone, and almost all of those smartphones will have WhatsApp installed. In its top markets, those where it has its greatest penetration, the leading messaging platform has just over an 80% install base across smartphone users. Getting there has taken 11 years.
Now let’s talk about contact-tracing. These Bluetooth proximity apps are generating daily headlines as the effectiveness versus privacy debate rages on. Building on perceived success in Asia, the apps are now launching in the West. And with the recent joint Apple and Google program to unlock technical capability while preserving privacy, the apps have been heralded as a core driver to end lockdowns.
According to the modellers, to achieve the desired level of effectiveness, those apps need to be installed and used by 60% of the population, that’s around 80% of smartphone users. Those apps need to get to the same level WhatsApp has achieved in its best markets over 11 years, and they need to do that inside the next 11 weeks or so. Most of those markets don’t even have 80% penetration for WhatsApp.
In the weeks since Apple and Google announced their involvement in global contact-tracing apps, the debate has focused more on the protection of data and user privacy than on effectiveness. It matters more what data is collected and where it is held, than how short-range Bluetooth proximity calculations will work in practice and just how many alerts a typical resident of London or Paris or Berlin is likely to get during a typical working week. And that’s the fatal flaw.
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As soon as contact-tracing became a privacy debate, its true purpose was lost. You can have privacy or you can have efficacy, you can’t have both. Anything in-between is a compromise, and one or the other or more likely both will suffer. If you’ll excuse the health-related analogy, it’s like trying to become half-pregnant.
The reality is that with some privacy and freedom compromises—mandating some hard choices, a truly powerful contact-tracing platform is technically possible. It needs to be joined-up: apps, phone location tracking, manual tracers, CCTV monitoring and smartphone passes that let us travel and work. But we’re not ready for any of that, we’re more concerned about where our location data is being stored. We’ll ignore the fact that Google and countless marketing agencies collect all of this anyway, in far more granularity than any of these apps will do.
When we are told about the contact-tracing successes in Asia, the approach was much more complex than is being countenanced in the West. Far more use of mobile data and the broader surveillance ecosystem, lots of manual chase-ups and public announcements, a concerted campaign to root out the virus.
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The privacy debate has clouded that effectiveness and outcome debate. And that means the real challenges of take-up and persistent usage have become lost along the way. As these apps deploy, through, these will be the reasons they fail and the watered down nature of those privacy-friendly deployments will struggle.
I’ve written before on the challenge of take-up when it comes to contact-tracing. The magic 60% of the population, touted by modellers as to where efficacy is achieved. What’s usually missed in the analysis is the long-term duration of usage—through the summer, into next winter, beyond. The number of false alerts people are likely to endure. How the apps will function in busy London and Paris.
As cyber guru Ian Thornton-Trump points out, “so, what do we do when COVID-20 hits with a slightly muted version of COVID-19? Will there be enforcement? What about those thousands of workers who may not have access to a smart phone with the capability of running the app?”
“Download the app to protect the NHS and save lives,” U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged on May 4, as the country’s contact-tracing app was pilot-launched to the Isle of White’s 150,000 citizens. The app has had some teething issues—turning down the Apple and Google decentralized approach on the grounds that it needs central data analysis to track the virus, and then failing early cyber security tests. But it is about to go live on a sparsely populated U.K. island, as a testbed for the overcrowded metropolises where the virus will more likely spread.
By now we’re familiar with many of the stats—Singapore’s TraceTogether only reaching some 20% of its population, Australia’s COVIDSafe lowering its target to just a 40% take-up, with somewhere between 10% and 20% having now installed the app. Worldwide, governments who have never had to contend with app penetration stats are starting to realize just how hard it is to get four out of every five smartphone users to download the same app and then use it rigorously.
WhatsApp is useful and fun. It doesn’t tell you to stay home or miss work, it doesn’t suggest you may be infected and 24 hours later tell you it made a mistake. It is rarely disabled or uninstalled—although that does happen, even with WhatsApp. And, even so, it has taken the platform more than a decade to reach the levels of take-up that the U.K. government, for example, believes can be done with a marketing campaign, a mail shot to households, and a slogan.
Despite surveys that suggest moderate initial take-up of the apps, there will be an initial spike in demand as millions rush to see how they work. Quite how many will still be using those apps at Christmas as we see how that busy time of year works in this pre-vaccine surreality we will see. At no time, though, will there be 80% of smartphone users onboard. Certainly not in the opt-in/opt-out West.
There’s an irony buried in here somewhere. Contact-tracing has been effective in Asia, where phones have played a role but manual effort and other surveillance measures have played more of a role. Phones might tell us where a person has been—but then calling contacts, watching CCTV, putting out messages and texting those we know to have been in the same place has been more effective. There has been plenty of analysis now prompting manual contact-tracers, less so on the surveillance infrastructure that is their stock-in-trade.
And so as we concern ourselves with the hypothetical risk that health services and governments will capture and use our data en masse, we move ever further from the actual surveillance we probably need to have a truly effective contact-tracing system in place. Right now, we’re not calling for that. But depending on how the next six or nine months unfold, a few more localized lockdowns, infection spikes and facility closures, and we may change our minds.
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The unhappy truth is that if contact-tracing is to be fully effective, apps need to be mandatory and linked to our right to travel and work. If there is a risk of infection, those rights should be suspended until we are tested or have isolated. All of this can be linked and automated and managed through our smartphones. All of this is a far departure from what would be politically acceptable in the countries where we live.
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As the product lead behind TraceTogether explained, “if you ask me whether any Bluetooth contact tracing system… is ready to replace manual contact tracing, I will say without qualification that the answer is, no… There are lives at stake. False positives and false negatives have real-life (and death) consequences.”
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Thornton-Trump agrees, “the app will not keep you safe from infection—this is the ultimate in gaslighting the public into thinking there is an easy technological solution to complex epidemiology for a disease that we have just begun to study and understand… There is a mistaken belief that tech has the answers. It’s important to get the requirements right on this. If we don’t, it will have severe consequences for our society and exacerbate existing social inequalities.”
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This is just the start, as the tech we’ve seen in Asia now hits the west at scale, driven by Google and Apple’s combined outreach and our collective wish for a simple solution to an awfully complex problem. The unfortunate truth, though, is that the premise for such solutions, that they can be central to the fightback without the hard choices that need to run alongside is fatally flawed. We have known this for a while now. But it’s as if governments are just not listening.
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WHO calls for clinical trial of Madagascar’s virus cure
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08-05-2020
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UN health agency says it is ready to collaborate with Madagascar
Matshidiso Moeti, WHO’s regional director for Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday called for clinical trials of Madagascar’s Covid Organics, a herbal drink that is said to prevent and cure patients suffering from the novel coronavirus or COVID-19.
“We are advising the government of Madagascar to take this product through a clinical trial and we are prepared to collaborate with them,” Matshidiso Moeti, WHO’s regional director for Africa, told a joint media briefing with the WHO and World Economic Forum.
“We would caution and advise countries against adopting a product that has not been through clinical tests for safety and efficacy,” Moeti said.
“We are concerned about the impact that COVID-19 will have on the ability of African countries to progress towards Universal health coverage,” she added.
There are over 51,000 confirmed virus cases in the African continent, with more than 17,000 associated recoveries and 1,900 deaths, according to the WHO.
“We know that to stop the spread of this virus, key public health measures need to be in place in every community… even where cases have not been reported, readiness capacities should be prepositioned,” the WHO official said.
She added that WHO was “working with countries to leverage the assets they have in place already, built in preparedness for Ebola and HIV, TB and polio program among others, as well as to scale-up coordination, mobilize people and repair supply chains globally and locally.”
“It’s not a matter of simply today we have lockdowns and tomorrow everything is opened up. It has to be gradual with the most essential parts of the economy being opened up first,” Moeti said.
Several African countries have lifted the partial lockdown imposed to stem the spread of the virus, but the ban on gatherings is still in place.
While educational facilities remain closed in most African countries, businesses have been allowed to operate conditionally.
African governments say there is need to resume economic activities with imperative to contain the virus.
Moeti said they have guidelines from WHO on “progressively releasing these measures.”
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424 new COVID-19 cases in SA as total passes 8,000
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08-05-2020
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Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize
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There was another big jump in the number of Covid-19 cases in SA, as confirmed cases passed 8,000.
Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Thursday that there were 424 new cases of the respiratory illness, taking the national total to 8,232.
There were also eight more deaths reported, taking the national toll to 161. Six of the new deaths were in the Western Cape and two in KwaZulu-Natal.
On Wednesday, Mkhize said that the death toll was at 152 and that there were 7,808 confirmed cases countrywide.
The provincial breakdown of cases on Thursday was provided as:
Western Cape – 3,994;
Gauteng – 1,804;
KZN – 1,204;
Eastern Cape – 929;
Free State – 134;
Mpumalanga – 59;
Limpopo – 41;
North West 40- ; and
Northern Cape – 27.
Mkhize was speaking at a briefing on Thursday night where Ithuba Holdings was handing over 100,000 reusable face masks. Police officers were among those receiving the masks, which are emblazoned with the SAPS logo and the word “police”.
At the briefing, police minister Bheki Cele said that 205 members of SAPS had contracted Covid-19.
“174 of them are from the Western Cape, and the rest from the rest of the country. We are not immune to the challenges that are there,” he said.
Cele added that the donation of the masks “helps a lot”.
“I go to a lot of roadblocks. Sometimes these [masks] become wet because members are sweating there, working. Say people [being stopped] say, ‘Don’t come too close to me’ and all that.
“About two days ago, police wanted to arrest someone. They told him to go to the van but he refused. They [police] had to push him to the van and he said that was going to charge the police for breaking social distancing rules,” he said, in a lighthearted moment.
Covid-19 has infected 511 health workers and two have died, says Zweli Mkhize
Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday that 511 health workers had tested positive for Covid-19
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Covid-19 infection rate up to one in 1,000 in two areas of Cape Town
One person in every 1,000 has now been confirmed with Covid-19 in two of Cape Town’s eight health subdistricts.
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