Coronavirus: Nurse and her mom reportedly test positive for Covid-19
By: illovuonline news team
01-05-2020
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There are reportedly cases of the coronavirus in Nigeria in an area that had been without an incident of the virus –
According to a source, the cases involve a nurse who works at a private hospital and her mother – After confirming the situation, the Lagos task force on Covid-19 reinforced the need to be conscious of the virus and follow strict guidelines.
Imokun, Epe local government are of Lagos state has reported gotten its first coronavirus cases after an unnamed nurse and her mother allegedly tested positive for Covid-19.
Nigerian Tribune reports that the nurse works at a private hospital. She and her mother’s test results became known on Sunday, 26 April. It should be noted that prior to the latest development, the town was one of the three governments in the state that were yet to record any case of the virus.
The source close to the media did name the people who were infected by the virus in the local government. Source: UGC It was said that the team of the Lagos state task force on Covid-19 were at the palace of the Oloja of Epe, Oba Kamorudeen Animashaun on Sunday, 26 April, to confirm the report.
“The team went to the building in Imokun for contact tracing and they subjected all residents in the building to Covid-19 test.” “They all tested negative but the nurse and her mother were positive. So they took both of them from Imokun to Lagos for further treatment.
They have been at the Lagos isolation centre since Sunday,” the source of the newspaper said. In confirming the cases on his Facebook page on Wednesday, 29 April, the secretary to the local government, Tunde Subair, stressed the seriousness of the virus. “Covid-19 is real and community/person-person transmission is ongoing. Let’s keep to the rules and directives given out by the government – social distancing, staying home, cough/respiratory etiquette, use of face masks when outside the household.
Epe Local Government now has two confirmed cases of Covid-19,” he said.
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DJ Tira vs Maphorisa: Mzansi weighs in on who they think won
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01-05-2020
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DJs Tira and Maphorisa are two of South Africa’s finest DJs at the moment – They went hit-for-hit in a heated online DJ battle on Wednesday night –
Mzansi is still divided over who won the battle. Tira played classics while Phori played new tunes.
DJs Tira and Maphorisa are two of mzansi’s finest DJs the country has got to offer currently. They both represent two genres, Gqom and Amapiano, which have been on high rotation in Mzansi in the past few months.
The two legends went hit-for-hit in a heated online DJ battle on Wednesday night. Tira played some old school tunes while Phori belted out new tunes during the epic battle. Phori even dropped an exclusive track – featuring Burnaboy, Wizkid, Cassper Nyovest and Kabza De Small – during his set.
The humdinger, hosted by DJ Zinhle, was the latest instalment of the Castle Lite Unlocks In Bed With series aimed at raising funds for the government’s Covid-19 relief efforts.
Mzansi is still not sure who won the battle. Peeps have been divided over the two’s mixing styles and track selection since the battle on Wednesday night. The DJs’ fans have weighed in on the battle and have shared their views on social media.
@ansleyENZ commented: “Classics, Tira won.
New School, Porry won. But otherwise, music won. The battle was great.”
@Mvuyisi_ wrote: “Yerrr @DjMaphorisa came through with his exclusive and crashed everything.”
@joy_zelda wrote: “RT if you agree he is the best.” Mzansi hip-hop
DJ Juniour de Rocka commented: “Watching #CastleLiteUnlocks and I just remembered what an amazing music catalogue we have as a country S/O to @DJTira and @DjMaphorisa. That was mad inspiring.”
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Former Miss SA Bokang thrilled at first ever acting role on ‘Gomora’
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01-05-2020
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Former Miss South Africa Bokang Montjane is thrilled at having participated in her first ever acting experience –
The beauty graced the set of Gomora for a bit part recently – It sounds like Bokang might continue to pursue more acting roles, judging from how much fun she had.
Former Miss South Africa Bokang Montjane had the time of her life on the Gomora set recently. The star said she’s grateful to the crew and cast for the amazing time she had.
Bokang hinted that she might have been bitten by the acting bug when she posted a clip of herself on set for her followers.
She said, “I thoroughly enjoyed myself and all I can say is something was ignited in me. I just want to say kea leboga (thank you). To the entire cast, wow, South Africa is not ready for all of you and this production. I wish you all the best. May you all soar like eagles, fun was had, memories were made, I had my five seconds of fame.” Fans couldn’t wait to see the stunner grace screens and were hoping her cameo would last even longer.
Check out a few comments below: smanga__ “Yes Queen. When are they showing you?”
sebza_creations “I thought ke go bone (I saw you) but brushed it off” lekgaunamedi “I thought I’ll see more of you kganthe (but) it was just 5 seconds.
Gomora!!” Last week, illovuonline news reported that the popular soapie has been taken off screens due to running out of pre-lockdown recorded episodes. illovuonline news also reported how Gomora fans are living for the character Zodwa, who is Teddy’s mother. She became a fan fave and viewers just couldn’t get enough of her.
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‘The River’ wins big at the SAFTAs as Somizi’s show grabs one too
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01-05-2020
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Popular Mzansi Magic drama The River scooped 10 different awards at the recent South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs) – The awards won The River included Best Actress – Telenovola and Best Supporting Actress – Telenovela –
The awards were held online and hosted by none other than Dineo Ranaka.
The River was the night’s big winner during the recently held SAFTAs. The prestigious awards were held online and hosted by the vivacious Dineo Ranaka. Mzansi Magic’s The River walked away with 10 awards including Sindi Dlathu getting Best Actress – Telenovela and Mary-Anne Barlow winning Best Supporting Actress – Telenovela.
Somizi Mhlongo’s reality TV show, Living The Dream With Somizi, won best docu-reality show. Last year,the show was in it’s fourth season and fans were loving it.
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Tito Mboweni supports local business, buys masks: “You look cute”
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01-05-2020
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Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni took to social media and donned a stylish face mask – Mboweni revealed he purchased the red masks from a woman in Burghersdorp village in Tzaneen –
The minister only paid R20 per mask and social media users weighed in on the matter.
Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni is setting the tone and supporting local business at a time when it is needed most. Mboweni took to social media to showcase his latest fashion and safety accessory – a red face mask.
He tweeted a photo and included the following caption: “Today I bought myself and my crew this type of masks from Burghersdorp village, Tzaneen. Made by Mrs Malatji. R20 each. Just following Orders!”
illovuonline news team noted that the tweet garnered a huge reaction, attracting nearly 6 000 likes in the process. Some comical reactions were shared, but most tweeps admired the minister for his noble gesture.
Erence_Makwela (@Prof_Erence) said, “Tito is living a simple live, he doesn’t stay in a mention with Italian curtains and furniture and y’all make fun of it. If he was living in a house top notch like Manana you would say he is living above him means and accusing him or stealing state money.Le batlang mara?”
Dr Mike Mikia Ramothwala (@MikeRamothwala) added, “Buying local Flag of South Africa to increase the local demand to grow the local economy as directed by Minister Patel SALUTE leadership.”
Haps&Haps (@Dihapeng333) responded, “You are supporting local that’s wonderful. Setting an example. .you look cute Minister red loves you. …goes well with yr Masai style. …stay safe.”
Mboweni also shared a photo of himself wearing an outfit given to him by a Maasai warrior. The post started trending, as South Africans saw the funny side.
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The need is massive,’ say donors as 3km Centurion food queue shocks SA
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01-05-2020
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Residents of Mooiplaas informal settlement outside Centurion gathered to collect food hampers. UK politician Peter Hain commented that the queue was ‘outside the richest city in the richest country in Africa’.
Residents of Mooiplaas and Spruit informal settlements in Centurion, north of Johannesburg, came out in numbers to collect food hampers on Wednesday, forming a queue 3km long.
While 8,000 food hampers were handed out, this is just a drop in the ocean, said social activist Yusuf Abramjee.
“The need for food is massive. More than 80% of this community are foreigners and they have not received any help from government. We are happy we made a small difference,” he said.
The initiative was made possible by the Tshwane Muslim Community and the Sutherland Ridge, Ikon Park and Westhills business communities.
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Nearly 1,000 schools vandalised since start of lockdown, food stolen
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01-05-2020
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Basic education minister Angie Motshekga has expressed deep concern that 962 schools had been vandalised since the start of the lockdown.
“In almost all the incidents, administration blocks and laboratories have been targeted, and ICT equipment has been stolen,” Motshekga said at a media briefing on Thursday.
She said provinces also reported that food, meant for the school nutrition programme, had been stolen.
“The Umlazi District in KwaZulu-Natal is the hardest hit, with 41 schools affected. This is shocking and disturbing,” Motshekga said.
Motshekga welcomed the work done by the police in arresting the suspects, some of whom were found in possession of the items believed to have been stolen from the schools.
“The barbaric acts of vandalism, must be condemned by all of us.
“We cannot afford a situation where the education of our children is further compromised by criminals, over and above what the coronavirus has brought upon us.”
Motshekga also appealed to the public to work with the police, to ensure that the culprits responsible for the incidents of vandalism, theft and burglaries of schools were apprehended, convicted and jailed for long periods.
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01-05-2020
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Sophie Ndaba as head nurse Palesa in prison drama Lockdown.
It took Sophie Ndaba going from glamour to grit on screen to get rid of Queen Moroka, a process that led Ndaba to get her groove back.
Ndaba completely disappears into the image of her demented character Palesa in prison drama Lockdown currently airing on Mzansi Magic.
With a deep scar on her face, minimal makeup and no fancy hair, Ndaba’s appearance in the show is spine-chilling – and that is the point.
Her dramatic physical make-under reminds me of my favourite line from the biopic Rocketman in which Reginald Dwight transforms into his stage name Elton John: “You gotta kill the person you were born to be to become the person you want to be.”
In order to evolve into a new era it was vital that Ndaba killed the image of Queen Moroka – the fabulous, off-kilter and dolled-up character that made her showbiz royalty for 28 years.
Ndaba says the many years of being typecast as comic relief and not being offered roles that showcase her acting range were the lowest of her illustrious career. “[My lowest career moment] was not being able to play roles I have wanted to play and not being given a chance to play because everyone saw Queen. Producers and writers could not see me play anything else. It was sad.”
Ndaba not only undergoes a physical transformation playing the deranged head nurse working at a mental institution. But she shows off her dramatic acting chops and the result has been emotionally poignant for viewers and naysayers who have praised her performance.
“Queen was ‘darling this and that’. Palesa is on another level and she has history,” she says. “Palesa represents a lot of broken women in SA. It’s an authentic role – a role worth playing. Most women are scarred inside and for Palesa she has both the inside and outside scars. The scar on her face makes her very uncomfortable, vulnerable and less confident.
One unforgettable scene is in episode 2 when she looks at herself in the mirror – removing her wig and makeup – as she wails in shame.
“It took me time and I literally requested the floor crew to give me a moment in silence.
“I had to find her pain; the director allowed that moment and after I dug deep she came out.”
Ndaba knows pain well, especially in the past two years as she has been a victim of social media bullying.
She endured public humiliation after her sudden weight loss as a result of type 2 diabetes. But being the formidable figure that she is, Ndaba has emerged stronger than ever.
“Oh gosh, talking about cyber bullying is not nice and it will never be because these are my fellow South African sisters and brothers out there,” Ndaba says.
“It really broke my heart when they didn’t understand what I was going through. I was dealing with so many things ranging from acceptance, stress and depression.
“Then we added SA to my list of attackers. Oh Lord, I just couldn’t believe it. What happened to ubuntu nje? Kicking a horse when it’s down and you’re supposed to be a sister or brother.
“Being in the public eye is one thing. People thinking they own you enough to say whatever and get away with it – it was deep.”
But the support of her family that includes her businessman husband Max Lichaba got her through it.
“I have a family to fight for. My kids are amazing. They took care of me in my lowest moments – prayed and fasted for me.
“My young step kids, the hugs and love they give to me it’s heavenly. I’m blessed to be called mom by 12 kids.
“Motherhood is worth every hour and minute. During Covid-19 at home I have bonded more with them.”
In November, Ndaba and Lichaba celebrated their second wedding anniversary.
“Married life is hectic. It’s a project that one must never be too comfortable with and forget to work on it each day.
“As a career-driven couple with kids you have your family and yourselves to think of. But it’s a blessing never to be taken for granted. I love marriage. I’m working on it as best as I can.”
Ndaba’s first taste of fame came as a young model from Soweto in TV show Class of ’92. Before long she was cast in Generations and went on to score other acting gigs. “. I remembered how in our Soweto family home I was a pregnant teenager and asked my late mother Joyce to trust me with her pension money – and that I would multiply it and be their breadwinner. It was amazing that she took in my daughter. I knocked on agencies doors and I made her proud.”
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No contact teaching at universities — but department launches ambitious online plan
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01-05-2020
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Higher education minister Blade Nzimande.
The president’s national command council on Covid-19 has opted not to resume contact learning for the 2020 higher education academic year during level 4 of the lockdown.
The higher education and training department will, instead, embark on an ambitious plan to distribute learning devices and facilitate partnerships with data service providers to provide for some semblance of online learning.
The only exception will be students in their final year of clinical training — medical students in the main — who can learn under strict conditions so that they can plug into government’s fight against Covid-19.
Minister Blade Nzimande said that regular campus activity posed a risk to the health of students.
“The risks of a return to normal campus-based activity for thousands of students and staff are simply too great and cannot function successfully outside of the national context of a general lockdown. Universities and Technical Vocational Education & Training (TVET) colleges do not operate in a vacuum, but in a historically specific context,” Nzimande said.
“Against this background and with the endorsement by the national command council, we have decided that the current period, from May 1 until SA transitions into a lower Covid-19 risk phase, must be used to put a number of critical interventions in place across the PSET [post-school education and training] system.
“This includes, developing and implementing effective multimodal remote learning systems (digital, analogue and physical delivery of learning materials) to provide a reasonable level of academic support to all our students at all institutions to resume academic learning and teaching support.
“As we are in an unprecedented emergency, we have to use all available tools to reach our students, fully cognisant that it will not substitute the need for contact learning when conditions permit. This we will do making sure that no student or institution is left behind.”
Nsfas students — about 730,000 in total — will all be provided with laptops, but government is still without a plan for those who are yet to be allocated funding or form part of the “missing middle”. This refers to a bracket of students who, according to a means test, are too wealthy for NSFAS but whose families do not earn enough to secure bank loans.
Nzimande said he has begun looking into partnerships with banks to provide loans for those students at the beginning of the academic year. He said the engagements were ongoing. In the interim he recommended students look for loans from banks and said the department would also go and “beg from good Samaritans”.
The minister also conceded that it would be difficult to find a supplier that could supply hundreds of thousands of laptops in one go, meaning that they would have to be distributed in phases.
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On the matter of connectivity, the department would work with network providers to provide data to students. It would also be assisted by the Centre for Industrial and Scientific Research to map out network stability in different districts.
“The department, assisted by the CSIR, is working on developing a geospatial model to map the levels and quality of connectivity, bandwidth and distribution of learning and co-learning centres in various districts throughout SA, including municipal and other private facilities that might be used by students during this period.
“In addition, CSIR is modelling the ‘carrying capacity’ of our universities and Technical Vocational Education & Training (TVET) colleges in the scenario where it would be safe to return certain groups of students, and within the national command council Covid-19 regulatory parameters. I have indeed mobilised both my departments to support these efforts.”
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