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The South African economy looks set to emerge from the coronavirus crisis with up to 1.8 million fewer jobs – as thousands of businesses are not expected to survive the turmoil.
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State attorney Arista Wasserman has written to Judge President Dunstan Mlambo of Gauteng to request that the initial hearing in the challenge against the ban being brought by the Fair Trade Tobacco Association be postponed, in light of the pressures facing Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, including the national state of disaster
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The novel coronavirus killed another 1 081 people in the United States in the 24 hours leading up to 20:30 (00:30 GMT) on Tuesday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
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Sadtu, Cosatu vow to lay criminal charges should staff, pupils get infected at schools
Sadtu and Cosatu say they "reject the notion of a Republic of the Western Cape" after schooling resumed in the province while those in the rest of the country remain shut.
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FIRST TAKE: Court judgment shows why government should always be challenged
This government must always be checked and kept honest, writes Pieter du Toit.
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Rural Eastern Cape school beats the odds to get ready for Covid-19 despite limited resources
A well-managed rural Eastern Cape boarding school, which continuously produces top matric achievers despite limited resources, continues to punch above its weight.
This time, Nyanga High School in Ngcobo is putting up a brave fight against the Covid-19 pandemic by ensuring all its 209 Grade 12 pupils have personal protective equipment and are in class learning.
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Delay the reopening of schools and focus on building marginalised communities, says education expert
While some education experts agree challenges facing the country's schooling system disadvantages some pupils more than others, they are at odds on whether to reopen schools or not.
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INFOGRAPHICS | Western Cape Covid-19 outbreak three weeks ahead of SA
Covid-19 has hit the Western Cape harder, and faster, than any other part of the country. Is it providing us with a snapshot of what is to come elsewhere, or will it be our New York, a tragic exception?
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'We will have to live with this Covid-19': Experts weigh in on SA's post-virus economy
While it is widely accepted that the world economy will be remarkably different post-coronavirus, it is just as important to manage the South African economy within the context of facing the challenge of the pandemic which could possibly last for the next two years, according to Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago.
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Rural Eastern Cape school beats the odds to get ready for Covid-19 despite limited resources
Nyanga High School in Ngcobo is putting up a brave fight against the Covid-19 pandemic by ensuring all its 209 Grade 12 pupils have personal protective equipment (PPE) and are in class learning.
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Coronavirus fact check: Does the 'recycled' air on planes really put you at a high risk of infection?
Airlines are preparing to take to the sky again as South Africa eases its national coronavirus lockdown to allow for domestic business travel. Here's what you need to know about air travel in the time of Covid-19:
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Coronavirus morning update: Judge rules lockdown regulations invalid, and latest on testing in CT
Your latest coronavirus news: A judge has declared lockdown Levels 4 and 3 unconstitutional and invalid; and testing in Cape Town - those most at risk to be prioritised.
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Here are the top stories of the day
A court has declared the Level 3 and Level 4 lockdown regulations to be unconstitutional and invalid, and has given the government 14 days to formulate changes. A scathing judgment said the regulations do not show how they will slow down the spread of Covid-19.
The SA Human Rights Commission has threatened Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and the MEC for Education in the Western Cape, Debbie Schäfer, with legal action over the way the reopening of schools has been handled. The SAHRC has asked Motshekga to provide alternative arrangements for schools that are struggling to comply with new regulations. Schäfer, meanwhile, has to account for why her province opened schools when the rest of the country decided to hold off for a week.
In more back to school drama, a consignment of personal protective equipment appears to have been stolen from Umlazi, Pinetown and Zululand in KwaZulu-Natal. The equipment appears to have disappeared en route to circuit offices and schools.
The battle to get tobacco legalised again continues to rage on. Now, tobacco giant British American Tobacco has argued in court that the emotional well-being of smokers is being harmed during the government’s tobacco ban.
Sport24 has reported on the Premier Soccer League’s new protocols for continuing the game under Covid-19. These include players and staff undergoing testing before training, teams having to put in place physical distancing measures and teams must have daily screenings and temperature checks.
As the economy begins to get on its feet and air travel gets slowly introduced, airline FlySafair is allowing customers concerned about Covid-19 to block the seat next to theirs to prevent anyone from sitting next to them.
And finally, a strip club in Port Elizabeth is advertising a “strip-through”, where a person can get a show without leaving their car. Candy’s Revue Bar is also offering alcohol to be brought to customers’ cars.
International headlines
The global economy is facing "staggeringly large" losses and the recovery effort is hampered by a shortage of resources to make up for the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank says.
Equatorial Guinea has told a WHO representative based in the country to leave, accusing her of "falsifying" the country's tally of coronavirus cases, according to the government and the UN health agency.
Zimbabwean security forces on Tuesday cleared Harare's city centre and turned back thousands of commuters and motorists as authorities reinforced restrictions to combat the spread of coronavirus following a spike in new cases.
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02 June 21:08
Equatorial Guinea has told a WHO representative based in the country to leave, accusing her of "falsifying" the country's tally of coronavirus cases, according to the government and the UN health agency.
And, Spain recorded no deaths from the coronavirus for the second day running, the health ministry reported Tuesday, while acknowledging some "discrepancies" in the reported daily figures.
Zimbabwean security forces on Tuesday cleared Harare's city centre and turned back thousands of commuters and motorists as authorities reinforced restrictions to combat the spread of coronavirus following a spike in new cases.
Teachers in the West African state of Mali went on strike on Tuesday, the first day schools reopened after being closed for two months, over fears of inadequate protection against coronavirus.
02 June 20:22
As many struggle to keep up with distance learning due to Covid-19 crisis, the University of Cape Town (UCT) has offered its students their money back on courses that they formally drop before the end of the week.
The university’s council took a decision to give students a 100% fee rebate on courses that are officially stopped by Friday, 5 June.
While students would still have to complete the dropped courses later to receive their degrees, the fee rebate could help ease the financial pressure of those struggling under the current circumstances.
02 June 19:20
The global economy is facing "staggeringly large" losses and the recovery effort is hampered by a shortage of resources to make up for the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank says.
More than 10 000 people, including some coronavirus patients, were moved to safer locations Tuesday as India's west coast braced for a cyclone, the first such storm to threaten Mumbai in more than 70 years.
Russia plans to spend about $72 billion on a plan to restore the economy following the coronavirus shutdown, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said.
The UK government has defended tweaks to its coronavirus lockdown rules, after claims that a ban on overnight stays between households would criminalise sex.
The Senegalese government has decided, on the eleventh hour, against reopening its high schools after a cluster of coronavirus infections was detected among teachers in the south of the country.
Shopping malls in Dubai will fully reopen for business on Wednesday, in the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions, the emirate's media office announced.
Pictured: A woman in a face mask visits an exhibition titled at the Hermitage-Kazan Centre, a satellite of St Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum in Russia, re-opened with coronavirus lockdown restrictions lifted. (Yegor Aleyev\TASS via Getty Images)
02 June 18:32
A court has declared the Level 3 and Level 4 lockdown regulations to be unconstitutional and invalid.
The High Court in Pretoria ruled today that the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has 14 days to formulate changes to the regulations.
In the meantime, the current lockdown regulations will still apply.
The judgment said the regulations "in a substantial number of instances are not rationally connected to the objectives of slowing the rate of infection or limiting the spread" of Covid-19.
The judgment said the government has not produced any bona fide evidence that its means of enforcing the lockdown are "justifiable", and they can therefore be deemed arbitrary and unlawful.
The lockdown regulations go against rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights, the judgment says.
The application was brought by the Liberty Fighters Network, the Hola Bona Renaissance Foundation and attorney Reyno de Beer.
This is a developing story
02 June 17:16
Capetonians younger than 55 – who also have no serious underlying medical conditions which may make them vulnerable – may no longer be tested for Covid-19.
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While students would still have to complete the dropped courses later to receive their degrees, the fee rebate could help ease the financial pressure of those struggling under the current circumstances.
02 June 16:09
South Africa's largest cigarette manufacturer, British American Tobacco, is set to argue that the emotional well-being of smokers is being harmed by the state's tobacco ban, in its case to have the regulation prohibiting the sale of tobacco products declared unconstitutional.
The applicants hope to secure a court date later this month. Their application is distinct from a separate case being brought by the Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association to have the ban undone.
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Hikers were urged not to walk alone even though social distancing is required, after a body was found on Table Mountain on Monday.
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Starting from Monday, June 15, the airline is flying between Cape Town and Johannesburg (tickets from R1,800), while there are also flights available between Johannesburg and Durban (from R917).
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The post corona societies should rather focus on strengthening democratic processes and should not be an obsession about the role of the state. There is nothing fundamentally wrong about the role of the state as things stand in South Africa.
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