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Still no gazette for the latest state of disaster extension announced by Ramaphosa. Looks like lockdown, along with its regulations, is about to expire.
 
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https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/who-is-eastern-cape-health-mec-blames-scooter-apartheid/

Eastern Cape Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba is under an enormous amount of pressure to justify her department’s decision to waste R10 million on a scooter transport service, which has been relegated to a mere medical delivery vehicle. The project – slammed for wasting a massive amount of money on ‘glorified wheelbarrows’ – is now being blamed on apartheid.
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The old trusty "Blame Apartheid" card for our ****ups, always a classic.
 
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Applebag said:
"He joined the migratory labour force to eke out a living in the mining industry. Beginning his mining experience at Western Deep Levels mine in 1975 as a Recreation Officer and, in the same year, moved to Prieska Copper Mines where he was Welfare Officer until 1982."

Do they work inside the mines ?
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No idea, but It is more likely given his experience in the mines that he has been down a mine on a couple of occasions during his career in the mines, don't you think?
 
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TEXTILE GUY said:
Waits with baited breath .............
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Saw a video on Facebook with a bunch of politicians having a moerse jol amid covid.
I’m thinking... you are all over 50 Fat and unhealthy what are you thinking...
Must be Rona taking advantage of arrogance.
The money they stole will cover the bills.
 
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When he announced, back in March, that we would be entering a hard lockdown for a period of three weeks, the terms of the agreement were clear. South Africans would have to make massive sacrifices in shutting down their businesses, giving up their jobs and having to then feed their families with no income. In return, government would use these weeks to ready our hospitals and build our testing programme. They would work around the clock and no expense would be spared.

But three weeks became five weeks, then two months and then three months. By this time the devastation caused by the lockdown was so great that for millions there would be no jobs to return to, and surviving with no income had become permanent. People had sacrificed all they had in order to hold up their end of the social compact. It now turns out they did this for nothing.

President Ramaphosa’s ANC government has nothing to show for all this sacrifice and devastation. The sole purpose of the lockdown was to prepare the country’s healthcare response, and this was not done. From March to July, government’s testing programme has fallen woefully short of meeting any kind of meaningful target, and they have, to date, produced only one field hospital across eight provinces that is ready to receive patients.
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www.news24.com

John Steenhuisen | Citizens honoured the lockdown agreement, govt did not | News24

President Cyril Ramaphosa has broken a social compact with the citizens of the country, writes <strong>John Steenhuisen</strong>.
www.news24.com www.news24.com
 
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