Food parcels packaged at a food storage facility in Springs, Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg on 21 May 2020. Ekurhuleni Mayor Mzwandile Masina says 18,000 food parcels have been distributed throughout the metro so far. #covid19 #MzwandileMasina #foodparcel
Colleagues and friends paid their respects to Dr Clarence Mini, chairperson of the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), who died after fighting the coronavirus for weeks. He will be laid to rest on Sunday 17 May 2020. Visuals courtesy of the Council for Medical Schemes.
Lesotho’s Finance Minister Moeketsi Majoro has been nominated to become the next prime minister when Tom Thabane retires. The initial four-party coalition government that came into power following the 2017 elections - led by the now embattled Thabane - collapsed in the National Assembly on Monday. The All Basotho Convention has now agreed to form a new coalition with the opposition Democratic Congress. #tomThabane #MoeketsiMajoro #Lesotho
The government of Lesotho has passed a constitutional amendment that makes provision for a prime minister to resign before the end of a five-year term. The amendment also strips the prime minister of powers to unilaterally dissolve parliament and call for elections when he loses a vote of no confidence. EWN reporter Nthakoana Ngatane brings you the latest.
Senior citizens queuing for their monthly social grants at a South African Post Office in Vosloorus have called for government intervention to cut down the waiting time for payments on collection day. Some of the elderly waited for more than five hours to collect their grants.
Angry residents of Booysens informal settlement barricaded Eloff Street in the Joburg CBD with burning tyres and rocks for a second day on Wednesday morning. Under a heavy police presence, roads were cleared for motorists. An hour later, acting Gauteng MEC for Social Development Panyaza Lesufi arrived and calmed the situation by handing out food parcels. The informal settlement is home to about 3,000 people.
Residents of Booysens informal settlement in Eloff Street, Johannesburg, protested on 28 April 2020, claiming they had not received food parcels since the lockdown began.
WARNING: VIDEO NOT FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS: Gauteng law enforcement officers led a COVID-19 lockdown joint operation in Soweto to enforce regulations and compliance. During the operations, expired meat products were found at a butchery near Bara taxi rank. The owner was arrested and the business closed.
City of Johannesburg Major Geoffery Makhubo launched the Hlapa Matsoho hand-washing campaign at the Mangolongolo informal settlement, Ward 65, on 22 April 2020 to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the city. The campaign is aimed at educating communities and residents of Johannesburg, specifically in informal and depressed communities, about the importance of washing hands with soap.
A metro police officer and security guard were on Monday arrested for the killing a 40-year-old man and for shooting at four children during the third day of the 21-day coronavirus lockdown. The Vosloorus victim's family says justice must be served, and the person who pulled the trigger has to be locked up for what he did.
Speaking at the Black Business Council Summit at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema says that just like renovating a house, there will always be problems, but, eventually, you'll get your house in order.
The protest, organised by Sasco together with EFFSC and the Wits student representative council (SRC), demanded that the first payment of NSFAS allowances be processed. Most classes were disrupted by protesting students.
Interim DA leader John Steenhuisen said it was unfortunate that people's private lives were aired out in Parliament and that both sides of parliament were to blame. Steenhuisen was addressing members of the media at the party's Nkululeko House in Johannesburg on 23 February 2020.
Former South African Airways board chair Dudu Myeni on Thursday denied that during her tenure at the airline, she would frequently give instructions to the entity's executives and the board.
President Cyril Ramaphosa and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had a private conversation on 6 February 2020 ahead of the official talks between the two leaders at the Union Buildings in Tshwane.
There’s fear and anxiety across the globe as the coronavirus spreads, with 4,500 cases already confirmed, most of them from China. The virus has so far claimed the lives of more than a hundred people. #Coronavirus #SouthAfrica #MinisterOfHealth
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi visited the home of 15-year-old Laticia Jansen, who was found murdered in Germiston last week. The Graceland Education Centre pupil was raped, stabbed and set alight after reportedly being left behind by scholar transport.
EFF leader Julius Malema visited the family of Parktown Boys' High School pupil, Enock Mpianzi, who died last week at a school camp in the North West. Malema said the school and the resort should account for the incident and added that EFF would assist with legal costs and arrangements for the funeral.
