Officials have already administered 16,800 jabs to healthcare workers at the Steve Biko and Baragwanath academic hospitals.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura made the announcement during his State of the Province Address where he also laid out his four priorities for the new financial year which include plans to boost the economy.
David Makhura is on a walkabout at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg to see the process where 40 people are getting the jab on Wednesday.
On the first day of the 2021 academic year, pupils from Abram Hlophe Primary School in Katlehong arrived to a revamped school. Gauteng Premier David Makhura, Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi and other dignitaries handed over the school on 15 February 2021.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura has said the delay in the national immunisation campaign meant that the province would have to adapt its own rollout plan, but added that there would be no disruptions.
The Gauteng provincial command council led by David Makhura on Friday gave an update on the province’s COVID-19 response.
The party’s provincial executive committee held a meeting on Wednesday and sources said that Makhura - who is also the province’s premier - was told to make good on his willingness to appear before the party structure led by elders.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura in a statement said that he was happy that Judge Selewe Mothle corrected an error made in his judgment of a matter relating to the PPE saga at Gauteng Health last month.
All three have been drawn into scandals involving tender processes in the province but Makhura have since been cleared following an erroneous judgment by the Special Tribunals Court.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura has maintained that media stories implicating him in corruption were based on an erroneous judgment by the tribunal.
The ANCYL says the premier must step down until such a time that he's cleared of any wrongdoing related to a PPE procurement scandal.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura addresses the corruption allegations made against him as well as the R431 million school sanitisation project.
The command council led by Premier David Makhura has given an update on the province’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the second wave.
DA Gauteng leader Solly Msimanga and shadow MEC for Community Safety Michael Shackleton will be submitting a letter calling for an urgent investigation into the premier.
A report has revealed that more than R430 million was spent on decontaminating schools between June and August.
Premier David Makhura said the positivity rate in the province had increased dramatically since the first wave and he expected the number of active cases to increase as more people made their way back into the province.
On Monday, David Makhura said the City of Tshwane had now become the epicentre of the virus in Gauteng.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura stressed how the province's health system is beginning to feel the strain of the second wave of COVID-19 infections. Makhura was speaking during a visit to the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria on Monday after images of patients being treated in makeshift tents at the hospital emerged. #COVID19 #GautengHealth #SecondWave
