Garden route
The Garden Route school & its teachers going the extra mile to feed its learners
”With the food I get from school I manage to eat during the day”
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Soldiers deployed to Garden Route beaches to enforce lockdown rules
The Garden Route was one of the Western Cape's first hotspot areas to be placed under lockdown restrictions during the second wave of the pandemic.
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Great Brak Business Forum won't appeal court ruling on beach closures
The forum and AfriForum had approached the court after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that all beaches in the Eastern Cape and the Garden Route would be closed from 16 December to 3 January after the areas were declared as coronavirus hot spots.
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AfriForum: Beach closures will hit businesses in affected towns
AfriForum said that while its court bid did not succeed, it felt it was important to highlight the catastrophic effects the closure of beaches would have on businesses, many of which were banking on festive season tourism income.
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DA loses court bid to have Garden Route beaches reopened
The DA took the matter to court on Monday, arguing that government's decision to close the beaches during the festive season would have devastating consequences for the tourism sector.
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COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations in CT exceeding first wave - WC Health Dept
The provincial department said that it was seeing an increase well above levels seen in June.
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AfriForum tells court govt's COVID-19 beach ban in Garden Route irrational
They've argued that it's impossible to prove there's any link between the restrictions and preventing the spread of COVID-19.
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Decision to close Garden Route beaches is justifiable, govt tells court
On Monday, judgment was reserved in the Western Cape High Court on a similar bid brought by the DA.
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DA hopes for positive outcome in beach ban case
The DA argues the negative effects to the economy caused by closing beaches will be far greater than the positive effects on the pandemic.
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Courts hear challenges to govt's decision to close beaches in Garden Route, EC
In separate cases, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has approached the courts to order that the Garden Route's beaches be reopened, while the Kouga Municipality submitted an urgent application to the Eastern Cape High Court.
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No scientific evidence to back closing of beaches, says DA’s Steenhuisen
Winde said he's written to President Cyril Ramaphosa requesting he reconsider the move.
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New COVID cases turns WC into province with highest infection rate
“We now have more than 50 people per day who have passed away over the last five days.”
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DA files court papers against Garden Route beach closures
Beaches in the region have been closed until 3 January 2021.
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DA threatens Ramaphosa with legal action over beach closures
It has written to Cyril Ramaphosa and his cooperative governance minister asking they justify why beaches along the Garden Route should be shut this festive season.
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Will soldiers be deployed to Garden Route?
With the COVID-19 infection rate surging in the hotspot, the Disaster Management Centre said the district urgently needed more hands on deck.
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Garden Route is now an official Covid-19 hotspot. Here are all affected towns
Here's a list of towns that form part of the Garden Route District in the Western Cape, which has now been declared a Covid-19 hotspot.
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Garden Route showing early signs of levelling out of COVID-19 cases - Cloete
The Western Cape's Head of Health, Dr Keith Cloete, said that cases in the Cape Metro remained on the increase and said that there were similar signs in the Cape Winelands.
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Mkhize visits COVID-19 hotspot Garden Route to relay findings to national govt
The Health Minister is visiting the Garden Route in the Western Cape and will relay his findings to national structures.
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It's official: WC dealing with COVID-19 resurgence
The provincial health department said this is when weekly new cases rise by 20% and it's what some countries may call a second wave.
