SOUTH AFRICA, Pretoria - The ANC in Tshwane is mourning the untimely death of its ward 30 councillor, Jabulani Nkane Rammushi, who succumbed to Covid-19 on January 9.
Barely 24 hours after announcing that he had been battling with Covid-19 for the past ten days, Nigerian singer Paul Okoye (Rudeboy) announced that he has recovered from the deadly virus.
Surely the waste way to begin a new year, South African music industry is mourning the loss of legendary musician Kori Moraba, who died from covid-19 complications on Saturday, 2 January 2021.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled spending plans of 13 trillion naira ( $34bn; £29bn) for next year to help the economy recover after it was battered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Watch the full speech as South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announces that the nation will move to lockdown level 2 after the outbreak reached it peak and a 41.6 percent drop of daily Covid-19 infections was achieved.Â
South African opposition party United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader Bantu Holomisa has called for cabinet to be dissolved and replaced by a caretaker administration as a measure to curb unbridled government corruption on Covid-19 related funds.
The chairperson of the ministerial advisory committee on Covid-19, Professor Salim S Abdool Karim, says the country needs a few more days before it can decide whether it should ease the lockdown.
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has thrown its weight to support the alcohol ban to be lifted to save hundreds of thousands of workers that depend upon the liquor sector.
South Africa’s main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on all Covid-19 related health contracts to be made public to curb corruption and misappropriation of national funds.
