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Health Minister Zweli Mkhize got a first glimpse into two new temporary health facilities set up in Cape Town.The facilities in Khayelitsha and Brackenfell will provide an extra 360 beds together in the fight against Covid-19.Mkhize was encouraged that the facilities were prepared before the "surge" in cases."The speed is incredible! And the technology!"This was…

Licensed liquor venues across the country opened their doors at 09:00 on Monday, for the first time in two months to allow excited South Africans to stock up.One excited shopper was outside Ultra Liquor warehouse in Bramley, Johannesburg at 06:00 to try and avoid the queues. Tsakas bottle store in Alexandra said managing physical distancing was one…

A small group of parents and residents protested the decision to reopen schools outside a Cape Town school on Monday.Parents expressed their concerns over the coming "peak" in Covid-19 infections.A memorandum was handed over to the school to be given to the provincial department of education.About 30 parents and Bishop Lavis residents picketed outside the…

For one Cape Town school on the Cape Flats, this is what schooling and learning could look like - in freshly painted technicolour - under the Covid-19 lockdown Level 3.LIVE | All the latest coronavirus and lockdown updatesLast week, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) issued a long, exhaustive explanation of steps schools need to…

Local snake catcher Nick Evans has rescued a 2.5m black mamba from the roof of a scrapyard on the North Coast of KwaZulu-Natal.Retrieving the mamba proved quite the challenge even for the seasoned snake catcher.Evans expects to receive many more calls in the coming weeks as black mamba mating season kicks off in winter.Local snake…