SADC loses 10 ministers in two weeks
Deputy Editor
In a space of two weeks, the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) has lost ten ministers to Covid-19, a tragic signal to regional leaders that a coordinated regional response to the pandemic is now urgent.
Across the region, thousands have died from Covid-19 since the outbreak reached SADC in February 2020.
If ever there was any complacency when the disease first reached these shores, the second wave has awakened citizens and their leaders to the reality of the devastating nature of the virus.
The grim regional statistics as of January 26, 2021, points to a serious need for a collective regional response to prevent the spread of the virus and reduce the daily human carnage.
Senior cop in hot water for failing to arrest unmasked premier at Jackson Mthembuâs funeral
By Baldwin Ndaba
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Johannesburg - Police Minister Bheki Cele wants action to be taken against a senior Mpumalanga officer who allegedly failed to arrest Premier Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane on the spot for not wearing mask at the funeral of former minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu on Sunday.
While Cele insists on demanding a report about the officerâs alleged failure to execute an arrest on the Premier - he said the Mpumalanga Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Mondli Zuma acted within the prescribed law under the adjusted lockdown level 3 to arrest Premier Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane on Monday - a day after the transgression was committed in full view of the nation who watched the proceedings on national TV stations.
Journalist Thursday, 28 January 2021, 08:14 From left are Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa; ANC member of the George Council Langa Langa; and Jackson Mthembu. The photo was taken a few years ago in George. Both Molewa and Mthembu have since passed away. Video
GEORGE NEWS & VIDEO - Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu, who passed away on 21 January due to Covid-19 complications, was his role model in leadership style. This is how Langa Langa, ANC member of the George Municipal Council and also the district secretary of the SACP, describes Mthembu.
Langa met Mthembu on a few occasions when he visited ANC branches as part of his duties as a member of the ANC national working committee.
Cele: Mtsweni-Tsipane has criminal record for not wearing mask Updated
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Police Minister Bheki Cele says Mpumalanga Premier Refilwe
Mtsweni-Tsipane has a criminal record for failing to wear a face mask in
public.
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Mtsweni-Tsipane is in hot water after she was seen on
national TV not wearing her mask at the funeral of Minister in the Presidency
Jackson Mthembu on Sunday.
She later paid the R1500 fine at a local police station and
signed an admission of guilt statement.
Speaking on SABC’s Morning Live, Cele said officials who
were at the funeral should have acted against Mtsweni-Tsipane.
Number of political elites dying of coronavirus growing with every passing day across Southern African region Jeffrey Moyo | 27.01.2021
HARARE, Zimbabwe
It never rains, but pours for Zimbabwe’s governing politicians who are falling prey to COVID-19 one after another. Leaders across parts of Southern Africa are struggling against the pandemic as the deadly virus keeps claiming the lives of political elites.
In July last year, Perence Shiri, Zimbabwe’s agriculture minister, died of COVID-19.
On Jan. 15, Ellen Gwaradzimba, Zimbabwe’s minister for provincial affairs for Manicaland Province, succumbed to coronavirus and was followed in the same week by Morton Malianga, the country’s deputy finance minister in the 1980s.