City of Johannesburg managed to recoup about R10m on Wednesday alone from residents, government departments and businesses who are defaulting on their electricity accounts.
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Siyanda Ndlovu So far, the department has reported that a total of 2703 markers, out of 46,024, have withdrawn from the 181 marking centres. Picture: iStock
This was revealed on Monday by the Department of Basic Department’s director-general, Mathanzima Mweli, during an update on the progress made in marking centres across the country.
Mweli has visited six provinces where he has been monitoring marking in 181 centres across the country.
The one person who passed away was based at the Estcourt marking centre in KwaZulu-Natal.
“About three markers from that centre have already tested positive but the province is already doing mandatory testing of all markers at Estcourt.”
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Lindsay Kolysko, nurse educator in emergency room, right, administers one of the first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Cynthia Tanksley, patient associate specialist in emergency room, at Albany Medical Center on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 in Albany, N.Y. The hospital staff started vaccinating their health care workers on the first day the vaccine was administered in the United States. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union
ALBANY The problem of vaccine hesitancy among communities of color across the nation is a threat that has hobbled past responses to health crises as mundane yet deadly as the annual flu, and presents a far more grave risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has done disproportionate damage to Black and Latino Americans.