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Daily Podcast – June 02, 2021
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5 782 new Covid-19 cases as death toll rises by 110
And, Cyril Ramaphosa recognises amaRharhabe kingdom
Zweli Mkhize, who has failed to appear before Public Protector
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 11:37 UTC
Parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Freestate woke up to a winter wonderland on Wednesday morning after snow dusted the peaks of the Drakensberg mountains and some foothills as well as Harrismith and the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
Snow seekers are already planning their weekend and berg resorts are expecting demand for accommodation bookings to rise as families seek to take their children to view the snow capped mountains.
Here are some of the photographs of the snow in the KZN Midlands and Harrismith that are circulating on social media:
Heavy rainfall also pummelled the lower South Coast region leading to localised flooding in Port Shepstone.
African Democratic Change activist Visvin Reddy said they would be embarking on mass protests, starting on Thursday, on Higginson Highway in Mobeni Heights at 3pm
While the Eastern Cape has managed to vaccinate more than 100,000 elderly people in two weeks, an epidemiological report has advised that two districts activate their ‘response phases’.
By the end of Tuesday, 1 June, 637,801 people in South Africa had received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. This is an increase of 72,465 from the previous day.
Meanwhile, thousands of community healthcare workers, community development practitioners and civil society volunteers went to pension payout sites across the country to convince pensioners to register for the vaccine and assist them in doing so.
Volunteers are from the SA Medical Research Council, the Red Cross, Unicef, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, the national Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, and the national Department of Health.