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Zweli Mkhize has confirmed that the wheels are turning quickly within the National Coronavirus Command Council. As the third wave of COVID-19 approaches, interventions on our lockdown restrictions WILL be needed to address the spread. Things are getting mightily real – with both the NCCC and Cyril Ramaphosa now set to spring into action. Will we get a ‘family meeting’ with Ramaphosa next week? The health minister appeared on SABC earlier this morning, to discuss the resurgence of the virus. Daily cases have hit a three-month high, and Free State is already in official ‘third wave’ t...

Zweli Mkhize has told SABC that the time to implement stricter lockdown restrictions has ‘not arrived yet’ – and stated that President Ramaphosa would be the only person communicating any changes to the current rules. However, the Health Minister also suggested that certain preventative factors may be in place ‘until this time next year’. How dangerous is the Indian variant? His jam-packed interview with the broadcaster sought to play down fears about the so-called ‘Indian variant’ of COVID-19, explaining that the Asian nation cannot be the government’s sole focus when it come...

There is sure to never be another British & Irish Lions series like the 2021 tour to South Africa, thanks to the hurdles Covid-19 has placed in front of it.  The fact that the Springboks will play their first match in 19 months just weeks before they face the British & Lions in the first Test, underlines what a fraught time it has been for rugby, sport in general and the world at large. Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber, who was appointed in early 2020, faced the very real prospect of taking charge of his first Test as head coach against the 2021 Lions. It was a challenge he was willing to ac...

Georgia offer Boks some needed preparation before Lions series © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved There is sure to never be another British & Irish Lions series like the 2021 tour to South Africa, thanks to the hurdles Covid-19 has placed in front of it.  The fact that the Springboks will play their first match in 19 months just weeks before they face the British & Lions in the first Test, underlines what a fraught time it has been for rugby, sport in general and the world at large. Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber, who was appointed in early 2020, faced the very real pro...

The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is expected to begin in Gauteng in around three weeks’ time as all of the province’s districts have seen an increase in infection rates recently, while residents are reducing their adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions. “Even though the case numbers right now seem to some people to be low, they’re actually higher than they were just before we went into the second wave,” said Dr Mary Kawonga from Wits University in a Gauteng Covid-19 Provincial Command Council briefing on Friday. “We have not reached the third wave threshold yet bu...