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Landlords strangled by Covid-19 lockdown regulations on evictions Cape Town - Landlords are struggling at every turn. And extended lockdown regulations that prevent them from being able to evict long-term non-paying tenants, is adding to their burden. Now the DA is calling on the government to amend Regulation 73(2) that empowers a court to stay all eviction proceedings for the duration of the national state of disaster, which at present is an indefinite period. Andrew Schaefer, managing director of property management group Trafalgar, says long delays in being able to action any eviction ord...

Dr Imtiaz Sooliman chairman and founder of Gift of The Givers. Picture: Moeletsi Mabe A year of Covid-19 in SA: Many lessons were learnt amid the carnage, says Gift of the Givers founder By Opinion Imtiaz Sooliman March 5 marks the anniversary of the first Covid-19 case diagnosed in Hilton, South Africa. What followed was nothing short of carnage as 42 variants wreaked havoc through two waves, the second one infinitely more devastating than the first: countless souls departed, anxiety, fear, emotional and mental Ill health at an all time high especially among first responders, job losses in t...

It's been exactly one year since the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in SA 5 March 2021 8:32 AM South Africa recorded its first coronavirus case on this day one year ago. On 5 March 2020, South African authorities confirmed that a 38-year-old man from KwaZulu-Natal tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after returning from a trip to Italy. The patient and his close contacts were placed in isolation and monitored by health officials. Very little was known about the virus back then. A week later, officials announced the first quarantine site for South Africans returning from abroad: The Ranch...

Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi NATIONAL NEWS - The Department of Home Affairs will from Thursday, once again, offer several services that were temporarily suspended in January 2021, Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has announced.  This comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa this week moved the country to Lockdown Level 1 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing media on Wednesday, Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, said it was for this reason that the department decided to re-institute more services from Thursday. The citizenship service, ...

Monday 1 March 2021 - 7:30am #DStv403 #eNCA The curfew will now be from midnight to 4am. The Restaurant Association of South Africa is thanking government for relaxing lockdown measures. The curfew will now be from midnight to 4am. #DStv403​ #eNCA​. Restaurants and bars have been some of the biggest casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic. "One must remember, it doesn't begin and with restaurants and the number of staff, the entire value chain opens and the opportunity to bring so many people back to work, suddenly becomes a reality," says Wendy Alberts, from Rest...