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TimesLIVE reports that the Department of Basic Education (DBE) has welcomed a Limpopo High Court order dismissing a challenge to the planned opening of schools on 1 June. Source: Latest News
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Some Eastern Cape shop owners refusing prison staff entry over coronavirus fears
TimesLIVE reports that with coronavirus infections and the death toll due to the disease on the increase in prisons, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) says its employees are being ostracised by the community. Source: Latest News
Harmony Gold shares its Covid-19 return to work measures
Mining Weekly reports that Harmony Gold has published a document outlining the measures it has implemented to protect returning employees from contracting or spreading Covid-19. Source: Latest News
New index ranks physical-interaction dimensions of Covid-19 transmission risk across occupations
Mining Weekly reports that a new index has been created to provide an empirical basis for ranking the physical-interaction dimension of the Covid-19 transmission risk for various occupations in SA. Source: Latest News
Bid to get real estate agents back to work
Business Report writes that the estate agency sector has appealed to the government to allow estate agencies to begin operating. Source: Latest News
Mboweni says state should support all viable businesses, irrespective of race, but with a bias towards emerging black business people
Fin24 reports that according to Finance Minister Tito Mboweni, businesses, regardless of race, should receive state support with a “bias towards emerging black business people”, as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to batter SA’s struggling economy. Source: Latest News
Basic education department to present schools’ re-opening plan to NCCC, with details in two weeks
News24 reports that as SA wrestles with the Covid-19 pandemic, more clarity on when schools will be reopened may be available in two weeks. Source: Latest News
Prasa proposes voluntary severance packages as Covid-19 worsens its dire situation
Fin24 reports that voluntary severance packages (VSPs) have been proposed to union members at the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa), as the state-owned entity faces a rapidly deteriorating financial position during the coronavirus pandemic. Source: Latest News
Truck drivers tell of tough times on the road during coronavirus lockdown
TimesLIVE writes that truck drivers who spend hours on the road, dependent on getting hot meals at their rest stops at petrol stations along their routes, have spoken of the horrible weeks they have had on the road, unable to get proper food. Source: Latest News
Healthcare workers in Cape Town given tuberculosis vaccine in trial to fight Covid-19
AFP reports that hundreds of SA health workers were given a century-old tuberculosis vaccine on Monday in a trial to see whether the venerable formula could protect against coronavirus. Source: Latest News