Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says those South Africans who don’t have access to technology or the internet will be assisted to register for a Covid-19 vaccine. The country’s EVDS-portal officially opens today, and calls for those over 60 years, to register to get vaccinated. Mkhize says the department will be sending out teams to communities, to assist citizens, who do not have access to digital technology, register for their jab.

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The Western Cape MEC for Human Settlements, Tertius Simmers says his Department has from July last year, until the second week of April this year, recorded 1 078 incidents of illegal land invasions. Simmers says his Department has spent more than R 355-million in the past financial year, to try and fight illegal land and building-invasions.
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The Democratic Alliance in the Gauteng province says it has launched a petition to oppose the proposed renaming of William Nicol Drive in Johannesburg to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Drive. The City of Johannesburg announced the proposed change in September of last years. In an online petition, the DA has said the renaming would cause a “duplication of names”, citing that four schools, a clinic, a taxi rank and a street within the jurisdiction of Johannesburg are already named after Madikizela-Mandela. The party also said the renaming would come with costs, which both government and the business sector could not afford at this stage.

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