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Where death comes wrapped in plastic: S.Africa’s COVID hotspot – Port Elizabeth in the News

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Where death comes wrapped in plastic: S.Africa’s COVID hotspot: The tentacles of coronavirus have snaked into South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, delving stealthily into its under-equipped hospitals and impoverished townships.
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Coronavirus: South Africa in the midst of a COVID-19 ‘storm’ – and it’s likely worse than data suggests: People needing tests are being turned away in some communities, meaning the true case figure could be much worse than reported.
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Eastern Cape Health MEC said ambulances were sent to Nelson Mandela Bay — but no sign of them yet: After heated questions in Parliament last week, the Eastern Cape MEC for Health, Sindiswa Gomba, assured MPs that the ambulance fleet in Nelson Mandela Bay, which has been hit hard by Covid-19, had …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Can we move from hollowness of transformation and speak of idea of systemic change?: The buzzing, right-arm quick bowler has become a beacon of Cricket SA’s renewed transformation drive. It is understandable that South African cricket needs to produce another ethnic gem like Makhaya …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Coronavirus in South Africa: Inside Port Elizabeth’s ‘hospitals of horrors’: With key staff on strike or sick with coronavirus in the Eastern Cape province, nurses are forced to act as cleaners, surgeons are washing their own hospital laundry and there are alarming reports of …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Ways of (not) seeing: Cricket and its discontents: Andrew Merrifield. Are we looking at the same game? Have we mistakenly brought blinkers instead of binoculars to the ground?
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Omotoso Sex Trafficking Trial Postponed Once Again: Judge Irma Schoeman then postponed the trial to 6 October. Pastor Timothy Omotoso has been behind bars since April 2017 when he was arrested at the Port Elizabeth International Airport. Lusanda Sulani …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

OPINION | Three leadership lessons an MD learnt during Covid-19: In partnership with Unjani Clinics, we have funded the distribution of hygiene packs and face masks to commuters at taxi ranks in the Mamelodi, Pretoria area and Struandale, Port Elizabeth in an …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Andile Lungisa seeks to overturn conviction for hitting DA councillor with water jug: Former ANC Youth League deputy chairperson Andile Lungisa is optimistic that the two-year jail sentence handed down to him in 2018 will be overturned when his appeal is heard by the Supreme Court of …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

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