‘Government keeps saying scientists are the ones making these decisions and that is part of our frustration’ – Prof Francois Venter

Scientists have been wondering why SA’s case fatality rates for Covid-19 are lower than those of its global counterparts, but now a major question is being asked: are our mortality statistics even accurate?

Covid-19 has brought ever-increasing evidence that the leadership South Africa needs to extricate us from the current massive crisis is not present – and not available. The deadly combination of corruption and incompetence is anything but diminished in the post-Zuma years, and no political force, whether inside or outside the ANC, looks capable of stopping it. This increases the pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa to change course, and drop his reliance on consensus.

This totally indefensible government seems determined to destroy livelihoods with absurd regulations that makes absolutely no sense.

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Wine farmers say the current ban on liquor sales is placing thousands of jobs in jeopardy, while there was no real prospect of alcohol abuse by patrons of wine farms, restaurants and hotels overburdening the health system.

It looks like this particular deal wasn’t ‘masked’ very well. President Ramaphosa and his spokesperson are yet to respond to these corruption allegations.

Breaking the institutions was the first step. The second step was to hijack the concepts of legality to pull the wool over citizens’ eyes.

The SIU is waiting on President Ramaphosa to sign a national proclamation which will allow investigators to consolidate all allegations of corruption.

South Africa’s liquor industry lost R20 billion in sales in the first nine weeks of the national lockdown, according to data analytics company Nielsen.

South African historians and psychologists agree lockdowns to prevent the spread of a disease typically end before the pandemic ends. This is because people’s social needs overtake the fear of the virus, and people start breaking lockdown regulations.

Hotspots are no longer a thing as lockdown Level 3 has mutated into its third version – without even a nod to public input. And that means the government’s much-touted Risk-Adjusted Strategy to lead South Africa through its Covid-19 public health crisis isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

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The medication, called colchicine, is an anti-inflammatory taken as a pill. It’s long been prescribed for gout, a form of arthritis, and its history goes back centuries. The drug was first sourced from the autumn crocus flower.

South Africa’s restaurant sector is on its knees as the coronavirus crisis and stringent lockdown measures threaten the livelihoods of the 800,000 people employed in the industry.

With a wave of his presidential hand, the command was given: alcohol sales will once again be banned, with immediate effect. Minutes later, the new regulations were gazetted and came into force. South Africans now live in a dictatorship.

At a meeting of Parliament’s Tourism Portfolio Committee this week, the Minister of Tourism, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, exposed herself by essentially admitting that she puts the interests of the ANC above the interests of South Africans. While discussing the regulations that are currently decimating the tourism sector, the Minister explained that there must be no ambiguity with regards her unequivocal support for Government.

People often ascribe all manner of sayings to the Chinese, and we have no way of knowing if it is true or not. We are told the Chinese say you can move in and commit murder when a house is on fire.

Thousands of workers in the South African liquor industry and its value chain are facing job losses after the government reintroduced a ban on alcohol sales just as business was picking up from a nine-week hiatus.