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While South Africans have been ordered to stay at home during the lockdown, sections of the transport sector will help keep the wheels of the COVID-19 response turning.

The 21-day nationwide lockdown means that the movement of South Africans has been heavily restricted.

Speaking at the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster media briefing, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula unpacked the lockdown implications for the transport sector.

Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu says the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) is ready for social grant payments.

Unpacking the department’s intervention measures on Coronavirus (COVID-19) during a Social Cluster briefing held recently, Minister Zulu said retailers and the banking industry are working closely with SASSA to ensure that everyone is able to access their money.

During the first full week of the nation-wide lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic that is devastating the world, we were grateful for good news that brought us joy and hope at this difficult and uncertain time.

The 114 South Africans who were evacuated from Wuhan in China some weeks ago ended their quarantine and were reunited with their families. They have all tested negative for the virus and are in good health and good spirits.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has claimed thousands of lives and turned the world upside down.  

With March being Human Rights Month, Vuk’uzenzele looks at the rights of heath facility patients.

Healthcare is a basic human right that should be enjoyed by all South Africans.

This prompted the Department of Health to put together a Patients' Charter.

The charter states that everyone has the right to healthcare, regardless of their ability to pay for the treatment.

As a Transnet tugmaster Lindile Mdletshe (30) commands the powerful boats that are used to assist ship movements in the Port of Durban. While small in size, tugboats are extremely powerful and their handling takes much skill.

Mdletshe was born and bred in Port Shepstone and schooled at St Faiths.

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The Department of Tourism is boosting efforts to ensure that tourists visiting the country don’t worry about safety.

Peak hour traffic jams will be thing of the past for motorists travelling between uMhlanga and the KwaZulu-Natal north coast with the completion of one of the longest structures ever built in South Africa.

Family reunions and tragedies are two sides of South Africa’s annual festive season, when the roads that lead to reunions and festivity also become places of death and injury.

So, make sure that you don’t become a statistic this festive season.