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Making headlines: Government will study the High Court judgment, Western Cape schools will stay open and, Johannesburg receives R1.5-million of PPE from UNDP

Government will study the High Court judgment

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said mistakes in lockdown regulations were bound to happen because government was dealing with a new situation "that none of us really know how to go about".

On Tuesday, Judge Norman Davis ruled that in government's lockdown regulations there was little or no regard to the extent of the impact of individual regulations on the constitutional rights of people and whether the extent of the limitation of their rights was justifiable or not.

Mkhize said government will study the judgment to see where there might have been a need for corrections to be done and how those corrections can help continue with the containment.

Western Cape schools will stay open

Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schäfer will not back down on her decision to let grades 7 and 12 return to school in spite of instructions by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga that schools should stay closed for another week.

Schäfer responded to a question during acting Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen's "coronacast" session on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the South African Democratic Teachers' Union and The Congress of South African Trade Unions  in the  Western Cape have vowed to hold Education MEC Schäfer and the provincial head of education "personally accountable for any flouting of health and safety regulation in this province".

Johannesburg receives R1.5-million of PPE from UNDP

The United Nations Development Programme has donated R1.5-million worth of personal protective equipment to the City’s efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus epidemic.

Johannesburg has been identified as the epicentre of Covid-19 epidemic in Gauteng.

UNDP South Africa resident representative Dr Ayodele Odusola said partnerships with external stakeholders were vital to fight Covid-19.

Johannesburg Mayor Geoffrey Makhubo announced that 5 000 cloth masks will be distributed to communities identified by the City, while the rest of the PPE will be used by the frontline employees. 

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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