These facilities have a combined total of 1 482 beds and have been treating Covid-19 patients for weeks now.
They form a crucial part of the province’s healthcare response, and without them hospitals would certainly have been overwhelmed.The Western Cape’s public healthcare has taken great strain over the past two months, but it is coping because a lot of work went into preparing for the crisis. Something went wrong, please try again later. The … All rights reserved.
Like every other country in the world, South Africa has been severely affected by the global spread of the coronavirus. EDITORIAL | Be angry at partygoers, not Ramaphosa, for new booze ban This should have been done months ago.
But what sets our case apart from the rest of the world is that the vast majority of the economic carnage was not inflicted by the virus but by … (iStock) If government is open about its reasoning behind lockdown regulations, it will have more incentive and assistance to make them rational, and to clearly link them to reducing transmission.
President Cyril Ramaphosa loves talking about a social compact – a voluntary agreement between citizens and government on how to cooperate for the good of society. 28 July 2020 . Siya Khumalo | The role of imposter syndrome in keeping the ANC in power John Steenhuisen, leader of the Democratic Alliance, has been openly critical of the ANC’s response to Covid-19 and strongly voiced his opinion that it is the strict lockdown imposed by President Ramaphosa in March – and not Covid-19 – that has killed the South African economy. Cyril Ramaphosa | The coronavirus storm is upon us South Africans would have to make massive sacrifices in shutting down their businesses, giving up their jobs and having to then feed their families with no income. As far as we can tell from the deliberately opaque reporting on the matter, Gauteng’s other "field hospitals" at Diepsloot, Soshanguve, Midrand, Daveyton and the Tshwane Expo Centre are still in the planning phase.In the Eastern Cape, it is only the Volkswagen-built Chabula-Nxiweni Field Hospital that is partially operational.
Ralph Mathekga | A stricter lockdown was not an option
President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation on 12 July 2020.
Photo: Jacques Naude/African News Agency(ANA)DA leader John Steenhuisen has made it clear that he will not support an extension to the current format of lockdown in South Africa.
His denouncement also caused a stir amongst the South African public.But could there be some early vindication for Steenhuisen’s position?
Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen Picture: Armand Hough/African News Agency (ANA) Lockdown has become an ideological tool for ANC – Steenhuisen By ANA Reporter Jun 2, 2020 In principle, this notion of individual and community contribution is a good thing.
They are not to blame for our healthcare crisis. The infection spike is starting now, not in three months’ time.In the other provinces the "functioning field hospitals" of President Ramaphosa’s speech are little more than a list of approved sites or projects awaiting the awarding of a contract.
They would work around the clock and no expense would be spared.But three weeks became five weeks, then two months and then three months.
John Steenhuisen Share. - John Steenhuisen is the interim leader of the Democratic Alliance. Next time the president wants to speak of a social compact, I‘d advise him to focus entirely on his side of the agreement. They range from the severe rules we have in place now, to a more relaxed version of lockdown which will allow businesses to open up and give citizens permission to leave their homes for recreational reasons.“Widespread hunger and looting shows that a hard lockdown is not sustainable – and why a ‘Smart Lockdown’ is the correct way to go. Additionally, distributing R1 000 into the accounts of each SASSA grant recipient will immediately bring food and household relief to about 30 million vulnerable citizens.”When I pointed this out in a statement ten days ago it was regarded as heresy, now it is a reality.The league restarts on Tuesday with a clash between titans.TheSouthAfrican.com is all about South Africa and the stories that affect South Africans, wherever they are in the world.Help support journalists, the guardians of independent journalism, through our
If it weren’t for the efforts of the private sector, where the likes of Volkswagen in the Eastern Cape and Anglo American and Platinum Health in the North West Province bankrolled the development of field hospitals, these provinces would have been nowhere.Consider that, over the same period, the Western Cape government managed to equip and staff no less than four fully-functional field hospitals at the CTICC, Khayelitsha, Brackengate and Sonstraal.
It is astonishing that the president needs reminding of the two-way nature of this social compact, and of who has contributed what to date.When he announced, back in March, that we would be entering a hard lockdown for a period of three weeks, the terms of the agreement were clear. And, as confirmed by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize in an answer to a parliamentary question, the so-called "functional field hospitals" are mostly just sites earmarked for use.
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