When South Africa’s nationwide lockdown started on March 26, many parts of the country came to a standstill as people stayed inside their homes.
Msaro says that funerals are still taking place with over 200 people in attendance, and claims that church leaders are not abiding by the lockdown restrictions. However, some people in Msaro’s community are trying to keep others informed. Elliotdale is the closest town to Xhora Mouth, where one case of Covid-19 has already been confirmed.
“You can see with the youngsters that they don’t take it seriously,” he explains, “but the elderly are taking it very seriously.” “The only feasible thing we could see in a community like ours, where it was unlikely that social distancing would really work, was to create a safe place for the most at risk, being the elderly, particularly those with high blood pressure and diabetes, to keep them safe and separate while the virus takes this course,” Martin tells Spotlight.There are 10 staff members inside the lodge, plus two community healthcare workers for each location.
Bulungula’s safe house initiative was done under the advice of both local and remote doctors, and specialists.East of Nqileni, Johann Stadler, owner of the Mdumbi Backpackers, started a community WhatsApp group to spread factual information about Covid-19. Stadler has considered keeping the Backpackers as an isolation ward if needed in the future, and has looked at other community sites, including the empty Mankosi Clinic.In another one of the Wild Coast’s quiet seaside villages of Mpame, founders of a local non-government organisation Educare Mpame expressed their frustrations to Spotlight with how information about Covid-19 and the lockdown had been communicated to the public.
The rural towns in the US did the same. Now they are paying the price
It's absurd, bizarre, what happened to the SANDF 😱😱😱
SA is promoting illiteracy what do you expect - if a Zulu/Tswana learner knows 30% of English its good enough EducareSchools DBE_SA its just wrong and unfair to the future generation
I think we should have our own pigeon english, otherwise we will take the whole day making announcement in 11 languages.
That is absolute nonsense.
English is an international language how can you not understand it?
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