Pretoria News is a local newspaper circulating in the Tshwane Metropolitan area. Pretoria News covers a range of local news, as well as national and international news, comment and analysis by experts, sport, entertainment and lifestyle.
MASKS UNMASKED Face coverings are mandatory under lockdown, but you cannot be held personally liable for not complying ZELDA VENTER zelda.venter@inl.co.za OUPA MOKOENA African News Agency (ANA) WHILE it is required by law to wear a face covering in public during the current lockdown, you cannot be held criminally liable if you don’t. Rather, the person who can be held criminally liable is the owner or manager of an establishment you visit, such as on office, school or shop, and the taxi or other public transport you travel in. There has been much confusion in recent days over the latest amendments to enhanced level 3 regulations regarding the wearing of masks. In a media briefing, Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said it was…
Climate and social activist preaches caution against viral infection STAFF REPORTER WHAT does it take for people to believe that Covid-19 is real and can affect anyone? Catherine Constantinides, the well-known climate and social justice activist, has shared on social media her experience in the hope that others will take the risk seriously. Finding out she had contracted the virus, despite taking every possible precaution, was emotionally and physically “agonising and challenging”. She said she did not have flu-like symptoms, a fever or temperature, but the body pain and chest compression was unbearable: “I have suffered over the past few days with excruciating body pain, migraines and chest pains that have been a great challenge. Breathing and gasping for air is frightening but a reality in many #COVID19 cases.” Constantinides…
Decision pending on schools POLITICAL STAFF BASIC Education Minister Angie Motshekga is faced with the unenviable task of finding a solution for the future of the 2020 school year. Motshekga yesterday had back-to-back meetings with teachers’ unions, school principals and governing bodies on whether schools should remain open or close until the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic has passed in South Africa. The engagements will inform her proposals to the Cabinet with an announcement expected to be made before the end of the weekend as the next batch of children in grades 3 and 10 are due back at school next week. But unions are adamant that schools should be shut until the impact of the virus has subsided. Motshekga had initially opposed and even threatened legal action against those…
Meet SA’s first ‘Bachelorette’ SHE’S a model, actress and postgraduate student, and now she is to become South Africa’s first “Bachelorette”. Qiniso Van Damme was one of the women in the mansion during Season 2 of The Bachelor SA featuring Marc Buckner. This week it was announced she will be the first host of the South African season of the popular global reality show. Entries have now opened for men who think they would be a match for Qiniso. “She has been a fan favourite right from the start and we know for sure that she will ignite all the passion and excitement that The Bachelorette franchise is renowned for worldwide,” says M-Net’s head of publicity, Lani Lombard. She says she is open to meeting all kinds of good-looking men…
CRIME Arrest in ANC MPL’s murder Police minister would not speculate whether killing was politically motivated RAPULA MOATSHE rapula.moatshe@inl.co.za Thobile Mathonsi African News Agency (ANA) THE police have arrested a suspect in connection with the grisly murder of MPL and former Tshwane ANC deputy chairperson Mapiti Matsena on Wednesday night. This emerged yesterday during a visit by Police Minister Bheki Cele to the bereaved family at Doornpoort, where Matsena was fatally stabbed by an intruder while in the company of his wife and son. Cele said: “We have picked one person, as the South African police. The police will be investigating and further questioning that person. “We believe that we are very close to the correct person. We hope that person will tell us why and what happened.” Asked…
GIVING Upholding Madiba legacy during Covid-19 CHELSEA NTULI chelsea.ntuli@inl.co.za OUPA MOKOENA African News Agency (ANA) AT A time when health workers are giving their utmost during a pandemic, it is these workers who need to be recognised and helped on Mandela Day. The UN-recognised day is an annual international day in honour of Nelson Mandela, celebrated each year on his birthday, July 18. On this day everyone is encouraged to spend 67 minutes in service to others, representing one minute for each of the years of service Madiba gave. The Pretoria News joined the Independent Media outreach when it provided hampers of PPE along with a Romans pizza voucher to staff at the Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville. The hospital’s chief executive officer Dr Sello Matjila accepted the gift from marketing…
