Let your Grade 12 kids play, they’re guaranteed a pass
COVID-19
Parents should not be worried about sending their Grade 12 children to school. They will be guaranteed a pass as Minister Motshekga will give them a pass rate of 20%… lol
Considering the wild variations in the Covid-19 infection and death predictions – latest 40 000 dead and 1 million infected – I get the impression the command centre (sounds so EFF) are clueless, or want to extend authoritarian rule.
If the school your child/children go to does not have proper, clean toilets and separate facilities for boys and girls, don’t let them go to school. Their lives and the lives of others are under threat.
Cigarette smoking is mainly an individual activity, but alcohol is a family issue; drinking affects everyone in the family when it is abused, which happens in most cases in South Africa. I think government has got it wrong. They should have allowed cigarettes and banned alcohol. | NON-SMOKER, NON-DRINKER
Educators that don’t want to teach when schools reopen should be allowed not to. However, paying non-working teachers the same as their working comrades will be unfair. Hence the state should extend UIF Ters rates to cover non-working teachers, which varies from R3 500 to R6 700 a month.
Glad all the additional hospital beds are prepared and ready. Oxygen supply hopefully too. With all the people smoking illegally produced cigarettes (open secret where they come from), you may need them for emphysema patients soon. Take action and stop this nonsense about tobacco ban. | CASUAL NOW A NONSMOKER
Front page of the Daily News shows a picture of the Isipingo CBD.
Similar pictures have appeared on Facebook, still it goes on. So Minister Bheki Cele must tell us if Isipingo is exempt from lockdown or SAPS and SA National Defence Force are just too scared to go there. Nice to know.
Mr JP, don’t be the government and please let the government do what is good.
The rate the people out there are carrying on I think the lockdown should definitely stay at level 4.
People like you are more hungry for liquor and cigarettes than the people who are really in need of food. Come on, now, get a wake up.
Looking at the amount of (alleged) corrupt police out there, won’t it be wise to make a note of all the confiscated liquor and cigarettes and locked away in a safe place instead of the police stations and after each case is finalised auction it and give the money to charity. Some police tend to get thirsty and greedy.
I hope an unbiased investigative journalist researches or at least keeps a record of how many of the 429 Covid-19 dead and 842 hospitalised patients (of which 128 required intensive care) were regular smokers.
It appears most teachers are happy to stay at home, earning a full salary and expecting an increase nogal. No-work, no-pay rules apply. Would teachers agree to a salary cut?
I think not.
Had a laugh at your Backchat headline, Dlamini Zuma is treating us like nitwits. The ANC has been treating us all like that for years.
Could that possibly be because voters have behaved like nitwits and voted them back into power time and again? Makes you think!
That is the final straw for Dstv. My cancellation will happen. The arbitrary dumping of channel 123 – one of the best quality and most entertaining channels – is the final insult. Your arrogance in making absolutely no effort to provide any additional or special programmes during lockdown together with your apparent disdain for requests to consider fee adjustments, given the total lack of live sport reflect a total lack of customer orientation.
Goodbye and good riddance! There are other options in case you had not noticed!
I’m so upset to learn that a policeman confiscated a grass cutting machine from somebody who earned a living cutting grass. No fine was issued. Hope this policeman is brought to book. Resident, Phoenix.