SA expects decisive leadership from the president, including the fight against Covid-19 and holding his Cabinet to account, writes Mpumelelo Mkhabela.
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Top African National Congress officials are at loggerheads over whether the country should ask the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to shore up its finances as it confronts the coronavirus pandemic.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala wants the investigation into how Covid-19 spread so quickly through Saint Augustine's Hospital in Durban to be measured and thorough after half of all virus-related deaths in KZN occurred at the facility.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa visited the CSIR's offices in Pretoria which is also where the Department of Health's data centre has been set up.
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