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Department of Community Safety redeploys security to support lockdown

15 April 2020
Department of Community Safety
The Minister of Community Safety, Albert Fritz, welcomes the redeployment of the Department of Community Safety’s (DOCS) Private Security and Security Support Team (SST) to support the enforcement of the lockdown in the province. DOCS have redeployed thirty-eight of its private security officers to ...

Join Premier Alan Winde for the Third Thursday Lockdown Edition Radio Show

15 April 2020
Premier Alan Winde
Due to the phenomenal public response to our First Thursday radio show, we will be hosting a Third Thursday show Question and Answer show between 6 and 7 pm this week. This will be an hour long show which will be facilitated by Bush Radio and simulcast across several stations across the province. ...

Handover of cloth masks to agri-workers and visit to Distell’s hand sanitiser plant

14 April 2020
Statement by Dr Ivan Meyer, Western Cape Minister of Agriculture Today, I visited the De Fynne Nursery in Paarl where I handed over the first of 100 000 cloth masks to be distributed to agri-workers across the Western Cape. I also visited the Distell Monis Production Plant, a section of which has ...

Easter weekend road statistics

14 April 2020
This past Easter long weekend has seen a huge reduction in the number of road deaths compared to the previous year’s. This reduction has been expected following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of a Nation-wide Lockdown in South Africa as part of the effort to contain the spread of the ...