The National Demand Side Management Indaba was meant to have Minister of DPE Pravin Gordhan and Minister of Electricity Kgosienthso Ramokgopa present. Both are not here as the are still preoccupied with ANC NEC. #eNCA
Eskom interim CEO Calib Cassim says the objective is to ensure there are enough MWs for the winter months ahead. Cassim calls on support for the 40 000 workers who are at Eskom trying to keep the lights on. #eNCA#EnergyCrisis
Eskom board chair Mpho Makwana said there is a process underway to appoint an #Eskom CEO
There is a shortlist of 5 people. #eNCA#EnergyCrisis
Board chair Mpho Makwana speaks about reducing the demand by switching off geysers and pool pumps. “At some point we are going to have to do a national call beyond just asking people to switch off non-essential appliances.” #eNCA#EnergyCrisis
Eskom: you might say this is an Eskom problem but it’s a South African problem. It’s on all of use to deal with this and fix loadshedding. #eNCA#EnergyCrisis#Eskom
THREAD ON WHAT HAPPENED:
I was almost raped and murdered on 14th of Feb. House was broken into. I woke up to him walking towards my bed. He tied me up. When he was done in my room & left I managed to untie my hands & then heard him coming back upstairs. He forced me outside.
He got violent and aggressive. Kept asking for money and laptops. He then ripped my pjs off. When he got up to take his pants off I decided to be brave and run for my life. Hands tied to the back with no clothes on. I thought I’ll rather die than be rape. Let me take the risk.
I got away. Thank God. Sadly he also got away. It was torture. He was in our house for almost 3 hours. He left upstairs and came back & that’s when he told me I have to go outside with him otherwise he would kill me.
There is currently 3.8 million vaccines available in stock in SA at the moment. That’s both Johnson and Johnson and Pfizer vaccines. Looking at the current rate of vaccines administered per day and stock available, it gives SA 18 days of vaccine rollout. #VaccineRolloutSA
This does not mean that beyond 18 days vaccines won’t be administered. There is stock arriving with new arrival dates for Pfizer announced. Stock is arriving.
Fantastic info-graphic by @Bhekisisa_MG on the arrival of vaccines expected for July- December. For now we have 3.8 million in stock at the moment. That’s 18 days of stock. But more will arrive which means more vaccines will be administered 💃🏼
BREAKING: South Africa has vaccinated over 4 million people. As of 5pm 8 July 4,017,432 people have received the #Covid19 jab.
Another all time high, 191,833 people were vaccinated today. #VaccineRolloutSA
Government has also increased details on its dashboard.
Vaccines administered in last 24hours:
J&J= 13,938
Pfizer vaccines= 177,885
The dashboard now also shows how many second doses of Pfizer vaccine have been administered. #VaccineRolloutSA
So far:
2,763,464 people have received the first dose of the #Pfizer vaccine.
378,403 have been fully vaccinated in SA with both doses of the #Pfizer vaccine.
395,626 J&J national programme (education staff,law enforcement)
JUST IN: SA has recorded 16,585 new #Covid19 cases in the last 24-hours.
A total of 54,879 tests were conducted in the last 24 hrs, representing a 30.2% positivity rate. 333 people have since passed due to #Covid19 complications in the last 24-hours.
BREAKING: South Africa records 26,485 new #Covid19 cases in the last 24-hours.
A total of 96,896 tests were conducted in the last 24-hours representing a 27.3% positivity rate. This is the highest #Covid19 cases recorded in a 24-hour period.
Out of the 26,485 new #Covid19 cases in the last 24-hours, 16,091 are in Gauteng. Western Cape has recorded 2,999 new cases with Limpopo 1,780 new cases.
This is the 7-day moving average number of new #Covid19 cases by province: