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The government has amended travel rules to help protect the R82.5bn tourism industry.Image: 123RF / Travnikovstudio

Tourism operators beg government to rethink rules as tourist season looms

Open letter to government takes aim at arbitrary and irrational regulations Tourism operators have written an open letter to the government, begging for a meeting to fix travel regulations that they claim are hampering the industry’s…

D-day for car discs, permits and roadworthy certificates that expired during the period commencing from end-March to May 31.Image: 123rf.com/HONGQI ZHANG

Tuesday is deadline for no-penalty renewal of car licences that expired during lockdown

Tuesday is the deadline for the renewal of motor vehicle licence discs that expired during the Covid-19 lockdown between end March and May 31. An extension in the validity period of all motor vehicle licences, permits and roadworthy…

From left to right: Mendo Vece, Siyabulela Booysen and Sakhumzi Mbaduli developed a food garden during the Covid-19 lockdown.Image: GROUND UP/ Thamsanqa Mbovane

Unemployed Eastern Cape men make food gardening ‘fashionable’ again

In March three unemployed men from KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage, decided to start growing their own food. As it turned out, a week later the Covid-19 national lockdown started. Siyabulela Booysen, Sakhumzi Mbaduli and Mendo Vece had no…

Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON

Home affairs offers limited service under level 2 of lockdown

The department of home affairs will continue to offer only limited services under level 2 of the Covid-19 lockdown, restricting the number of people visiting its offices. “During each lockdown level, we analyse the number of people who…

Being confined together, without the usual distractions, has put many relationships under immense strain during the lockdown.Image: 123RF/Sebnem Ragiboglu

Driven to divorce! Homework, cash problems, booze and ciggie bans leave SA couples frayed

Couples are seeking counselling or starting divorce proceedings after being “forced to confront the true essence of their relationship” while being cooped up at home during the coronavirus lockdown. Irene Motaung, social worker, family…