Vaccinations are on everyone’s lips and on some of our arms, I having had my first Pfizer vaccination at the Somerset Hospital last week.
Having only followed the vaccination at arm’s length, pardon the pun, I am far more aware about the vaccination status in our country, more than 2,3 million residents having been vaccinated to date. Continue reading →
Heartening news for restaurants which have closed down or face this dilemma as a Covid Third Wave threatens is that the Rupert Family Fund and Remgro will make R100 million available to ‘struggling restaurants’, reports Fin24.
The monies have been made available in partnership with FEDHASA, the Hospitality industry association. The R100 million is money left over from Rupert’s R1 billion Sukuma Fund, which Johann Rupert pledged at the start of the Covid-19 Lockdown in March 2020.
Sunday 1 November 2020, Day 42 of Level 1, Day 220 of Lockdown 😷
Corona Gratitude 🙏
#Grateful for a fabulous day, the warmest this summer at 26C, and up to 30C in town; for the fire at the foot of Table Mountain being extinguished this morning; for a walk up to Clifton 4th Beach, Victoria Road between Clifton and Camps Bay fully parked by Beachgoers; for a catch-up get-together with Vivian Warby at Bootleggers Bakoven, keeping it healthy with pressed fruit and vegetable juices; for missing the worst of the traffic when popping in to town, at Utopia and Peppertree Café; for a VitD snooze on the terrace; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →
The future of Tourism in our country under the Corona Virus Lockdown has been up in the sky, so to speak, intra-provincial Domestic Travel just having been opened up. No further information has been available about inter-provincial travel, nor about International Travel until now, with a Tourism Recovery Plan just having been released by the Department of Tourism.
Business Tech has summarised the South African Tourism Sector Recovery Plan: August 2020, released by the Department of Tourism, reflecting best and worst case scenarios of when Domestic and International Travel will reopen. The latter could be as early as November 2020, and as late as the start of Winter 2021! Continue reading →