Lockdown diaries - COVID-19 matters!

What are you going to be doing during the lockdown?

  • At home. I’m non essential

    Votes: 70 41.2%

  • Working. The virus doesn’t scare me

    Votes: 41 24.1%

  • On standby

    Votes: 10 5.9%

  • Working from home. Too essential to take any risk!

    Votes: 66 38.8%
  • Total voters
    170
  • Poll closed .
Intuthu Kagesi said:
OK everyone ... Hold thumbs and say a prayer ... I have a horrid suspicion that they're going to impose some more draconian rules :( which I guess are unfortunately necessary to bring the Covidiots into line.
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I also don't think it's going to be a good one. Numbers have been increasing and we haven't even started with the festive surge as yet.
 
Adephi said:
I also don't think it's going to be a good one. Numbers have been increasing and we haven't even started with the festive surge as yet.
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Yip. Also have that feeling. I think the schools are also going to be closed for a while. It's so sad as my Son is excited about his first day of grade 1. But most of all safety of my family comes way before anything else.


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Bit disappointed actually. Now was the time for more decisiveness and strict enforcement. To at least slow down the current chaos. But they have done so much unnecessary economic damage previously and has misspent so much funds, that they cannot afford to take the NEEDED action now, for fear of economic ruin.
 
Dela Rey Steyn said:
Bit disappointed actually. Now was the time for more decisiveness and strict enforcement. To at least slow down the current chaos. But they have done so much unnecessary economic damage previously and has misspent so much funds, that they cannot afford to take the NEEDED action now, for fear of economic ruin.
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Taking into consideration the fact that our most populated provinces have peaked or nearly peaked, I think it’s not going to be of big benefit for the country and the damage will outweigh the benefit
 
''These changes are summarised below:

  • National curfew will now be in place from 21:00 until 05:00 every day.
  • Ban on alcohol sales will remain in place.
  • Funerals will be limited to 50 people and will require compliance with social distancing and other health guidelines.
  • Land ports will be closed for entry, with certain exceptions.
Level 3 lockdown measures will remain in place until the rate of transmission has fallen sufficiently to warrant relaxing restrictions, Ramaphosa said.

He added that the NCCC would determine a plan for the return of learners to schools in the coming days.''

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/gove...wn-in-south-africa.html?utm_source=newsletter
 
We now have a legal definition for ‘beach’ and you can’t go near sand – but water is okay
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/s...well-away-from-anything-resembling-one-2021-1
12 Jan 2021

South Africa's newly updated Alert Level 3 rules have a strict definition of what constitutes a "beach".

  • Unless you are on private property, you can't set foot on sand (or rocks or pebbles) within a hundred metres of the high-tide mark.
  • For river mouths, the "beach" can extend up to a kilometre inland.
  • You can probably swim in the ocean – if you can get there.
"The full definition reads:

'beach' means the sandy, pebbly or rocky shore–(a) between the high-water mark and low-water mark adjacent to–(i) the sea; or(ii) an estuary mouth extending 1000 meters [sic] inland from the mouth; and(b) within 100 metres of the high-water mark, excluding private property, including the sea and estuary themselves adjacent to the beach.
For "estuary", the disaster regulations refer to the National Environmental Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, which contains this definition:

'estuary' means a body of surface water–
(a) that is part of a water course that is permanently or periodically open to the sea;(b) in which a rise and fall of the water level as a result of the tides is measurable at spring tides when the water course is open to the sea; or(c) in respect of which the salinity is measurably higher as a result of the influence of the sea
The combined effect of the definitions is that the ban extends to sand, rocks, and pebbles, but not any man-made surfaces such as piers or walkways.

Though the ban reaches up to 100 metres beyond the high-water mark, that excludes private property, so privately-owned picnic spots along rivers close to the ocean are not affected. That is in line with other exceptions, such as for botanical gardens, which broadly allow the use of places that have access control and so can be held responsible for limiting the number of people and for enforcing social-distancing rules.

The definition also implies that the use of the ocean itself, for swimming or other use, is allowed – as long as you don't cross the beach to get to it."
 
Hooked said:
We now have a legal definition for ‘beach’ and you can’t go near sand – but water is okay
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/s...well-away-from-anything-resembling-one-2021-1
12 Jan 2021

South Africa's newly updated Alert Level 3 rules have a strict definition of what constitutes a "beach".

  • Unless you are on private property, you can't set foot on sand (or rocks or pebbles) within a hundred metres of the high-tide mark.
  • For river mouths, the "beach" can extend up to a kilometre inland.
  • You can probably swim in the ocean – if you can get there.
"The full definition reads:

'beach' means the sandy, pebbly or rocky shore–(a) between the high-water mark and low-water mark adjacent to–(i) the sea; or(ii) an estuary mouth extending 1000 meters [sic] inland from the mouth; and(b) within 100 metres of the high-water mark, excluding private property, including the sea and estuary themselves adjacent to the beach.
For "estuary", the disaster regulations refer to the National Environmental Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, which contains this definition:

'estuary' means a body of surface water–
(a) that is part of a water course that is permanently or periodically open to the sea;(b) in which a rise and fall of the water level as a result of the tides is measurable at spring tides when the water course is open to the sea; or(c) in respect of which the salinity is measurably higher as a result of the influence of the sea
The combined effect of the definitions is that the ban extends to sand, rocks, and pebbles, but not any man-made surfaces such as piers or walkways.

Though the ban reaches up to 100 metres beyond the high-water mark, that excludes private property, so privately-owned picnic spots along rivers close to the ocean are not affected. That is in line with other exceptions, such as for botanical gardens, which broadly allow the use of places that have access control and so can be held responsible for limiting the number of people and for enforcing social-distancing rules.

The definition also implies that the use of the ocean itself, for swimming or other use, is allowed – as long as you don't cross the beach to get to it."
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I think I'm going to start charging people to use my beach ... My North Coast property has been in my family for 5 generations, and the handwritten title deeds refer; "the beach side boundary per maritime ruling shall be 9 yards from the hightide mark" :giggle:
 
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