1. This is not the right time! Moody's Downgrades South Africa's credit rating to Junk Level 

Moody's Investors Service downgraded   South Africa's credit rating below the investment grade, bringing a lot of junk rating to the country. At present, South Africa is closing the whole country to cope with a confinement measure and to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Moody's said that unreliable electricity supply, continued weak business confidence and investment, and long-standing structural rigidities in the labor market continued to constrain South Africa's economic growth. "As a result, South Africa is entering a period of   sharp economic slowdown worldwide when its economy is becoming increasingly   fragile.”

2. South African Police Fired Rubber Bullets at Shoppers during Closure of the Country; African Countries Strive to Fight the Virus 

South African police fired rubber bullets at hundreds of shoppers lining up outside a Johannesburg supermarket. The authority is trying to keep people at home to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

There are 1,187 confirmed cases and one death in South Africa, making it the country with the largest number of confirmed cases on the African continent.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered a 21-day stay-at-home order to the 57 million residents across the country and sent police and troops to enforce the order.

3. South Africa's largest call center violates the national COVID-19 blockade 

KwaZulu-Natal Province’s labor inspectors, police and officials from the Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (EDTEA) inspected one of the country's largest call centers, CCISouth Africa in Umhlanga, on Monday. Earlier, dozens of disgruntled employees posted on social media that the company had violated the COVID-19 blockade.

EDTEA spokesman Endarbezler Spia said the company had received more than 100 complaints from CCI South Africa’s employees. CCI South Africa is believed to have employed about 9,000 employees in different locations.

4. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Chinese farms in South Africa distribute free food to people in Chinatown 

On Wednesday, April 1, South African time, on the sixth day of the country's blockade, the vast number of overseas Chinese and local residents had almost run out of vegetables and grain.

This morning, at the junction of Johannesburg’s Chinatown, there was a truck delivering vegetables. Ten plastic boxes were placed on the ground, which contained many varieties of green leafy vegetables, including spinach, lettuce, leeks, shallots, and water bamboo for passers-by to fetch free of charge.

It is understood that this is a charitable donation made by a local Chinese farm to help the local overseas Chinese eat green leafy vegetables during the city blockade.

5. South Africa will not build "Chinese-style" new hospitals but make use of existing national facilities to fight the epidemic

South Africa will not build new hospitals to cope with the possible increase in the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations as China and other parts of the world do but will make use of existing facilities.

The government has approved several possible new sites to become quarantine facilities, of which about 50 were initially selected by the Ministry of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI).

Patricia de Lille, Minister of DPWI, said that more than 50 sites had been chosen on public and private premises to serve as additional isolation sites.

At present, 9 public hospitals are being used as COVID-19 isolation sites.

6. South African government will track the location of real-name mobile phone users after March 5 

As of Thursday, the South African government has been able to track down any South African mobile phone user back to as early as March 5 to fight COVID-19.

These mobile data will be input into a special database to identify anyone who may have had physical contact with people known to carry the SARS-Cov-2 virus for possible detection and isolation.

There is no need to notify the tracked users, but the judge will get a list of affected persons after the incident so as to make suggestions on privacy protection.

Six weeks after South Africa's national disaster state is declared, the database will be deleted, leaving only general data for future research.

7. The South African rand hits a record low but the worst is yet to come

On Friday morning, the exchange rate of rand hit a record low, continuing to mitigate the impact of Moody's downgrade of its credit rating last week and cope with the COVID-19 panic among investors fleeing high-risk emerging market currencies.

8.Large-scale Evacuation of Villages and Towns in Four Provinces of South Africa to Stop COVID-19 Transmission 

The large-scale evacuation plan has entered the late stage and tens of thousands of people from four provinces in South Africa may be relocated.

The entire towns of Western Cape, Gauteng Province, Eastern Cape, and KwaZulu-Natal Province will be relocated to safe places to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

This plan aims at evacuating extremely densely populated settlements to prevent infection rates from increasing. In Western Cape Province alone, thousands of residents from two informal settlements in Khayelitsha will be temporarily relocated.

1.太不是时候了！ 穆迪将南非降至垃圾级别

穆迪投资者服务公司(Moody 's Investors Service)将南非的信用评级下调至投资级以下，给这个国家带来了一大堆垃圾评级。目前，该国正在全国封锁努力应对一项禁闭措施，以遏制新型冠状病毒的蔓延。

穆迪表示，不可靠的电力供应、持续疲软的商业信心和投资，以及长期存在的结构性劳动力市场僵化，继续制约着南非经济的增长。“其结果是，在经济脆弱的情况下，南非正进入全球增长大幅放缓的时期。”

2.南非警方在封国期间向购物者发射橡皮子弹 非洲各国努力应对病毒

南非警方向在约翰内斯堡一家超市外排队的数百名购物者发射了橡皮子弹，当局正努力让人们呆在家里，以阻止这种冠状病毒的传播。

南非有1187例确诊感染病例和1例死亡病例，是非洲大陆确诊感染病例最多的国家。

总统西里尔·拉马福萨(Cyril Ramaphosa)下令对全国5700万居民实施21天的禁闭，并部署了警察和军队来执行这些限制。

3.南非最大呼叫中心违反国家COVID-19封锁条例

夸省劳动检查员、警察和经济发展、旅游和环境事务(EDTEA)的官员周一在 uMhlanga突击搜查了该国最大的呼叫中心之一 CCISouth Africa。此前，数十名不满的员工在社交媒体上发帖称，该公司违反了Covid19封锁规定。

EDTEA发言人恩达贝兹勒·斯比亚表示，该公司已经收到100多起来自CCI South Africa员工的投诉。据信，CCI South Africa在不同地点雇佣了大约9000名员工。

4.患难见真情 南非华人农场免费送菜到唐人街供民众领取

南非时间4月1日星期三，正值全国封城在家第六天，广大侨胞及当地居民前期屯粮库存的青菜、粮食也差不多用尽了！

今天上午，在约堡唐人街一路口，停着一台送菜大卡车，地上放着十个塑料盒，里面装着多个品种的绿叶青菜，有菠菜、生菜、韭菜、青葱、以及茭白等等，供路人免费领取回家食用。

据了解，这是某华人农场为解决同胞封城期间，吃不上绿叶菜而进行的慈善捐赠。

5.南非不会建造“中国式”新医院 而是使用现有的国家设施对抗疫情

南非将不会像中国和世界其他地方那样，建造新的医院来应对可能增加Covid-19住院病例，而是将利用现有的设施。

政府已批准数个可能的新地点成为检疫设施，其中约50个是由公共工程及基础建设部(DPWI)初步选定的。

公共工程和基础设施部长德·里尔(Patricia de Lille)表示，已在公共和私营部门确定了50多个可能用作额外隔离场所的地点。

目前，9所公立医院被用作新冠肺炎隔离站。

6.南非政府将追踪实名制手机用户定位 3月5日之后的都可查

截至周四，南非政府可以追踪到任何南非移动手机的用户，最早可以追溯到3月5日，旨在对抗新冠肺炎。

这些移动数据将进入一个特殊的数据库，以识别任何可能与已知携带SARS-Cov-2病毒的人有过身体接触的人，以便进行可能的检测和隔离。

不需要通知被追踪位置的用户，但法官将在事件发生后得到一份受影响人员名单，以便就隐私保护提出建议。

在南非国家灾难状态宣布结束六周后，该数据库将被删除，只留下一般数据供未来研究。

7.南非兰特跌至历史低点 然最糟糕的时刻尚未到来？

周五上午，兰特汇率创下历史新低，继续与上周穆迪(Moody’s)下调其信用评级的影响作斗争，以及投资者逃离高风险新兴市场货币的covid19恐慌情绪。

8.南非四省乡镇大规模疏散以阻止冠状病毒传播

大规模疏散计划已经进入后期阶段，可能会转移南非四个省的数万人。

西开普、豪登省、东开普省和夸省的整个城镇将被转移到安全地带，以阻止冠状病毒的传播。

这是一项为防止感染率而疏导极度密集的非正式定居点的计划。仅在西开普，数千名来自Khayelitsha两个非正式定居点的居民将被临时转移。