South Africa: Update on the current lockdown level 1 restrictions!

South Africa's Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has published a new Government Gazette (Vol. 666 No. 44009, 17 December 2020) which provides further clarity around South Africa's new lockdown rules for the festive season 2020/21 (also see Government Gazette Vol. 666 No. 43997, 15 December 2020).
Hotels, lodges, bed & breakfasts, timeshare facilites, resorts and guest houses are allowed full capacity of the available rooms for accommodation, with patrons observing a distance of at least one and a half metres from each other when in common spaces. Conferencing, dining, entertainment and bar facilities are subject to a limitation of a maximum of 100 persons or less in case of an indoor gathering and 250 persons or less in case of an outdoor gathering. Loud music, whether live or otherwise, is prohibited.

Registered wineries and wine farms are allowed to continue to operate in offering wine-tastings and selling of wine to the public for off-site consumption, subject to strict adherence to the curfew and adherence to social distancing measures and health protocols.
In hotspot areas (Sarah Baartman District, Garden Route District and Nelson Mandela Bay), the closing time for the following establishments, wether indoors or outdoors, is 21:00 daily:

• Faith-based institutions
• Venues where social events are hosted
• Venues hosting concerts and five performances
• Cinemas
• Theatres
• Casinos
• Museums, galleries and archives
• Gyms, fitness centres and swimming pools
• Restaurants, bars, taverns, shebeens and similar establishments
• Venues hosting sport, arts and culture activities
• Any other place where a gathering may take place

Botswana continues to ease the lockdown: National Parks, Game Reserves and guest houses are allowed to re-open!

update (22 May 2020): The National Parks and Game Reserves in Botswana are set to re-open on 23 May 2020.

In line with Botswana's stragety of sequentially easing the lockdown restrictions introduced to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the country has finished phase two at midnight (14 May 2020) and now enters into the final phase three from today (15 May 2020) until 22 May 2020. In phase three the National Parks and Game Reserves in Botswana are allowed to re-open. The same applies to museums. Commercial guest houses are also allowed to re-start welcoming guests. International travel remains suspended, but domestic travel between Botswana's nine Covid-zones is allowed provided that a "green permit" has been previously obtained. Restaurants (for sit down), cinemas, casinos, book shops and curio shops are also permitted to commence operations, but only at 50% (National Parks, Game Reserves, guest houses at 70%) of their staff complement from their lockdown baseline staffing levels. 
The minimum requirements for all entities mentioned include:

• daily Covid-19 temperature screening
• face mask is mandatory for all
• 2 to 3 times a day cleaning/desinfection of shared spaces
• hand sanitizers on entry and frequently thereafter
• keep a register of all employees, visitors and clients
• deny entry or service to persons who do not comply