Makhura, who was speaking during a virtual session of the Gauteng provincial legislature said the province and its districts were highly integrated.
“We cant go to Level 3 in a disjoined way, we cant have one metro in Level 4, another in Level 3 and another at Level 2,” he said on Tuesday.
The country is slowly making its way out of a hard lockdown that was imposed by President Cyril Ramaphosa in March after the deadly novel coronavirus hit South African shores.
Makhura said his government was holding a lot of discussions with different sectors to prepare for less stringent measures. He also called on shopping malls and law enforcement to assist in making sure the province’s residents complied with lockdown regulations, as well as standards set by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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He said there would be a greater focus on townships during the start of Level 3.
“In the suburbs we now have more recoveries and fewer active cases, with newer confirmed cases in our townships,” said Makhura.
He also raised concerns over challenges presented by a lack of awareness in some communities, as well as spatial planning in the province, but added that those infected had been moved to the province’s own isolation and quarantine sites.
Makhura thanked the different political parties in Gauteng for working together and said provincial departments and municipalities had also been able to coordinate well throughout the crisis.
