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Yeoville can police itself, thank you

In the Johannesburg suburb, neat queues are enforced, physical distances maintained and fights stopped by its community policing forum
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Quiet contemplation this Easter

From church services over WhatsApp to eating with family and listening to chilled music over Instagram, South Africa is going to have a very different long weekend, grounded in sharing and caring
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Weekend football quiz: Goalscorer edition

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Take the Mail & Guardian’s football quiz — a poor replacement for real football but a genuine shot, nonetheless
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Sci-tech

Easter eggs from the most South African dinosaur

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After years of data processing at the Wits laboratory, one evolutionary scientist has constructed a 3D model of a baby Massospondylus
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Lockdown is wrong for Africa

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In Africa, more people will die as a result of what we are doing to prevent Covid-19 than will be saved by doing it
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Army calls for reserve volunteers

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This week the South African Military Health Service issued a call to registered medical personnel to join the Reserve Force as volunteers until June 23 as part of the operation against Covid-19
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Top Six

‘Afraid, but my spaza’s open’

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The police and people roving empty streets are intimidating, it’s difficult to replace stock and business has dropped
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Mail & Guardian needs your help

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Africa

Africa

Review: The pandemic could change politics as we know it. Here’s a guidebook

Jakkie Cilliers’s book about igniting a growth revolution in Africa has some timely lessons as we seek ways to mitigate the economic effects of Covid-19
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Meet the doctor leading Africa’s fight to contain the coronavirus pandemic

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Dr Matshidiso Moeti’s father helped to eliminate smallpox. Now she’s leading Africa’s efforts against the coronavirus

Covid-19 grounds Nigeria’s medical tourists

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The country’s elites, including the president, travelled abroad for treatment but now they must use the country’s neglected health system

Business

Business

Wearing a face mask? Get a free orange

Soweto based young professional, Nhlanhla Mohlauli has decided to plough back into his community by helping entrepreneurs in the informal economy
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Nehawu launches urgent court bid over protective gear for health workers

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The health workers’ union says the government has rebuffed its attempts to meet about mitigating risks to workers

Beware, the cybervirus criminals want you

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During times of crisis, people turn to trusted sources for accurate information. This leaves them vulnerable to cybercriminals

Opinion

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Globally people are adopting Africa’s heritage of resilience wisdom

Flocking is a response to a crisis and hardship, when families, social groups, villages, countries and even the usually competitive individuals and businesses come together to counter the suffering
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What Gaia theory can tell us about the outbreak of novel coronavirus

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Automatic-control mechanisms are part of the intelligent self-regulation that occurs in nature. Thus, the outbreak of Covid-19 could very well be Gaia’s automatic reaction to restore homeostatic equilibrium

Social isolation can mess with the mind

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Our mandatory separation from others could have dire mental and physical consequences, so best to keep some feelings in check… and check on others

Environment

Environment

Pandas mate in lockdown privacy

Stuck at home with no visitors and not much else to do, a pair of pandas in Hong Kong finally decided to give mating a go after a decade of dodging the issue
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Nature thrives in our distancing during the lockdown

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In the past few weeks, nature has expanded into the spaces we have ceded by going into isolation

Remember, corporations are adept at deflection campaigns

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In this moment where those corporations are “stepping up” to the Covid-19 challenge, let’s not forget their true character and where and how they have made their money

Arts & Culture

Friday

Dodging the sjambok: How musicians got around apartheid’s laws

The country was a very strange world, but artists, audiences and record companies found ways to get their sound out there
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Inside the circle: A review of Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

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Saidiya Hartmanilluminates the perspectives of young Black women through a vividly cinematic narrative where we are positioned to view the world through their eyes.

Pretensions of fighting for the oppressed and the totality of white power

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We should be wary of taking theories of commitment and agency as self-evident; we should instead question their unspoken assumptions as we also question the motivations attendant to them.

Education

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Locking down and in with stories for all ages

Using narratives help human beings to cope with life … reading aloud to babies and children gives them this skill for the future
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Online learning in lockdown is far from ideal

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Varsities are determined to complete the first semester even if it hinders some students

Be at war with the coronavirus, not with each other

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If we are to flatten the curve of this virus and ensure that it does not attack as hard as it has done in some European countries, we need to put petty differences aside and be at war with the virus

Motoring

Motoring

Wanna be a hustler? Roll up

The Range Rover Sport speaks to aspirations yet to be fulfilled
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A new vintage to savour

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If the winelands are best seen from the road then what better vantage point could we ask for than the new-look Discovery Sport?

It’s more than a ride, it’s family

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This petrolhead insists his brown Datsun will remain his go-to commute cabby for many years

Sport

Sport

The secret behind the Josef Zinnbauer magic

The Orlando Pirates coach has masterminded a dramatic turnaround at the struggling club he joined just over four months ago. Now, they are league contenders
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Wayde van Niekerk, the eternal underdog

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Injury saw the Olympic champion dubbed an underdog going into the race he won in record-breaking fashion in Rio. But it’s a position he knows well, and now he has an extra year to heal and train

The making of an African tennis champ

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The singular vision behind the Anthony Harris Tennis Academy means giving South Africa’s young talent an equal opportunity to excel, irrespective of background or financial means

World

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Jair Bolsonaro: the president who ‘ordered his country to die’

The Brazilian president broke self-isolation, despite being exposed to Covid-19, and has encouraged his supporters to do the same, while his health minister battles to contain the crisis
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South Africans stuck in Peru lockdown told to ‘hang in there’

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Two women who travelled to South America for a friend’s wedding were told by the South African government to wait until Peru’s state of emergency ends. Now they could be coming home

Far right uses coronavirus to scapegoat refugees

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Europe’s far-right nationalists are closing their borders and using Covid-19 as a guise to deport and deny entry to refugees and asylum seekers

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Special Reports

Rahima Moosa Hospital nursing college introduces no-touch facial recognition access system

The new system allows the hospital to enrol people’s faces immediately, using artificial intelligence, and integrates easily with existing access control infrastructure, including card readers and biometrics
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Special Reports

Everyone’s talking about it. Even Kentucky

Earlier this year South African fried chicken fast-food chain, Chicken Licken®, launched a campaign for their wallet-friendly EasyBucks® meals, based on the idea of ‘Everyone’s talking about it.’
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Special Reports

New energy mix on the cards

REI4P already has and will continue to yield thousands of employment opportunities
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The online value of executive education in a Covid-19 world

Executive education courses further develop the skills of leaders in the workplace
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Special Reports

Sisa Ntshona urges everyone to stay home, and consider travelling later

Sisa Ntshona has urged everyone to limit their movements in line with government’s request
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Special Reports

SAB Zenzele’s special AGM postponed until further notice

An arrangement has been announced for shareholders and retailers to receive a 77.5% cash payout
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