Universal and free healthcare will help us all in combating the virus, but this policy will also have benefits in the longer term
The government will have to consider the pros and cons of direct taxation, de facto taxation and debt as it negotiates the coronavirus economic crisis
Why is the visual depiction of this country in centre-left international online news publications so unrecognisable?
The coronavirus pandemic has brought the role of universities in nurturing scientific inquiry and evidence-based policy-making to the fore
Inspectorate finds serious overcrowding at ‘Sun City’ centre, putting inmates at risk of Covid-19
Measures need to lay the foundations of a new economy and society post the pandemic
COMMENT This year, Freedom Day on April 27 came and went without celebration for women in townships and on farms in South Africa. It was just another day of struggle, with women having to walk at least two kilometres to fetch water, sometimes from empty JoJo tanks, fending off attacks on the way, and now […]
Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, the director general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, is up for the challenge
Many African governments have paid little more than lip service to their citizens stranded all over the world
Children are less likely to contract the coronavirus than adults, but the way in which the pandemic affects them goes beyond ill health