The decision to rely on the police and army to enforce the lockdown was correct, but security force actions show both the weaknesses of the state and of systems for establishing social order
While the president takes charge of the national effort against Covid-19, provincial premiers are using the crisis to show they too a leading from the front
The City’s Covid-19 homeless site has been criticised for being inadequate to shelter the most vulnerable from the Coronavirus storm, while drug addicts say they’re being left to suffer due to inadequate medical attention
The Covid-19 outbreak should not be used as an occasion to diminish human rights, but as an opportunity to reaffirm them
By violating basic human rights, governments risk inflicting a double tragedy on their most vulnerable populations
With South Africa under lockdown, many South Africans are hungry — and very soon persistent hunger will dramatically increase malnutrition
Covid-19 has entered the police and corrective system, with the Eastern Cape hit hard
The university plans to teach online as South Africa’s lockdown continues, and is offering zero-rated data for its teaching sites, as well as computing devices for students
While teaching students during lockdown, institutions of higher learning are also using their expertise to make masks, develop vaccines and research labour abuses
The government’s plan to deal with the pandemic and its aftermath includes managing ‘the challenges of bereavement’ that will accompany large-scale deaths