The president needs to make hard, perhaps hazardous, choices for the post-Covid economy, writes Richard Calland
Senior South African politicians have not been spared the coronavirus. What happens if the head of state is not well enough to be at his desk?
The president and the National Coronavirus Command Council have turned taxis into vectors of death
Calling this ‘the gravest crisis in the history of our democracy’, the president said level three lockdown remains, but enforcement will be strengthened
The president’s address comes after a number of meetings with Cabinet and the National Command Council
The poorly conceptualised and materially flawed proposed legislation was patched up instead of being rewritten. It will now go to Parliament, which should reject the Bill as unfixable
President Cyril Ramaphosa tells MPs he expects tough economic times ahead for South Africans, but the crisis is a chance to ‘look at the way we’re doing things’
President’s address covered the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and the murder and rape of women ‘who were killed by men’
The President’s address follows a number of meetings of the Cabinet, the National Coronavirus Command Council and the Presidential Coordinating Council
President Cyril Ramaphosa has issued an instruction to the Western Cape government to recruit more staff to stem the Covid-19 tide