Coronavirus

Emergency hospital: Gauteng’s potential R500-million albatross

Coronavirus Sabelo Skiti & Pontsho Pilane - 25 Sep 2020

Construction of an emergency Covid-19 hospital is running months behind deadline, promising to come online only after Gauteng’s peak

Long Read | SA must fix its ‘dop system’

Coronavirus Carlos - 22 Sep 2020

The Covid-19 lockdown has exposed the effects of South Africa’s weak alcohol regulations. Government and health campaigners want tougher policies, but the liquor giants are pushing back

Why insurance firms’ earnings are down

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 19 Sep 2020

Covid-19 has hit the insurance industry especially hard

Debt rises as virus eats paycheques

Business Tshegofatso Mathe & Thando Maeko - 17 Sep 2020

Heavily indebted, South Africans turn to loan sharks rather than banks for short-term relief, while business resists borrowing from banks due to economic uncertainty

SA’s level best: Welcome to the new normal

Coronavirus Lester Kiewit - 17 Sep 2020

It’s a lifestyle that South Africans will have to maintain as the country navigates an almost post-lockdown situation in which the coronavirus remains very alive and active

Eusebius McKaiser: Why the bullshit curfew is seriously dangerous

Coronavirus Eusebius McKaiser - 17 Sep 2020

Anti-democratic creep sets in when the state feels no need to explain its irrational decisions. Is that the type of state we want to live in?

Level one loading: Almost back to normal

Coronavirus Lester Kiewit, Paddy Harper, Sarah Smit & Thando Maeko - 16 Sep 2020

President Cyril Ramaphosa announces South Africa will move to level one of lockdown on September 20 after nearly six months of restrictions on movement, trade, learning and socialising

Watch it again: Ramaphosa addresses the nation

Coronavirus Staff Reporter - 16 Sep 2020

The president announced that South Africa will move to alert level 1 of lockdown from Monday

The cost of Covid: 25 years of progress, halted

Africa Simon Allison - 16 Sep 2020

Development has been set back by two decades, says the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers report

The perils of vaccine nationalism

Coronavirus Khaya Sithole - 16 Sep 2020

If distribution of the eventual Covid-19 vaccine occurs along economic and political lines, all countries will remain at risk

Bus tour operators plead for help

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 12 Sep 2020

The tourism transport sector was hammered during Covid-19 levels four and five and is asking the government for financial assistance

B4SA approves Ters extension

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 9 Sep 2020

The department of labour has extended Covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme payments until September 15.

‘We are painstakingly putting things right’ — Ramaphosa

Coronavirus Sipho Kings - 9 Sep 2020

Talking to the media, President Cyril Ramaphosa said he too was frustrated by the slow pace of justice around corruption, but that ‘the change that we have all wanted to see is unfolding’

South Africa’s economy is in a severe recession

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 8 Sep 2020

StatsSa has dubbed Q2 of 2020 the “pandemic quarter” as a result of hard Covid-19 lockdown that saw most sectors of the economy plummeting

The pandemic’s effect is gendered

Coronavirus Nonsikelelo Ncube - 6 Sep 2020

Although two thirds of job losses were experienced by women, two thirds of the recipients of the R350 Covid-19 grant were men

Covid wave brings second quarter slide

Business Tshegofatso Mathe & Thando Maeko - 6 Sep 2020

The gross domestic product numbers are likely to be gloomy, but the economy is not at ground zero

Death in small-town America

Coronavirus Peter Rothpletz & Kiri Rupiah - 5 Sep 2020

As the coronavirus continues its deadly march, funeral directors in small-town America quietly attend to burying the dead

Covid-19 sets HIV treatment and testing back

Coronavirus Pontsho Pilane - 4 Sep 2020

Fewer people are getting tested for HIV than last year. People are also battling to access chronic medication. These are some of the lasting effects of the lockdown and the coronavirus pandemic

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