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‘Jobs vs health’: What will shape public-health policies after Covid-19?

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Comorbidities, particularly noncommunicable diseases have been put into the spotlight during the Covid-19 pandemic. How we approach preventing NCDs in the future will depend on how the effects of the coronavirus are framed
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Locked-down bars survive through gamblers’ luck

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Forced to turn away drinkers, bars and pubs with slot machines have managed to keep their doors open during the tough national lockdown
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Trail of Covid cases on trial in the courts

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Since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the state of disaster in March, the government’s lockdown regulations have been the subject of public scrutiny and ire
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Taverns hit hard by liquor ban

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About R8-billion was lost during the hard lockdown and revenue is being slashed further
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The glass is half empty

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The ban on alcohol sales does not only affect liquor companies — it ripples lethally through other related businesses such as the bottle and packaging industry, which, if it closed, would mean job losses
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Eusebius McKaiser: Ramaphosa may want to swap title of president for mister

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The president and the National Coronavirus Command Council have turned taxis into vectors of death
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Taxis and Covid-19: ‘The ideal doesn’t exist’

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After months of complaining about the regulations imposed on the industry, taxi owners have been given a lifeline
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Mask rules are not meant to ‘criminalise’ the public

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Shop owners and taxi drivers can now refuse entry to people who defy mandatory mask-wearing regulations
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Ramaphosa asks all South Africans to help to avoid 50 000 Covid-19 deaths this year

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Calling this ‘the gravest crisis in the history of our democracy’, the president said level three lockdown remains, but enforcement will be strengthened
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‘Those who zol’: Dangerous discourses in a time of crisis

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Smoking out social tobacco users as unique spreaders of the coronavirus sends out the wrong messages
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Alexandra’s black market for booze under lockdown

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Underground liquor has a long history in South Africa. Its next chapter is being written under the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown
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Eusebius McKaiser: Why a total ban on selling alcohol is irrational

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At the heart of the body’s challenge of the lockdown alcohol sales ban, is the question of whether a total ban achieves the purpose of flattening the coronavirus curve
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President asks for more time on lockdown liquor ban court case

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Responding to a threat of court action, the presidency says the Gauteng Liquor Forum’s concerns about the alcohol ban are being discussed this week
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