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Eastern Cape fails tracing and testing
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What Africa can learn from Cuba in combating the Covid-19 pandemic
Africa should abandon the neoliberal path to be able to deal with Covid-19 and other health system challenges likely to emerge in future
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If you are arrested and fined in lockdown, you do get a criminal record if you pay the admission of guilt fine
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