With nearly 19 000 tanks needed for emergency water supply, the already broke water department is exhausting its future budget for crucial projects in areas already without water
With access to food severely limited and an already flawed agricultural infrastructure, many people living in rural communities are suffering
Forced to work across multiple hospitals, health officials have helped to spread Covid-19 in the private healthcare system
Health workers on the front line in one of the poorest provinces are struggling with a shortage of protective equipment and accuse the health department of being unprepared for the pandemic
Universities and vocational colleges have the responsibility of protecting graduates’ futures
Maintenance division is first SAA subsidiary to declare hardship to staff as travel ban effects grow at the state-owned airline
Amcu and experts agree that mineworkers and their communities face a unique risk without a detailed response to Covid-19 from the sector
To lessen the damage being wrought by the lockdown, the coronavirus budget mixed increased grants with more money for infrastructure and to keep businesses
The World Health Organisation continues to praise South Africa’s public-health response to the pandemic. That praise, however, will be long forgotten if we are not able to meet all our other challenges with the same alacrity
Universities South Africa is an important voice that we should look to in the higher education sector. Unfortunately it is often inaudible
Sassa says grants to an extra six million people who lose jobs, on top of 18-million beneficiaries, means it can’t give as much to child support grants
Civil-military relations across the continent are tenuous, at best. Covid-19 may have given African governments an opportunity to create a new social compact with their citizens
The president announced the national lockdown on March 23. On Tuesday, he announced an extraordinary R500-billion support package to protect South Africans during the Covid-19 pandemic
Trust in Peter Mutharika’s government is at an all time low — just when it’s needed most
South Africans have an uncaring stigmatising and marginalising culture and it keeps people on the fringes of society with diminished opportunities in life
Supporting the lockdown rules and holding the government to account is a delicate balancing act
The speed at which substantial wealth was given shows that investment in transformation and justice does not enjoy the same humanitarian response
The group who had missed their flight on Tuesday have finally boarded a plane home
Parliament told 70 000 member SANDF deployment there to support the health department, while questions over army conduct still hang in the air
South Africa needs clear communication between departments and with the public, particularly now during the Covid-19 pandemic
For the past five years, Lauren Beukes has been working on a book set in the aftermath of a global epidemic. Its release couldn’t have been more timely
It’s long been known that the generosity of developed countries only goes so far and is generally in their own interests
Racist and derogatory videos are causing incalculable damage to China’s image in Africa, but this is unlikely to change the relationship
Anthropologists ask the difficult questions about human behaviour and also provide the difficult answers
Leaders need to grapple with the wicked problem of how to ease out
of the lockdown
The last thing we need is your gluten-free treats, Tai Chi lessons or home-schooling prowess to make us feel worse about things
As information about the coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organise an immense campaign against its spread
Parliament and parliamentarians need to adjust their working procedures to ensure they are there for citizens during this crisis
The department of international relations announced that 93 South Africans have been repatriated. But others are still waiting to get back home
Abba Kyari was Muhammadu Buhari’s powerful chief of staff, and the jockeying to replace him has already begun
The president’s R500-billion economic package offers a new deal for desperate South Africans across the class divide
President announces an ‘extraordinary coronavirus budget’ with R20-billion for healthcare and spending on the pandemic equal to 10% of national GDP