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Tighter Covid restrictions for N. Mandela Bay — other hotspots may follow

Health Sarah Smit & M&G Data Desk - 3 Dec 2020

With the number of cases spiralling out of control in hotspots in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape, longer curfews and restrictions on alcohol sales are being implemented

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

It’s not a case of jobs or lives. Jobs are lives

Coronavirus Charles R Stith - 19 Jul 2020

Starvation is driving the spread of the coronavirus and the government needs to let people work and create jobs

Taxis and Covid-19: ‘The ideal doesn’t exist’

Coronavirus Sarah Smit - 13 Jul 2020

After months of complaining about the regulations imposed on the industry, taxi owners have been given a lifeline

Mask rules are not meant to ‘criminalise’ the public

Coronavirus Sarah Smit - 13 Jul 2020

Shop owners and taxi drivers can now refuse entry to people who defy mandatory mask-wearing regulations

Level four lockdown: Dlamini-Zuma stubs out South Africa’s hopes for a puff

Article Paddy Harper - 29 Apr 2020

Some industries will open but the tobacco ban remains in place, contradicting the president’s earlier remarks

Coronavirus reaches Sudan, one of the countries least equipped to cope with it

Africa Mark Weston - 24 Mar 2020

After years of neglect, the country’s health service was already under water. With fewer than 200 critical care beds, doctors say Covid-19 will ‘sink’ Sudan

Sasco to ANC: Test free education

Article Govan Whittles - 21 Oct 2016

They presented a list of new demands, including raising the fees funding cap to R900 000.

Beauty under curfew in Tunis

Article Staff Reporter - 14 May 2011

A flash blow wave but no time for a wash, a quick eyebrow shaping or rushed facials: women dart in and out of Tunis' beauty salons before curfew.

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