A research institution says the government should guarantee small businesses’ debt in order to keep the sector that employs millions of South Africans afloat amid Covid-19
Read the amended national lockdown regulations
A group of workers have been dismissed, but they insist they never embarked on industrial action in the first place
With South Africa under lockdown, many South Africans are hungry — and very soon persistent hunger will dramatically increase malnutrition
Underground liquor has a long history in South Africa. Its next chapter is being written under the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown
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
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
Covid-19 has entered the police and corrective system, with the Eastern Cape hit hard
While teaching students during lockdown, institutions of higher learning are also using their expertise to make masks, develop vaccines and research labour abuses
The government’s plan to deal with the pandemic and its aftermath includes managing ‘the challenges of bereavement’ that will accompany large-scale deaths
Sacred Heart College in Johannesburg has learned some important lessons about teaching during the Covid-19 lockdown
The family of Collin Khosa — allegedly killed at the hands of SANDF and JMPD members — want the president to explain how he will ensure this never happens again
The government has responded swiftly to the Covid-19 pandemic by declaring a state of disaster and imposing a lockdown, but now it needs to start thinking of an evolving exit strategy
The disease has a unique trajectory in South Africa, thanks to the rapid move to declare a national disaster and institute a lockdown. But this has only bought time to prepare for the worst
The fact that women, even under normal circumstances, multitask as teachers, cooks, cleaners and more has been rendered even more vivid by the lockdown
What the government seems to have missed is that we are facing not just a medical crisis, but a psychosocial predicament that may have far-reaching consequences
Cape Town Metro dismisses criticism that it illegally evicted people from a Khayelitsha settlement during the Covid-19 lockdown, arguing it was only demolishing unoccupied shacks
There are no available options for containing the spread of Covid-19 that do not have serious economic costs. We need to listen to expertise, not ill-considered opinion
The regulations have eased up but not for guardians and separated parents who do not have a court order or a parental agreement
A forum representing small liquor traders say the extension of the lockdown will ruin their businesses
Using narratives help human beings to cope with life … reading aloud to babies and children gives them this skill for the future
A 71-year-old’s car is his home and that is where he says he will reluctantly ride out the pandemic
Our mandatory separation from others could have dire mental and physical consequences, so best to keep some feelings in check… and check on others
President Cyril Ramaphosa extends the national lockdown by another two weeks to curb new Covid-19 infections, assuring South Africans that some businesses will be allowed to operate
The government has tried to clarify its position on baby clothes and blankets, saying stores that are already open can sell these for infants up to 36 months old
In Africa, more people will die as a result of what we are doing to prevent Covid-19 than will be saved by doing it
This week the South African Military Health Service issued a call to registered medical personnel to join the Reserve Force as volunteers until June 23 as part of the operation against Covid-19
In the past few weeks, nature has expanded into the spaces we have ceded by going into isolation
The days roll into one another as I work the phone to feed the news machine. I’d like to be fed too . . . but my butcher betrayed me
From church services over WhatsApp to eating with family and listening to chilled music over Instagram, South Africa is going to have a very different long weekend, grounded in sharing and caring
Now that we are in the second week of lockdown, South Africans seem to be taking their unwritten civic duty of snitching very seriously
In a judgment set to be appealed, the judge said lawyers had to set an example to all South Africans during the national lockdown