A large percentage don’t have access to adequate housing, food, clean water or sanitation, putting them and their families at a higher risk of the coronavirus
It may leave a sour taste in the mouth, but the lack of sanction for Manchester City, aside from a fine that amounts to small change, doesn’t affect the bigger picture
Restaurateurs have only been able to survive the Covid-19 restrictions by closing their doors — it’s just too expensive to serve guests on the premises
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Nasrec promises about accountability need to be effected by the ANC, but the party seems incapable of self-policing
South Africa’s Covid-19-related deaths have been comparatively lower than the rest of the world. But municipalities are preparing for the worst
The coronavirus pandemic is pushing us to respond to issues that were around before Covid-19, including at schools in poor areas
A free webinar discusses how to help young people struggling to find their place in the new normal without classmates and friends
Near Makhanda in the Eastern Cape in the village of Salem is a cricket pitch that is said to be the oldest in the country. Watered by blood and trauma, rolled with frontier nostalgia and contemporary paranoia, how does it play?
Income shocks and the breakdowns in social protection schemes have had consequences for hunger and food insecurity in South Africa
Naptosa says it is irresponsible to keep schools open and that this is affecting the mental and physical health of teachers and learners
Anti-racism and political contagion from Save Darfur to Black Lives Matter
Citing cases such as a school to which only four learners returned, to be met by 20 teachers, the union said Covid-19 is wreaking havoc on learning
Many Ugandans find Stella Nyanzi’s mode of protest, including vulgar insults and stripping to make a point, unsettling. But her challenge to the country’s patriarchy could bring much-needed reform
Unions and staff representatives have agreed to severance packages for about 2 700 employees who will lose their jobs.
The coronavirus has hit the Eastern Cape hard, but many rural areas in the province still have no clean water for hand washing, forcing residents to break lockdown regulations to protest
The SADC has been lackadaisical in its response to the insurgency in Mozambique and in so doing, is putting several other southern African countries at risk
The pandemic has triggered a global economic crisis that will leave many South Africans without income security
After months of complaining about the regulations imposed on the industry, taxi owners have been given a lifeline
Shop owners and taxi drivers can now refuse entry to people who defy mandatory mask-wearing regulations
Calling this ‘the gravest crisis in the history of our democracy’, the president said level three lockdown remains, but enforcement will be strengthened
As the crisis continues to unfold, the biggest threat may be the vested interest in maintaining the civil war Therefore, with no end in sight to the conflict plaguing the nation, the question worth asking is: who benefits from a Yemen at war?
The basics of epidemiology will help explain why some of the believable but incorrect propositions about the pandemic are wrong.
After the death of the president’s chosen successor, the ruling party says “everything is possible”
The 2020 winner of the PEN Pinter Prize, LKJ’s poetry puts the ignominy and hardship of the black experience in Britain front and centre in words that echo across the decades
This can be done by making the project’s 30% of the budget for local broad-based black economic empowerment a separate budget to break the feedback loop that greases the wheels of patronage.
President Keita faces no shortage of challenges to his authority. Can he hold on to power?
A frontier dispute between the two Asian giants turned deadly for the first time in 45 years. Observers argue the skirmish was exacerbated by Delhi’s annexation of Kashmir and Ladakh
Children are expected to keep learning at home during the coronavirus lockdown, but a lack of resources makes this a tricky prospect for some of them
Journalists need to value criticism of their work to the same degree they value press freedom, argues Julie Reid in this extract from ‘Tell Our Story: Multiplying Voices in the News Media’
Cape Town’s oldest roadhouse is hoping to make a comeback during the coronavirus lockdown. Nostalgia is the biggest seller
The pandemic may be the final blow to a nation on the brink
‘The choice we are faced with is to submit or fight’