South Africa won’t have enough hospital beds, intensive care or otherwise, to treat Covid-19 patients, official predictions reveal. But there’s still time to act, say experts
Education minister says schools will reopen for Grades 7 and 12 on June 1, and she cannot guarantee that “no one will die”
Scientists from a number of institutions collaborated to collect data on 17 marine birds and mammals such as penguins, albatrosses, seals and whales in the ocean around Antarctica
The Democratic Alliance and their allies are prioritising the unequal and racist capitalist system over people’s lives
University to open residences for students who struggle to study remotely, and those who need labs on campus to finish their 2020 studies
The lockdown has prevented public consultations and parliamentary committee meetings on the commercial use of marijuana and hemp
The country has experienced violent incidents of unrest in recent weeks
The DA has won a high court victory, but the ANC is taking its campaign for power to the Constitutional Court. All the while, residents are left leaderless and without services
The legacy of Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who died from complications related to Covid-19, helps us understand how powerful and yet constrained Nigeria’s presidency is
A high court ruling in Zambia could mean redistributed land and compensation for communities who were evicted for commercial farming
Street traders are central to food security in Johannesburg. But since being declared an essential service under lockdown, street trade in South Africa’s biggest city has returned to uneven ground
We should learn from history that prohibitions tend not to work, even if the intention is good
Today, the whole world stands where Europe was in 1945. Europe recovered then thanks to massive international assistance. That same attitude of cooperation and solidarity is needed now more than ever
With a world-class gauntlet laid out in front of them, could South Africa make an expectant nation proud?
Health, debt and hunger are huge threats to the continent’s stability
We need it to help us act responsibly when the world as we knew it seems to have shifted. It gives us something to hold on to and free us from fear’s grip
Pan-Africanism is an ever-evolving ideology, without a set rubric, and is dependent on one’s interpretation
Using a variety of methods and interactions, teachers and students have had to adapt to a new idea of the classroom
The lockdown is an ideal time to reintroduce storytelling at home and in the process promote a love of reading
Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis was a textbook example of what not to do, you will have to do it all differently
In its ruling the high court sought to restore the ‘social contract’ between citizens and government after the assault and death of Collins Khosa
In an extraordinary move for a judge, the deputy judge president says she secretly recorded a meeting that proves she was insulted by Judge President John Hlophe
Especially in a country like South Africa with its huge inequalities, a digital divide and teacher unions
South Africa’s lockdown is not an ‘elimination lockdown’, nor a ‘flatten the curve lockdown’. Instead, our ‘delay lockdown’ has its own set of implications
Smoking out social tobacco users as unique spreaders of the coronavirus sends out the wrong messages
Brutality at the hands of those meant to protect us is just too common in our society and is mostly targeted at poor, black people
The state of politics and geopolitics has been exacerbated, rather than stabilised, by the coronavirus crisis
Allegations of abuse and excessive use of force by the security forces have been a feature during the Covid-19 pandemic
The facility in Cape Town was about quarantining the most vulnerable — the homeless — rather than preventing Covid-19
Correctional centres across Africa are struggling to react to the pandemic and its effects on inmates
Lockdown easing will happen and so will the increase in positive cases. This balancing act will require rapid returns to stringent measures to protect thousands of lives
The uncertainty of a post-Covid-19 airspace makes it even more difficult for the airline industry to forecast its recovery