What might Africa look like in the wake of the pandemic? There’s enough change happening to keep both optimists happy and pessimists glum
Safety comes first, with a tentative June 1 deadline for grades seven and 12 to return to school
Studies continue to reveal a far more complex history than that recorded by colonial settlers, missionaries and travellers
The recent addition of cookbooks by black authors to mainstream bookstore shelves reflects the demand for South African food and cooking culture in the country.
Unions and business rescue practitioners have until Friday afternoon to agree on a settlement and start the process of shutting the airline down
The pandemic could deliver a crippling blow to media houses across the continent
Dani Kyengo O’Neill has just released her first solo single. It’s a mantra. An anthem. A daily devotion. A queer prayer. Listen to it
Independent reports slam Cape Town’s Covid-19 homeless facility, but the city says conditions have improved since independent monitors visited
Both authoritarian and democratic governments are responding to the coronavirus crisis by instituting frightening new powers
100 000 tests. 600 000 people screened. And an increase in daily tests to 30 000 — inside what the state is doing with the time the lockdown bought
The decision to rely on the police and army to enforce the lockdown was correct, but security force actions show both the weaknesses of the state and of systems for establishing social order
While the president takes charge of the national effort against Covid-19, provincial premiers are using the crisis to show they too a leading from the front
After years of data processing at the Wits laboratory, one evolutionary scientist has constructed a 3D model of a baby Massospondylus
Dr Matshidiso Moeti’s father helped to eliminate smallpox. Now she’s leading Africa’s efforts against the coronavirus
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
Estimates hint that the scaling down of work in response to Covid-19 will result in a sharp drop in production in April and by 4.5% for the year
Movement in the grocery and pharmacy category — supermarkets, food warehouses, farmers’ markets, specialty food shops and pharmacies — has dropped by 60%
The Covid-19 pandemic is throwing the poor governance of some African countries into sharp relief
Even in the best of times, there is an inherent tension between the three arms of state
As the country hunkers down for a second week of lockdown, how reliable is the data available and will it enable a sound decision for whether South Africans can leave their homes on April 16?
Treasury says the credit ratings downgrade “could not have come at a worse time”, as country enters a 21-day Covid-19 lockdown with little money saved up
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation in Zimbabwe could not have been much worse
In one part of the rural Eastern Cape, some people say they are continuing with life as normal; others did not hear or watch the president’s lockdown announcement because they had no electricity
Small businesses are choosing to adapt and upgrade their offering in order to keep their heads above water until Covid-19 is contained
Schools were supposed to open on April 14, but with the lockdown only ending on April 16, they will remain closed
A falling out between partners in the controversial R100-million contract to do boiler tube maintenance at Eskom’s Medupi power station is threatening to scupper the entire project. The Mail & Guardian has learned that a falling out between former Eskom chairperson Jabu Mabuza’s relative Nomvula Mabuza and her former partner Drazan Vrca has escalated to […]
While most of Netflix’s live-action productions have been suspended, work on Mama K’s forges on from the comfort of animators’ couches and kitchen tables
As the country prepares to go into lockdown, residents fear that they may be at a higher risk of contracting Covid-19
One company is Durban has turned to producing protective face masks
But only if draconian border closures are accompanied by effective public health interventions
Online interventions are most likely going to benefit the middle class and the rich and children from working-class families will lose out