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10 lessons from the COVID-19 frontline for a more gender-equal world
Women play an outsize role responding to crises, including as frontline healthcare and social workers, caregivers at home, and as mobilisers in their communities.
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ANALYSIS: What is the rule of law & why does it matter in lockdown?
The court says people need to be able to trust the government to abide by the rule of law, make rational regulations, and not intrude on the rights of those subject to the law.
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MAMPHELA RAMPHELE: Africa Day is a celebration of resilience
COVID-19 and our response to it is Africa's opportunity to reimagine itself, writes Mamphela Ramphele.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: COVID-19 has revealed Africa's strengths
The continent's experience with communicable diseases such as Ebola and TB has put it in a strong position to deal with COVID-19.
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NELISA NGQULANA: Washing own mask makes women less vulnerable to COVID-19
A simple act could go a long way in helping to ensure women aren't made more vulnerable than they already are, writes Nelisa Ngqulana.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: Mr President, the buck has to stop somewhere
During lockdown we must keep faith with our democracy and continue to use the Constitution as our bulwark against any and every abuse of power, writes Judith February.
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ANALYSIS: Why easing the lockdown could put workers in SA at risk
Compliance with occupational health and safety requirements is already poor and few inspections of workplaces are being done.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: Why we need COVID-19 obituaries
If we continue publishing the importance and death of only public figures or people we deem superior, it spreads a destructive fire fuelled by the fiction that lower classes are immune and untouchable, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
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DA MP to Verashni Pillay: It's a political football game of your imagination
DA Member of Parliament Zakhele Mbhele responds to Verashni Pillay’s open letter which stated that lockdown had become a political football ahead of elections next year for an embattled opposition – particularly the DA.
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Lessons from Sierra Leone’s Ebola pandemic's impact of school closures on girls
What the consequences of school closures during Africa's 'longest, largest and deadliest' Ebola outbreak can teach the continent.
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ANALYSIS: How youth and technology can drive Africa's COVID-19 response
The current pandemic response in Africa should tap into youth who are full of innovative ideas that could disrupt traditional thinking and modes of addressing diseases.
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ANALYSIS: This is why economic policy remains hotly contested in South Africa
A new book sheds new light on the evolution of the economic policy of the African National Congress, South Africa's governing party.
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RESEARCH CHECK: Does nicotine protect us against coronavirus?
What can we make of a recent paper which examined smoking rates among COVID-19 patients in a French hospital and hypothesised that smoking might make people less susceptible to COVID-19 infection?
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ANALYSIS: It’s a long jump back onto the travel bandwagon
Travelling has proven resilient after previous crises, which suggests that once a COVID-19 vaccine, treatment or other solution is found, antsy globetrotters will pack their Samsonites in nearly full force again.
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ANALYSIS: Why more must be done to fight bogus COVID-19 cure claims
Authorities around the world can do more to ensure that correct information and messages on the pandemic reach everybody.
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MAHLATSE MAHLASE: Funerals & COVID-19 - how the virus is robbing us of our grief
Coronavirus is not just changing our ways of living. It is also stealing our sense of ubuntu, writes Mahlatse Mahlase.
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VERASHNI PILLAY: Channeling South Africans’ desperate need for accountability
Young, black South Africans will not wait to fit into anyone's boxes to make demands. So who will rise up to the challenge?
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KHUSELA DIKO: A delicate balancing act to save lives and protect livelihoods
Government is heeding the advice of experts and easing lockdown restrictions. But if we do so too abruptly, or too quickly, we risk losing the gains we have secured, writes Khusela Diko, spokesperson for President Ramaphosa.
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SIHLE ZIKALALA: We must heal and unite Walter Sisulu’s beloved ANC
On the birthday of late ANC activist Walter Sisulu, Sihle Zikalala writes that without an effective ANC, the struggle for the full emancipation of blacks will remain a dream deferred.
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VERASHNI PILLAY: Stop using the lockdown as a political football
Lockdown has become a political football ahead of elections next year – particularly for the DA, writes Verashni Pillay.
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MAPULE MAHLULO: An open letter to Solidarity, AfriForum on B-BBEE phobia
Mapule Mahlulo attempts to help ease AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel's pain by diagnosing his condition - acute chronic B-BBEE-phobia.
