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Covid-19: Meet the entrepeneurs who are making masks
Wearing masks may help reduce the spread of the epidemic, if other social distancing measures are also implemented
By Thamsanqa Mbovane and Zimbili Vilakazi
News | 15 April 2020
Covid-19: People seek shelter at church after City demolishes shacks in Khayelitsha
Residents say they are unable to rebuild their shacks and unable to return to their former backyards
By Vincent Lali
News | 15 April 2020
Covid-19: Roads blocked, rocks thrown during food protest in Cape Town
“We’re not going to die from the coronavirus, but we will die of hunger”
News | 14 April 2020
Covid-19: Angry taxi drivers set tyres alight outside police station in Uitenhage
Local police have impounded about 60 informal jikeleza taxis since the lockdown
News | 14 April 2020
Covid-19: Meat vendors stripped of their livelihood
“We understand the coronavirus is dangerous. But our children are hungry at home”
News | 14 April 2020
Covid-19: Motshekga urged to restore school feeding schemes during lockdown
Concern about need to provide meals for nine million learners
News | 13 April 2020
City officers shoot at Khayelitsha protesters
Conflict over how to respond to land occupation during lockdown intensifies
By Vincent Lali
News | 12 April 2020
Covid-19: Judge scolds union for “untenable” case against Minister of Health
“Under circumstances of national disaster, everyone is called upon, for the good of society as a whole, to co-operate in bringing the pandemic under control.”
News | 11 April 2020
Covid-19: Lockdown blamed for desperate Cape Town land occupation
Law enforcement officers demolish dozens of shacks
By Vincent Lali
News | 11 April 2020