Covid-19

Transparent masks allow deaf people to lip-read

“Normal masks hide emotions”

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News | 19 June 2020

Covid-19 Report 7: Life-saving drug is good news but no time to pop champagne

Also: Four suggestions for improving peer review, and South African death data

GroundUp and Spotlight staff

Covid-19 Report | 18 June 2020

Covid-19: COSAS closes down Cape Town school

Matric students sent home

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News | 18 June 2020

SANCO closes Crossroads school after teacher tests positive for Covid-19

Education department says unnecessary to shut down school

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Brief | 17 June 2020

Civil society steps in to monitor complaints against the police and army

Earlier lockdown restrictions prevented many people from reporting abuses, says activist

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News | 15 June 2020

Covid-19: Durban customers fed-up with bad hair days

Hairstylists find ways to work while salons are closed

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News | 15 June 2020

Uitenhage stylist uses his hair to protest against Covid-19 lockdown

“What have we done?” asks Onele Cembi

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News | 15 June 2020

Motshekga taken to court for “backtracked” promise to reinstate feeding programme

In some households it’s a choice between buying food or the data needed to study online

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Law | 14 June 2020

Asylum seeker with spinal cord injury faces eviction from his shack

Markus Nyoni can no longer pay his rent because of the Covid-19 pandemic

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News | 12 June 2020