Covid-19
Bongie Mahlangu started a thriving business despite the Covid pandemic
During the Covid-19 lockdown about 2.9 million people, mostly women, lost their jobs according to the NIDS CRAM survey.
Video | 12 October 2021
GroundView: There is no scientific basis for the 12am to 4am curfew
Curfew could be reinstated if hospital beds start running out
GroundView | 12 October 2021
Waiter who lost his job during lockdown now runs his own pizza takeaway
Takesure Ranjisi makes pizza and sells it from a container in Walmer township
Brief | 12 October 2021
Refugees who arrived after lockdown have no way to apply for asylum
Asylum application backlog set to grow, with Refugee Reception Offices closed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic
News | 8 October 2021
Covid-19 has claimed nearly a quarter of a million lives in South Africa
Here’s how deaths have changed over the past two decades
By Nathan Geffen and Alex Welte
Science | 8 October 2021
How chefs are turning waste into nutritious meals
An organisation called Chefs with Compassion began feeding hungry people during lockdown
Video | 7 October 2021
Immigrants refused food parcels at Jeppestown distribution
EFF accused of hijacking government food relief for election gains
News | 6 October 2021
Protesters accuse SASSA officials of bribery
They also demand improved Social Relief of Distress Grant application process
Brief | 4 October 2021
No Covid relief for thousands of children’s centres
“Early Childhood Development centres have closed down. People have lost their jobs. But the national Department of Social Development is not saying a word.”
News | 30 September 2021