| Shodu la bosiu - Thief in the night |
Wa kena jwalo ka shodu la bosiu le sa lebellwang,
You entered like an unexpected thief in the night,
Wa nanya hore re se o bone ha o ranthanya,
You creeped in, so we do not see when you cause havoc,
Nako eo re phahamisang dihloho re shebisisa,
By the time we lifted our heads to check properly,
Yaba o se o kenelletse.
You had already made your way in. |
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| Social distancing, social grants and other social expectations – A reflection |
The Corona Virus (Covid-19) berthed in South Africa on 5 March 2020. Between then and the end of March, 1 353 people had tested positive from a total of 39 500 tested. |
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| The Outbreak of Covid-19 in South African: The re-emergence of contextual reali |
South Africa, like most countries in the world, is dealing with the coronavirus, also known as Covid -19. In its attempts to ensure that the spread of this virus is arrested, the government declared a state of disaster, which was followed by a declaration of a 21-day lockdown. |
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| The Subaltern Cannot Breathe: between the 5G Mast and the COVID-19 Mask |
Until Wuhan coughed in November 2019, it was a widely held historical commonplace that “When France sneezes, Europe catches a cold”. As I contemplate the devastation of the USpatented ‘Wuhan virus’ from my perilous existence in its Johannesburg epicenter, I deliberately eschew Statistical data on daily COVID-19 infections, deaths and recoveries because that only answers the tumescent question that stealthily occludes the disturbing fact that vaccines and technologies are deleterious to the body of the subaltern. |
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| Traditional rituals and plural medical systems in a pandemic |
At the time of writing, the numbers of COVID-19 cases and related deaths have been drastically on the rise in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, despite the province initially having one of the lowest caseloads. As reported by the Eastern Cape Department of Health, 200 COVID-w19 cases in the Eastern Cape are linked to just three funerals in the province. |
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| Twenty-twenty. The positives out of a crisis-COVID-19 |
The year 2020; the first year of the 2020s decade; the twentieth year of the twenty-first century and the twentieth year of the third millennium. A leap year, it is said to be, and again it is a year with a palindromic date (02-02-2020). With such characteristics, one could assume that this would be a remarkable year in the history of life. |
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| Ubuntu and solidarity in the COVID-19 era |
Ubuntu and solidarity are concepts that have come to characterise Africans in the precolonial and post-colonial epochs, and are pertinent now amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Covid-19 has triggered fundamental questions that beg answers: To what extent do communities cooperate with a view to containing and mitigating the spread of the disease through providing mutual support for the vulnerable and economically disempowered sectors of the population? |
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| Virtual platforms ensure continuity in teaching, learning, assessment, supervision and mentoring |
Not so long ago, the country’s universities were severely disrupted by the Fees Must Fall protests orchestrated by students themselves. Countrywide, the Fees Must Fall campaigns halted teaching in universities, promoting university administrators and some commentators to ponder the use of e-learning programmes. |
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