Even as most of the country prepares to head to level 3 of government's alert levels at the end of this month, the department of health can only hope that it will have done enough to drill into South Africans the need to practise the non-pharmaceutical interventions of social distancing, heightened hygiene and mask wearing, in the absence of treatment for the virus.
'You can consider us as dead, whether by Covid-19 or hunger': how foreigners are hit hard
“As a self-employed refugee, I already live hand to mouth. If we don’t work we won’t have anything to eat,” said Jeanne Butoyi, a permanent resident who has been living in SA for 22 years. “Debt is piling up and even if the lockdown is lifted today, I don’t know how I am going to make up all the money I now owe,” said Butoyi.As SA grapples with the back-to-school problem, the good old traditional radio has saved the day in Limpopo.Eastern Cape prison records 34 new Covid-19 infections, taking number of cases in SA prisons to 654
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