Is the coronavirus mortality rate, fallible as it is, even the number we should be focusing on right now?
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As we move into coronavirus lockdown level four, a scene from A Clockwork Orange illustrates the eerie limbo we inhabit
Dear Mr President, Before launching into this letter’s raison d’être, I want you to know that I am truly fond of you. Truly. I want…
The relationship between gender-based violence and the home in South Africa means that lockdown leaves women particularly vulnerable, yet the government has been largely silent on this issue
The novel coronavirus has taken over South Africans’ lives in the past month. At the beginning of the month, the country was still hosting…
* * * The rain has such precise teeth. She nibbles down the paths and through the bushes, along the gutters and around my veranda…
Dear President Ramaphosa, I have two dozen questions for you, please feel free to answer them in the comments section below. 1. Where are the…
Imagine for a moment that the human race was extinct and that instead in its place several billion humanoid pigs had taken up residence on…
The worst thing about limitations on individual freedoms, rights and responsibilities is that they impinge upon your options, choices and decision-making. Take for example the…
If Eskom is bent, what is it going to take to straighten it out?