For the world’s best-known corporate-management consultants, helping tackle the pandemic has been a bonanza. It’s not clear what the US government has gotten in return

Expectations that the Constitutional Court’s recent ruling on independent candidates may give the majority of voters a stronger voice are premature and largely unwarranted

In about a year we’re likely to know if a candidate vaccine we’re beginning to test this week is effective against a virus that has devastated our country

This timeline captures key events that occurred in the first 100 days of the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa

Without protective equipment, schools in uMlazi, Pinetown and Zululand won’t meet the already delayed deadline for reopening

South Africa won’t have enough hospital beds, intensive care or otherwise, to treat Covid-19 patients, official predictions reveal. But there’s still time to act, say experts

The next phase of the government’s economic strategy, which will be announced ‘soon’, is expected to detail plans to recover from the crisis wrought by the coronavirus pandemic

The president’s address follows a number of meetings with Cabinet and the National Coronavirus Command Council

Many young people already know how to deal with the problems the Covid-19 pandemic has wrought — they have been living with them all along

In a statement, the fund emphasised that all businesses with workers, “from spaza shops to hair salons” who are registered with the UIF can apply for this relief

Data shows that during the lockdown the statutory body has dealt with 75% fewer cases than during the same period last year

Honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness and compassion will carry humanity through any crisis

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has outlined the fiscal and monetary policy interventions implemented by the government in its fight against Covid-19

The finance minister will brief the media following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of an R500-billion package of economic measures aimed at addressing challenges facing…

South Africans have an uncaring stigmatising and marginalising culture and it keeps people on the fringes of society with diminished opportunities in life

For the past five years, Lauren Beukes has been working on a book set in the aftermath of a global epidemic. Its release couldn’t have been more timely

Anthropologists ask the difficult questions about human behaviour and also provide the difficult answers

Abba Kyari was Muhammadu Buhari’s powerful chief of staff, and the jockeying to replace him has already begun

The president’s R500-billion economic package offers a new deal for desperate South Africans across the class divide

President announces an ‘extraordinary coronavirus budget’ with R20-billion for healthcare and spending on the pandemic equal to 10% of national GDP