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South Africans are making their own alcohol, and the black market in cigarettes is making outrageous profits. Government says that its reasoning for not permitting

Imperial College London’s epidemiology model, on which Britain and many other countries based their lockdown decisions, has come under scathing criticism for being buggy and

There’s a plague of fake news surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic which occasionally has deadly consequences. Banning fake news, however, is hardly a solution, since governments,

To while away the lockdown, President Cyril Ramaphosa has been dabbling in long-distance international diplomacy. His most brotherly love was reserved for his fellow communists,

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak, we’ve been hearing all about the case fatality rate of the disease, which in some countries, including the

We once lived in a world in which the World Health Organisation (WHO) could brag of great successes, such as the eradication of smallpox. In

In South Africa and around the world, officials of a prohibitionist mindset exploited the Covid-19 emergency regulations to institute bans on their pet peeves, notably

The world is awash in stories about the silver linings to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent economic lockdown. The problem with seeing silver linings is

Cyril Ramaphosa believes a Chinese-style lockdown to be both effective and necessary. For all his infatuation with the Chinese surveillance state, however, South Africa does

At the first sign that a novel coronavirus was infecting people around the world, the South African government, taking its lead from China, began to