Lee Stuttaford

South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) members will not return to work on Monday, 11 May 2020, because Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has not

As South Africa’s cases continue to climb – now at 10 652, a rise of 637 in one day – President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned the

Business for South Africa (B4SA), a new umbrella business body formed to help fight Covid-19, has called on the government to move the economy to

Professor Alex van den Heever, chair in Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Governance, has raised

As positive cases exceeded 10 000 yesterday, it emerged that the government acknowledges that its coronavirus projections are ‘fluid’, and is balking at calls to release

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has indicated that metros registering high rates of infection may need stricter lockdowns. He was speaking in the Western Cape, which

The Pretoria High Court judgment forcing the closure of the government’s Zithabiseni quarantine camp ‘is a damning indictment of the government’s attempts to exert centralised

Malawi’s Supreme Court has upheld the invalidation of last year’s presidential election results and ruled that Peter Mutharika was not duly elected. Mutharika had been

The Covid-19 crisis in South Africa has been overtaken by an ‘ANC lockdown crisis’ that is ‘destructive’, has turned citizens into ‘subjects of an authoritarian

Khadija Patel, editor of the Mail & Guardian, and deputy editor Beauregard Tromp, have announced they will be stepping down at the end of May.