In Britain, there’s an initiative that takes place every night. The locals apparently clap outside their homes in symbolic gratitude for the heroic efforts of the country’s National Health Service (NHS).
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More confusion during these Covid-19 confusing times
By the beginning of next month, you should be able to drag deep on a cigarette, before heading off to the bottle store to stock up on your favourite tipple – depending on where your surname is on the alphabet.
Lockdown mania: free criminals, arrest tots and gogos
We are living through perhaps the biggest – and longest – period of restrictions in the country’s history. The demands placed on South Africans, as President Cyril Ramaphosa has noted, have been onerous, but generally they have been complied with by a public who understood the need for them.
Running in circles from Covid-19 and an infodemic
We are now heading into the seventh week of Lockdown. Tempers are fraying. Twitter is a toxic cesspit and finger pointing has become so endemic that hospital emergency rooms might end up with more repetitive stress injuries than actual COVID-19 cases.
Maybe Mthembu was on to something when he said vibrators instead of ventilators
South Africans had a good belly laugh this week when Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu had an unfortunate malapropism, mixing up vibrators with ventilators. He had been addressing a press briefing on Sunday the government’s preparedness to deal with the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic, when he got the two confused.
Covid-19 donations: Isolating sharks from the Good Samaritans
Covid-19 is showing us the world in all its wonder and horror – often at the same time. Britain has been totally agog at a 99-year-old World War II veteran walking around his home 100 times before he turned 100 to raise money for the country’s beleaguered National Health Service.
Kudos to SA’s Covid-19 superhero who blew the bulls**t right out of the room
We are a country that loves its superheroes. We always expect someone to swoop in and rescue us just like in the comics. For many that’s become Cyril Ramaphosa and before him, certainly Nelson Mandela. But there’s also a huge fan following for the arch villains, if Jacob Zuma’s 78th birthday on Sunday is any gauge.
Cele will arrest the Easter bunny and lovers at midnight
The Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy are essential workers during the COVID-19 crisis. The South African government’s door-to-door screening for the virus is a ploy to decimate the population. President Cyril Ramaphosa is in cahoots with billionaire Bill Gates via Trevor Noah to use COVID-19 to develop a vaccine for the world – and get richer.
Safety muses, nanny killjoys: you’ve got to be kitting!
We are now officially in Week 2 of the 21-Day lockdown. It’s a week since you could last buy liquor – or cigarettes. But apart from that, the world hasn’t actually come to an end.
Coronavirus lockdown – Ramaphosa:2 South Africa:0
Cometh the hour, cometh the man says the old proverb and Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa has certainly proved that with a second master class in statesmanship in just over a week.
Kevin Ritchie 