1. Authorities have been widely criticised for their enforcement methods from early on in the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown. Those criticisms initially emerged on media platforms, but later came from the courts, where judge Hans Fabricius “delivered what is destined to become one of the most important rulings (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/opinion/editorial/2020-05-21-editorial--judge-lashes-cele-and-mapisa-nqakula-over-collins-khosa-killing/) of SA’s Covid-19 pandemic”.

2. As the number of Covid-19 cases continues to grow, the Western Cape has more than 60% of the country’s confirmed infections. Premier (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/opinion/2020-05-19-razina-munshi-the-western-capes-problem-could-soon-be-the-whole-countrys/)Alan Winde (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/opinion/2020-05-19-razina-munshi-the-western-capes-problem-could-soon-be-the-whole-countrys/)introduced a “hotspot strategy” aimed at changing individual and community behaviour...

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