When President Cyril Ramaphosa decided to extend the lockdown by a further two weeks to the end of April he did to SA what Nongqawuse did to the Xhosa in the great “cattle killing” of 1856.  

About 63,000 people died of TB in SA during 2018. Almost 3,000 children die of malaria alone in Sub-Saharan Africa every day, but they are effectively invisible. But when it comes to 18 deaths from Covid-19 and 1,845 confirmed cases, the SA economy is closed down by government decree.  ..

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