You can utter a lot of words and say nothing at all. Ask anyone who has had to endure any of the protracted press conferences on Covid-19, convened by some politician to create the illusion of transparency.

But that veneer of openness doesn’t necessarily mean the citizens of SA – a country which now faces more than 3-million job losses – actually have the information they need...

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