When the Covid-19 lockdown was first imposed, my friend and fellow writer Zithulele Sibanyoni suddenly found himself trapped in Pietermaritzburg. He’d travelled from Joburg a few days earlier to visit his ailing mother.

Thankfully, he is a freelancer who did not have to be at a physical office. So he stayed on at his mother’s house in Edendale, a suburb outside the city...

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