South Africa faces a stark political choice
As the intersecting health and economic crises deepen, the country will have to choose between a politics rooted in social solidarity and a politics rooted in exclusion and containment.
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Deadlier than coronavirus: Bolsonarovirus
As Brazil’s Covid-19 cases rocket and mass graves are dug daily, beleaguered citizens have to deal with a president who refuses to acknowledge the severity of the crisis.
School readiness in question as coronavirus spreads
Science has given the green light to schools reopening as children are unlikely to catch or transmit Covid-19. But the lack of water and toilets in addition to overcrowding at no-fee schools poses a risk.
Not all Joburg’s street traders are trading
Street traders are central to food security in Johannesburg. But since being declared an essential service under lockdown, street trade in South Africa’s biggest city has returned to uneven ground.
In Pictures | Signs of the times
New Frame photojournalists continue to bear witness to the realities of an unfolding lockdown. 12 May was International Nurses Day, so we pay tribute to those risking their lives to fight Covid-19.
Jazz for the struggle and the struggle for jazz
The Rainbow is one of many art spaces struggling to survive the Covid-19 lockdown. The venue’s place in the history of South African jazz and the struggle against apartheid is extraordinary.
Rehumanising Diego Maradona
In two recent documentaries, we finally get up close to the complicated sadness of Argentina’s original football deity.
Planet of the green capitalists
Critical reviews of the new documentary Planet of the Humans have missed its key point: capitalism can never be sustainable.
Depression and domestic violence on the rise
The fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic is being felt not only in the growing number of infections but also in an increase in general anxiety and cases of gender-based violence.