Life inside the PSL bio-secure bubble
A Bidvest Wits employee discusses the football team’s time in the bubble where, sadly, the 99-year-old club will cease to exist, its top-flight status sold to Thohoyandou-based Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila.
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Covid-19 Roundup | Antibodies and retrenchments
Antibody testing begins as the country moves past the peak of infections and restrictions are lifted. But the hard lockdown continues to devastate workers.
Mine bosses profit from ‘vulnerable’ workers
As gold increases in value, the mining sector is about to make a lot more money – but plans to dismiss vulnerable workers.
Can Ipid overcome police brutality?
In remembering those killed by the police and army during the Covid-19 lockdown, the ability and will of police watchdog Ipid to bring police brutality to account has to be questioned.
Government and labour clash over economic policy
Labour federations and the state have different ideas on how to recover the country’s economy, which was already taking a beating when the Covid-19 pandemic hit.
SA companies cash in on Covid-19
In this fifth instalment in a series on the coronavirus and capitalism, New Frame traces how businesses hiked the prices of food and essential goods during the lockdown.
Mantashe takes from the poor to pollute some more
Gwede Mantashe is gutting electrification programmes while diverting hundreds of millions of rands to prop up the expensive and polluting lie of clean coal.
A book to educate children about Covid-19
Duma Says: Wash Your Hands, Wear a Mask is about living with the coronavirus. It’s free and comes in various languages, with funds from bought copies going to the visually impaired author’s alma mater.
Covid-19 Roundup | Level two
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s downgrading of Covid-19 restrictions comes as predictions indicate South Africa is moving past the peak of the pandemic. But job losses and state corruption continue.
Series | Coronavirus and capitalism
While the Covid-19 lockdown has led to mass retrenchments across sectors, others have profited from the crisis. New Frame looks at the devastation among South African workers.
Worker fired over sick leave for Covid-19 anxiety
In this fourth instalment in a series on the coronavirus and capitalism, New Frame reveals how a worker’s anxiety over positive cases in his workplace led to his dismissal.
Luxury game reserves leave workers in the lurch
In this third instalment in a series on the coronavirus and capitalism, New Frame looks at the effects of retrenchments on workers in a high-end tourist region of the Eastern Cape.
Richards Bay: The boom town busted by coronavirus
In this second instalment in a series on the coronavirus and capitalism, New Frame looks at how the once flourishing industrial town has been devastated by the pandemic.
Sex workers: Ignored by the state, abused by police
The consequences of criminalisation continue to plague sex workers – denied government aid and reproductive healthcare, and at the mercy of brutal policing – as the Covid-19 pandemic progresses.
‘Reckless’ Lovedale college lets students down
Students at the Eastern Cape TVET college say their return to campus after its Covid-19 closure has been blighted by health risks, late NSFAS payments and an unresponsive management.
Barloworld retrenchments are short-term thinking
In this first instalment of a series on the coronavirus and capitalism, New Frame looks at how a firm that has made R90 billion in three years is using Covid-19 to get rid of 4 500 workers.
Pregnancy and labour during Covid-19
New Frame traces the coronavirus through the cycle of life in a series of intimate portraits from Gauteng. This is what new mothers are experiencing in the time of Covid-19.
S2 Episode 11: A day in the life of a spaza shop
Gauteng is in the eye of a storm. As part of a series of intimate portraits, we capture a day in the life of an Alexandra spaza shop at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A nurse’s experience of Covid-19 as cases peak
Healthcare workers are at the forefront of the fight against the virus and have seen the worst of it. They too have tested positive, with some succumbing. How have their private lives fared?
The agony and anguish of Covid-19 burials
Gauteng is in the eye of the coronavirus storm with almost 200 000 cases and 3 000 lives lost. New Frame traces the virus in a series of intimate portraits from the province.
Series | Everyday Covid-19 portraits from Gauteng
New Frame traces the coronavirus in a series of intimate portraits from Gauteng.