HSS RESPONSE TO PANDEMIC
NIHSS in association with South African Deans' Association (SAHUDA)
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| Title | HSS Response Summary | Download Full Article |
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| Social distancing, social grants and other social expectations – A reflection | The Corona Virus (Covid-19) berthed in South Africa on 5 March 2020. Between then and the end of March, 1 353 people had tested positive from a total of 39 500 tested. | |
| Psychosocial needs of women in informal settlements: Creating a humanities agenda during and post COVID-19 | COVID-19 is an unexpected virus with unprecedented consequences that has rocked and shocked the global community. Global and national television, as well as alternative news media, provide daily and sometimes hourly updates on infection and death rates. South Africa’s COVID-19 National Command Council provides detailed daily reports reduced to its lowest common denominator such as the sex, province and tangible geographic locations of those who succumb to the virus. | |
| IGCIWANYANA LAMAGODA-2 | Igama elithi “Khorona” lisho “umqhele” noma “indingiliza”, ngoba izingqamuzana zakhona zingungwa ngezicoco zamagoda. Amagoda wona ayazibophisisa olwelwesini lwengqamuzana yephaphu lomuntu, bese igciwanyana liyangena phakathi. | |
| COVID-19 and India's Development Crisis | On 31 December last year, as China first alerted the WHO about several cases of unusual pneumonia in the port city of Wuhan, India was in the throes of the largest protests the country had witnessed since Narendra Modi and the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) first took power in 2014. | |
| My name is coronavirus AKA COVID-19 | Greetings to you my children I am a virus that visits all the homes... I travel all around the world with my friend flu guess my name? | |
| Love in the time of Corona | borrelvas en sfeer gegiet nasie deur verleen verhuur gierig gorrel vrese voer trap miershoop vas en venster toe | |
| Lockdown in township will be safe but different | Let me be clear upfront. The spread of the coronavirus is one of the biggest threats to humanity and I fully support the researched scientific proposals that have been put on the table suggesting mass testing, mass quarantine and a countrywide lockdown as the best possible measures to manage and ultimately defeat the virus. | |
| Black death and mourning in the time of COVID-19 | Black bodies have been the sight of devastation for centuries. We who inhabit and love these bodies live in a state of perpetual mourning | |
| When Life reigns | When Life reigns By: Evans.N.Netshivhambe 2020 | |
| Shock over the 'discovery' of inequality is surprising | Since the start of the national lockdown more than eight weeks ago, South Africans have listened attentively on those occasions when President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation. I soon learnt that our president’s now ominous “My fellow South Africans...†speech meant that our imprisonment would be further extended. |