When Life reigns
When Life reigns
By: Evans.N.Netshivhambe 2020
HSS RESPONSE TO PANDEMIC
NIHSS in association with South African Deans' Association (SAHUDA)
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unimaginable challenges for our nation and the world. Our country’s response has been decisive, to prevent the spread of the virus and minimize its impact. At the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, we acknowledge that it cannot be business as usual. Read more...
The late pan-African scholar Thandika Mkandawire made the pointed statement that one of the major problems in postcolonial Africa was the “failure of the political class to establish a productive and organic rapport with their own intelligentsia/intellectuals” and that across the continent, only in Algeria and in apartheid South Africa did such an organic link develop between the two. Read More...
When Life reigns
By: Evans.N.Netshivhambe 2020
At the time of writing, the numbers of COVID-19 cases and related deaths have been drastically on the rise in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, despite the province initially having one of the lowest caseloads. As reported by the Eastern Cape Department of Health, 200 COVID-w19 cases in the Eastern Cape are linked to just three funerals in the province.