It is day 18 of the national lockdown in Lesotho that spans from midnight 29th March to the 21st of April 2020. The nation has been urged to stay at home as coronavirus COVID-19 continues to forcibly penetrate countries around the world. Schools, churches, businesses and social watering holes alike have closed their doors in …
The social ill that is Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a prominent issue regionally, with neighbouring South Africa going to the extent of raising the matter to a state of emergency in 2019. This crippling phenomena, that has been ever present in our communities, has created generations of people living with the scars – visible …
A global village. That is what the world has become, and quite rightly so. A phrase alluding to how small the globe is, despite its vastness and magnitude. Across the continents and the seas, the human condition is the same for us all. Birth and death. From breath to breath. The beauty lies in the …
And so the question arises: What was life like before COVID-19? Since the inception of this novel strain of coronavirus in December 2019, it has infiltrated every facet of human life in a manner many of us have never seen. As of the 28th March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) states that over 570,000 …
So… you’ve heard about this new thing – the coronavirus? The first cases of COVID-19, a strain of the coronavirus, were first pronounced in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The coronavirus, as stated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), belongs to a family of viruses that can manifest as mild or severe respiratory illness. COVID-19 …
The effects of climate change are here. Weather patterns are drastically changing, with natural disasters being felt to extreme and unusual degrees and the worst predictions about the consequences of climate change manifesting in our lifetime. ‘When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers’. An African proverb from which a parallel can be drawn …