This week, civil society acknowledges the contribution of women to the response to Covid-19, and the unjust burden they bear. South Africa’s upcoming local and general elections are in the spotlight, as well as Chile’s looming constitutional reform.
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“No one has told me what I have done wrong. No one has been able to furnish what I’ve done. If I’ve done something wrong, there are processes within the ANC. I found it very unfair to me that this issue must be raised all the time,” Jacob Zuma, said in an interview with the SABC just hours before being recalled from the presidency in 2018. Last weekend, the Sunday Times reported that Zuma has repeated this line as he refuses to answer his summons to appear before Justice Zondo at the State Capture Commission. “What have I done?” Zuma asks.
Tessa Dooms and
Chris Vick argue for more effective communication by everyone involved in the struggle against the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic
South Africans who are in their 30s and 40s now were teenagers and young adults 20 years ago at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Young people were at the centre of the HIV pandemic and behaviour change was determined to be the best weapon against HIV prevalence in the long run.
Although youth were not thought of to be the primary population of concern for COVID-19 at the start, the second wave is showing that COVID-19 messaging must reach everyone as more and more young people are succumbing to this deadly virus.