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WATCH: Data shows urgent need for education intervention Michael Avery and a panel discuss the findings from Wave 4, a survey that highlights the effects of school closures and educational inequality By Business Day TV - 18 May 2021 Image: 123RF/ VITEE THUMB “Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.” Samuel Beckett’s iconic quip in Waiting for Godot encapsulates the way it’s felt waiting for a vaccine in SA. During the peak of the first wave in 2020, a study conducted by an academic consortium, National Income Dynamics Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (Nids-Cram), offered policymakers unrivalled insights into almost real-time effects of the coronavirus lockdown on households across the country. ....
Study also finds that teachers are at no higher risk from the virus than the general population 12 May 2021 - 20:00 By Prega Govender and Kgaugelo Masweneng The basic education department has agreed with a study’s findings that SA’s primary schoolchildren who attended no-fee schools last year learned 50-75% less than what they normally do. The National Income Dynamics Study-Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (Nids-Cram), released on Wednesday, is run by researchers from the universities of Stellenbosch, Cape Town and the Witwatersrand. This article is free to read if you register or sign in. If you have already registered or subscribed, please sign in to continue. ....
Vaccines attitudes and learning losses revealed in latest SA income dynamics study 12 May 2021 - 10:43 By NIDS-CRAM researchers A recent survey has revealed that 71% of South African adults said they would get vaccinated if a Covid-19 vaccine was available. File photo. Image: FREDDY MAVUNDA The fourth and latest study on the impact of Covid-19 on national incomes reveals what South Africans think about the vaccines and the impact of the pandemic on education. The National Income Dynamics Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (Nids-Cram) is a broad nationally representative survey of SA. This is a summary of the Wave 4 Synthesis Report released on Wednesday. ....
Image: 123RF/Sasirin Pamai A high percentage of people in SA who identified Afrikaans as their home language are hesitant to get a Covid-19 vaccination, a new study tracking trends during the pandemic has found. The National Income Dynamics Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (Nids-Cram) was released on Wednesday, looking at vaccines, schools, hunger, employment, and other categories. Overall, the study found that 71% of adults in the country would be willing to get a vaccination. SA s national vaccine rollout starts on Monday. “Our estimate is the highest estimate of vaccine intention for adults in SA to date. [About] 42% of Afrikaans home language respondents were vaccine-hesitant, much higher than the national average . and significantly higher than seven of the 11 language groups,” it found. ....
Hunger increases in SA despite Covid-19 welfare payments Reuters > By Reuters - 17 February 2021 - 10:14 The hunger rate compares to 14% recorded in an official survey in 2018, showing the impact of the pandemic, researchers wrote. Image: 123RF/nito500 Eighteen percent of South African households reported someone going hungry at the end of last year, a survey published on Wednesday found, with the situation worsening despite welfare payments to fight the impact of Covid-19. The hunger rate compares to 14% recorded in an official survey in 2018, showing the impact of the pandemic, researchers wrote in findings of the National Income Dynamics Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM), which followed 10,000 adults. ....