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Rewilding efforts have been emboldened by the sudden cessation of everyday life during the coronavirus pandemic. Scientists are seizing the opportunity to learn how best to support our wildlife, says Graham Lawton Life | Comment 22 July 2020 By Graham Lawton Photo by Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty WHEN I sat down at my kitchen table…

The Liberty Fighters Network and Reyno de Beer have applied for leave to cross-appeal the minister of cooperative governance and traditional affairs in the matter involving the declaration of lockdown regulations as unconstitutional.The two argue there existed less restrictive mechanisms, which also preserved human rights, to manage the Covid-19 pandemic.They said the declaration was based…

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala PHOTO: Supplied by KZN government KZN Premier Sihle Zikalala says there is an easing of pressure on the province's trauma units since the alcohol ban.He also revealed that more than 1 500 health care workers have tested positive for Covid-19 in total.This makes up for around 4% of all cases in…

Historians believe a lockdown typically ends before a pandemic ends. However, Covid-19 differs from past pandemics because it is longer in duration. The coronavirus pandemic has been raging in South Africa for more than three months without the peak being reached, while the Spanish Flu lasted around six weeks. South African historians and psychologists agree lockdowns to prevent…

SAPS officials have been mostly cracking down on those who flout lockdown regulations. Roger Sedres, Gallo Images Eastern Cape police confiscated liquid tobacco valued at R360 000 after a tip-off from a courier company.The products were couriered from Cape Town to the Eastern Cape in alleged contravention of lockdown regulations relating to tobacco products.The courier…