HSS Responses
HSS Responses
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| Culture and Control in South Africa: Funerals in a time of Covid-19 | The twin priorities of preserving health and protecting the economy have rightfully taken centre stage in the popular discourse in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, presented as an apparent ichotomy or even a zerosum game. | funerals_in_a_time_of_covid-19_-_covid-19_prof_hendricks_0[1].pdf |
| Fighting the invisible enemy | On 26 March 2020, when COVID-19 infections worldwide had reached half a million and South Africa was nearing the one thousand mark, President Ramaphosa addressed the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in preparation for a national lock down. | fighting_the_invisible_enemy_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |
| IGCIWANYANA LAMAGODA-2 | Igama elithi “Khorona” lisho “umqhele” noma “indingiliza”, ngoba izingqamuzana zakhona zingungwa ngezicoco zamagoda. Amagoda wona ayazibophisisa olwelwesini lwengqamuzana yephaphu lomuntu, bese igciwanyana liyangena phakathi. | igciwanyana_lamagoda-2_-_covid-19_0(1)[1].pdf |
| Lock Down Blue: The end of ritual as we know it, again | Like a thief in the night, the COVID-19 pandemic entered our lives. For a while it seemed like something very distant from us as we watched how it affected (and infected) other places “far away”, and almost overnight it entered our homes. | lockdown_blues_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |
| Lockdown in township will be safe but different | Let me be clear upfront. The spread of the coronavirus is one of the biggest threats to humanity and I fully support the researched scientific proposals that have been put on the table suggesting mass testing, mass quarantine and a countrywide lockdown as the best possible measures to manage and ultimately defeat the virus. | lockdown_in_townships_will_be_safe_but_different_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |
| Love in the time of Corona | borrelvas en sfeer gegiet nasie deur verleen verhuur gierig gorrel vrese voer trap miershoop vas en venster toe | love_in_the_time_of_corona_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |
| My name is coronavirus AKA COVID-19 | Greetings to you my children I am a virus that visits all the homes... I travel all around the world with my friend flu guess my name? | my_name_is_coronavirus_aka_covid-19_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |
| On folklore in times of Covid-19 | COVID-19 catapulted itself upon the world with astounding chronodynamic rapidity, putatively from incubation and hatching in Wuhan, a city in the People’s Republic of China that has become the notorious caput mundi of the virus, to a pandemic of spectacular proportion that dominated every medium and form of communication and activity in every conceivable locus on the planet that is occupied by invasive humanity. | on_folklore_in_times_of_covid-19_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |