HSS RESPONSE TO PANDEMIC
NIHSS in association with South African Deans' Association (SAHUDA)
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| Viruses, rupture and renewal: on teaching music during and beyond the Lockdown | As a somewhat “new” lecturer in my university, I closed off 2019 reflecting on what it means to lecture music(ology) in a university that is on the outskirts of the national and global metropolis. | |
| Shodu la bosiu - Thief in the night | Wa kena jwalo ka shodu la bosiu le sa lebellwang, You entered like an unexpected thief in the night, Wa nanya hore re se o bone ha o ranthanya, You creeped in, so we do not see when you cause havoc, Nako eo re phahamisang dihloho re shebisisa, By the time we lifted our heads to check properly, Yaba o se o kenelletse. You had already made your way in. | |
| Psychosocial dynamics, effects and interventions: music of hope | My eyes involuntarily fill with tears and goose bumps crawl down my spine. The source: a forwarded videoclip of the Italian air force aerobatic team display, filmed on a perfect day with an azure sky over a blue-green ocean, accompanied by Pavarotti singing the famous opera aria Nessun Dorma (No one sleeps) by Puccini. | |
| Reflections on Covid-19 during an Interregnum | Our retrospective view in the comfort of post-COVID-19 renders a comfortable perspective on the effect of the viral pandemic on the behaviour of individuals and groups in society. | |
| Renewal in the face of a crisis: SA's active state and public response to COVID-19 | The South African government has faced heavy criticism in the last two decades about its capacity to deal with the country’s challenges and so, with the global emergence of the pandemic known as COVID-19, there were warranted fears about how it would cope in dealing with the outbreak. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| What Africa can learn from Cuba in combating the COVID-19 Pandemic | It is close to four months since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in China and today the world is faced with one of the worst health, humanitarian and economic crises in modern history. | |
| Virtual platforms ensure continuity in teaching, learning, assessment, supervision and mentoring | Not so long ago, the country’s universities were severely disrupted by the Fees Must Fall protests orchestrated by students themselves. Countrywide, the Fees Must Fall campaigns halted teaching in universities, promoting university administrators and some commentators to ponder the use of e-learning programmes. | |
| The Outbreak of Covid-19 in South African: The re-emergence of contextual reali | South Africa, like most countries in the world, is dealing with the coronavirus, also known as Covid -19. In its attempts to ensure that the spread of this virus is arrested, the government declared a state of disaster, which was followed by a declaration of a 21-day lockdown. |