Fahmida Miller

In South Africa, Gaut­eng’s rail­way sys­tem grinds to a halt, leav­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands strand­ed.

South Africa’s gov­ern­ment is warn­ing that the coro­n­avirus cri­sis could cost the jobs of 400,000 work­ers – and that is just in the tourism in­dus­try.

The fight to stop gen­der-based vi­o­lence shines the light on what is de­scribed as South Africa’s ‘oth­er pan­dem­ic’.

The gov­ern­ment in­sists it is try­ing to re­vive the econ­o­my – while at the same time pro­tect­ing lives.

While the tourist sea­son be­gins in Sep­tem­ber, few trav­ellers are ex­pect­ed as the coun­try grap­ples with the high­est num­ber of coro­n­avirus cas­es in Africa.

Se­cu­ri­ty forces al­leged­ly killed at least six peo­ple and are be­ing ac­cused of us­ing ex­ces­sive force while im­ple­ment­ing coro­n­avirus lock­down mea­sures.

Most schools in South Africa have re­opened and pupils in their fi­nal years of pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary school are al­lowed to re­turn.

The may­or of South Africa’s biggest city says near­ly one mil­lion house­holds do not have enough to eat.

Po­lice chiefs say Thomas Tha­bane was try­ing to in­tim­i­date them af­ter they im­pli­cat­ed him in the mur­der of his for­mer wife.

South African gov­ern­ment start­ing to win fight against virus to save lives, but can it save econ­o­my from col­lapse.