What does it help if we pull all the stops to protect our health, but we forget to ensure that everyone has an adequate food supply? The Covid-19 pandemic will accentuate levels of inequality in society in ways we have not anticipated, unless we start paying closer attention to food security among the poorest of the poor.
Most European and North American countries are generally regarded as food secure and hold a prominent place in the Global Food Security Index.
In "Africa’s Path to Growth: Sector by Sector", published in 2010, global consultancy McKinsey argues for a sectoral approach to development in Africa.
Those of us trying to model the Covid-19 pandemic should try to be humble; there is more we don’t know than we do.
The next few days will see a continuation of the rainy conditions over the central parts of the country, intensifying somewhat during the remainder of the week and moving eastwards to be confined to the eastern and northeastern parts by Saturday (4th).
Cyril Ramaphosa believes a Chinese-style lockdown to be both effective and necessary. For all his infatuation with the Chinese surveillance state, however, South Africa does not have the means to duplicate it, nor is it able to copy rich-world alternatives to a lockdown. Is he destroying the economy for nothing?
