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Vol 61 No 16

Published 6th August 2020


South Africa

In virus veritas

The Covid-19 pandemic is revealing some uncomfortable truths about the country’s politics as the pressures and dangers increase

Most accept that the ruling African National Congress and President Cyril Ramaphosa started the pandemic well. The President masked up immediately and has stayed masked, unlike many world leaders, and has delivered consistent and mostly accurate messaging on this and the other non-pharmaceutical interventions required to contain the spread of Covid-19.

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