SOUTH Africa’s education system was already fractured and teetering on the edge before COVID-19 came along, but it may collapse entirely if we fail to get teachers and learners back to school.
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SA Q1 GDP Figures a Reminder of SA’s Economic Challenges
Date: 01 July 2020 Release: Immediate JOHANNESBURG, 01 July 2020: The 2% annualised decrease in South Africa’s first quarter (Q1) gross domestic product (GDP) has set an ominous tone for the remainder of this year and the country’s future. “Considering that South...
PANDA’s Open Letter to Professor Pulliam – as SACEMA distances itself from the models used to justify lockdown
Press Release: PANDA’s Open Letter to Professor Pulliam – as SACEMA distances itself from the models used to justify lockdown Release: Immediate Prof. Juliet Pulliam SACEMA Dear Professor Pulliam, We refer to your letter of 5 June 2020 in reply to our letter...
PANDA’s Open Letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, Urging the Lockdown to Move to Level 1
We agree with Your Excellency’s remark that lockdown has become a “blunt tool”, and would add that the blunt edge of that tool strikes the poor hardest.
Open letter to Prof. Juliet Pulliam of SACEMA
Pandemics ~ Data & Analytics (PANDA) coordinators, in an open letter, have challenged South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA) to make their models public – in the public interest Dear Professor Pulliam Following Thursday 21 May’s...