The UN recently predicted that lockdown could lead to a 20% surge in domestic violence, as victims remain trapped at home with their abusers. They’re calling this the coronavirus “shadow pandemic”, and like President Ramaphosa recently noted, South Africa is not immune.

It Remains a tragedy of epic proportions that the plight of some 7 000 homeless citizens remain intractably unsolved by one of the wealthiest municipalities in the country, writes Community Chest CEO Lorenzo Davids

Entrepreneurs in the local tourism and hospitality industries, much like just about every sector of society, anxiously await the dust of the coronavirus pandemic to settle so they can begin picking up the pieces.