These startups and community projects are providing food during COVID-19
As the world continues to deal with the widespread effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a recognised need to preserve access to healthy...
Ways To Help Vulnerable People During COVID-19 Outbreak
The COVID-19/coronavirus outbreak has been a source of anxiety for many of us. It has reinforced the huge inequalities in South Africa and around...
Mandatory vaccinations in workplaces are taking effect in South Africa
South African cellphone giant MTN is the latest company that has introduced mandatory vaccinations for all its employees. There have been questions around the...
Abahlali baseMjondolo: An urgent call to build solidarity in action
This is a statement released at the weekend by Thapelo Mohapi, Mqapheli Bonono and Nomusa Sizani of Abahlali baseMjondolo and Marvin Govender of the Phoenix Residents...
COVDI19 Campus Shutdowns Webinar
In marking Youth Day, and six years since the launch of The Daily Vox, join us for this discussion on one of the emerging...
Ending Extreme Poverty: We speak to three unemployed women to understand...
A new household survey has The National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (CRAM) recently revealed the extent of unemployment and hunger...
What vaccine hoarding will mean for international travel
As the world continues to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic, the news of the vaccine has been the one source of good news. But...
The True Cost Of e-Health In A Global Pandemic
As South Africa enters its fourth week of COVID-19 lockdown, the rise of infections runs parallel to an increase in nation-wide anxiety. We are...
Two Johannesburg teachers open up about their back to school anxieties
The opening of schools has been pushed back to February 15 by the department of basic education. This was in relation to the rising...
COVID-19 Compromises Social Networks. What This Means For People In Humanitarian...
Jeeyon Kim, Tufts University; Daniel Maxwell, Tufts University, and Sabina Robillard, Tufts University
The novel coronavirus is now being transmitted through the six continents. A...
Want to meet up with friends and family and still be...
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There are ways to still socialise with loved ones while ensuring proper protocols and safety measures are practised. Here’s...
How to console someone when words are not enough
I feel like a broken record when sending condolences messages. The ways of saying it may differ, but the helplessness behind it is the...
How the pandemic is rethinking cinemas
The entertainment industry in South Africa has been hit hard by the pandemic. Cinemas are one of many casualties with each adjusted lockdown. But...
Shaazia Ebrahim: Experiencing lockdown in two different countries
The former Daily Vox reporter is currently reading for her Masters in London. She shared her thoughts on experiencing lockdown in another country. The...
Separating the myths from the facts about the vaccine roll-out
Last week a Whatsapp message was widely shared claiming nearly expired vaccines would be available at Mitchell’s Plain Hospital, Cape Town. Those who received...
Covid-19: How survivors’ guilt might be affecting you
Living through a pandemic, surrounded by death and illness and growing inequality, is a difficult thing. But when adding to all that feelings of...
In conversation with Malcolm Ray about the Tyranny of Growth
Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti has described Malcolm Ray’s book as a “original and fascinating account of the destruction, impoverishment and destitution caused by the obsession...
Accessibility Is A Human Right
South Africa is slowly getting into grips with the realisation of a lockdown that doesn’t seem to have an end date anytime soon and...
Don’t be a mampara: Let us teach you how to wear...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has stressed one message in every family meeting South Africa has had since March: wear your mask AND properly. As the...
University students’ thoughts on proposed mandatory vaccinations
As vaccinations opens up to more age groups, the topic of mandatory vaccinations has led to fierce debates. One of the spaces where mandatory...
