Sociologist on Covid-19 lockdown: 'There was no such thing' in the townships

Loading player...
Professor David Dickinson of the University of the Witwatersrand talks to Jackie Cameron of BizNews about the social issues surrounding Covid-19 and the resultant lockdown - which was not effective in many areas. He highlights how many more people have been plunged into poverty, with rampant corruption around assistance to the most vulnerable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 Sep 2020 4AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

Rory Steyn on who really runs South African sport

In two years, Comrades runners threw out a board accused of vote-buying and steering tenders to friends, and cut ties with the provincial and national athletics bodies to run their own race. Swimming South Africa had to wait for an integrity panel in Switzerland to act. Rory Steyn, Nelson Mandela's…
29 Sep 11AM 39 min

Criminals - NOT cops - patrol SA’s streets of fear… | Lisa Schickerling

In this interview Chris Steyn and Lisa Schickerling, the Democratic Alliance (DA) spokesperson on Police, talk about a country in the grip of fear in the wake of mass killings, multiple murders, crime increasing in areas where the SANDF have been deployed, and suspended Deputy National Commissioner of Police General…
28 Sep 9AM 21 min