Chapter 2: Government leadership, governancee and institutional arrangements This Chapter focuses on how the South African government structured its response to the Covid-19 crisis, particularly in the early phases of...
Chapter 3: Legal Responses and Human Rights Considerations Chapter 3: Legal Responses and Human Rights Considerations
Chapter 3.1: Legal and Regulatory Responses This chapter evaluates South Africa’s legal and regulatory response to Covid-19 against the values enshrined in section 1 of the Constitution. It considers the options for managing the pandemic provided by...
Chapter 3.2: Legal and Human Rights Considerations This chapter discusses the legal challenges to the government's disaster management measures in response to the Covid 19 pandemic. The cases discussed here are selected for...
Chapter 3.3: South African Police Service This chapter focuses on the review of the impact of SAPS’ policing efforts as frontline law enforcer during the COVID-19 pandemic to determine whether or not the SAPS effectively managed to enforce the...
Chapter 4: Communication This chapter investigates the capacity and effectiveness of government’s communications strategy during different phases of the Covid-19 lockdown. It examines the effectiveness of and synergies in communication...
Chapter 5.1: Health Sector This chapter focuses on the health sector response to Covid-19, which mobilised the public and private sectors, the business and non-governmental sectors, and the academic and research sectors...
Chapter 5.2: Education Sector This chapter focuses on the education sector’s response to the pandemic and examines measures adopted by the education ministries to contain the spread of the virus while managing the academic programme. It describes...
Chapter 5.3: Impact on Vulnerable Groups This chapter reviews the socio-economic vulnerabilities that existed among people in South Africa before the pandemic. It assesses the extent to which the pandemic affected people’s ability to meet their basic needs and...
Chapter 5.4: Gender Equity This chapter considers the impact of the pandemic on the overall economy, along with the fiscal and monetary policy responses. This chapter draws on official secondary data sources, including the National Treasury...
Chapter 6.1: Macroeconomic Impact and Policy The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly changed how people work and, hence, how they use transport. It has also underscored disparities in the provision of transport in South Africa...
Chapter 6.2: Agriculture and the Food Supply Chain This chapter focuses on the impact of the pandemic and related measures on the agricultural and food sectors. It addresses the direct and indirect impact of the regulations on food...
Chapter 6.3: Tourism This chapter draws upon a range of sources to investigate South Africa’s tourism industry in the Covid-19 environment. It builds on an emerging corpus of international and local research on the impact of the pandemic and responses by government...
Chapter 6.3B: Transport and other Economic Sectors The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly changed how people work and, hence, how they use transport. It has also underscored disparities in the provision of transport in South Africa. This chapter reviews government measures to limit the transmission...
Chapter 6.4: Transport The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly changed how people work and, hence, how they use transport. It has also underscored disparities in the provision of transport in South Africa. This chapter reviews government measures to limit the transmission...
Chapter 6.5: Economic Sectors The Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting national lockdown sharply reduced consumption and production in various sectors of the economy. Some of the worst-affected sectors were discussed in previous chapters...
Chapter 6.6B: Infrastructure This chapter examines the role of the infrastructure sector departments, primary service providers (Eskom, Transnet, water boards, etc.), employees and private sector players in maintaining continuity of...
Chapter 7: International cooperation & trade This chapter explores how the South African government has used its engagement with global and regional organisations, forums and other external actors in the economic, security and health areas to deal with...
Chapter 8: Civil Society responses This chapter describes how civil society mobilised in response to the felt impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa. It briefly reviews on how families and communities were supported by local networks and community-based...
Chapter 8.1: Role of Private and Business Sector Chapter 8.1: Role of Private and Business Sector...
Chapter 9: Case Studies: Local and Provincial Government This chapter looks at the role of provinces in transforming national strategies into real-time actions to reduce the spread of COVID-19. It argues that provinces provide...
