[deanhills]

Our teachers first started teaching on Zoom, and then on Microsoft Teams. Our syllabus is running as it should've. This is both good and bad. Good because of course who would like his education to be stopped? But the other component is quite strong too. I do not have any free time in a day. Either it's school or coaching classes, or it's the huge volume of work that we are doing.

Sadly in South Africa not all students have laptops, and Internet is not freely available and unavailable to the poor.  It's sad of course as where possibly the majority could have continued as you have in India at the Universities, they wouldn't allow it at the Universities - i.e. there has to be an equal playing field for all students.

The same type philosophy also governs the legislation that banned smoking.  Smoking is still banned.  Your very poor people share the cigarettes, or dig them out of dumps, and then of course stand great chance to get Covid. So there has been a ban on cigarettes since lockdown first started at end of March. Not that this ban makes a huge difference as we now have a very thriving black market of cigarettes selling at huge prices.

Alcohol was prohibited until 1st of June when shops were only allowed to sell from Monday to Thursday during normal shopping hours.  Unfortunately since the ban was lifted, there was a big surge in crime and stabbings and the Casualty section of Hospitals overloaded again with casualties taking away medical staff and beds for Covid-19 cases.  So some areas of the country, particularly in the hot spots where no beds are available any longer are thinking of re-introducing the alcohol ban.  Whether they will be successful is another matter though. South Africa is one of the countries in the world with the highest crime, particularly violent crime. Alcohol seems to be going hand in hand with aggravation of violence. Looks like Covid-19 proved that.