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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.

@deanhills, Exactly the same thing is happening in Pakistan as well, Not every city here have really good internet, Some areas does not even have 3G or 4G Available for them. Alot of universities are just putting alot of pressure on students giving so much assignments and conducting online classes. My friend is in a ART University and in the field of Graphic Designing. In their first year, Almost everything is practical. The students have to create the drawings and others things and now they have said to make a portfolio of it that compile all the assignments, Alot of people does not even have stuff like pens registers and other things at all, I received a message from my college that your 2ND year classes are starting from yesterday, Every student have this question. We do not even have books right now to start neither we can buy. The main shop is in a really big area which is usually crowded no one will actually like to take any risks. 
My friend also lives in South Africa and he told me about the situation regarding the Alcohol Ban, He said that there was guy almost pointed a gun towards his head and asked him for money. I'm not sure whats actually gonna happen. The world will be a little different when this pandemic gonna end!