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In order to capture the nature and the impact of Covid-19 on South African society, the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Social Change (CSC) and the Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) undertook an online cross-sectional survey, which was initiated on 13 April 2020 and fielded until the 14 May. The main aim of this UJ-HSRC Covid-19 Democracy Survey was to determine public perceptions of the economic, social and political impact of Covid-19 on life across the country. This research will continue with further

The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown implemented to prevent the spread of the virus has created a crisis in the economy and in education as well as posing a challenge for public health. During public health crises as what we are currently experiencing, an immense and immediate need for information and effective crisis communication is created among the public. This coupled with social media users’ inclination to share information, particularly news, regardless of whether they themselves believe the news or not, creates the circumstances for misinformation (inaccurate information) and

For the past years, the South African disaster management fraternity has invested significantly in disaster response and less in disaster risk reduction, in particular risk communication. Such activities transpired since the promulgation of the Disaster Management Act 57 of 2002 and the National Disaster Management Framework of 2005, which mandate its operations. Moreover, these legislations mandate a proactive approach for disaster management institutions. This approach strongly requires the fraternity to place its focus on disaster risk reduction and strategic risk communication is pivotal

This review paper has explored big data, artificial intelligence and nature-inspired computing models for detection of the COVID-19 pandemic cases, and for contact tracing in the current pandemic.

During this time of a global pandemic, individuals all over the world are experiencing some sort of acute stress, uncertainty and anxiety (Presti, McHugh, Gloster, Karekla,
& Hayes, 2020; Schimmenti, Billieux, & Vladan, 2020; Shah, Kamrai, Mekala, Mann, & Desai, 2020; Wallace et al., 2020) that brings upon fear of the unknown. This calls for a paradigm shift, by creating a lens that recognizes strengths, assets, hopes, and potential of individuals during this pandemic, resulting in the emergence of resilience research and a shift from a problem-oriented approach towards an approach that

We have commissioned 14 embroidered panels from the Mapula Embroidery Project in the Winterveld, just north of Pretoria. The idea is that the making of the works will provide project members with opportunities to convey their observations about the impact of the disease on their lives and community, while also gleaning a much-needed income during this difficult time. Our plan is to exhibit the works in the gallery that is part of our facility when this is feasible, and to show time this show to coincide with a conference on representations of pandemics.

I have done extensive research on the