Karibu Blog

A 21 day national COVID-19 lockdown was called from the 26th of March 2020. We are on day six of it but there are no signs of a lockdown in most areas. In Eldorado Park (south of Johannesburg in Gauteng), residents are not acknowledging the lockdown at all. People are going about like they are …

By Thami Majiki 2 April 2020 Sebokeng (in the Vaal, in Gauteng) is among many other townships in South Africa affected by the COVID-19 Lockdown. The municipality itself has many administrative issues: it owes ESKOM, and lacks resources like vehicles and the police force. So some people have been walking around hoping to bump into …

After the President announced the lockdown, in Lawley 2 (in the south of Johannesburg in Gauteng), nothing much has changed. People are living their life like it’s just another December holiday. Children are playing in the street. Some parents are in the house and others are busy cleaning their yard and fixing their gardens. Even …

By Kgaogelo Leso2 April 2020 COVID-19 is becoming an issue in Daveyton, on the East Rand of Gauteng. Since after the President has announced the lockdown in South Africa, people are still going about their normal lives. People don’t know much about it, and some are making comments that coronavirus will not affect them. They …

People around Mashemong, Makhulong, Kopanong in Tembisa (on the East Rand of Gauteng) are not taking the pandemic very seriously and do not believe that there is such thing called coronavirus. This is worrying because they are putting a lot of people in danger, including people who decided to quarantine themselves and their families including …

On 26 March, Khanya College delivered awareness flyers and bleach for sanitising at various health facilities. We drove to different Gauteng clinics starting in the Vaal and moving towards Johannesburg north. We met with many militant and ready Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs), though in need of many relevant resources in these difficult times of this …

By Emeldah Khumalo 2 April 2020 The COVID-19 coronavirus has played a huge and painful role in the lives of people in the world. The virus has claimed a lot of lives since it started. In the long term, even if some may not die, their lives are no longer the same. The cycle and …

By Nobuhle Sibaya 2 April 2020 The COVID-19 virus has hit the township of Duduza and the nearby township KwaThema as well, located in the East of Johannesburg. Some residents seemed to be taking this virus lightly as many were out looking for the nearest places they could find alcohol in the first seven days …

By Mduduzi Tshabalala2 April 2020 There are a lot of things that are missing from what our failing government has done, and also loopholes in what they have said. Looking at how the situation is unravelling here in the Vaal, the number of infected people may not seem very high, according to what is reported …

There has been seven days of calm in the busy streets of Moletsane (Soweto), as residents are trying by all means to abide to the Lockdown measures. The longest of queues were found in shopping centres, that snaked like a big anaconda forming C’s and S’s, long enough to go through the building and outside …

My name is Lereko Ntsaoana from Daveyton in the East Rand of Gauteng. This is what is happening around my township and how people around my location are responding to the matter at hand – COVID-19. It’s been seven days since the lockdown started and its been months since the outbreak of coronavirus, but to …