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Senior research fellow at Trade Collective, Lebohang Pheko says statistics indicate no new businesses were created during the COVID-19 pandemic besides the acceleration of online businesses such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams.

Senior research fellow at Trade Collective, Lebohang Pheko says e-commerce has become more prevalent in the digital space globally.

Economist, Ntombana Mbele says the delivery business accelerated during the pandemic.

Economist, Ntombana Mbele says the digital industry will be sustained post-COVID-19 pandemic.

Economist, Ntombana Mbele says the biggest industry that was created during COVID-19 in South Africa is the digital economy.

Economist, Ntombana Mbele says manufacturing, construction, trade industries took a knock as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown.

Education expert Prof. Mary Metcalfe says structural inequalities are resistant to change because privilege and advantage has multiple ways which it reproduces itself:

Education expert Prof. Mary Metcalfe says only the minister of Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs can prevent a private school from opening.

Education expert Prof. Mary Metcalfe says different types of schools learning and providing education to children who come from families or communities of vastly unequal resources at home will experience the lock down differently.

A couple in Warrenton in the Northern Cape insists their decision to bury their baby in a shallow grave behind their home was a necessary one.

Goldstuck adds that the essence of this piece of legislation is to protect media practitioners in instance where their livelihoods are threatened by the fact that their advertising is shrinking on their traditional platforms and is aggregated on Google and Facebook Ink platforms.

Goldstuck says for many years, news outlets were happy that links to their content were posted on Google and Facebook Ink.

Virologist at the Nation Health Laboratories Service, Dr Florette Treurnicht says a false positive test has far reaching implications than a false negative.

Specialist Family Physician, Dr Marina Klokke says NICD and CDC and WHO does not recommend retesting before allowing people to isolate if they had a recent coronavirus infection because a positive test a month after you’ve had the virus does not mean its active:

Cape Town Specialist Family Physician, Dr Marina Klokke says the false negative COVID-19 test rate is about 30%.

Cape Town Specialist Family Physician, Dr Marina Klokke says the false negative COVID-19 test rate is about 30%.

Virologist at the Nation Health Laboratories Service, Dr Florette Treurnicht speaks about false positive COVID-19 tests

The United States House of Representatives is poised to impeach President Donald Trump for a historic second time after Democrats charged him with “incitement of insurrection” over last Wednesday’s assault on the Congress.

Editor-In-Chief of Fast Company (SA) magazine, Wesley Diphoko says the new move is a 180 degrees reversal from Facebook.

Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Health, Law and Bioethics research group, Dr Marietjie Botes speaks about key regulatory frameworks to ensure vaccine is safe before rollout.

The members of Limpopo Highway Patrol Team through the intensified parallel operations, keep putting more criminals behind bars across the province. This after the latest arrests of two suspects at different locations

Dr Ben Kgakatsi, who responsible for climate change and disaster risk management in the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries says they are controlling the locusts by spraying them with chemicals using spay pumps.

Agri SA’s Risk and disaster manager, Andrea Campher says the situation with regards to the locust outbreak is under control as there is no infestation on crop land but on graze land.

Prof. Frances Duncan from the School of Animal Plant & Environmental Sciences University of Wits says a locust outbreak can be prevented through ploughing and monitoring, however it would be difficult to find the egg beds.Her comments come as the Free State, Northern Cape and Western Cape is currently experiencing outbreaks of locusts.

Tens of thousands of workers are on the frontline of the global war against COVID-19.Many are in the unenviable position of fighting the pandemic, at the risk of their own lives and those of their families.SABC News captures their voices in this weekly feature, COVID-19 Frontline Workers. This week, Digital News producer Lebo Tshangela speaks to Jonathan Mphake, a fleet manager at a construction e...