A year into Covid-19 in SA: Lockdown burnout is real so how do we keep functioning? By Jehran Naidoo Share DURBAN - At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the country would be entering a 21-day lockdown from March 27, 2020, we all thought, ’Yay! We're going to work from home!" “Yay! We’re gonna save on fuel!” Almost a year later, as the country observes the first anniversary since the inception of the Covid-19 lockdown, working from home seems like the most tedious task one could ever undertake. Throughout the working world, both employees and management had to quickly become accustomed to what is now being called the “new norm”, which is: avoid human contact as far as possible.