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PHOTO: Marco Longari/AFP The trauma of both the Covid-19 illness and death, and the securitisation and militarisation of this public health emergency, will for years be marked on bodies and communities, writes Edwin Cameron. Soon a sombre anniversary will fall on our country.  This week, it's a year since 11 March 2020, when the World Health Organisation first declared Covid-19 a pandemic.  On 15 March 2020, President Ramaphosa declared Covid a national disaster.  A couple days after our national Human Rights Day, on 23 March, he announced a nation-wide lockdown - among the strictest a...

In this episode of Hanging out with Clement, Justice Edwin Cameron speaks about his career, schooling years and family.

Since the outbreak six years ago of the bitter regionalised war in Yemen resulting in a desperate humanitarian crisis, South African arms companies, including Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM), have profited handsomely from the sale of weapons to parties central to the conflict. In doing so RDM may be guilty of contributing to gross human rights violations in Yemen, a small republic in the southern Arabian Peninsula. This according to an investigation by NPO Open Secrets titled “Profiting from Misery — South Africa’s war crimes in Yemen”. The report is to be released on 3 March 2021 du...

Exposed: South Africa’s role in Yemeni civil conflict’s humanitarian crisis © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved Since the outbreak six years ago of the bitter regionalised war in Yemen resulting in a desperate humanitarian crisis, South African arms companies, including Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM), have profited handsomely from the sale of weapons to parties central to the conflict. In doing so RDM may be guilty of contributing to gross human rights violations in Yemen, a small republic in the southern Arabian Peninsula. This according to an investigation by NPO Op...

An East Devon charity dedicated to beating rural isolation through affordable transport, specialised disability equipment and a befriending service, has launched a funding drive to buy an electric vehicle.