Author: Manelisa Mavuso

What feels like the proverbial ‘splinter in the brain’ for me about the COVID-19 pandemic is how far and yet not far enough we have gone to get as many people as we can; affordably and reliably connected to the internet in South Africa. As much as progress has been made in this regard over the years; what COVID-19 has shown is the deep gap between those that have access and those that do not. And this I believe, like all other deep inequalities in our society, is not sustainable and needs to be attended to with even greater urgency.…

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