FMF NEWSLETTER 3 February 2021

Do lockdowns help? No, they only appear to make things worse – Frans Rautenbach

To find out whether lockdowns work to combat the Covid-19 virus, one can calculate the strictness of the lockdown measures of countries, and plot those results against the number of deaths from the disease per million people per country. If it were true that lockdowns curb the spread of the virus, we would expect countries with stricter lockdowns to do so more effectively than those with more relaxed measures.

Our World in Data has an Index that measures the stringency of government responses to the pandemic (the Stringency Index for short) that is based on "nine response indicators including school closures, workplace closures, and travel bans, rescaled to a value from 0 to 100 (100 = strictest)".

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South Africa in the world in 2021 – Frans Cronje
South Africa's unemployment crisis – Ann Bernstein

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Government's ill-considered lockdown leaves South Africans stranded – Chris Hattingh

Land reform that strengthens property rights and addresses injustices continues – Kwakwatsi title deed ceremony
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