Dear Fellow South African,
A little over four years have passed since South Africa emerged from the state of disaster that had been declared in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is easy to forget just how deeply the pandemic affected every aspect of our lives.
For many, it is a distant memory: the waves of infections, hospital wards filling at alarming rates, the lockdown and the various restrictions on gatherings, travel and commerce. We sometimes forget that more than 100,000 South Africans died from COVID and that we lost around 2 million jobs.
As we set about rebuilding our economy and society in the wake of the pandemic, our concerns moved on to other matters. At this time, as we focus on tackling unemployment and poverty, crime and corruption, pandemics seem far from our minds.
Yet, the recent outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and
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