COVID-19 (Category) - 112 posts

On Sunday I found out I'd been exposed to a covid-positive person and suddenly had to quarantine. It changed my outlook on the pandemic.

It's September in Joburg, almost all the lockdown rules have eased, and I am suffering from a strange case of lockdown nostalgia.

The lockdown wind-down put me in the mood for a makeover. So I chopped all my hair off and donated it to charity.

As of today, South Africa has entered lockdown level 2. South Africans can now buy booze and cigarettes (finally!), we can drink alcohol in restaurants and …

After more than 5400 food parcels, the Melville Food Program did its last large-scale distribution today. But there are new plans afoot.

Since inter-provincial travel is still banned and we can't leave Gauteng province, I've compile a list of cool daytrips to do in Gauteng.

After more than four months of lockdown, the Joburg Botanical Gardens and Emmarentia Dam are finally open again. I went to check things out this morning.

It's been a couple of weeks since I blogged about lockdown, and now I've built up lots of thoughts and ideas I need to share.

Today, restaurants around South Africa spoke out about the damage to their industry by putting their tables out onto the street.

Today I visited the Melville food parcel program for the first time in two weeks. The volunteers are wearing hazmat suits to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Hello. After blogging mostly every day for the first 100 days of South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown, I took a full week off. This is weird. It feels like …

On the 100th day of the South African lockdown, I take a look back at this journal series and highlight my top five lockdown posts.