PODCAST | … ONE MORE THING: Do journalists tell the right Covid-19 stories?



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President Cyril Ramaphosa finally released South Africans from their misery on Thursday by shedding more light on the future of the Covid-19 closure.

Ramaphosa announced that the country would go into “level 4” risk on May 1, with some relaxed blockade regulations to allow limited economic activity.

The relaxed regulations mean that a curfew will be applied from 20:00 to 05:00.

On Saturday, the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, and the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Ebrahim Patel, held a press conference to provide more clarity on the new regulations.

While the regulations regarding the details of the level 4 blockade will be published next Thursday, Dlamini-Zuma and Patel announced the general lines.

The use of cloth face masks will be compulsory at level 4.

Hygiene and social distancing remain critically important, and screening for Covid-19 symptoms will be conducted in reopened workplaces.

They said that while restaurants will be closed for seated meals, food deliveries will be allowed, but alcohol is still not available.

In this episode of …One more thing, a weekly podcast hosted by News24 senior political journalist Tshidi Madia, talks to media practitioner Sebenzile Nkambule.

Nkambule joins us to discuss current regulations and how well the media has done during this period.

Do journalists tell the right stories? What have they failed to do? And how have the media adapted to the new normal?

Listen to the episode here on SoundCloud



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