JONATHAN JANSEN | Covid-19 has robbed SA of so many human libraries of knowledge

How will we ever replace the many incredible South African educationists who were doing their best to fix a broken system?

04 August 2021 - 19:50 By jonathan jansen

Every morning I wake up, it seems there is another friend or family member who has been hospitalised, intubated or has died from Covid-19. Even non-coronavirus deaths are amplified because of the heartache of the many who have succumbed to the dreaded virus. Sometimes the cause of death is hard to discern: was it really heart problems, as the family is quick to report, or were the cardiovascular problems Covid-19-related? This week I have to find ways of including at least three drive-by and two online memorials in a packed schedule of remembering the dead. Behind the numbers are the names of real people whose amazing lives have been lost in the sheer frequency of death around us...

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