Entire nation on tenterhooks as we await news of lockdown levels

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OPINION: The entire country has been on tenterhooks this week. It has been several weeks since President Cyril Ramaphosa last addressed us – and the State of Disaster is due to expire today.

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The expectation that we will move to Level 2, with a return of legal travel between provinces for pleasure rather than business and finally an end to the legal sale of alcohol and tobacco, reached fever pitch by mid-week.

South Africa has endured one of the toughest – and longest – lockdowns anywhere in the globe, ostensibly to flatten the curve of the infection while the government prepared for the inevitable surge of infections in what is widely recognised as the worst global health crisis in living memory.

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