Praise should be given...

Our country's government deserves to be praised for having acted promptly to lock us all down. That is not to say that the execution of the lockdown was perfect, but it was definitely necessary.

Another reason to praise them is their decision NOT to repatriate our students from China. We have no infrastructure to fight Covid-19, and so it was thoughtfull of them to leave the students where they stood a better chance of surviving the pandemic.

Now it is up to us, the people, to relieve the government and police ourselves so that any infections that have broken through do not spread! The problem of truck drivers is a vexing one. Our "big brothers" across our borders are doing their best to arrest the spread of the monster in their own countries. We can help them and help ourselves by tracking the trucks ourselves and reporting any violations of route behaviour to relevant authorities. No government can afford the tracking costs involved. The trucking companies can do a lot better by testing transborder drivers before they depart, and/or by stationing relief drivers in every country. Surely each country can bear the cost of relief drivers within its borders, given the alternative of Covid19 spreading uncontrolled within its borders. If the trucking companies are not prepared to let their trucks be driven by any drivers other than their own, then they can train and test those relief drivers themselves. We have to control the spread of the virus. Even if Africa were united, we would still have to lock down the provinces (our countries) at some stage in the fight against the pandemic anyway.

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