My commute to work takes 45 minutes. I take the bus, find a seat at the back and listen to one of my favourite podcasts, ‘Inkululeko’. The podcast is by a former political activist, Professor Kuhle, she grew up in South Africa back when things were miserable. However, I’ve been told that things were even worse before her time. I discovered this podcast when I took a course in health economics while studying medicine. Dr Londiwe used Prof. K’s episode describing how the infamous pandemic of 2020 forced citizens across the globe