The environmental group Earthday.org has been campaigning to improve climate literacy and wants to make the subject compulsory at schools
The continent’s public health agency said the latest figures showed that 6.5-million cases of Covid-19 had been reported in Africa, out of which some 867 000 people had died
According to an Afrobarometer survey of 1 600 people, the majority of people do not trust the government to deliver safe vaccines
Avat has secured a donation of several hundred million doses of Covid-19 drugs from the United States, 25-million of which will begin to be rolled out by the end of this week
The South African Society of Psychiatrists has warned that children and adolescents are vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder
Health officials pushed ahead with transferring patients to ill-equipped NGO facilities despite several warnings
Various charities and private groups are organising drives to provide necessities such as food, toiletries and medicine in areas heavily affected by looting
Twenty pharmacies in KZN have been looted and damaged, while one was burned down and several others closed their doors as a precaution
Sassa has suspended cash payments after the cash-in-transit industry halted cash delivery until further notice in response to rioting and looting
Selling medication without a license to prescribe or dispense it is illegal, and can lead to a hefty fine or imprisonment