Eyaaz Matwadia
Eyaaz Matwadia is a senior online producer and content analyst at the Mail & Guardian
Q&A Sessions: ‘My north star is the patient’
/ 24 October 2020

Q&A Sessions: ‘My north star is the patient’

Rhulani Nhlaniki is Pfizer’s cluster lead for sub-Saharan Africa. As Pfizer starts phase III of the clinical trial of their Covid-19 vaccine candidate, he tells Malaikah Bophela that if it is successful, the company will ensure the vaccine will be available to everyone who needs it

Epic fail: Africa’s Fortnite battle
/ 22 October 2020

Epic fail: Africa’s Fortnite battle

Forced onto the backfoot by poor ping and overseas servers, African gamers are getting creative in an attempt to play one of the biggest competitive games. In the second instalment of our gaming corner, we chat to some of the innovators

No ‘I’ in team – but there is an ‘EA’
/ 26 September 2020

No ‘I’ in team – but there is an ‘EA’

With internet lag keeping them from global competition, local gamers have settled on a format for EA’s FIFA 2020 allows 11 people to play as a team. And the prize money in local leagues is growing. Eyaaz Matwadia boots up for the first instalment of Gaming Corner

READ IN FULL: Mboweni’s address on economy and Covid-19
/ 14 April 2020

READ IN FULL: Mboweni’s address on economy and Covid-19

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the greatest challenges that has ever faced our nation. It is three simultaneous shocks. It is a health shock, which will stretch the resources of our health care system to its limit. It is a global economic shock, which will substantially reduce global growth and consequently external demand, […]

Educators: Watch your words – they can inspire or deflate
/ 6 March 2020

Educators: Watch your words – they can inspire or deflate

In matric my friends and I got into trouble and were called into the principal’s office to be reprimanded. I do not remember most of what the principal said during the tongue-lashing. But I do remember her saying: “You will not amount to anything in life.” A group of teenagers got into some silly mischief […]