Mobile sites are a national initiative to take Covid-19 vaccines to rural communities. The Mail & Guardian visited one such site
for farmworkers in the Western Cape
The local music industry can’t place the blame for its current state solely on the Covid-19 pandemic; it’s been in a mess for a while
Covid-19 variants are new versions of the virus that are smarter at surviving. But before we can understand what these changed forms mean for vaccines, we first need to go back to the basics. We take you through the evolution of the virus and what this means for your body’s defences.
Hundreds of Treatment Action Campaign members braved the Joburg cold to camp outside David Makhura’s office on Tuesday night, demanding Charlotte Maxeke Hospital reopens
ANC’s Matongo was the only candidate nominated for the city of Johannesburg mayoral candidate, the speaker of council announced
Why should you wait for two weeks after a flu jab before getting vaccinated for Covid-19, and is it safe to get a shot if you have a weak immune system? We break it down.
Paediatrician Alastair McApline says that the reasoning Angelo Ryan uses to justify this position in an M&G opinion piece is ‘specious and flawed’
Vaccines save lives. But why don’t we want to hear why people do not want to get the Covid-19 vaccine? It is important we get the right messaging across for us to achieve herd immunity.
The mining industry is riding a wave that will eventually crash, analysts warn
Six months into Botswana’s vaccine roll-out, only 5% of the population has been vaccinated
Ramaphosa needs to build broad political consensus if he is to have any chance of pursuing his fiscal and structural reform agenda
Even if herd immunity is finally reached in South Africa, non-pharmaceutical measures are necessary
Recent crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic have exacerbated life’s struggles and losses have overwhelmed many children.
Women and girls continue to fight for their human rights and wellbeing, generations after they were recognised
The Covid jab might keep you out of hospital should you still get ill, but that does not invalidate other worries
Not much has changed. Zuma’s still wearing his orange onesie. And Mkhizi is still free. Perhaps that will change by next week
For six weeks Ramaphosa has told us he is following process and Mkhize continues to get a fat ministerial salary as he relaxes on special leave.
Only 5% of chief executives are women and the gender pay gap is most pronounced in the top JSE-listed companies, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report released on Thursday. The report, which tracked executive director remuneration trends in 285 companies, found that there were only 81 women executives among the 725 people whose pay was […]
Asylum seekers with valid permits and caregivers will now also be allowed to apply for the reinstituted social relief of distress grant
Vaccines help to reduce the spread of Covid-19, but they are not without shortcomings. Here’s what they can and can’t do
The telecommunication group’s current chief executive, Sipho Maseko, will step down at the end of June 2022
Wastewater Based Epidemiology Surveillance programme surveillance and needs to be escalated in the fight against this pandemic
The IEC has accepted former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke’s recommendation to postpone the vote to February, but still needs Constitutional Court approval to do so
Sources say that the PEC gave the nod to the three names put forward by the Johannesburg regional executive committee
Children have accounted for a relatively low number of coronavirus cases, but other facets of their healthcare and wellbeing have suffered
Scientists know that people who have had Covid still benefit from getting vaccinated with at least one shot of the vaccine. But can you get vaccinated while you have Covid?
Empowering her people through music and education, Maggie Mkandawire fights the Covid-19 pandemic in her own unique way
The global economy will expand by 6% this year but the economic gap between nations is widening.
The firm believes the second-hand vehicle business will thrive in a post-Covid world
Starving StatsSA of its ability to measure inequality may be a short-term face-saving strategy but it does not make the inequality disappear
As more vaccines arrive in the country, South Africa could administer 420 000 doses a day
Every day brings new, harder decisions that will shape outcomes for generations, but Africans have a role to play and must seize this opportunity to build a better continent