The long wait to move early childhood development teachers to the department of basic education will be over in nine months, but this does not mean all of them are yet in line to be vaccinated
The country needs to ensure that they use the 4 million doses of vaccines they have in the space of the next two weeks, and not two months
It’s not only Big Pharma that uses people’s fears and illness to boost profits. A company’s billboard on the M5 near Cape Town is doing the same
But an increased BMI remains a continuous risk-factor in Covid-19 patients being admitted to ICU
Submissions to the inquiry into elections under Covid-19 call for local government polls to run as scheduled, or move online
For all the excitement generated by the news of an mRNA vaccine hub being established in South Africa, the country is still going to need help making Covid-19 jabs
The national coronavirus command council explained why additional restrictions were placed on the entire country
One of Africa’s top tourist attractions has a strategy to encourage travellers to return: mass vaccination.
Having taken on the form of a spectral apparition, many of us have stopped watching Cyril Ramaphosa’s speeches
The Electoral Commission has asked the high court to postpone nine by-elections
The Covid-19 social relief of distress grant was terminated at the end of April, but research shows it aided job recovery
And now another strict lockdown poses a new threat to businesses that struggled to keep going last year
SA’s lockdown regulations are tightening to better curb the spread of Covid-19, amid concerns that the Delta variant could drive a surge of infections
As the Delta variant of Covid-19 spreads rapidly across the country, government places South Africa on an adjusted level 4 lockdown
Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, says wealthy countries have a ‘moral responsibility’ to enable a just transition
The 2020 lockdown meant tourism took a dive, but according to Libstar subsidiary Cape Herb & Spice, many people chose to ‘travel via their taste buds
Surpassing previous Covid-19 waves the third is sure to hit harder, yet there is little evidence of a move toward tighter regulations.
Minority communities and developing-country populations may approach health services cautiously – and with good reason, given the medical profession’s history of inhumanity. But, by blaming low Covid-19 vaccination rates on vaccine hesitancy, the profession is effectively using this history to victimise the same communities again
Covid-19 had an immediate effect on informal businesses, which fell from 1.6-million enterprises in the first quarter of 2020 to 1.2-million in the second
The decuplets were a fiction, and Ramaphosa’s iPad wasn’t stolen after all. Paddy Harper’s vaccine, however, is still MIA, but he’s feeling hopeful he’ll get one soon
Tighter measures are necessary to contain Covid-19’s spread in Gauteng, but returning to level-five restrictions is not on the cards, says Makhura
Our system is still not conducive for dealing with community transmissions. Harsher restrictions and constant lockdowns are not the answer
During a webinar on Wednesday evening, the former finance minister said the country needs a stronger social compact and a more detailed recovery plan
A study of adolescents who attempted suicide sheds some light into causes and preventative strategies
Covid-19 has forced newsrooms to find new business models, but the public has turned to the news more in the last year
A pioneering railway scheme in the UK is helping domestic violence victims to escape their abusers by providing them with free travel to reach refuge
The hearings will be open to the media and the public, under strict level-three regulations
People who have had Covid-19 in the past 30 days or who have had a flu shot in the past 14 days will be vaccinated at a later date
While officials remain entangled in bureaucratic knots, clinicians warn that the continued closure of the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital risks a ‘humanitarian disaster’
The first batch of locally manufactured jabs could be expected in the next nine to 12 months
Allergic reactions, unusual blood clots and heart inflammation have all been linked to Covid vaccines. But most people won’t experience these severe reactions. Watch this easy explainer
“Every day, on average, 137 women are killed by a member of their own family,” said Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director, in a statement released in March last year. These appalling figures are just one of the many consequences of gender-based violence and abuse, namely domestic abuse, which is defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner