The Covid-19 vaccine has been declared a public good, which means that healthcare workers will not be expected to pay for it
Staff at Tembisa Hospital did not do their job in caring for the businessman, the health ombudsman finds, and orders an investigation
Covid-19 and the Fourth industrial Revolution are business and personal stressors on a grand scale. A new book explores how managers can help teams through chronic stress
Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane goes into isolation and pledges to buy 1000 masks to show her ‘remorse’
The global initiative plans to deliver two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines to developing nations
This measure, aimed at slowing the spread of Covid-19, may shortly be introduced in other regions.
The pandemic’s economic fallout will affect the world’s poor for years, while the richest billionaires increase their wealth, an Oxfam report notes
In South Africa, we come from a proud history of activism. How then have we suddenly learnt to be helpless?
During his address at the World Economic Forum’s Davos Dialogues on Tuesday, the president implored countries hoarding vaccines to release their excess doses
Several African governments have published plans to establish smart cities, including Cairo, Johannesburg, Kigali and Nairobi. They require the most advanced technologies available
VAT should not be hiked, but a once-off levy on mineral resources or a solidarity tax seems likely
Despite the government’s efforts to lessen the economic shock of the pandemic and the lockdown, businesses are struggling to keep their doors open
There’s more than enough to be suspicious about with Big Pharma, but know your enemy
Experts are warning clinicians to be careful when diagnosing Covid-19 — and to check for malaria as well
A response to “The dark side of Israel’s vaccine success story”, Mail & Guardian, 13 January 2021
The two countries have rolled out China’s Sinopharm vaccine, but data issues are likely to keep some countries from doing the same
Lockdown forced reluctant South African clothing retail stores online: although foot traffic in brick-and-mortar stores remains important in a mall culture like ours, the secret to success is innovation
The 46th president of the United States is ushering in a new foreign policy based on multilateralism
Conspiracy theorists abuse emotive topics to suck the air out of legitimate debate and further their own sinister agendas
The African nation is hoping to use the tournament to paper over the divisions of the Anglophone crisis and the cracks made by a dictator who has ruled for almost four decades. Will it work?
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism and James Oatway visited George Mukhari academic hospital to document the second-wave realities experienced by doctors and nurses
South African schools have yet to open for the 2021 academic year and experts are sounding the alarm over lost learning time, especially in the crucial grades one and 12
Africa must use its best minds to negotiate a mutually beneficial economic relationship
South Africans have been waiting too long and it is time for the government to deliver on its vaccine plan
The ANC has slammed conspiracy theorists and cautioned against showing complacency towards the deadly virus
The South African Reserve Bank’s MPC has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged, at 3.5%, to let the actions it took last year trickle down into the economy
It seems that participating in the trial in South Africa does not count towards research and development to ensure this country an affordable price of the Covid-19 vaccine.
In his announcement, President Cyril Ramaphosa called the late minister ‘a life-long champion of freedom and democracy’
In December 2020, scientists announced that a new variant of the Covid-19 — called 501Y.V2 — had been identified in South Africa. Here’s a look at what we’ve learnt in the past month about the new variant that is driving the country’s second wave of infections
Sibusiso Moyo, the third Zimbabwean minister to die from the virus, was a potential successor to the president
The basic education department has said that it is almost done with the marking process and that the capturing of marks is in progress.
Soup for the Sick is nourishing hundreds of people too ill to cook for themselves