The country has the talent. It has ideas. It has institutions. What it needs is the connective tissue to turn potential into performance — and the patience to accept that breakthrough innovation requires risk, failure and time
Residents say the findings proves their concerns about pollution ‘are real’
Reducing socioeconomic inequalities and improving mental health are twin goals that cannot be separated; we must demand better from government, while also taking collective responsibility
Wastewater Based Epidemiology Surveillance programme surveillance and needs to be escalated in the fight against this pandemic
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says selling on the vaccines will stem wasteful expenditure, but people close to the discussions with AU say they will be sold on the cheap
SA’s one-million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will expire by early April — unless India’s Serum Institute can safely extend their use-by date.
Local scientists are using wastewater-based epidemiology to trace the SARS-CoV-2 virus in South Africa’s sewage system, which could act as an early warning system for outbreaks of Covid-19, as well as other diseases
With great rewards for bringing new technologies into different sectors will come great opportunities for South Africa’s economy
There is a constitutional imperative to empower the majority gender
Going to gym twice a week isn’t enough to counter the effect of sitting on your backside all week.
The landmark agreement will see both countries make investments to foster developments in key institutions.
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/ 27 February 2014
Cannabis may well have beneficial properties, but experts warn that smoking it is still bad for your health.
Winner: Professor Soraya Seedat
Women who experience gender-based violence have a higher risk of contracting HIV: this should be considered in South Africa’s prevention strategy.
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/ 3 February 2012
Nearly half of all pregnancies in South Africa involve teenagers, statistics reveal.
The murder of a lesbian activist who was stoned and stabbed to death is part of an "epidemic" of hate crimes against gays, Human Rights Watch says.
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/ 25 November 2010
Almost 80% of men in Gauteng admit to perpetrating some form of violence against women, a study revealed by the MRC and Gender Links revealed.
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/ 13 October 2010
Around the world and across all cultures, drinking and interpersonal violence are inevitably linked.
A lack of appropriate action by South Africa’s leaders has allowed the country to become the rape capital of the world, the DA said on Friday.
One in four men in SA have admitted to rape and many confess to attacking more than one victim, according to a study by the Medical Research Council.
Most South Africans say they don’t drink — about half the men and almost 80% of women claim to be abstainers.
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/ 28 November 2007
A plant found only in the Eastern Cape has been hailed as a new miracle cure for diabetes, the Herald Online reported on Wednesday. Researchers said ”astounding results” had been obtained from the effect of extracts of the Karoo plant Sutherlandia Frutescens in stabilising blood sugar in diabetes one and two.
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/ 14 November 2007
All HIV vaccine trials in South Africa have been put on hold following the failure of the Phambili trial. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Wednesday invited researchers who worked on the Phambili study to her office in Pretoria to explain the reasons why the vaccine trial was stopped.
A new liver costs about R450 000, according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang — herself the recent recipient of a new liver. In a written reply to a question by the Inkatha Freedom Party’s Ruth Rabinowitz in the National Assembly, she said hospital expenditure on liver transplants was, all inclusive, about R450 000 per patient.