What is worrisome is that even if Zambians desire political change, research indicates that fear of facing electoral violence lowers support for democracy
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.
While the Constitutional Court has agreed that certain sections of the Equality Act are unconstitutional, it has decided the issue of whether Jon Qwelane was guilty of hate speech
In a rebuttal to an opinion piece, Philip Machanick says while there is a distrust of Big Pharma and some medical bodies and research has been proven wrong, throwing out all of science and applying faulty arguments is not at all helpful
Paediatrician Alastair McApline says that the reasoning Angelo Ryan uses to justify this position in an M&G opinion piece is ‘specious and flawed’
Rita Ndzanga demonstrated that ordinary people together can do extraordinary things. It’s our turn now
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.
Six months into Botswana’s vaccine roll-out, only 5% of the population has been vaccinated
Young Indian Ocean islanders are turning to technology and creativity to find ways to generate work at home
During his tenure as president he enabled state capture and the building of the prison industrial complex
In conversation: Melinda French Gates, philanthropist, businesswoman and global advocate for women and girls and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, prize-winning author and named one of the world’s 50 Greatest leaders by Fortune magazine
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
Nice joins France’s more than 40 world heritage sites, which include the banks of the river Seine in Paris, the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens, the Mont Saint-Michel and stretches of the Loire Valley.
South African sprinters are exciting prospects in an exhilarating new era, and they are young enough to be hitting their strides now
The TAC wants the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital, closed after a fire in April, to reopen fully as soon as possible, because other hospitals are overburdened.
The Covid jab might keep you out of hospital should you still get ill, but that does not invalidate other worries
As we commemorate another annual breast-feeding week we are faced with statistics that are refusing to shift. Grow Great looks at how as a society we can support women to breast-feed
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The president is expected to announce changes to his cabinet
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.
Switching to gas for cooking and heating can immediately reduce the likelihood of load-shedding, among other benefits
An overly critical approach to infant formula will not improve South Africa’s breastfeeding rates if mother are not helped in systemic ways
The tumult in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng has forced people to go without chronic medication and check-ups, caused shortages at the blood bank and disruptions in the vaccine roll out
In Madlala, the police and army broke into homes in an operation to retrieve stolen goods. After they left, a woman lay dead in a pool of her blood behind a shack
Vaccines help to reduce the spread of Covid-19, but they are not without shortcomings. Here’s what they can and can’t do
Wastewater Based Epidemiology Surveillance programme surveillance and needs to be escalated in the fight against this pandemic
The relations of social domination are reproduced in our habitual ways of talking
Residents of Kabwe have been poisoned for decades and now UN experts have called for an urgent clean-up
Here’s how they differ from conventional predictive analysis, and how they are useful in a myriad of surprising ways you’ve likely never thought of
At the heart of a strong business culture is an underlying sense of belonging and a common desire to serve people
The world record holder was a medal hope but has ultimately been outrun by injury