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A spoonful of sugar makes taxes go up

Article Tshegofatso Mathe - 21 Feb 2020

NGO Heala is asking for the health-promotion levy to be hiked, while also dismissing claims by the sugar industry that this will cause job losses

Stay in China, government tells homesick South Africans

Article Thanduxolo Jika & Chris Gilili - 21 Feb 2020

As ‘impisoned’ children at epicentre cry to be reunited with their parents, top official says families mustn’t be ungrateful

WHO urges calm as China coronavirus death toll reaches 2000

Article Laurent Thomet - 19 Feb 2020

More than 74 000 people have now been infected by the virus in China, with hundreds more cases in some 25 countries

SA’s quarantine plan for coronavirus

Article Athandiwe Saba & Thanduxolo Jika - 14 Feb 2020

A small Free State dorp and 14 days of isolation — this is the plan for citizens returning from China, to prevent a potential outbreak of the disease

Air pollution costs $2.9 trillion a year — NGO

Article Marlowe Hood - 12 Feb 2020

The new figure is in line with World Health Organisation estimates of 4.2 million deaths each year linked to ground-level air pollution, mostly from heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections in children

#WorldCancerDay: Getting treatment in Limpopo is like waiting for death

Article Ndivhuwo Mukwevho - 4 Feb 2020

Cervical cancer claimed Nkhanyeleni Vele’s life this past weekend, but with a higher number of cancer specialists on duty, her death could have been avoided

First UN ‘mercy flight’ leaves Yemen’s rebel-held Sanaa

Article Agency - 3 Feb 2020

Yemeni children in critical need of medical care were evacuated Monday from the rebel-held capital Sanaa, in what the United Nations hopes will be...

China coughs, investors catch a chill

Article Tshegofatso Mathe - 31 Jan 2020

The outbreak of the coronavirus is having a negative effect on global markets

Life in the time of coronavirus

Analysis Paddy Harper - 31 Jan 2020

Self-diagnosis and symptoms are recipe for paranoia — just see the doc, take the meds and Bob’s your uncle

The path to a zero carbon future

Business Clyde Mallinson - 17 Jan 2020

The transition to a decarbonised economy based on water, wind and solar energy will save trillions, plus people’s lives and climate crisis costs

China believes new virus behind mystery pneumonia outbreak

Article Jing Xuan Teng & Yan Zhao - 9 Jan 2020

China believes a mysterious pneumonia outbreak that struck 59 people is caused by a new strain of virus from the same family as SARS

Climate change is also a health crisis

Article Maria Neira - 6 Dec 2019

"Future efforts must reflect the real costs of our fossil fuel economy and aid those most affected."

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