Ramaphosa Calls on Wealthy Countries to Stop Hoarding Covid Vaccines
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa says poor countries desperately need COVID-19 vaccines as much as other nations that have already started vaccinating their citizens,...
USA Shuts Its Borders to South Africa, UK, Ireland, Schengen Area...
President Joe Biden has today signed a Proclamation suspending the entry of travellers from South Africa into the US from 30 January... due to...
SA Expat Helps South Africans Abroad Grieve During a Global Pandemic
I moved overseas to Germany in 2014, but like approximately 820,000 other SA ex-pats, my family still live in South Africa writes Anelia Heese.
In...
SA’s Vaccination Campaign to Prioritise Most In Need, Repeats President
With South Africa gearing to receive its first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines, President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated that government’s mass vaccination campaign strategy would...
Over 100,000 South Africans Have Probably Died of Covid-19
Between 3 May 2020 and 16 January 2021, the number of excess deaths in South Africa was more than 106,000. This is the estimate...
Elton John “Deeply Upset” by Death of South African HIV Doctor...
Sir Elton John is reported to be “deeply upset” after the boss of his flagship project to care for teenagers struck down with HIV...
South African Scientists Who Discovered New Covid-19 Variant Share What They...
Late last year the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA) led by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) identified a...
Ivermectin and Covid-19: Why It’s Promising BUT We Need To Be...
There is a clamour by some people for ivermectin to be approved by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) to treat Covid-19....
Jackson Mthembu’s Last Heartbreaking Tweets
Jackson Mthembu's death on Thursday, from Covid, has left South Africans reeling with an outpouring of tributes for a man who was deeply loved,...
Doctor Who Died in Helicopter Crash Tried to Save Jackson Mthembu
The young doctor who died in the Netcare helicopter crash in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, yesterday, had earlier been called to help save Minister Jackson...
