A 28-year-old Limpopo woman has been identified as the winner of a R50 million lotto prize. A 28-year-old Limpopo woman won R50 million in a PowerBall PLUS draw. The woman selected the winning numbers in a quick pick two weeks ago. She plans to use the money to build her mother a house. A 28-year-old … Read more
On World Aids Day, the South African Bureau of Standards (Sabs) is calling on all South Africans to practise safe sex and use condoms. Sabs wishes to remind everyone of the prevalence of HIV/Aids in South Africa and urges everyone to use Sabs-certified condoms. World Aids Day 2021 HIV in South Africa The reminder follows … Read more
Environmental and human rights organisations supported by environmental law firm, Cullinan & Associates have filed an application for an urgent interim interdict against Shell in the Grahamstown High Court to prevent the fossil fuel firm from conducting seismic testing along South Africa’s ecologically sensitive Wild Coast marine environment. Shell’s seismic testing was due to start off … Read more
On 24 August, Hakainde Hichilema took the oath of office as Zambia’s seventh president after inflicting a comprehensive election defeat on the incumbent, Edgar Lungu. He inherited a country with a major debt crisis and that is in economic decline. So what has he achieved in his first 100 days? On governance, Hichilema has restored … Read more
A laboratory worker in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 5, 2021. Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images Scientists in South Africa were the first to raise alarm bells about Omicron, alerting the WHO last Wednesday. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the variant came from southern Africa, it’s more of an indication of the region’s robust … Read more
Nigeria’s public health authorities on Wednesday said the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron, had been identified in samples from passengers travelling from South Africa. The heavily mutating Omicron variant – also known as B.1.1.529 – was classified as a variant of concern (VoC) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 27 November, Omicron in Nigeria Covid-19 and vaccination stats … Read more
People have been discussing a bizarre story about a schoolgirl who handed R40 million to police after finding it in a bag. The story seems to have upset many who believe the girl should not have handed in the cash. The story has now been debunked as completely fake. There never was R40 million! Mzansi … Read more
“The road to genocide in Rwanda was paved with hate speech.” — William Schabas There happen to be three fascinating analogies between the xenophobic election ticket (very popular in the recent local government elections) and the new Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the coronavirus which causes the disease known as Covid-19. They are both … Read more
One of the main figures behind the Covax vaccine initiative has questioned why rich countries are ramping up their booster programmes in response to the Omicron coronavirus variant, and insisted that priority should be inoculating the large number of people worldwide who are still waiting for a first jab. “The most important thing is that … Read more
With hopes of eradicating AIDS badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic, we look at the fight against the deadly condition since its emergence 40 years ago, as the planet marks World AIDS Day on Wednesday. – 1981: First alert – In June 1981, US epidemiologists report five cases of a rare form of pneumonia in … Read more
