The DA and EFF have condemned the looting of Covid-19 funds.This after reports emerged of alleged corruption in a tender involving Presidency spokesperson Khusela Diko's husband. Both parties have called for an SIU investigation. Two of the country's biggest opposition parties, the DA and EFF, have called for an investigation into the R124 million tender involving the…
A person uses hand sanitizer. Eastern Cape Education MEC Fundile Gade has ordered legal action against a supplier of sanitisers. Tests on samples of a sanitiser used at Makaula Secondary School, where 204 tested positive for Covid-19, contained low levels of alcohol.Nine other schools in the virus-hit Alfred Nzo District used sanitisers with alcohol levels between 4.1%-57.6%,…
Public Service Commission director-general Dovhani Mamphiswana. President Cyril Ramaphosa has, to date, taken no action against PSC director-general Dovhani Mamphiswana.The DA says Ramaphosa and his government are attempting to cover up the crimes committed by their "Bonnie and Clyde".The minister of public service and administration denies that Ramaphosa has not acted, saying the president ordered…
The Department of Correctional Services is acting on inmates at an Eastern Cape prison. Mdu Ndzingi/ Drum Magazine/Gallo Images/Getty Ima Awaiting trial prisoners from the Butterworth Correctional Centre blockaded their cell with beds and armed themselves with makeshift weapons.It is understood they demanded to be taken to court, despite the fact that trials are not…
3 min read This story is part of a series on 10 life-saving medical breakthroughs. Click here to read the rest. ANTONIO TORRES, A 24-year-old from Denver, used to spend six hours each day bathing and meticulously wrapping the red, raw skin along his shoulders and spine. “My wounds take up a large percentage of
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended granting marketing authorization for Moderna’s new RNA-based vaccine, mNexspike, for preventing COVID-19 in people aged 12 years or older. The vaccine was approved in May 2025 by the US FDA for individuals aged 65 years or older or aged 12-64 years
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