Africa

President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping. South Africa and China are working on a new 10-year strategic program for cooperation, as the current one nears its end.The new plan will focus on collaboration in areas including higher education, skills transfer, health, the digital economy, science and technology, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan…

Opposition MPs gave President Cyril Ramaphosa a choice regarding corruption: The ANC or the country?Ramaphosa denied he puts his party before the country.He said the ANC will have a "fairly robust" discussion on comrades doing business with the state.With a showdown on corruption looming in the ANC, opposition MPs forced President Cyril Ramaphosa to walk…

An elderly man opens his mouth to receive a testing swab for Covid-19 coronavirus. As of 15 July, South Africa has recorded a total of 311 049 confirmed Covid-19 cases. Gauteng alone has recorded 112 714 cases, which translates to 36.2% of the total confirmed cases in the country.As of Wednesday, 107 new Covid-19-related deaths have been…

On Sunday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa warned that it is critical that people who might have been exposed to the new coronavirus isolate themselves to break the chain of transmission of the virus.      Government is paying up to R1 200 per night to house some quarantine patients in four-star hotels.But there's been little…

Africa could have a Covid-19 vaccine in the first quarter of 2021. The experimental vaccine is one of 19 being tested on humans globally.The vaccine is also being tested in Brazil by Oxford University scientists.Professor Shabir Madhi at the University of Witwatersrand is leading the South African trial.Africa could have a Covid-19 vaccine in the…