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EXCLUSIVE | Unscientific and nonsensical: Top scientist slams government’s lockdown strategyShe added the lockdown had taken a terrible psychological toll on many of the people who seemed to be overlooked for repatriation flights, watching flights to and from Egypt leave them behind. Many ran out of money, and eventually had to "make a plan" to…

Court battle looming to test and release South Africans in 'appalling' Mpumalanga quarantine facilityThe draft order, which initially sought to force the government to test the people held at the quarantine facility, was amended after a letter from the state attorney said tests have since been conducted.According to the order, people who tested negative should…

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Stranded abroad: 600 South Africans brought home, more than 3 000 still waiting - PandorWith the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown imposed by countries across the globe - which includes the almost complete cessation of flights - about 4 500 South Africans found themselves stranded abroad, according to a circular released by…

May 1, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ETThe three skulls were unlike hundreds of others in the 16th-century mass grave uncovered at the San José de los Naturales Royal Hospital in Mexico City. Their front teeth were filed decoratively, perhaps as a ritual custom, unlike those of “los naturales,” the Indigenous people who made up the majority…