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A South African Airways aircraft on the apron of Frankfurt Airport in 2018. Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images Ahead of a key vote on the future of embattled national carrier SAA, Pravin Gordhan's Department of Public Enterprises has called on unions and creditors to become the "co-creators of a new national airline".Some seven months…

President Ramaphosa gave South Africans a dressing-down because many failed to adhere to lockdown regulations.After political pressure, Ramaphosa placed an immediate ban on the sale of alcohol.The biggest concession government made in the regulations was allowing taxis to operate at 100% capacity for local trips and 70% capacity for long-distance trips."But seriously, a cloth mask…

They brought him the money in a silver metal briefcase and placed it on a picnic table at Miramar Reservoir. Up came the lid: $100,000 in paper-strapped stacks of $50 bills.All those greenbacks beside all that blue water — no wonder Lenin Gutierrez’s eyes got big.“I [have] never seen anything like this except in the…

The WHO has released new guidelines on the transmission of the coronavirusIt has acknowledged that some outbreak reports related to indoor crowded spaces have suggested the possibility of aerosol transmissionHowever, more research is "urgently needed to investigate such instances and assess their significance for transmission of Covid-19", says WHOThe World Health Organisation on Thursday released new…

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images) An Eastern Cape courier company is accused of negligence after it lost test samples in transit.Its initial report suggests that the samples in transit fell off due to an opened canvas cover of the moving bakkie.The National Health Laboratory Services is planning to take legal action against couriers,…