By Clare Wilson and Layal Liverpool Vaccination programmes are worth the moneyJack Taylor / Alamy The costs of vaccination programmes are vastly outweighed by the economic benefits of reducing illness, disability and premature death, a modelling study has found. “We hope these numbers can allow vaccines to be seen as investments rather than expenses,” says…
Enoch Godongwana, chair of the ANC's Economic Transformation Committee Photo: Thapelo Maphakela The ANC’s Economic Transformation Committee has published its discussion document on how SA can rebuild its economy to recover from Covid-19 effects.Investing in infrastructure, accelerating land reform and industrialisation of labour-intensive sectors are among many proposals contained in the document.But it also proposes…
President Cyril Ramaphosa at the State of the Nation Address on February 13, 2020 in Cape Town. Jeffrey Abrahams/Gallo Images via Getty Images Likening the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic to those of a war, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that SA's economic recovery must be "state-led".The president was replying to a question about what…
Jacques Faul (Gallo Images) Even though the cracks appeared before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, Cricket South Africa (CSA) still candidly admits it's been "shell-shocked" by how intensely the virus has exposed the sport's business model.It's no secret that cricket has derived the majority of its income from selling broadcasting rights to various international markets for…
President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday that South Africa was witnessing the “total destruction” of its economy due to the Covid-19 coronavirus, and that radical economic transformation must be central to plans to rebuild and repurpose. Ramaphosa made the statements in Durban while addressing the provincial command council, led by Premier Sihle Zikalala, which is…
Published: August 25, 2026, 9:44 pm Indus Foods LLC, doing business as Gangothri Foods, an Austin, TX, firm, is recalling 1,626 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) pickled goat and chicken products that were produced without the benefit of inspection, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The RTE pickled goat and chicken products were produced between
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
