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New information released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows future prioritization for a potential coronavirus vaccine could be fraught with peril.As the discussion of priority groups entered the spotlight on Thursday, the coronavirus continues to present a challenge, as studies show pregnant women infected with the virus might be at…

South Africa isn't winning the battle against corruption, prosecutions boss Shamila Batohi told Parliament on Tuesday. And on the same day Popo Molefe and Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo explained why. The reason is the ANC, writes Pieter du Toit.On Tuesday, the day after the resumption of the judicial commission of inquiry into allegations of…

South Africa's economy decreased by 2.0% in the first quarter of 2020, Statistics South Africa reported on Tuesday morning. This extends the technical recession that the country found itself in in the last quarter of 2019. The release of Stats SA's latest quarterly GDP figures comes a week after Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni tabled his supplementary…

The ANC-in-government has over the years repeatedly ignored warnings from National Treasury about the urgency of reforms, policy uncertainty and proper fiscal management. Covid-19 has made everything worse, but it is not the cause of the dire straits we find ourselves in, writes Pieter du Toit. On page 22 of the National Treasury's Budget Review,…

A mother-of-four, who is the first American patient to have her genes edited with the controversial CRISPR technology to treat her sickle cell disease, says the technology is working.Victoria Gray, 34, of Forest, Mississippi, has suffered from the debilitating blood disorder her entire life.  She was in so much pain at one point that she wasn't even…