The Covid-19 pandemic and the opposition's role in the fightMost of us, who thought this would be our year, have not looked upon 2020 kindly. It hasn't been dubbed the lost year for nothing. For politicians it’s a double whammy. Not only have opposition parties had to take a back-seat to government as it handles the…
ANC at the helm: Will it ever be the government we deserve?In 1994 I watched the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as the country's first democratically elected president with the hope that the ANC would be different from other liberation movements on the continent once in governance. Twenty-six years later and it appears the party is hell-bent…
PITTSBURGH — Health officials in Allegheny County report one of the largest daily increases in coronavirus cases in weeks, with 61 new cases confirmed on Friday. There were 61 new positive cases of COVID-19 on Friday. You can now customize your WPXI News App to receive breaking news alerts. CLICK HERE to find out how.…
In search of a vaccine for the old virusGeorge Floyd. Collins Khosa. Tshegofatso Pule. Three people. Three cities. Three horrific deaths. All of them black. Whilst in the grip of an unknown novel virus, the world has been shook by another, older virus. The racism virus.Centuries after the abolishment of slavery and the adoption of an international human…
South African Weather Service has advised, with morning frost starting to settle in some provinces.The weather in your region:It will be a fine and cool day in Gauteng.The expected UVB sunburn index is moderateMpumalanga can expect morning fog patches, otherwise it will be partly cloudy and cool but warm on the Lowveld.Morning fog patches are expected in the…
In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The upshot, she wrote in an email: Babies fed rival Mead Johnson Nutrition’s acidified liquid human milk fortifier — a nutritional supplement used in
4 min read WHEN YOU'RE TELLING a horror story that's based around a family function or family dynamic, it's important to make sure you're getting the parents just right. Ari Aster's Hereditary, which came out in 2018, hit the nail right on the head, casting Toni Collette as the film's lead—and the increasingly unhinged (and
Dietitians regularly talk up the importance of having variety in your diet to make sure you hit your nutritional needs. But new research suggests that’s actually not helpful—at least, not when you’re trying to lose weight. The study, which was published in the journal Health Psychology, makes a strong case for sticking with the same