The SA Post Office in the Eastern Cape has urged unemployed residents to stop showing up at its branches. Since 9 July, the Mthatha Post Office has paid the R350 grants to 10 570 people.More than 300 000 people have been paid across the Eastern Cape's 154 active post office branches.The Mthatha branch sees more…
Citizens waiting for SASSA (PHOTO:GALLO IMAGES) The SACP wants the R350 Covid-19 social distress relief grant to become a permanent feature. The six-month special grant was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in April and is administered by the SA Social Security Agency.After the agency was criticised last month for only managing to pay 10 people during…
Grant Esterhuizen (Gallo Images) In an exclusive interview, ex-Springbok centre GRANT ESTERHUIZEN talks about South Africa’s midfield options, Pieter-Steph du Toit staying put for now and the Sanzaar alliance.Register your interest for the British & Irish Lions tickets in South Africa 2021Sport24 asked: Do you think the Sanzaar alliance is under threat?Grant Esterhuizen: My personal…
Share on PinterestDoctors in the United States can now use the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat severe COVID-19.Until last weekend, treatment for COVID-19 was primarily experimental. In hundreds of clinical trials across the globe, researchers are testing new drugs, as well as those that scientists created for other purposes, to stem the death toll the…
Pote Human (Gallo Images) The Bulls have granted head coach Pote Human an early release from his contract.Register your interest for the British & Irish Lions tickets in South Africa 2021Human's contract was due to end in October this year but the Bulls announced via a press statement on Friday that an early termination of…
Here in the northern hemisphere, winter famously contributes to widespread vitamin D deficiency as sunlight exposure decreases. The trend is “very marked in clinical practice," Mary Gover, MD, an internal medicine doctor at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care in New York City, tells SELF. What you might not know, however, is that vitamin D isn’t the
Your 30s and 40s are what some would consider the best years of your life. You’re no longer “figuring it out,” but you aren’t “old” by society’s ageist standards either. It should be a sweet spot—right? But despite the illusion of stability and security, it’s also common for anxiety and self-doubt to worsen during your
5 min read WHEN THE JUSTICE Department released a trove of Epstein-related files on January 30 and then pulled down thousands of pages after redaction failures exposed victims’ identifying information and explicit material, I felt a familiar gut-drop. Once again, the people with the least power were being asked to pay twice—first for the abuse