OPINION

Health workers conduct mass Covid-19 screening and testing at Rose Park in Lenasia. PHOTO: Papi Morake/Gallo Images Working on the frontline in a Covid-19 ward in one of the country's hospitals is not for the faint-hearted, writes one doctor, who asked to remain anonymous.Working in the Covid-19 wards in our country's hospitals has been a…

Fundraising in the time of Covid-19 has gone global, is peer reviewed more than ever and is now mostly online, writes Marius Maré. Pick any human activity, from commuting to sports, and you’ll be able to find articles on how Covid-19 has fundamentally changed it.How long many of these changes will last is an open question –…

Mark Zuckerberg Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Advertisers are taking a stand against Facebook’s stance on hate speech, and it's causing the social media giant some bruises. On 26 June, the share price nosedived 8%, costing Mark Zuckerberg $7 billion (R119 billion).Zuckerberg has since given a somewhat flip response that the advertisers will be back "soon enough", adding…

Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, even as the top jurist in our country, has a right to his opinion - but, as the American politician and academic Daniel Moynihan once said, he simply does not have the right to his own facts, writes Dr Wesley Seale. In a recent webinar shared with Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein for…

Professor Alex van den Heever writes that the government could have been in control of the Covid-19 pandemic, but chose not to be and has instead squandered resources, leaving options limited.The MEC for health in Gauteng talks of "predictions" and the national health minister of a "coming storm". These allusions leave one with the impression…