OPINION

Health workers screen for Covid-19 at Westridge Community Health Centre in Mitchells Plain. (Photo by Ashley Vlotman/Gallo Images via Getty Images) A doctor on the front line of the Covid-19 war, writes anonymously from a community health centre on the Cape Flats.The patient arrived at 15:00. "I can't breathe."It was a public holiday. One doctor…

South Africa needs young activists who will be prepared to stand and be counted, writes Deputy Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Professor Hlengiwe Mkhize.In September 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa led a high level multi-party debate in Parliament, the outcome of which was an adoption of the Emergency Response Action…

Fumigation of a school in preparation for opening under Level 3 lockdown. Let’s use the COVID-19 pandemic as the catalyst for a much-needed way of catching up learners – now and long after our masks come off, write Kristal Duncan-William and Merle Mansfield.With schools having resumed in a phased approach from 8 June 2020, learners…

The cigarette ban has polarised South Africans. Picture: iStock/Gallo Images Policies that were intended to make a public health crisis more manageable could end up adding fuel to the fire and be the last straw for the health system to collapse. While South Africa's alcohol ban has been partially relaxed, smokers and vapers are still…

Early leaks of John Bolton’s book, "The room where it happened", embargoed for release on Tuesday, contain an indictment so scathing even his enemies struggled for adjectives.If true, former national security adviser John Bolton’s latest revelations indicate President Donald Trump is unfit to occupy the Oval Office: Bolton says Trump does not act in the…