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According to non-profit organisation Safer Spaces up to 40% of South African women have experienced sexual and physical intimate partner violence in their lifetime. Thabo Nonkenge and his SOSS Tech group have developed a tech-based solution that seeks to realise greater community cooperation for safety. SOSS Tech is a technology company that seeks to create…

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in doctors and hospitals seeing fewer patients (PHOTO: Morsa Images/Getty Images) Momentum's average beneficiary age is 33, resulting in fewer Covid-19 claims from members.South Africa's Covid-19 cases topped 400 000 this week and medical schemes expect a rise in claims related to the pandemic.Covid-19 is likely to have an impact…

Professor Shabir Madhi. South Africa's Covid-19 vaccine trial lead researcher, Professor Shabir Madhi, believes South Africans should only expect a return to normal by 2022, he can make a bigger impact outside of the Ministerial Advisory Committee, and the health department has fared "reasonably well" dealing with the pandemic.Professor Shabir Madhi, the man leading the University of Oxford's Covid-19 vaccine…

NEW YORK (AP) — What is this enemy?Seven months after the first patients were hospitalized in China battling an infection doctors had never seen before, the world’s scientists and citizens have reached an unsettling crossroads.Countless hours of treatment and research, trial and error now make it possible to take much closer measure of the new…

Dr Nic Spaull, the man who led the report President Cyril Ramaphosa referred to a day after it was released, believes that 10 years from now, South Africans might be grateful for Covid-19 - and that a "regular 2020" would not have benefited the country. Doctor in Economics Nic Spaull sees Covid-19 as South Africa's Damascus…