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Flooding in Khayelitsha after heavy rains (Supplied) Some residents in informal settlements have been left homeless after heavy rains in Cape Town.According to the City's Disaster Risk Management, no emergency shelters have been activated.Trees were uprooted, roads were flooded and power cuts were experienced across the city.Several residents of informal settlements in Cape Town have…

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. Photo by Christiaan du Plessis The first 20 out of 1 000 ventilators donated from the US have been installed at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital.The next donation of ventilators will be used in facilities in the Western Cape.On Friday, the country recorded 43 434 positive cases, 908 deaths and 23…

Students at the University of Cape Town. UCT professor Nicoli Nattrass has accused the university of bending to political pressure when it condemned paper she authored as "offensive to black students".The paper, according to Nattrass, was part of exploratory research to understand why conservation biology at UCT struggles to attract black South African students.Nattrass claims…

ROME (AP) — As Italy prepares to emerge from the West’s first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in Europe’s hardest-hit country.Italy had the bad luck of being the first Western nation to be slammed by the outbreak, and its official total…