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[ICYMI] What will South Africa’s new level three lockdown regulations mean for you?
South Africa has a drinking problem but research reveals a few things that could help curb harmful alcohol use in the country.
[ICYMI] Here’s what #Level3Lockdown will look like — and the entire SA gets it...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has met with the National Command Council, political parties and other stakeholders and is now ready to tell the country how lockdown regulations will be relaxed.
[WATCH] The booze ban is back: How many hospital beds will it save?
Some South Africans are making a lot of noise about the ban on alcohol sales during the country's COVID-19 response. So why did the country go dry? Take a look at the numbers behind the decision.
[ICYMI] Parts of South Africa likely to move to level three lockdown after May
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to address the nation Wednesday night about the country's ongoing measures to manage the spread of the coronavirus through the implementation of a risk-adjusted strategy
[ICYMI] Find out how to apply for the new COVID-19 grant
Find out how to apply for the new COVID-19 grant.
[WATCH] COVID-19: When 25 people are sharing a toilet
How do you practice social distancing when you live in a one room house with ten other people?
[ICYMI] Campuses remain closed, grades 7 and 12 back to school on 1 June
Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga and Minister of Higher Education and Training, Science and Innovation, Blade Nzimande give an update on how and when schools will start reopening.
[WATCH] Expect COVID-19 outbreaks after lockdown ends. But here’s why you shouldn’t panic
Scientists Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim are helping guide South Africa's response to the coronavirus outbreak. Find out what they think is in store for the country in our first webinar with our executive director Mia Malan.
[WATCH] Mkhize: Incoming Cuban doctors should not be seen as a threat to anyone’s...
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize discusses the next phase of the country's response to COVID-19, including the lockdown and technical assistance from Cuba in the form of more than 150 health experts and doctors. Plus, health MECs update the country on the state of provincial responses in this briefing.
[WATCH] Four differences between PCR and antibody tests
By the end of April, South Africa has to test twelve times more people per day than it currently does. That’s why we’re looking at introducing rapid antibody tests.
[ICYMI] Higher Education Minister on how South Africans are coping with COVID-19 lockdown
The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, will release the outcome of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) second part of the public perception survey on the impact of the coronavirus on South Africans.
[ICYMI] More than 1.5-million workers to return to work from 1 May
That includes legal and accounting services, manufacturing, and retail, minister of trade and industry Ebrahim Patel explained. Watch the full briefing below.
[ICYMI] Ramaphosa: COVID-19 lockdown regulations to ease on 1 May but it’s not business...
South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, addresses the nation on the measures to be taken to re-open the country and move beyond the nation-wide lockdown.
[WATCH] Former Tshwane DA councillor’s damning COVID-19 voice note: ‘Don’t get mad at me...
Former ward counsillor Shaun Wilkinson has told residents to stop handing out food to the homeless after he mistakenly blamed the death of a child from diarrheal disease on a man searching for food in a bin. Experts say Wilkinson’s comments are abhorrent and demonstrate dangerously little knowledge of how disease actually spreads.
[ICYMI] President Ramaphosa announces social, economic relief measures during COVID-19 outbreak
President Cyril Ramaphosa highlighted economic and social relief measures for people in South Africa amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
[WATCH] Wheelchairs of thunder: Races with a difference
Every year the folks over at Madwaleni Hospital host The Rolling Hills Races for people living with disabilities.